Changing strings immediately after putting em on

[Peter C]

Just put a set of D'Addario Pure Nickels (EPN 21) on my ES-175 because so many people on the forum seem to like them and they are touted as being warmer. I usually use D'Addario nickel wrap EJ 21s. Now that the EPNs are on, I'm not sure what to make of them. I'm not sure if they're warmer or just more dead. Maybe I like livelier strings. That's the reason I slowly started ditching flatwounds on my guitars.

I guess I'm too cheap to rip $11 strings right off and replace them with a $6 set. I'll have to play them a bit to see if I really dislike them that much or if I just got used to the brighter sound of the EJs.

The ideal thing would have been to try the Pure Nickels straight after the flats, as then you would have noticed any gain in liveliness more acutely. I once went from flats to half-rounds and thought, wow, these feel just like rounds. Conversely, when I recently swapped from rounds to half-rounds, they felt a lot like flats. Go figure.

If you tend towrds bright, the D'Addario NYXLs may give you an extra 5% "something" but if you get on well with the EJ21s, I'd stick with them. They're just a bit too lively on my main guitar.

[Woody Sound]

rpjg- by all means check out ghs big core 9.5's...they solve many problems...

great quality pure nickel wound strings besides!

BIG CORE NICKEL ROCKERS™ - GHS

big cores been around for a long time....srv, santana etc

cheers

What is their advantage? Do they have less tension than an equivalent gauge set?