Rotosound FM66 Funkmaster

They deliver...

Thin but stil useable for different styles, veeeery good for fast en good sounding slap and snappy pluck (ghostnotes, here I come... ), not hard to understand why mr. King uses them since decades...

My favourite bass strings

These strings are great. Lovely sound and feel.

super easy

The lightest set of strings i ever used. Have them on an old Rickenbacker-copy from Japan that is bigger that a original Rick, so it is very hard to play.

I tried allot of different strings but nothing was good for me.

With Funkmaster strings the bass became a toy!! It so easy to play..FANTASTIC!!!

Great strings

I am in love with funk genre and thought to give these strings a try. They produce a great sound profile but i would prefer them to be a little less bright/snappy. Great overall worth.

Slap that bass!

This set made it fun to play bass again, and really opened up for the slap/pop technique due to their playability and great tone!

The lightness of these strings lessens the workload on your fingers, which for me, made fast triplets fills and double thumb slapping a lot easier to master.

They are bright sounding and make it easy to hear each note through the mix, but they might also sound a little thin for some. That is quickly solved by boosting the lows on your bass or using a eq/pre-amp pedal.

I would recommend them particularly for funk/slap, but they are very easy to play and thus quite versatile for any style in my opinion. Considering the low price, these are now my new go-to strings!

Best Funk Gauge strings around

These are top quality stainless steel 30-90 gauge bass strings perfect for the Mark King sound. If fitted to a jazz bass you will get that sound with a little reverb and chorus added and low mids you will really get near to it. But the strings are the business and it is these that allow the bright harmonics and bends that you won't get on other strings. If you want funk then rotosound are the only strings to have. I don't use any other kind for that style. Truly brilliant and affordable price for the length of time they last. in fact Mark King uses these himself even these days and was instrumental in bringing this gauge into use during the early 80s when rotosound made the piano winding bass strings that was so unmistakable in their brightness and crystal clear highs, these are the next step on from that. They are truly excellent British made products. All of the range are gems

Awesome Funk strings!

Great strings for slap and pop-style playing! :) light feel but still sturdy sound with enough bass to it. I was skeptical before buying wether these would be too thin, but seem to be perfect for my taste!

Positive!

Rotosound have a great brilliant Sound, the highs will be away quickly and the strings develop their typical Rotosound Sound :)

Even better: at first you might think those strings are too thin and have no edge. That's wrong. Of course the g string somehow sounds like a guitar string and new possibilities in the sound are enabled.

But this effect is more than positive and the strings are really easy to play. You will ask yourself why you played the 105s for years and not tested those set much earlier!