Ernie Ball Pino Palladino Signature Smoothie Flats Bass Guitar Strings

[jd56hawk]

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/EB2748--ernie-ball-pino-palladino-signature-smoothie-flats-bass-guitar-strings-038-098-extra-light

My friend just bought an $80 Glarry Precision bass and was thinking of buying these.

Of course, he just spent over $900 for a set of run-flat tires for his Pontiac Aztek, so...

Edited Sunday at 12:41 by jd56hawk

[NickA]

Looks like they've tweaked the standard cobalt flats to compete with Thomastik jazz flats.  If you get cobalt flats performance at thomastik prices then it's a poor deal 😂.

 

I'm surprised to learn that pino uses flats but found that indeed..he's been using EB cobalt flats and thomastik jazz flats .. so, lively sounding flats.

 

Well, on my two fretless basses, I currently have some eb cobalt flats and they're ok but have quite a distinctive tone that may take over the sound of your bass... and some thomastik jazz rounds ( not the flats) which are nice but very thin and rather floppy...and I'm not sure I like them, subtle and supple but flap against the fingerboard.

 

I sure wouldn't blow 80 usd on strings for an 80 usd bass!