Acoustic/electric bass owners.. strings?

[PORcell]

couple questions:

what type of strings sound good with acoustic electric basses?
im talking company and type (roundwound, flat, ... whatever)




thanks



-eric

[apacherosepeacock]

well the standard for any acoustic is usualy phosphor bronze strings.... the standard is usualy a roundwound standard guage (.45) set - made by a loada companies... including big names such as elixir and rotosound.

As for sounds good.... they'll give you quite a deep tone (well the kind you'd associate with an acoustic guitar really).... you can use whatever you want though, steel and nickle will obviously be a bit brighter, but the low end can often sound kind of dull and unpronounced with these. Flatwounds obviously give a much duller tone with a lot less attack... but on an acoustic this is emphasised even further - it does give you a very smooth bassy sound, but obvioiusly thats not suited to a lot of styles... nice for jazz though