LaBella White Gold Tapewounds... Wow!

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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.

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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.

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Man, that is one great looking acoustic bass!

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I found it locally by chance. It’s really nice

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Love those LaBella’s!

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I’ve only used Black Labellas and they feel so good. How do you feel about the difference between black and white?

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I prefer the way the whites feel, they’re more supple. Less “thick” feeling.

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That’s interesting. My black tapes fit in my nut just fine other than the E string being just a smidge tight, same with feeding through the bridge. But they’re so easy to bend that they actually feel thinner to play than rounds, though I know they’re actually pretty much identical.

Is there much tone difference between black and white?

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Probably a semi tone?

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IMHO, the whites have so much top end, it’s hard to compare the two…

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