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Location: south east Michigan | I've tried tinted strings.
My opinion.... Okay. Nothing to heap glorious praise upon. They lasted as long as any other phospher bronze sets I've tried.
Temp thought they sucked stagnent castle mote water. Which might tell you about my ability to determine tone.
I will say this. A set of blue ones on my UTE looked very, very cool. |
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Location: UK | In a different thread I mentioned I'd just bought a washburn. I'm learning a few tunes in different tunings so a cheap guitar is a great help.
I'm actually very impressed with the build of the washburn but the strings just feel so hard and they're rough - rough I say - Like a file. Like sliding my fingers along broken glass. I slide a lot (Learning HotChilli's Water Song) and the strings have ground nice deep grooves in my calouses.
What strings would they be ? "Heavy-super-rough" or what ?
Tomorrow I'll try a set of silk&steel and see what they go like. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Oh! 'Coated strings'... how 'bout these...
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Location: Tennessee | OK. So I'm generally not a coated string kind of guy. I do have some DR Coated Black Beauties on the 07C ... which just puts the whole coolness factor totally over the edge. Same deal as those blue ones, Brad, but black. They sound totally fine to me, and since the 07C is bright to start with, I'm real happy with the way the guitar sounds with these strings. I also got a set of red ones to put on the Ultra 2171 ... that ought to look especially cool.
I tend to try all kinds of different strings. I'm checking out some D'Aquisto strings right now and so far, so good. Got some PBs in both light and mediums (13-58). Also picked up a set of their Tony Rice strings which I'm gonna put on the Tak340BG and check them out. I also picked up some of the GHS Lawrence Juber strings, which are brass plated Phosphor Bronze. They say "Gold tone, gold color" ... and to some extent they're right. They work good on both the 1537 and the 2000C, but not so great on the Cole Clark. They're bright strings.
But the total cat's meow right now is a set of these Optima Acoustic Golds I got and put them on the OFC Ding-O. Holy crap these are cool. The strings are made in Germany and are 24-carat gold plated. Hehehe. The ultimate coated string? Well, actually, it makes a bit of sense to me. All the best electronics seem to gold plate certain components for the ultimate anti-corrosive protection, and maximum signal transfer. Normally the Optima strings are real pricey, but I scored some off eBay for just under $20 a set. Soundwise, they really help the Ding-O ... whcih I found to be rather dark and so these strings brighten up the sound and seem to really even it all out. The guitar just sounds great. I'll have to see how they hold up, but the logical argument should point to these having a pretty long life, especially on a guitar that is not heavily played. And I have to say, the gold plated strings look great with the gold inlays on the fretboard and really pick up the gold flecks in the finish and also the binding ring. I know, I am sooooo shallow, but looks do matter too. ;) If you have an OFC, a #47, an 08C, or even an original slothead, you ought to get a set of these just to check them out. They are worth it and at least to me, they really work well on these guitars.
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Hey Bobbo, post a picture of that. They're normally $43.20 (at Juststrings), so they want to look real good, or last a real long time. |
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Location: UK | That cow in the picture doesn't look too impressed. |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
OK. So I'm generally not a coated string kind of guy. I do have some DR Coated Black Beauties on the 07C ... I never tried those before. The colors seem like a gimmick, do they really look black (they have other colors also) and does the color stay that way? I will admit to momentarily wondering what the black ones would look like on my new 2080… it might look like it had no strings at all from a little distance…
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Location: Tennessee | Yes, they really do look black. Even the B and E strings. And yes, the strings totally disappear into the black headstock, black tuners, ebony fretboard and ebony bridge of the 07C. Six black lines across the bearclaw top is all you really see until you get up close. I haven't had the black ones on my guitar long enough to know how colorfast they are ... but so far, so good. I figure at some time the color will wear off in my normal picking area ... signaling to me it's time to change them.
There was a bit of a fad around here where folks were putting the Peacock Blue color on their guitars. There are probably some pictures around of this ... some folks liked the way they looked, some thought it was straight out goofy. Maybe they'll chime in here on how they lasted, etc ... but at the time most of them liked the strings and were pretty stoked about the pimped out look. Sorta like having a new set of 24s on your Buick Century. :) The other colors DR has includes green, red, hot pink, and silver. I;ve seen yellow and teal, too. I thought about buying a set of each, mixing them up, and having six sets of rainbow strings. |
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Location: SoCal | Picture of the 07? |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Picture of the 07? 
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Location: SoCal | Nice..... |
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Location: closely held secret | Nice indeed.
Bob, you've picked up a few while I wasn't paying attention. How many of what do you have now? |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | +1 nice |
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Location: Tennessee | My Ovation stable now consists of: 1969 1117 winged bridge (I call it the Clapton model ;) ), 1968 Josh, 1968 Balladeer 12 shiny bowl w/winged bridge, 6759 CL12, OFC#6, 1537, 2000 Collectors, 2007BCS, 1982 Collectors beater (still sounds great), 1651 JL3, K1111 reissue, 2171 Ultra in Sunburst (surprisingly good guitar), EAB68 CCB bass, EA68 Viper, 1271 Viper (mahogany), Deacon 12, plus my original 1311 Ultra now set up for slide. Also around are some strays that the boys use, including Betty Lou (Applause AE12 half size shallow bowl), Max's iDea guitar, an 80's Celebrity shredder guitar, and the FrankenViper. I think that's it on the Ovation side. I have some wooden boxes too ... including three Taks, a couple of Martins, the Lakewood, and the Cole Clark. And then there's the three other basses. And about dozen various electrics. :rolleyes: . |
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Location: Las Vegas, NV | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
I'll have to see how they hold up, but the logical argument should point to these having a pretty long life... It seems like, 24k gold being as soft as it is, you would start wearing through the coating where the strings contact the frets, and maybe elsewhere. Gold is great at preventing corrosion (won't oxidize), but not great at resisting wear. |
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Location: closely held secret | Nice little group there, Bob! |
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Location: Utica, NY | I have only played electric guitar until now and the string thing is not an issue for me but I though I read somewhere that in order for Piezo pickups to work effectively that phosphor coated string were necessary. From all I read here it makes no difference. What's the 'rest of the story'? |
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Location: Utah | For the piezo it doesn't matter what kind of string you use. If you like it acoustically, it will work with the pickup. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Presidential strings, very nice!
I tend to the non-coated D'Addario.
At one time I'd use the exp and non-coated back and forth and I really couldn't hear much difference.
Elixers you can hear it, and I don't really like them much, but I like the nanos on a slide National guitar.
The DR colored strings are interesting, I've used the blues and they sounded fine.
"stagnant castle mote water" a phrase to remember........
And I agree, those guys over on the Taylor forum can go bite Moody. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Originally posted by Jonmark Stone:
Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Non coated strings will eventually go dead. You don't have this problem with coated ones because they are dead right from the get-go. Go ahead and mock. I'm used to enduring scorn.
I play Ovations. :cool:
Q: What sounds worse than an ovation guitar
A: An ovation guitar with coated strings
Absolutely Hate coat strings
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Location: Utah | Elixir Nanos do sound good on the '07. Just put them on and they sound as clear and full of overtones as the uncoated DR phos/bnz that came off. |
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