What's the difference between strings/brands

Re: What's the difference between strings/brands

rguser said:
totaly agree!
I recently changed around Ernie ball, D'addari and Dean Markley to gain some experience. I felt exactly the same about EB and D'addario. Dean Markley is interesting. the regular type (signature series) lasts as long as D'addario but sounds bigger and stronger. it's more suited for distorted sound than DD but the clean sound is blunt. DD always sounds smooth and sweet to me. The blue steel Dean Markley is my current favourate. they last super long and generate alot of overtones but they take much longer time to get their tension settled. when you put them on and tune them they drop flat and you tune and stretch again and they drop again. it took me like 5 times to get them stabalized.[/QUO

yeah it takes them a while to get right but do they really last long for u? it got to the point where i couldn't tell the difference in sound between hitting an open string and palm muting it. and i dont have that prob with d'addarios
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Re: What's the difference between strings/brands

Dean Markley, for one, uses a bigger inner core than D'Addario which makes it stiffer. The overall diameter is the same, but the core is bigger...which means a louder string to my ears. The old Gibson Sonomatics were the same way.
 
Re: What's the difference between strings/brands

Cool, thanks for the replies guys.

I think I'll be sticking with the EB's, just can't seem to fathom the D'addarios.
 
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