I use DRs exclusively, across the board. The RAREs for acoustic are amazing. I use Roundcore/pure nickel on my 74 strat, and roundcore/NPS on my Blade strat. Hi-Beams when I need more tighness.
Elixir strings are a good idea but the actual string that they coat is not that good. Elixirs seem to break about 2 times as fast as D'addario's eventhough they don't rust. Now if there was a company that bought D'addario's and coated them, well that would be a dream come true
In the future when i have the money I want to use the coloured DR strings.
I have used ernies for over a decade.Everyone has used them at some point in time.Name it they have played ernies.I gotta find a good stings for my acoustics tho
D'addario does make coated strings.. their EXP series. they're not too bad.
Ernie Ball coated strings didn't impress me..
Elixirs are actually coated with Gore-Tex (Gore owns the Elixir brand).
DR also makes a nice coated string (in plain or a variety of fun colours). But I prefer their uncoated stuff. I can't spend $6 on a single string when I break one (well, it doesn't happen much)..
That was the articles I was thinking of reading this topic from the start, couldn�t find them, so thanks Defrag! Please read all of the articles, they are very, very filled with great information not just about strings.
D'Addario 10-46 on the electrics....D'addario or Martin bronze on the acoustic......i might put some nickel wound electric strings on the 12 string acoustic as i'm using a tele neck pickup to amplify it and i heard they work better with magnetic pickups even if you lose a bit of acoustic tone.......
It makes sense that i use vacuum packed D'addario's over paper packed ernie balls. I heard that at last years NAMM they announced to start vacuum packing too but i haven't seen any around yet.
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Posted - 03/08/2009 : 20:18:47
