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08-02-2010, 06:34 PM
| | | | Brightest, least flat sounding strings you can think of?
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I'm getting two shortscales soon, and to counter their size, I want to be sure I string them with very bright, not flat, punchy sounding strings. Any suggestions? |
08-02-2010, 06:41 PM
| | | | Usually when I think of bright strings, Blue Steels come to mind.
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08-02-2010, 07:01 PM
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08-02-2010, 07:01 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: S.E. Connecticut, USA | | | Pro Steels by D'Addario are rather bright sounding also |
08-02-2010, 07:02 PM
|  | Bababooey to y'all | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Central Florida | | | I always thought rotosound were the brightest....
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08-02-2010, 07:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: US | | | Any stainless steel roundwound is going to be as far from flats as a string can be.
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08-02-2010, 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Lesfunk Pro Steels by D'Addario are rather bright sounding also | Agreed. Go with ProSteels. I use RotoSound RS66s for my roundwounds and ProSteels are too bright for me.
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08-02-2010, 07:22 PM
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Originally Posted by TheWoodShed Rotos | +1
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08-03-2010, 08:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: League City, Tx | | | Another vote for ProSteels.
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08-03-2010, 08:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Birmingham, AL | | D'addario ProSteels. All day long. And all night. They are so bright, you gotta wear shades. Lol. I just cracked myself up. 
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08-03-2010, 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by SC Bassboy D'addario ProSteels. All day long. And all night. They are so bright, you gotta wear shades. Lol. I just cracked myself up. | More bite that a Great White on Captain Quint or a Killer whale on a little baby seal.
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08-03-2010, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by SC Bassboy D'addario ProSteels. All day long. And all night. They are so bright, you gotta wear shades. Lol. I just cracked myself up. | +1
add another +1 for the sweet joke! |
08-03-2010, 01:35 PM
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08-03-2010, 02:41 PM
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08-03-2010, 07:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: San Diego | | | Blue Steels are the brightest I ever used. they are also very loud. I have to turn the tone knob down to 3 before I break them in. |
08-03-2010, 08:58 PM
| | | | Dean Markley Blue Steels, they're insanely bright, great sounding, well priced, and their brightness never seems to die. I play around 4 hours a day and I only have to replace mine every 4 months or so when they're completely dead.
Rotosound 66s are almost as bright, and they have tone to die for, but they lose their brightness in a few days. |
08-04-2010, 02:36 PM
| | | | Can you buy Elites strings in the U.S? Really nice zing with good body and nice softish tension, when they round out they still sound funky, must have bought and played well over 100 sets of these, every one of them had the same consistency, I dig them V.mucho. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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