red devils or peacock blue dr bass strings?

[0175westwood29]

are these any good wat tone do they have i play rock on a copy ebmm 5er tone wise would they fit?

[Parabolic Box]

They give a coated stainless steel tone...

And, yeah, they'll fit.

[Inflin]

While they look really nice, and sound really nice, even though theyre coated, when I try them, they have lost all life after about four months of daily play. If you think thats a fair lifespan, go for it, I do too, but I have friends who think thats way too short, expecially for coateds and the price. Just letting you know in advance.

Oh, and the colour comes off them where you pick and at the frets, too. Beware if you like the pristine look.

[0175westwood29]

Originally Posted by Inflin

While they look really nice, and sound really nice, even though theyre coated, when I try them, they have lost all life after about four months of daily play. If you think thats a fair lifespan, go for it, I do too, but I have friends who think thats way too short, expecially for coateds and the price. Just letting you know in advance.

Oh, and the colour comes off them where you pick and at the frets, too. Beware if you like the pristine look.

i can dig ageing! was considering gettin a set of red and blue and have the strings changing across the fretboard like red blue red blue so i would have another set of strings anyway?

thanks for heads up on tone

[theunknowndude]

dont know what prices are like but for me anyways,...

5 string set in aus is about mmm say 60$ for normal strings, paid 105 for the black beauties... so two sets would kill me!

but ive had them for about 5 months and they have lasted, havent come off on the frets just a tiny bit near pickups (I played with a pick mostly using it)... tone is still good,... BUT I since have a newer better bass (k5 with factory fitted elixirs) so havent actually touched the black beauties in a while!

my only problem with the strings (could have been the actual bass tho, was on a rbx375) was they sounded bad for slapping,... very good for rock tone but was too dark/muted slapping? sounded to me like you get the "thump" of slapping but not any of the other normal tones,... my teacher liked it and said it had a distinctly different tone to it tho...

that said I liked the black beauties alot! mixed between DR and elixirs,... even tho I dont play the rbx375 very much any more i do love the dark rock tones I can get out of it with black beauties on it

[ga_edwards]

I've stuck a set of peacock blue's on my white Yammy RBX4/A2 which looks the badgers nadgers. I like the fact they sound played in and not too bright like some new strings can. Not a fan of ultra bright zingyness. Also they feel great, I played a 3 hour set at the weekend and didn't make my finger feel sore at all like the previous Roto's did.

Only problem I did find is that I had to cut the E string shorter than normal as it was sticking when I flipped my Hipshot D-tuner.

I'll agree the slap sound isn't quite right, but I don't play slap a lot so it's not an issue. I go for a more middly rock sound anyway, so slap never sounds quite right.

[detracti]

Evan Sheely at Bass Northwest recommended the Black Beauties to me, as another all-steel string to try that wouldn't chew up my frets.

I think they're all the same just in different colors - black, blue, red...

He said I should put them on my Stingray, but they fit my Ripper, which generally requires longer strings for the thru-body. So they ended up there.

They look badass on it, because it is all black with black strings, and they really give that bass an in-your-face throaty growl. The coating is supposed to make them last a very long time.

[0175westwood29]

Originally Posted by theunknowndude

dont know what prices are like but for me anyways,...

5 string set in aus is about mmm say 60$ for normal strings, paid 105 for the black beauties... so two sets would kill me!

but ive had them for about 5 months and they have lasted, havent come off on the frets just a tiny bit near pickups (I played with a pick mostly using it)... tone is still good,... BUT I since have a newer better bass (k5 with factory fitted elixirs) so havent actually touched the black beauties in a while!

my only problem with the strings (could have been the actual bass tho, was on a rbx375) was they sounded bad for slapping,... very good for rock tone but was too dark/muted slapping? sounded to me like you get the "thump" of slapping but not any of the other normal tones,... my teacher liked it and said it had a distinctly different tone to it tho...

that said I liked the black beauties alot! mixed between DR and elixirs,... even tho I dont play the rbx375 very much any more i do love the dark rock tones I can get out of it with black beauties on it

i can get them for £33 quid 5er string set in black red or red

thanks for your views guys, im happy they get a good rock tone me likes!