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12-05-2011, 07:09 PM
| | | | I've come to the conclusion that I hate new strings.
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The other day, I was just browsing around GC checking out some basses as usual. None of them really felt right to me. For a minute I stopped and wondered why these instruments triple the price of mine felt worse. Then I figured it out. All of these had bright, shiny new strings on them, and I didn't like touching them at all. There's something about my nice, gunky, 6 month old strings that feel and sound great.
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12-05-2011, 07:11 PM
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12-05-2011, 07:43 PM
|  | On the 1 and in the pocket | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Sierra Madre, CA | | | I'm pretty sure, all new guitars and basses at GC have the cheapest strings on them and more times than not, a gauge far different from what you or I prefer.
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12-05-2011, 08:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | I'm not fond of new strings either. They sound better to me after a month or two.
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12-05-2011, 10:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Louisville, KY | | | I thought the same thing until I tried DR Lo-Riders. They always sound good. |
12-05-2011, 10:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Brooklyn and Hudson Valley | | | I agree with the original post. I don't like how strings sound when they're new either. They take a little while to calm down and lose the extra overtones, IMO.
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12-05-2011, 10:50 PM
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12-05-2011, 11:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Tupac The other day, I was just browsing around GC checking out some basses as usual. None of them really felt right to me. For a minute I stopped and wondered why these instruments triple the price of mine felt worse. Then I figured it out. All of these had bright, shiny new strings on them, and I didn't like touching them at all. There's something about my nice, gunky, 6 month old strings that feel and sound great.
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12-05-2011, 11:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Narvik, Norway | | | I'm not in the old string club. I love a new set of nickel rounds! But new steel rounds are not that great to touch. |
12-06-2011, 12:06 AM
| | | | I love new strings. They only last about a week then I can tolerate them for a few more.
My experience at GC: Everything there has old strings. I was about to buy a guitar there once and asked if I could restring and they were accomodating, said "we don't have time to keep fresh strings on everything".
When I was a NOOB I hated new strings but I grew out of that.
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12-06-2011, 12:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | 3 year old flats are just about right. 
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12-06-2011, 05:13 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Upstate, South Carolina | | | Wait...you said you were at Guitar Center. There probably wasn't a new set of strings on any of those basses. So actually, you hate the 4 month old cheap crap strings that that come on the instruments.
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12-06-2011, 10:20 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | I can appreciate worn in strings when need be, however lately I have found a new love for newer brighter strings. I usually find myself having a urge to change them as soon as they start to feel gunked up or the tone gets the slightest "muddy" sounding. |
12-06-2011, 10:32 AM
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12-06-2011, 10:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Normandie, France | | | Always hated new strings. That's why I play flats now.
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12-06-2011, 02:05 PM
| | | | Huh. Maybe I should have taken into account the good ol' "Guitar Center factor" :/. But regardless, they were certainly newer than my strings. I can literally see gunk hanging off and a dark coat on it. I'm replacing them for Christmas though, because it's getting a little over the top. |
12-06-2011, 02:10 PM
|  | Anarchist Dalek | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Saint Louis, MO | | i like my roto 66s more after they've worn a bit than i did when i first put them on! when i play stuff at guitar center though the strings usually have like...rust or something on them. it's gross. and hurts.
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12-06-2011, 05:03 PM
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12-06-2011, 05:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SF Bay Area North CA | | | New strings at your GC, wow? |
12-06-2011, 05:22 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: WA State | | Send me your new strings, and I'll send you my old strings used for 4 months max, and all SS.
I crave new string zing.
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