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07-03-2007, 01:52 AM
|  | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | | DR is Fender?
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someone told me today that Fender strings and DR strings are one and the same. i think this person is crazy. am i wrong? 
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07-03-2007, 01:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Santa Cruz, CA | | | Whoever told you that DR = Fender was full of it. Fender has their own line of strings that they manage.
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07-03-2007, 02:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Jamaica, Queens, NY. By JFK. | | | Yup. DR's are all made in New Jersey.
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07-03-2007, 02:01 AM
| | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | thought so.
anyway... i've ordered some sunbeams and have just bought a set of regular fender nickelplated strings. i'll see how they stack up (besides the difference in composition). DRs have always felt... tighter and just generally better than all the others i've tried. 
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07-03-2007, 06:08 AM
| | Pat's the best! | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Northern Virginia, USA | | | DR strings are nowhere near as good as Fender.... IMO. |
07-03-2007, 06:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Philbiker Fender strings are nowhere near as good as DR strings.... IMO. | fixed it for ya...  |
07-03-2007, 06:47 AM
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Accessories Sales Associate, Guitar Center Rancho Cucamonga, CA | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Upland, California | | I use DR's Hi-Beam strings right now. Really love the way they feel and sound. I'm into the bright/crisp thing so they get changed out about every 5-6 months. |
07-03-2007, 06:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TheMutt I use DR's Hi-Beam strings right now. Really love the way they feel and sound. I'm into the bright/crisp thing so they get changed out about every 5-6 months. | Same here, thought I probably go through a set on my main bass about every 1-2 months. |
07-03-2007, 07:16 AM
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Originally Posted by xgabriele fixed it for ya... | |
07-03-2007, 08:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Los Angeles | | | I heard that they aren't just the same string, but they are manufactured in the same factory.
Quite different thing.
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07-03-2007, 08:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Lorenzini I heard that they aren't just the same string, but they are manufactured in the same factory.
Quite different thing. | Credible sources? |
07-03-2007, 08:44 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lansing, Michigan | | | I heard that fender strings were manufactured in Mexico. Hmm.. confirm with your source, because I read that on the package of the last package of fender strings I bought.
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07-03-2007, 08:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Corsicana, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Lorenzini I heard that they aren't just the same string, but they are manufactured in the same factory.
Quite different thing. | In 2005 or so, I had a long conversation with an employee of GHS that told me GHS made DR strings, among others. It took alot of coaxing, but he did say flat out that DR were made by GHS. Now, that is not to say that they are the same, just made by the same company in the same factory. Eminence does it with speakers. |
07-03-2007, 08:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY | | | It sounds like we have a serious string conspiracy here. I was under the impression that DR strings were made somewhere in NJ. |
07-03-2007, 09:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Corsicana, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by xgabriele It sounds like we have a serious string conspiracy here. I was under the impression that DR strings were made somewhere in NJ. | I've also heard it said that there's only a few places that actually wind strings. I really want to say it was less than 5. D'adarrio, EB, and GHS all do their own (I believe) and there may be one or two more. |
07-03-2007, 09:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY | | | I just called DR. Hopefully they will chime in and answer some questions for us... BTW, he dismissed all these claims as bogus. |
07-03-2007, 09:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Corsicana, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by xgabriele I just called DR. Hopefully they will chime in and answer some questions for us... | Probably not. When I was talking to Tony -icantpronouncehislastname - he couldn't share that info. |
07-03-2007, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by stubi19 Probably not. When I was talking to Tony -icantpronouncehislastname - he couldn't share that info. | We'll have to wait and see. In short, he told me that their factory is in Emerson, NJ, and they employ about 100 people winding the strings. He mentioned he drives by the house everyday on his way to the factory where they started the business with two string winding machines in a garage. |
07-03-2007, 09:07 AM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | Quote:
Originally Posted by xgabriele I just called DR. Hopefully they will chime in and answer some questions for us... BTW, he dismissed all these claims as bogus. | Well I doubt it's information they would volunteer freely. FWIW, all the info I've heard is that there are very few places that actually manufacture strings, as mentioned above. Many of them probably come from under the same roof, but they probably have different specs and construction. I believe I read something to that effect in Bass Player a loooong time ago; maybe I still have that issue somewhere. |
07-03-2007, 09:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY | | | GHS says their strings are made in Battle Creek, MI.
DR says their strings are made in Emerson, NJ.
Fender is from Scottsdale, AR. and probably makes their strings in mexico, though I can't confirm this.
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