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Adam Levy: Your tone is pretty dark. Do you use flat-wound strings?
Pat Metheny: I did play flatwounds for many years. I wanted something with the quick decay that gut strings have on acoustic bass-that was the goal. But as of two or three years ago, I switched to roundwounds.
Adam Levy: Why?
Pat Metheny: Partly because I want to hear the guitar ring more, and the roundwounds do that. But also, I was missing the bandwidth that I got when I play acoustic guitar. With acoustic, there's so much more frequency information, and round-wounds have helped me get more of that sound on electric.