I didn't realize I was getting CUTE strings... I read the hype on the package and usually I don't and usually I don't even pay attention to that stuff but I thought CO stuff but I thought coded strings if they sounded good might actually sound did Mike actually sound better longer so I didn't think very long I didn't think very long about it and grabbed them.... 1st thing I noticed was when I cut the extra bit of string off it was like cutting butter. They didn't snap or pop they just kind of squeezed like solder wire. Then I tried them out and all that came out of my amp was noise. I thought that the wire to my bridge had come undone so I actually sottered a small piece of wire from the bridge to my output Jack... But it was still there and it was obnoxious and it was high pitched and low pitched and everything in between. I didn't attribute this to the actual strings, but the sound of the strings was bad as well. I'm used to playing this bass and I know what good strings sound like and they have bass... these don't have bass! They sounded rubbery and full of mid range but almost no bit range but almost no base! The rig that I play the rig that I play is actually very very much a direct amplifier and is a direct amplifier and does not have anything in the way of EQ. I use the EQ on my base and on my other process I bass and on my other processing but the amplifier is just a straight is amplifier is just a straight amp and speaker... But that noise wouldn't go away! And as I played for a while it got worse! The covering or coating was so thick that the strings were completely insulated and made no actual contact on the bridge or my fingers! What I imagine to be were cracks or small pinholes where the salt it was where the solvent our coating had cracked add cracked the strings actually made some strings actually made some brief contact with my fingers which sounded like which sounded like a high pitched crackle as I slid my fingers over as I slid my fingers over the strings. I was kind of at a loss of what to do so I tried to scrape a little bit off at the bridge and see if that made a difference but it made almost none. I sanded the strings to try and get the covering off of it but in the end it was just horrible and nothing sounded good coming out of those strings. I've seen hundreds of people talking about the same exact situation on their amps. And I see a lot of people erroneously telling them their basses aren't grounded properly or shielded... I can assure you mine is... there's something going on with these and the coating... some kind of bizarre capacitance issue.... and also strange instances of static in the strings that discharges when you FRET them... They are literally the 1st strings that I ever returned and the store would not even and the store would not even give me credit for them and and I don't know if the company will or not. It seems like a lot of people have been returning them and I think that these were discontinued at the store I shop at. If you want a cute set of strings that only have visual updates if that only have visual appeal and maybe we'll glow in the dark we will glow in the dark then these are the strings for you as long as you don't have to actually play as long as you don't have to actually play them.
