TimSz
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Holy ****.
That's how this thread will be started off.
I put a set of the acoustic coated strings on an Art & Lutherie dreadnaught cedar top acoustic a few weeks ago. I have been playing the living Christ out of it since then because I wanted to put these strings to the test. Now, in my heart of hearts I knew these strings would be great... but the question on my mind was... how great? Elixir great? Not quite? More? A waste of money?
It's now been a few weeks as I say, and here's what I've come up with: ... actually, a preface first. I am a sweaty player. I suppose it's because I am just so full of rock that it oozes from my every pore. That's what I tell myself anyways. I eat through the coating on a set of Elixirs within... twenty minutes? An hour tops. They look like an old set after one sit down with my playing is essentially what I'm getting at. I get rusted looks on my EB regular slinkys after one use as well. It's awful. Anyways, back to what I've come up with:
They look gold still. They sound brilliant. They play smooth and silky like the first time they came out of the package. They are bright, in-my-face and succinct. No messing around with these things.
I have impressed upon the boss that it may be time to look at giving those stupid Elixirs the heave-ho because these strings find Elixir in the back alley, corner them and beat the **** out of them. That's what the EB coated strings do.
My next goal is to get a set of Regular Slinky coated electrics and put them on my Silhouette Special. If I can get new string feel, look and sound out of them for a couple weeks I will be in a euphoric state not unlike swimming in a pool of cocaine or being granted endless amounts of grilled cheese sammiches.
Way to go, you guys. I mean it. I don't give out compliments often. Way to go.
That's how this thread will be started off.
I put a set of the acoustic coated strings on an Art & Lutherie dreadnaught cedar top acoustic a few weeks ago. I have been playing the living Christ out of it since then because I wanted to put these strings to the test. Now, in my heart of hearts I knew these strings would be great... but the question on my mind was... how great? Elixir great? Not quite? More? A waste of money?
It's now been a few weeks as I say, and here's what I've come up with: ... actually, a preface first. I am a sweaty player. I suppose it's because I am just so full of rock that it oozes from my every pore. That's what I tell myself anyways. I eat through the coating on a set of Elixirs within... twenty minutes? An hour tops. They look like an old set after one sit down with my playing is essentially what I'm getting at. I get rusted looks on my EB regular slinkys after one use as well. It's awful. Anyways, back to what I've come up with:
They look gold still. They sound brilliant. They play smooth and silky like the first time they came out of the package. They are bright, in-my-face and succinct. No messing around with these things.
I have impressed upon the boss that it may be time to look at giving those stupid Elixirs the heave-ho because these strings find Elixir in the back alley, corner them and beat the **** out of them. That's what the EB coated strings do.
My next goal is to get a set of Regular Slinky coated electrics and put them on my Silhouette Special. If I can get new string feel, look and sound out of them for a couple weeks I will be in a euphoric state not unlike swimming in a pool of cocaine or being granted endless amounts of grilled cheese sammiches.
Way to go, you guys. I mean it. I don't give out compliments often. Way to go.
