D'Addario ENR71M Half Round Bass Guitar Strings, Regular Light, 45-100, Medium Scale

Bottom Line: These strings truly do have most of the smooth playing feel of a set of flat wound strings, though not completely as smooth. (The outer winding surfaces were made as normal round wounds, then the outer surface was ground down until the surface was flat-ish.) Yet the tone of these strings retain a noticeable amount of the brightness and overtones of round wound strings. The best of both worlds on a bass if you ask me.Very Important!: These medium scale strings fit my Hofner Club bass perfectly. The heavily wound portions of the strings run from below the archtop's floating, rosewood bridge and then, just past the nut of the bass, these strings quickly taper down to where they DO fit into the holes of the guitar tuning pegs Hofner uses on its basses. The E string's taper at the top is just enough that it fits snugly into the E tuner's post hole. The other strings, of course, fit into their tuners with more ease. This bass is a joy to play, and the feel and tone of these strings have increased my enjoyment of playing it.I was given a Hofner Ignition Series Club Bass for Christmas, though I got it early. The Club bass is made in the same manner of hollow body construction as its more famous Hofner Violin or "Beatle" bass brother, only the Club bass uses the same Les Paul-ish shaped, single cutaway body as the Hofner Club guitar. The natural tone of these hollow body basses has a distinct thuddy, woody character resulting in a tone more akin to the tone of a large acoustic double bass than does any Precision or Jazz bass. These Hofner basses are 30 1/4 inch scale (15 1/8 inch from nut to center of twelfth fret) basses for which there are notoriously few choices of string sets because of the extra string length needed from the bridge to the trapeze tailpiece. I have wanted a Hofner Club bass for over twelve years (when I first laid eyes on one of these sunburst beauties being played by Kurt Smith of Tears for Fears) and I finally got one; even if it is the $350.00 Chinese version rather than the $2300.00 German original. (The bass's manufacture, finish, and workmanship are simply amazingly close to perfection! I'm truly impressed with the workmanship.) However, I really liked the sound of this Club bass with the included round wound strings. Sadly, the winding end of the factory strings were coming unwound somehow and the A string broke at the tuner, necessitating this string purchase. On my other bass I have long used a set of D'Addario ENR71 "Half Round" bass strings and love them. If the Hofner Violin and Club bass users on the bass forums are to be believed, the vast majority of new Hofner bass owners immediately on delivery remove the round wound strings installed in the factory and replace them with LaBella or other brands of flat wound strings. I guess the idea is to get as close to Paul McCartney's unique thumpy bass sound as possible. I'm different, and am loving the thumpy AND bright overtones, and feel of these D'Addario ENR71M medium scale strings on my new short scale Hofner Club Bass.

These feel really smooth. They feel much closer to flats, than round wounds. They have a nice warm sound.

I’m a touring multi-instrumentalist, and I’ve carried multiple basses for years with both round wound and flat wound strings for different styles. I’ve been trying to streamline my touring rig as I get older and break it down to one bass that can do all the things, and finding these half-rounds has made it so I can play jazz, hip hop, rock and country all on the same strings. They’ve got the smooth zip of jazzy flats when you roll off the highs, and the aggressive bite of rock rounds with the treble cranked. Def the most versatile set of bass strings I’ve bought, my new standbys.

I am the bass player for a oldies/classic rock band (1955 to 1985 rock), I been using D'Addario flats on my old Gretsch hollow body guitar for years, and I've just recently put some on my Ibanez for stage work and I love them.

I've tried half-rounds for guitar about 30 years ago, but not for bass until now. I'm actually impressed by their feel and sound. They're pure nickel strings, so they feel very close to the pure nickel flats I typically use.

Guitar player mostly, but put these on my Bass VI after trying out Half Rounds on a guitar. They feel smooth like flat wounds, but have a little more brightness and punch like round wounds. So now half-wounds are probably my favorite type of string :)

Half rounds are a go to for me. I don't have a particular style, I just like to play around from time to time. Half rounds never hurt my fingers and are a great middle spot between flats and rounds.

Made very well and quality is top notch. Easy to install and it was so nice to have a pleasant looking strings on the bass.

Simply put, fantastic ... nice & bright, absolutely minimal string sing as your hand slides up & down the fret board. Long life as well, almost a year into this first set & still sounding wonderful. Currently being used on a fretless, will be upgrading my fretted bass soon as well!

Compré estas cuerdas D'Addario del tipo "half-round" porque me gustan los tonos suaves, y las "half-round" te dan la suavidad de las "flatwounds" mezclado con el brillo de las "roundwounds". Ya instaladas en mi bajo eléctrico, las cuerdas se hicieron notar de inmediato. Son muy cómodas para tocar, los dedos se deslizan mucho más fácil que con las "roundwounds" y produce unos tonos suaves pero con mucho cuerpo. Mi bajo es de 5 cuerdas y la cuerda que mejor tono tiene para mi gusto es la "B" pues tiene un tono profundo con muchísimo cuerpo y que hace que todo retumbe, sin perder un gramo de control en el tono. La verdad recomiendo mucho estas cuerdas a pesar del precio que es alto para el estándar de cuerdas. Espero duren mucho porque es un placer tocar con ellas.

Für mich genau richtig.Was für Bassworker.

E' il primo cambio corde del mio basso e volevo una sonorità più cupa e "motown" ma conservandomi la possibilità di restare brillante all'occorrenza. Ottima muta di corde. Certo ancora è presto per vedere come si comporteranno ma il suono è caldo a filtro chiuso ma mantiene la giusta brillantezza settando i parametri di ampli e basso a dovere. Non disdegna la slappata selvaggia. Le ricomprerei. Se volete delle flat andate sulle flat ma se volete delle ottime corde buone per ogni stagione (a discapito della specificità) io ve le consiglio.

Ceux sont les meilleurs semi-flat que je connaisse. Sur une fretless elles font bien le boulot et la basse produit le mwa fretless.