The Metamorphosis of Tone: A Comprehensive Guide to Flatwound Strings for Solid Body Guitars

If you are playing the right notes but your sound is too bright and aggressive, the culprit is likely your strings. Changing to Flatwounds is the single most transformative modification for a solid-body guitar. In this post, we explore the physics of the "thud" and provide a buyer's guide to D'Addario, Thomastik-Infeld, and Pyramid strings.