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New DR neon strings
- Thread starter krafty
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1) I believe all the NEON's have always been with the K3 coating.
As for the K3 Black Beauties / Red Devils / Cool Blues / Silver Stars... All of my recent stock of Black Beauties has come with the K3 printed on the package... on Red Deviles / Cool Blues / Silver Stars, a K3 sticker is applied. Some newly packaged "Fresh sets" are missing a sticker though... so it can vary I suppose.
2) See above...
As for the K3 Black Beauties / Red Devils / Cool Blues / Silver Stars... All of my recent stock of Black Beauties has come with the K3 printed on the package... on Red Deviles / Cool Blues / Silver Stars, a K3 sticker is applied. Some newly packaged "Fresh sets" are missing a sticker though... so it can vary I suppose.
2) See above...
Blue strings with k3? Are the nickel round core like neons and sunbeams? If so which do they sound closer to or same as? Ty,
Blue would be nice alternate color to green.
The "Cool Blues" are really bright... (Bright as in COLOR)
Ill snap a pic of one really quick...
Same spec's as the Neon's... (available in some different gauges though too)
Ill snap a pic of one really quick...
Same spec's as the Neon's... (available in some different gauges though too)
Wow, TY SLaPiNFuNK, great pics. Same specs, Ok, I'll order some in bout 3 months. Just put new set of greens on last week, so it'll be a good 4 before I want to change them again.
Ah, I really wish there was a red. I have a MusicMan SUB that's red (that matte texture), and I don't think green, yellow, pink or orange would look all that great. I have a black Aerodyne Jazz that I'm definitely going to put some on, but the SUB is my main bass right now.
Currently have Black Beauties on there though, and I LOVE them.
Currently have Black Beauties on there though, and I LOVE them.
They are pretty bright red! I will try to snap a pic...
But on a flat red bass, Put Yellow or Orange on there... or even BOTH! Then you can get some kind of flame action going!
But on a flat red bass, Put Yellow or Orange on there... or even BOTH! Then you can get some kind of flame action going!
They're not Neon Red but they are red.
I looked at them when I first got the bass, but decided to try the Black Beauties first. Definitely still interested though.
That'd be great. I love how the neon ones pop, but I'd probably be ok with a super bright red haha. Would certainly match my setup:
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I think the Pink Neon's would actually be pretty cool on your setup... but it could be the color balance either in the picture or on my monitor here...
Now that I am back in the office I am gonna get that pick of the Red.
Very well could be the picture. I took it in my basement, which has like one lightbulb, on my cell phone haha. The bass is the standard SUB red, and I actually painted the grill on my cab a few years back (you can see where it's starting to come off).
Its really cool! I dig the Henry the 8x8! If you ever get really bored, pull a speaker and jam a black light in there... It will glow through the ports and around the rim of the speakers and look really wicked...
Forgive the picture from 1997, but you can kind of see the black light installed like this in my Super Redhead: (I WISH I had these NEON strings back then!).
(if you really did want to put a black light in there... you basically need to bolt it to the back wall or on the bottom and top to really get the effect... you don't want it directly behind a port otherwise people will be looking directly at the black light bulb and you wont get the glow).
Forgive the picture from 1997, but you can kind of see the black light installed like this in my Super Redhead: (I WISH I had these NEON strings back then!).
(if you really did want to put a black light in there... you basically need to bolt it to the back wall or on the bottom and top to really get the effect... you don't want it directly behind a port otherwise people will be looking directly at the black light bulb and you wont get the glow).
Its really cool! I dig the Henry the 8x8! If you ever get really bored, pull a speaker and jam a black light in there... It will glow through the ports and around the rim of the speakers and look really wicked...
Forgive the picture from 1997, but you can kind of see the black light installed like this in my Super Redhead: (I WISH I had these NEON strings back then!).
(if you really did want to put a black light in there... you basically need to bolt it to the back wall or on the bottom and top to really get the effect... you don't want it directly behind a port otherwise people will be looking directly at the black light bulb and you wont get the glow).
That looks awesome! Yeah as much as the red would match, now I really want Neons. Maybe I'll put the Neons on my Aerodyne and get the reds for my SUB, and bring my Aerodyne out more haha. I might swap out the Henry for a couple smaller Mesa cabs, because a) I love Mesa and b) smaller ones would be great, as many shows I play now are bars and Henry is total overkill. But that blacklight looks AWESOME and now I totally want to do that. haha
It works in pretty much any speaker system that has a thinner fabric surround. Some foam ones will work if it is thinner... but I know it works on those SWR speakers..
I feel for you lugging that 8x8 around! Largest cab I can handle is a 4x10 / 1x15... anything bigger... when I have roadies!
As far as the red "matching," red is one of those colors that if it is not the exact same red, it doesnt "match." Painting a damaged door panel on a Red car will never look the same or match the rest of the car and sticks out weird...
I vote Pink, Yellow, Orange... in that order for your SUB.
But thats just my opinion...
I feel for you lugging that 8x8 around! Largest cab I can handle is a 4x10 / 1x15... anything bigger... when I have roadies!
As far as the red "matching," red is one of those colors that if it is not the exact same red, it doesnt "match." Painting a damaged door panel on a Red car will never look the same or match the rest of the car and sticks out weird...
I vote Pink, Yellow, Orange... in that order for your SUB.
But thats just my opinion...
I am pretty sure either string set you go with you will be happy!
Worst case, you eventually change them...
Worst case, you eventually change them...
