Sorry, not a photo of my bass, but you’re right, only the silks should wrap around the tuning pegs.
As for tone, after discovering GHS and D’Addario black tapewounds, I’ll never buy flatwounds again.
Slightly warmer tone here.
@JD56hawk @Chris_J @John_E Hi All, thanks once again for your feedback, just to close this post. I couldn’t return the strings, so I thought I might as well try to fit them again, I used the old round wound string to slightly widen the plastic nut for the strings that wouldn’t sit right and changed the strings one by one. I contacted Rotosound about the fit of these strings, they explained that half a wrap of the nylon part around the tuner peg is ok and did confirmed that the medium ones should be fit on the hofner violin and that they don’t recommend the short scale ones. I am no expert but I don’t hear any kind of buzzing, and I did get them in tune using the tuner although I have to adjust them every time I play but I think that was the case with the original strings as well. I read I have to adjust the truss rod after changing the string gauge but I haven’t done that yet. The only issue is that I guess since they are thicker when I play a string quickly I knock the string on the frets and there is a clinging sound as these are pretty stiff, but I guess that is more of a technique problem than the strings.
Great!
Your clanging is most likely due to string height, maybe not your technique. Since you filed the nut, strings are now closer to the fretboard, and different tensions. A propers setup is in order to reset neck relief properly, and string height, etc.
IF you filed your nut too low, well, then you might be stuck with klanging until fixed. Nut filing isn’t a willy-nilly sort of thing, there are measurements and procedures to follow. Ah, the joys of learning to own instruments.
First step, follow a proper setup video (Josh’s here on the forum is great, and there is a thread wtih many others). See if that gets you right.
Yeah totally. It’s also usually not the best method for nut adjustment; if a nut is overall too high (the most common case in my experience), sanding the bottom is a much better plan, as it retains the original radius and slotting automatically.
But for just slightly widening like they did, should be fine to do exactly what they did - just don’t file down with the string or file any deeper than it takes to widen the existing slot, and just do a little at a time. Cheap little diamond files work great for this.
I’m glad you’re playing your bass with your string of choice. Enjoy!
