The right strings...

[amusiathread]

Here's a discovery I've found that I'm quite pleased with, maybe to those of you who are still looking for the right strings, you may find this interesting.

I find that while they sound great, flatwound strings aren't responsive enough for my liking. Regular roundwound strings seem a bit too bright and thin. And while half-round (or ground-wound) strings sound great at first, they don't last at all for me, and they sound tubby and dead shortly after breaking them in.

On a whim, I tried DR Zebras 12-54, and I'm very surprised at the result. They have alternating windings of Nickel and Phosphor Bronze over steel core, so they're much warmer and not as "spanky" as regular round-wound. Amplified, they're very warm and round, and with the Nickel and Bronze plating, the wound strings aren't quite as "hot" to the pickup as with other strings, so the unwound B and high E strings are louder and more balanced with the other strings.

So, if anyone's up for a string experiment, these are worth a shot. Especially amplified, they sound pretty amazing.

[mattymel]

interesting. i'll have to try them out.
my latest find has been john pearse pure nickel jazz gauge. he makes one with a extra long wound D that is perfect for my old epi with the frequensator. every other string i had tried is so short that i was winding the unwound part of the string around the tuner. that and they sound and feel amazing. very warm abd clear...and cheap. hope pearse keeps making them!

[henry b]

Originally Posted by amusiathread

Here's a discovery I've found that I'm quite pleased with, maybe to those of you who are still looking for the right strings, you may find this interesting.

I find that while they sound great, flatwound strings aren't responsive enough for my liking. Regular roundwound strings seem a bit too bright and thin. And while half-round (or ground-wound) strings sound great at first, they don't last at all for me, and they sound tubby and dead shortly after breaking them in.

On a whim, I tried DR Zebras 12-54, and I'm very surprised at the result. They have alternating windings of Nickel and Phosphor Bronze over steel core, so they're much warmer and not as "spanky" as regular round-wound. Amplified, they're very warm and round, and with the Nickel and Bronze plating, the wound strings aren't quite as "hot" to the pickup as with other strings, so the unwound B and high E strings are louder and more balanced with the other strings.

So, if anyone's up for a string experiment, these are worth a shot. Especially amplified, they sound pretty amazing.

These were recommended for electro-acoustics .