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Totally irrelevant, but if you play guitar... well I use Jim Dunlop nylon picks and they have these new ones out with this like pimp-heavy grip. I mean it's like sand paper or a cat's tongue, that pick is going nowhere. Just, throwing that out there for anyone who uses those.

Anyway, I use standard sized bass strings, whatever gauge rating those are.

On a more related note I went to the Ernie Ball site, their tone universe (Ernie Ball | Tone Universe) and their "warmest" string still sounds bright and twangy as hell. Also the brightest is no brighter than the second brightest and they're significantly further apart on the scale.

Then I decided to look at their artists and the vast majority of them are all people who are all ancient as hell or have a fondness of wanking ballad-type solos (with like the cock-rocking motion with the guitar in the crotch type thing). Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Slash. Coincidentally, I consider half of them (particularly Page and Slash) to be way overrated (that's not saying they aren't good, just stupidly overrated).

Unfortunately, FireWire has tanked I think; it looks like some generic music companies bought their back stock of strings but the site is gone and everything else. They were a really small company and now I hate that I'm going to have to find a new electric string with that warmth.

Here's the sound of them after being 1 year old; no finger ease, normal proper cleaning; first direct input clean then direct input through Amplitube III; all of it on bridge pickup with the tone knob turned fairly high on the treble end, if you'll excuse my quick, off-the-top-of-my-head noodle and no editing.
https://soundcloud.com/anathematized_one/firewire

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