Re: DR Blues 9-42 ruined my tele sound, need help for replacements..
People can't hear the difference of their strings because they don't have transparent audio.
Why do you think people listen to music and TV on normal speakers instead of guitar cabs?
Cabs colour sound and take away tons of range. So do many amp headers. Of course you won't be able to hear tones when you change strings when you have that kind of setup.
I can hear tone through my setup. The difference is night and day. One is complex, the other is dry and thin.
Oh yes the bass has also been destroyed with the DR Blue strings. I have the powered sub-woofer so I can actually hear these things. Guitar cabs cut out all the high and lows in trade of SPL.
I'd recommend getting a pair of studio monitors and plugging in your amps and pedals into those. Then you'd get some accurate sound of what your guitar and gear are actually doing.
utter ignorance **facepalm**
you aren't even worth the time it would take to correct
I have played semi-professionally (meaning I earn income for playing) for over 20 years. I can hear HUGE differences between string gauges, string materials, string constructions, brands, etc through my "primitive" guitar rig.
If you even took a second to grasp that concept you'd realize that you actually argue against yourself since your pedal/amp modeler is actually designed to recreate the sounds of these "crappy"/"inferior" guitar amps.
Guitar amps sound better at reproducing guitars because that's what they are designed to do. Your argument is stupid a home theater system (which you still haven't even identified for us) isn't designed to bring out the best of a guitar it's designed to do one of two things HYPE the sound or give you a TRANSPARENT tone. Either approach is usually based around a frequency response range similar to that of the human ear. Does your guitar actually encompass 20Hz-20kHz? Of course NOT!
Most guitar tones that people enjoy listening to are the result of clipping not the result of pure, transparent, unaltered audio. And if you even did basic research on guitar amps you'd realize that different cabs, speakers, circuits, tube types, etc all play a huge role in your tone.
The other thing you are forgetting is that most guitarists want to sound good in a mix with other musicians so your full range transparent approach would likely sound horrible with a bassist, keyboardist, horns, a drummer, etc.
If you sound like **** the last thing you should be blaming is your strings, just saying
If you play on and off it's probably your playing (tone is 90% your fingers and about 10% the gear you use), of that 10% strings maybe constitute 1% of it. Maybe next time I make a mistake on a session or at a gig I'll blame my guitar strap for it instead of myself.
If you want twang and presence you should've picked DR Hi Beams since that's the tone those strings are designed to give. You picked the warmest sounding strings DR makes, and arguably one of the warmest roundwound strings in current production. I have used DR strings for the last 10 years by choice they are some of the best strings money can buy, they happen to be my favorite sounding string.
From the way you describe your guitar maybe you should actually do a full setup on it anyway. Level, dress, crown, and polish your frets. Set the intonation, maybe cut a new nut for it (polished bone). If needed tweak the truss rod.
