Tried the Cobalt Power Slinky's

[GHWelles]

Loud, clear and powerful.

The wound strings have a more balanced sound with the plain strings. Better definition and clarity and at the same time a bit more volume and power. Excellent.

 

[Jack FFR1846]

(warning, extended, wordy descriptions follow. Enter at your own peril)

I bought some cobalt slinkys (10's) yesterday to go on the spaceball 3000. I played the old slinkys for a good while before going off to Guitar Center to pick these up. So I got home with a large pepperoni pizza for my son, his friend and me. Ate the pizza and then washed up and went to get all my restringing tools. manual winder, 6" scale, feeler gauge, hex wrenches, capo, screw driver, wire cutters, pruning saw (power) and a diet coke.

I pulled off the old strings (do you really want a description of that?). Installed the cobalts as usual. So far, nothing different. Stretched em. Using my stretcher, the did not seem to stretch as much as regular slinkys. I tend to not stretch enough and play them in.

So I start playing them in a bit. I then do a full setup and intonate. I found that they seemed to take a while to get the intonation right, but once right, it stuck. (I also have not intonated this guitar.....uh....ever). I have songs for next Sunday's service, so after doing a bit of Van Halen and blues stuff with lots of bends to stretch the strings more (wife was away, so I could use the amp....actually my son's suggestion). I get to learning my songs, retuning every 10 minutes or so. Took a bit longer of playing than regular slinkys to fully settle in. Once settled, they stayed rock solid.

Ok, so skip to this morning. First, I couldn't find my glasses. No, really, I always leave them on the kitchen table and they were nowhere. Looked for my identical set that I used to leave in my car and couldn't find them. Eventually, my wife comes home (was out with the younger son at a boy scout camp out) and within minutes, I decide to go down to my guitar workshop and sand the lacquer on a guitar body that I'm painting. I get down there and what's right there (where both my son and I already searched?) you got it. My glasses. I also found my spares (first, actually....in a bag with sunglasses).

So anyways, I come back up and decide to work on the songs again. Pick up the Axis Supersport MM90 (that's the spaceball 3000, in case you didn't get prior episodes) and warm up the strings and neck and check tuning. It's right on. This never happens (except when I had my floyd Axis). I'm impressed.

Oh, and they sound good. I'm not good with A to B comparisons unless I have 2 guitars to compare back and fourth. If anyone wants to A to B who lives near me with a Axis Supersport MM90, come on over.

the end

 

[Warg Master]

mmmm... can't wait for my Beefy Slinky's to arrive!

 

[GHWelles]

I like the gun metal grey color they have ......

 

[MaxDestroyer]

I like the gun metal grey color they have ......

me too...

 

[JesterMasque]

I got myself a set of Cobalt Power Slinky and put them on my PRS this morning. It's a Singlecut SE with a Duncan JB/Jazz pickup combo.

The best way I have found to describe it to my friends is this:
When you spank 'em hard, they seem to have that little bump in the low end, that "fatness" that you lose when going from single coils to humbuckers, all while retaining (and even enhancing) all of the clarity and harmonics across the entire range of the instrument.

Call me crazy, but I almost feel like they "drive my guitar harder." Like, all of a sudden, the output on my pickups has just been upped a few points. I just came back to EB after almost 10 years, and I'm incredibly satisfied with my decision.

 

[Brian]

I got myself a set of Cobalt Power Slinky and put them on my PRS this morning. It's a Singlecut SE with a Duncan JB/Jazz pickup combo.

The best way I have found to describe it to my friends is this:
When you spank 'em hard, they seem to have that little bump in the low end, that "fatness" that you lose when going from single coils to humbuckers, all while retaining (and even enhancing) all of the clarity and harmonics across the entire range of the instrument.

Call me crazy, but I almost feel like they "drive my guitar harder." Like, all of a sudden, the output on my pickups has just been upped a few points. I just came back to EB after almost 10 years, and I'm incredibly satisfied with my decision.

Thanks Jester! Happy to hear you're digging the cobalts! Appreciate your support!

 

[TNT]

Loud, clear and powerful.

The wound strings have a more balanced sound with the plain strings. Better definition and clarity and at the same time a bit more volume and power. Excellent.

Huh, speak up, I can't hear you!!!! Yeah, I can't wait to give em' a run!

 

[GHWelles]

I got myself a set of Cobalt Power Slinky

Call me crazy, but I almost feel like they "drive my guitar harder." Like, all of a sudden, the output on my pickups has just been upped a few points. I just came back to EB after almost 10 years, and I'm incredibly satisfied with my decision.

Crazy you may be, but I agree it is like going from a PAF to a hot PAF.

 

[sbrett]

So what you're saying is the strings are awesome, and they snatched your glasses from you? I'm both excited and frightened to try them. More excited than frightened. I hope they snatch some beer out of my fridge and have them ready for me when I go to play.

 

[Joshua_Bolling]

I play in Drop G on a Schecter SGR 7 String. What size gauges of strings would you prefer? I like my strings kinda loose but tight at the same time. It's a werid combo (Loose and Tight) but i just can't find the right size gauges for my poor ol' 7 string. HELP??