ROTOSOUNDFM66 Swing Bass 66 Stainless Steel Funkmaster Bass Guitar Strings (30 50 70 90)

Yeah, these strings are light and bright. I have been a devoted Rotosound customer for three-and-a-half decades. I put the basses up for a while, and, when I returned to them devotedly in the last two years, I discovered that I had a number of repetitive motion injuries which tempered my pleasure with pain. The first thing I did to address the problem was look around for a lighter gauge set: Rotosound had a solution to the problem. The FunkMaster balanced set (30, 50, 70, 90) is a joy to play for my aching hands. They have a nice, elastic feel, though not overly so. It does facilitate bends, though I don’t really need to bend strings very often. The elasticity of these strings allows me to do more with less fatigue. The tone is quite good, perhaps not exactly that of the legendary 66 sets, but good nonetheless. These went on my four-string, which is loaded with pre-Fender Bartolinis and matching pre-amp, and which runs through an older SVTIII and Hartke 4200. The tone is excellent. While there is a little bit of sacrifice to be had by going to the lighter strings, in truth, these are very similar to the bottom four strings on any six-string bass. Honestly, there is very little noticeable drop off in tone compared to the 66 sets, despite the lighter gauge. On the plus-side, you will notice less fatigue, a possible increase in dexterity, and hear that typically fat and bright Rotosound tone. So far, I’ve put sixty or seventy hours into this set with really no appreciable dropoff in brightness or elasticity. It appears that these strings will also possess the longevity of the chubbier Rotosound sets.I am so very pleased with this set that I likely will stay with them for as long as Rotosound will make them.Addendum after 11 months of playing these: I have put many, many hours on this same set since the review above, playing nearly every day for an hour or so up to a few hours...I have been trying to recover dexterity that I once had twenty years ago. These strings maintained their elasticity for about seven or eight months, and the tone remained the same (minus the bright that naturally rolls off a new set of strings) after about a month or so. Any fall-off in brightness was easily offset by a little touch of the tone pot. They do, however, experience a point at which they become a little dead, and that came after about ten months on this bass. It is definitely time to swap them out, but I put a lot of hours into these, maybe twice or three times the hours of a casual player. They are long-lasting and hold on to their bright and powerful tone, but they do grow a little dead at the end of much vigorous use. Still very, very happy with this set. You will be too.

I have these strings on my Musicman Stingray, and they are great! I mostly play jazz - participating in a non-music-major Jazz Combo class at the University of Southern California.These strings are by far the most fun set of strings I have ever used. While not for everyone, if you are looking for a set of strings for slap-style bass or tapping, you will have a lot of fun with these. Of course, these are light gauge strings - and will not produce the deep sound or have the same bass-presence as heavier gauge strings.Since these strings are so light-gauge, you WILL have to adjust your truss rod and play with your bridge saddles. Once you get these on and your bass adjusted for them, you will definitely be able to get ridiculously low action with these strings. This, combined with the low tension, makes tapping extremely easy - playing the Overjoyed cover by Victor Wooten was made so much easier when I tried these out.The low tension also makes these great for slap bass - it is very easy to slap and pop these - and more importantly it just FEELS much better and more fun.As far as sound goes, I will first say that of course, these strings will not produce the same sound as a heavier gauge set of strings. The presence of the notes will not come out as much. HOWEVER, these have a nice sound to them that sounds great with funk-slap. The sound these strings produce is definitely much bigger than I expected though - with surprisingly more fundamental frequencies than you would think. These strings have a VERY bright sound - plenty of high overtones, as they are made of stainless steel. Mark King uses these strings - and listening to his recordings will give you a good idea of what these sound like.

I have these on ALL 7 of my basses since I found them on Amazon. Usually I’d have to special order these form a local music retailer and hope they didn’t charge me an arm and a leg for the service. Out of the pouch they have great brightness. They are the thinnest strings out there so I would say their “thickness” is minimal, They have great sound and hold their tune well after a normal break in period. They won’t have the same kind of harmonic overtones or boominess that thicker strings tend to have, but almost all of my instruments are active, so I can add low end as needed to compensate. Haven’t broken any yet and tend to swap them out when the highs start noticeably start to fade, or they start to loose their springiness. The amount of time, fuel and hassle I save by the ability to have them delivered directly to me at a great price is almost worth the yearly cost of a Prime Membership alone!!

I have these on my '93 Ernie Ball Music Man Stingray and they are fantastic. Really bright and responsive. Palm mutes lovely and clear. Slaps a little zingy but not horrible and also brand new. Super low tension and hold tune well, even on frequent up and down tuning with a hipshot d-tuner.I love Rotosounds. They sound like a pickup on a grand piano.

I've played light and extra-light strings for years. La Bella and Smith, etc. These are great for slapping and also less fatiguing for finger style playing than heavier gauge strings tend to be. Tone is true and bright, sustain is really good. The only drawback to me is that because they are so light, they lose their snap relatively fast. I only play in my home studio so I change them every few weeks to get that bright slap sound. If you play out and practice every day, you'll definitely have to change them more often. But you really can't beat these for $17.

I love these strings, great tone out of the Box and they also retain that tone for a long time even for such a light gauge

Gran opción para tocar slap y música funk, muy maleables. Ideales para bajo musicman. Con la higiene y cuidados correctos pueden conservar el brillo y su sonido por mucho tiempo. Gran relación costo beneficio

My neighbour was an amateur luthier who passed away unexpectedly a few months ago, and his wife gave me two of the guitars he'd built (a Mustang copy and a fretless P-bass). I absolutely LOVE the bass, but it was the first instrument he built and he didn't put a truss rod in the neck. Using it with .45's was making the neck bow noticeably, so I wanted to find a very light string that would create less tension. These Rotosounds seemed like a good option.I'd never used stainless steel strings before, but boy are they are LOUD! The midrange is wide and rich, making it really pop through my Rumble. The bass response is a bit aggressive but the highs are surprisingly mellow. That's a weird mixture, but I kind of like it. The sound has a bit of honk to it and reminds me of Billy Sheehan's tone. I've heard people say that steel strings dull faster than nickel-plated but, even after a week of playing, these are still resonant and haven't lost their zing.The feel takes some getting used to. They are very loose compared to the strings I'm used to, so they tend to catch my plucking/popping fingers more than a tighter string would. The windings are also more abrasive than other strings I've tried, so there's more friction when sliding your fretting hand. Neither of those things are bad in themselves, just something that you have to get used to.Overall, I really like these strings. They boom like a cannon and yet still have a pleasantly round top end. At $30.75 per set, they're very reasonably price compared to other sets and I would certainly recommend these to anyone looking for a lighter gauge string or something that's going to make their slap lines pop :)My rating: 4.5 stars

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Hätte, hätte, Effektkette...Hätte ich gewusst, dass es noch leicht dünnere Saiten-Sätze gibt, als die Swing Bass RS66 LB, hätte ich die schon früher ausprobiert.Ich bin begeistert, da ich mehr so Lead-Bass, also mehr wie eine Gitarre spiele.Endlich funktionieren Läufe, die ich trotz Übung nicht hinbekommen habe.Das sind jetzt meine Standard-Saiten für meinen Bass!

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