Which strings for a flattop (cowboy) guitar?

[guavajelly]

Yesterday I pulled out my nice Guild acoustic flattop guitar for the first time after months of playing my flatwound-strung archtop almost exclusively. I loved the tone – my music room is a bit dry but in our lofty living room I enjoyed the natural reverb and huge room tone. But the noise when moving though the positions was something I forgot about. Terrible! I can't remember what strings are on this guitar. But they are some kind of bronce roundwound .012 if I remember correctly. I love the brilliance and openness as an alternative to the dryness of my archtops with flats. Well, it needs new strings anyway.
Any idea which strings I could get that reduce the noise when shifting positions? Coated maybe?

[TOMMO]

Half rounds probably?

[Peter C]

See if Elixir make a Nanoweb set for acoustic (I think they do). The electric set really reduces string noise on my artchtop .

[TedBPhx]

D’Addario Flat Tops Phosphor Bronze work for me. They are a “polished” round wound.

[Tom Karol]

I happily use Elixir 80-20 Bronze Nanoweb 12-53 on my flat-top acoustics. They make them in Phosphor Bronze too. They also have an 11-52 gauge. Get the Nanowebs, not the Polywebs.

[mr. beaumont]

I absolutely HATED half rounds when I tried them. Best of no worlds.

I'd go with elixirs. Get the nanoweb, not the polyweb

[AlohaJoe]

D’Addario Flat Tops Phosphor Bronze work for me. They are a “polished” round wound.

I like these too... great warm tone and close to noiseless. I got them on a recommendation from my luthier for my old Martin and they're great. After coming from the flats I was use to on electric archtops the string noise was annoying and these solved the problem. I also put a set on my old L4 and they're working well there too. For acoustic applications nothing else works as well for me. YMMV

[balthazar]

Hi,

You should give a try to DR Zebra