Titanium Alloy Strings..ehh anyone tried these?

[ChorusPedal88]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Titanium-Alloy...#ht_1315wt_913

Just browsing eBay to change my strings and uhh came across these, anyone have experience with them?

[pasta4lnch]

interesting. I imagine they'd be super bright . . .

[Tim Skaggs]

There's a couple things i would wonder, but it must not be an issue or the manufacturer would come up with a bad reputation. #1- do these have enough ferrous metal content to interact properly with the pups & #2- do these strings have more mass than steel or less mass.

[Muaguana]

They're the best strings for metal! HUAAAA!

I'm curious about how titanium's difference in magnetism will affect performance. Do paramagnetic metals like titanium interact with pickups differently than ferromagnetic metals? That is, can you have electromagnetic induction with either type of metal moving in a magnetic field? And will the fact that titanium, even in an alloy form, has much weaker magnetic attraction than steel decrease output?

[FunkMetalBass]

Ernie Ball uses some titanium in their guitar strings.
http://accessories.musiciansfriend.c...ngs?sku=108505

I imagine this is a similar situation, where output and tone difference are probably negligible.

I think the difference will be, however, that the strings will have considerably less stretch-ability because titanium is a much less malleable metal.

[melarson]

Stainless Steel is not magnetic either.

[Jaco who?]

Well, if I have the pound to dollar conversion right, 9.99x1.528 = $15.28, give or take a penny. Titanium is expensive. I'd be willing to bet the titanium content of these strings is probably around 0.05 of 1 percent. This smells a tad gimmicky to me.

[okcrum]

The DB guys' consensus was a thumbs-down:

Olympia strings? How bad are they?

[Eric Perry]

Originally Posted by Jaco who?

...Titanium is expensive. I'd be willing to bet the titanium content of these strings is probably around 0.05 of 1 percent. This smells a tad gimmicky to me.

That was my first thought as well.

[FunkMetalBass]

Originally Posted by okcrum

The DB guys' consensus was a thumbs-down:

Olympia strings? How bad are they?

A DB is an entirely different instrument. I don't think it's a valid opinion on the matter.

That's like saying that you wont put them on your bass because they sound terrible on your piano.

[Bass-Adrenaline]

Originally Posted by melarson

Stainless Steel is not magnetic either.

Actually, some is and some isnt.

[darkstorm]

Well, if I go by the sellers reccomendation to judge them by their appearance in the photo, Id pass right away. They look no better then any familair name brand string and lack silk wrap at both ends which to me indicates cheapness. The metal part of strings doesnt look any diff from any other roundround string, color shift from camera aside.

[Bass-Adrenaline]

Lack of silk indicates cheapness? lol.....

[DerHoggz]

In reference to color shift, have you ever seen titanium plated drill bits?

Also people use nylon tapes all the time. Nylon isn't magnetic.

[Muaguana]

Originally Posted by DerHoggz

In reference to color shift, have you ever seen titanium plated drill bits?

Also people use nylon tapes all the time. Nylon isn't magnetic.

100% nylon strings are only used on acoustic instruments and/or and those with piezoelectric pickups, which react to sound waves. Nylon tapes are metal-core strings wrapped with nylon, so there's still an element of magnetism involved.

[darkstorm]

Bass-Adrenaline....> LOl, It was a tongue in cheek statement going off the sellers desire for buyer to base the strings qaulity based on appeartance in the pic. Since most name brand bass strings have silk wrap at ball and tuner end it seemed like a appropriate comment in its way. As far as I know the seller may have also polished the strings to make em look prettier too. Like how food sellers do various doctoring of food for "better looking picture_ Lol. I do prefer silk wrap but wouldnt not buy a string that didnt have that. Unless seller is saying appearance is what to go by as his ebay add did. Hed of done better to talk about the sound qaulity tweak of titanium or some such.

Do you remember the gold coated strings made by a major mfg awhile back? I forget the brand. They advertised them based on what the gold was supposed to do to the sound, rather then doing a "lookey lookey, shiny gold, pretty pretty gold like a nice gold watch" Lol.

[thrashingbass]

The brightest strings for violin that I have ever used are the "Titanium" Vision "solo" Thomastik strings. Incredibly bright and powerful (some don't like them because of this.). BUT this has no bearing on how they will sound on bass guitar. :P Just a random fact.