Have DR Strings Improved Their Consistency?

[ExplorersRock]

I use to play DRs exclusively on my electrics. I still think they sound and feel the best. But I kept getting a dead string or a buzzy string. Swap it and it was fine. But i got so annoyed I switched to GHS.

Is anyone playing DRs right now, and have you had any string quality issues?

 

[donaldr]

I'm using DR Low Rider on one of my bass and really like it.
I'm using DR Pure Blues on 2-3 guitars and I have problems with the D strings after a few weeks (wrapping is getting damaged at the 2nd fret).
I'm using Ernie Ball on 2-3 other guitars and they are fine.

 

[jeremy]

sounds like your 2nd fret needs some polishing!

i use dr pure blues 11s most of the time. i like a round core, nickle wrap string. there were issues a few years ago, i emailed them, they responded, asked for the broken strings, which i sent, then sent me a 10 pack for free. i cant say ive had issues recently.

 

[uOpt]

I use DR on most of my basses and can't say I had problems in the last 10 years.

 

[donaldr]

sounds like your 2nd fret needs some polishing!

On 2-3 guitars? I will check but I'm suspicious.

 

[jeremy]

seems weird that it would be isolated at that one spot

 

[JamesPaul]

seems weird that it would be isolated at that one spot

It could have been some, undetected for a while, issue in the manufacturing process. At one point I bought 50 sets of GHS Tremolo Boomers for my Kahler'd Fenders. Every pack I have pulled out, the G string (always the problem child isn't it?) has a tiny tarnished spot in the same place. That spot falls just past a fret, so I never really feel it, and no strings have ever broken there. Something in the manufacturing process was the only way I could come up with to explain it.

 

[ExplorersRock]

...Every pack I have pulled out, the G string (always the problem child isn't it?)...