I’ve been looking at these for awhile. Like others, I am not a fan of the black tapewounds But after hearing good things about these, I pulled the trigger on a set.
I’ve been plaing a lot of acoustic based music, I have several instruments that I can use in this genre. My current favorites are a beat up MiJ Fender P Bass lyte Deluxe (somone pulled the frets out and forgot to put them back in. It sounds incredible), a completely stock vintage Harmony H22 hollowbody, a really different Samick Greg Bennett solid body acoustic/electric, and this bass.
This is a Morgan Monroe ABG. I don’t know much about it, other than it’s beautiful and has a really full sound acoustically. I added a Fishman active preamp/controls. Plugged in, it sounded okay. I went through a number of strings, roundwounds and flatwounds (no tapewounds). It sounds good but it always needed something.
I put the LaBella’s on a couple of days ago. I stretched them out. Acoustically, the bass immediately sounded brighter. The strings sounded nothing like the old black tapewounds, instead they sounded like a really smooth sounding round wound. Plugging it end, the amplified sound duplicated the acoustic tone. It has a really cool top end, not brittle in the least.
I can’t wait to try them on the Fender P bass Lyte and the Samick Greg Bennett. I’m sold.