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Had mine strung with Pyramid flats and the tone was immense!

Just took a custom set (ordered with no silks) of Pyramids off my P Bass, bit to thumpy for me with no enough growl. At the moment im back on Elites but will be ordering some DR's soon

Yup, thought as much. Been a long term user of their flats but recent sets are clearly different (now have silk ends, different materials by the looks). Shame, there old flats were magic

Picked up one of these beats on the cheap for a bit of a play and am wholly impressed! Its a 12AX7 mains powered overdrive pedal that has high/low options which makes it fine for bass with no low end loss. Initially swaped out the valve for a 12AU7 to tame it a bit and it works wonders. Definitely more on the distortion side than mild OD but very useful none the less. Tried to do a bit of reading up on these but there isn't much around. Anyone on here also using one??

Possibly but I have been CLOSE to the sound but just not quite. Part of me thinks I didn't give the Pyramids long enough. They ticked every box bar the thump but then I read forum posts where people say they were TOO thump!

[font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Its been a long flatwound quest for me. Im starting to think the sound im after maybe doesn’t exist![/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Basically I want thumpy but with SOME sustain, not just thud. The tension needs to be reasonable (not talking TI flop but not cables either). I play with a pic 99% of the time and suffer from thumb ache on my picking hand, maybe down to technique but I don’t get it on lower tension strings. [/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]I also don’t like sets that have the seemingly common dead E problem. So far ive tried:-[/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [b][u][font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Picato Flats[/color][/size][/font][/u][/b] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Lovely sound, just about right tension. E string problem as mentioned above[/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [b][u][font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Pyramid Gold[/color][/size][/font][/u][/b] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Had everything I was looking for bar thump. Fantastic tension, good E string, great feel but just lacked that old school thump. Did I give them long enough?[/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [b][u][font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Fender Flats[/color][/size][/font][/u][/b] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Lovely but slightly high tension[/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [b][u][font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Status Flats[/color][/size][/font][/u][/b] [size="3"][color="#000000"][font="Times New Roman"]Thought these were THE one’s….then the E died prematurely [/font][font=Wingdings][font=Wingdings]L[/font][/font][/color][/size] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [b][u][font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]La Bella FS[/color][/size][/font][/u][/b] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Stunning but too high tension[/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [b][u][font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Elites[/color][/size][/font][/u][/b] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]High tension and dead E[/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [b][u][font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]TI’s[/color][/size][/font][/u][/b] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Wet noodles[/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [b][u][font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Sadowksy[/color][/size][/font][/u][/b] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Honky middy with not enough thump. Good tension and E tho[/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]I play a P bass with DiMarzio DP122 pups into a valve amp and 4x10 sealed cab. I have considered that my pups may not be ‘old school’ enough for the tone im chasing.[/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]The holy grail tone im after is the tone Baz Fratelli gets on The Fratellis songs Look Out Sunshine, Mistress Mabel etc on the album Here We Stand[/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Next on list to try are DR’s, Optima and possibly the new Dunlops though im hearing they are very Roundwound sounding[/color][/size][/font]

The DR's seemed brighter but sound like they have the potential to mellow out evenly if that makes sense? Great playing BTW.

They sound like what im after - fairly low tension, thumpy old school style and reasonably consistant string-to-string.

Been wanting to give DR's a shot for a while now. I think they will be next in my flats quest!

With a valve amp I love the old Ampeg 410he's (assuming you can run at 8ohms?). Miles better than most of the modern stuff soundwise

I keep drooling over the 1969 P bass on their site, the black 'roadworn' effort, stunning!

The bid thing on their website is rubbish, unless you bid within about 20p of the asking price they just decline. A bit pointless really

Where do Ashdown stand on the whole 'false advertising' thing then? Don't get me wrong, im not an ashdown basher (I loved my Spyder 330 and my drophead 200) but how can they continue to list is as all valve?

They are, the CTM15 is hybrid (and naughtily advertised as All Valve by ashdown)

What FB page is it on? If its Ampstack then that's Oli's page (Mr.Foxen on here). Think he was looking for about £300 for his

Our very own Mr.Foxen is flogging a Little Bastard for a good price, maybe worth hitting him up?