Re: what strings brand for strat
Guys, I've met lots of players who agree. I guess I'm not explaining myself properly. I can honestly say in my own experience that I feel and hear no defining difference in nickel played steel strings, at least nothing worth brand loyalty. And with what I do for a living I sell a lot of strings and talk to a lot of different people about strings. Many feel this way. ....
Sorry if I'm offending you.
Not offending in any way, but maybe we should put it into perspective: Some of the people telling you about the differences spent months of 10-12 hour days learning ONLY about differences in string construction and their impacts on tonal and tensile characteristics, at a time before you yourself could likely even speak, and have been speaking with professional players regularly ever since (assuming Age: 24 is correct). With all due respect, I do not think that 8 years or less as an (insert musical industry vocation x here, including string winding machine operator) can even start to compare their experience to >20 years as a classically trained luthier, studio and touring musician. There really is no need to try to flaunt credentials here, because there`s always a bigger fish.
I don`t mean to belittle or offend you , but the fact of the matter is that your experience is limited, at best. In that specific context, you may well even be absolutely right, i have not had your specific experience. And there are a few brand /model combinations that are remarkably similar.... But you see how dissimilar they are when you mix and match them and the intonation is suddenly off by 5 cents on half the strings, due to different expansion coefficients caused by different core alloys and wind ratios.
Outside of that limited context, the rules of physics and imperial measurement apply without any buffering. And in THAT context, the global context of string construction, you are almost absolutely wrong.
That`s the nice thing about science, others don`t have to believe in it for it to be true :beerchug:
Side note :I spent almost 10 years trying every concievable brand and model before finally settling on my DR titefits, from the cheapest Vinci strings to 50$/set boutique strings. My fingers and ears agree 100% with what physics and training tell me.
