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06-03-2008, 04:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Minneapolis/Saint Paul MN | |  Help me identify these strings please...
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Bought a bass about a year ago....had some GREAT strings on it....previous owner said they were DR High Beams so when the mystery set finally did dull down, I ordered some Hi Beams.
...but they are not high beams!
They actually have a transparent coating on them (duh should have noticed this earlier).
So...
- very bright harmonic sound (almost 'chorusy') but not harsh
- lowish tension
- last for *ages*
- transparent coating
- come in sets for 5 string basses.
Any ideas?
The Hi Beams are good -- but rougher, and not as lush and zingy in the high end.
TIA this should be fun? Can't be that many that fit the bill. |
06-03-2008, 04:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Cobourg, Ontario | | | Elixers? |
06-03-2008, 04:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Minneapolis/Saint Paul MN | | Could well be. If so I'm sold on them!
They are taper wound at the top on the heavier strings also. Quote:
Originally Posted by VinylRepairKit  Elixers? | |
06-03-2008, 04:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Ellenwood,Ga. | | | They could be DR Bootzillas,or D'Addario EXP's.If the barrells are bronze color,they're most likely DR's.If all different colors,D'Addario EXP's. I tried both and went back to Elixers.
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06-03-2008, 04:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Minneapolis/Saint Paul MN | | Barrels are all bronze.
Also, the strings themselves are a very 'white' steel color...the Hi Beams are slighty darker/bluier (as have been some other strings I've had).
Anyway to tell the difference between Elixir and Bootzillas? Quote:
Originally Posted by 73jbass They could be DR Bootzillas,or D'Addario EXP's.If the barrells are bronze color,they're most likely DR's.If all different colors,D'Addario EXP's. I tried both and went back to Elixers. | |
06-03-2008, 07:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada | | | Elixirs have a polymer on the surface of the string (a condom, if you will), and Bootzillas are just coated. |
06-03-2008, 09:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Long Beach, CA | | The DR Bootzilla set is fun. 
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06-04-2008, 01:33 PM
| | Dry and Heavy | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Swiss Alps | | | 98mtd, why do all your posts about DRs sound like ads? I can see you endorse them, but it's a bit strange to me anyway. |
06-04-2008, 05:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by One Drop 98mtd, why do all your posts about DRs sound like ads? I can see you endorse them, but it's a bit strange to me anyway. | Yeah, I mean, even if I was getting free strings, I wouldn't be posting them like ads. They'd have to pay me to get that. |
06-05-2008, 07:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Long Beach, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Parabolic Box Yeah, I mean, even if I was getting free strings, I wouldn't be posting them like ads. They'd have to pay me to get that. | Green Apples paid me to do that one.
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06-05-2008, 12:50 PM
| | Dry and Heavy | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Swiss Alps | | Quote:
Originally Posted by 98mtd Green Apples paid me to do that one. | Taking money from Granny Smith- sheesh, no morals! |
06-05-2008, 03:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Long Beach, CA | | | Feel it in the One Drop
And we'll still find time to rap
We're makin' the one stop,
The generation gap
Now feel this drumbeat
As it beats within,
Playin' a riddim,
Resisting against the system, ooh-wee!...go roll one.
If those strings are coated with no silk, they're Bootzillas.
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Last edited by 98mtd : 06-05-2008 at 03:08 PM.
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