La Bella ASP-45125 Ian Martin Allison 5

These were advertised as basically roundwounds with a flatwound feel. First impressions is that they feel nothing like flatwounds, more like kinda dirty, waxy, old roundwounds, essentially making them very slow-playing roundwounds that my fingers stick to.

I’m looking forward to trying them more, there’s absolutely some quality here. It just baffles me why they would advertise them as something they’re very clearly not. They’re fun strings… just not what I thought they would be.

They sound incredible, really singing higher up the fretboard.

They are nowhere near as smooth feeling as advertised, they are essentially round wound strings, and I would probably say not as smooth feeling as nickel coated strings.

So not entirely what I was expecting but they’re still brilliant