You have to do that with most flat wound strings. With that said GHS Precision Flats are probably one of the most "flattest" sounding strings out there. Just do a search here. String noise and fret noise are much different that brightness. I dial back the tone knob on every set of flats I have to get rid of the fretting and string noise.
It's not string noise or fret noise. What I find out is string noise is non existence with a flatwound. As for fret noise, I don't have fret noise, I don't pluck hard, unless I play along Iron Maiden's songs.
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