I'm a Moron.

[Metalmike117]

So I'm playing my new PDN Luke that I got from Glory Days Guitars. It wasn't playing well, I made some adjustments to the bridge and wasn't loving it. While playing I broke an A string, so I said maybe a new set of strings would help. When taking the old ones off I noticed they weren't EB Slinky's I think they were the M-Steel.

Do the M-Steel have Black ends for the plain stings? Regardless they felt like crap to me and were too bright.

However put regular EB Slinkys on and BAM. NOW that is what it needed, Slinkys really make any guitar sound good especially the MM with Stainless steel frets.

So I'm an idiot for not noticing they weren't regular strings. End of Rant.

 

[KEOKI]

No you are not. If I didn't know better, based on the numerous questions in threads about strings on new guitars, I would speculate they strung em up with whatever was handy.

 

[Rachmaninoff]

We all feel like a moron sometimes... it happens.

 

[xjbebop]

We all feel like a moron sometimes... it happens.

guilty....

 

[DrewH]

There is such a difference between regular slinkys and then the cobalts and M steels. I HATE the latter 2. Both lasted one day. The sound lacked warmth but the major issue for me was how the wound strings felt.... ick.

 

[Benji Peterson]

I was out of $5 slinkys and put on $13 M steels. Sorry Mike, didn't intend to throw off the experience of it all.

 

[fbecir]

You're not !!!

You play an EBMM, thus you are a very clever guy !

 

[stealthtastic]

You're not !!!

You play an EBMM, thus you are a very clever guy !

Haha, very true!

 

[BrickGlass]

Well I'm a Mormon...and a moron.

 

[Bungo]

My best 'I'm a moron' moment came after years of playing guitar, when I was using a rack system with all the patches carefully programmed in. I was grumbling one day to the bass player that whilst it sounded great in some rooms, in others it became too bright, and I was complaining that you couldn't really go through all the patches to knock some treble off each time that happened.

He said, 'Why don't you use the tone knob on your guitar?'

Hadn't even occurred to me to have the controls on the guitar anything but full on all the time...

Doh!!