New DR neon strings

[pie_man_25]

I've had my DR neons in green on since about late september, and the colour has started to come off on the bridge end and under the frets for about the past month or so. It's nothing you'd notice from offstage, but it's not something I like seeing at the moment. The sound on them is still going strong though. I think I'll go back to a non-coated string though once these ones die out.

 

[randysmojo]

DR's website is very hard to find the actual Black Beauties info, but here is a piece from Ed Friedland's review of the Black Beauties.
"The Extra Life strings have a round core and start with a stainless wrap wire"
That could be for the inner wraps and might be what got me thinking in the wrong direction.

 

[SLaPiNFuNK]

The other K3 String information is removed pending new updates in the works...

The NEON stuff is there, but the info related to Black Beauties / Silver Stars / Red Devils / Cool Blues has been removed...

It'l be back though...

 

[randysmojo]

Straight from DR Strings, the Black Beauties ARE stainless steel and the Neons are Nickel. I thought so and had to find out because too many people are trying to judge one by the other. Black Beauties are closest to Hibeams and Neons are closest to Sunbeams.

 

[One Drop]

Straight from DR Strings, the Black Beauties ARE stainless steel and the Neons are Nickel. I thought so and had to find out because too many people are trying to judge one by the other. Black Beauties are closest to Hibeams and Neons are closest to Sunbeams.

Wa Wa WA?

The plot thickens...

Got to get me some BBs (or Silver Stars) to compare. I'm loving the Neons but a coated SS string is probably another flavour of wonderful.

I always assumed they were the same.

 

[SLaPiNFuNK]

What makes me wonder about it now too, is that the Black Beauties have a 50-110 set. And there are no Sunbeams in 50-110 but there are Hi-Beam / Lo-Riders...

 

[sandmangeck]

I've got a set of the dragon skin clear coated strings on the way. I will post a review when I recieve them.

 

[mibrownwy]

"the Black Beauties
and the Neons are Nickel"

Does anyone know what type of string the new Dragon Skins are?

Thanks for the info on BB's SLaPiNFuNK

 

[SLaPiNFuNK]

Still my last conversation with the production manager at DR said Black Beauties are NPS..


Removed dragon skin info.. Not sure if press release is out yet.

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Does anyone know what type of string the new Dragon Skins are?

Phosphor bronze, for acoustic guitars.

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[SLaPiNFuNK]

That is the acoustic guitar version.

Ill post more info Monday if I find out three info is public.

 

[PWV]

Pics don't do it justice - they sound great, but in black lite the bass just disappears!

 

[XsSpeed]

That looks killer!

 

[Darkstrike]

Straight from DR Strings, the Black Beauties ARE stainless steel and the Neons are Nickel. I thought so and had to find out because too many people are trying to judge one by the other. Black Beauties are closest to Hibeams and Neons are closest to Sunbeams.

This explains why I don't like the sound of the Neons near as much as the old Red Devils I tried, though I much prefer the feel of the Neons, I'll have to try a K3 Black Beauty set.

 

[randysmojo]

Well, SlapInfunk talked to someone else at DR that looked into it and said that Black Beauties Are Nickel, so don't know, but the good news is the announcement that DR is putting out Stainless Steel Dragon Skins for bass. They should be awesome!

 

[SLaPiNFuNK]

Yeah im trying to stay out of that one. Production manager and Anthony say Nickel.

The Tapered B strings are stainless though.

Bootzillas are stainless coated strings as well by the way.

At NAMM in a couple of weeks I am going to bring this up again.

 

[randysmojo]

Cool. I'd like to hear what comes from it. I know the Black Beauties I had on my bass sounded kinda in between nickel and steel to me, so I figured it was the Steels and the coating was mellowing it out to sound a little closer to nickels, but the Sun Beams sound a little darker to me than the Beauties. Then again, I'm half deaf from playing with really loud drummers and steel guitar players!

 

[SLaPiNFuNK]

Many describe the k3 strings as being brighter

 

[Darkstrike]

They just sound dull to me. Little bit thunky.

 

[mmbongo]

This explains why I don't like the sound of the Neons near as much as the old Red Devils I tried, though I much prefer the feel of the Neons, I'll have to try a K3 Black Beauty set.

Not really, because it's incorrect info! All the ExtraLife's and Neons are coated nickel. I'm guessing that's why Dragon Skin's are not part of the ExtraLife line...they are stainless steel.