Great news, cant wait to finally play em. Still waiting for my atk, this has gotten incredibly tedious lol
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New DR neon strings
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Should have a set of guitar and a set of bass, neon greens monday, friday if lucky. From MF order. Course also ordered some rotosounds in case dont like the sound enough to keep them on for awhile. Lol. Crosses paws hoping likes them fair amount. Lol.
I just got the orange ones last night. I'm put them on my Trans blue MIA Fender Deluxe Jazz.
They look pretty sweet. I';m not normally into this sort of this but I;m starting to like it. It'll be a fun bass to use while teaching lessons to Jr High kids.
Hopefully pics soon. They looks great in black lights.
Just came across these strings. They look pretty freakin cool. I can imagine how awesome they would look under stage lights.
I dislike coated strings but if they made these in neon blue I would give them a try.
Showed these to my guitar buddy who already uses coated DR's. His face lit up with joy, he's ordering a pack right now
I dislike coated strings but if they made these in neon blue I would give them a try.
Showed these to my guitar buddy who already uses coated DR's. His face lit up with joy, he's ordering a pack right now
K. Got the BC Rich Eagles strung up with them. The guitar version is hex core and the bass version are round core. Both are nickel rather then stainless steel. My fave and regular strings for bass and guitar are Rotosound. Swing 66 45 gauge for bass and Roto Pink 9's for guitar. The DR neons are the same gauges. No truss rod or action adjustments where needed with the brand change.
I did the guitar first, cause I knew if I didnt like them I wasnt going to like them and I didnt want to waste the month or so of useableness of the Rotosound swing 66's on the bass if the new strings where only going to be on for five minutes or so. Thats about how long most brands of strings are on my instruments. I'm very picky. But the strings, both guitar and bass arent getting taken off as fast as possible! Good news indeed. Lol.
On the guitar strings, the tuner couldnt read the plain B & high E strings at first. Like the guitars volume controls had been turned all the way down. That stopped after a few seconds for each after putting them on and striking them repeatly. They dont have the nasty unpleasant sound or feel of Elixers. Crunch factor for the sound isnt diminished like Daddarios do. Nor is crunch enhanced a tad like Ernie Balls do. The overall tone of the strings is a little darker then Rotosounds, GHS etc. Listening at first to the tuned up strings unamplified at thought I might find the wound strings on the guitar dull sounding compared to Rotosounds. However amplified that wasnt the case. They are a little darker sounding then the Rotos, but they also completely avoid the unpleasant treble peak lots of string brands have. The DR Neons treble is extended instead more like rotosounds brilliance. Harmonics come out easy.
Ok heres the one negative about the guitar strings to me. The unwrapped strings have a hard to feel presence to them compared to uncoated strings. This causes me for now to be fretting a little harder then normal. Which is decreasing fretting nuances speed just a little bit. I think once I get used to their feel I'll be back to regular fetting speed and ease with them. Again this has nothing to do with string tension imo. But rather that its a little harder to feel the strings on ones fingers for now anyway. The uncoated strings are also less visible then rotosound and other regular uncoated guitar strings. The pic attached is accurate portrayal of visibility diff.
Ok, the Bass strings compared to Rotosound swing66. Both again are 45 gauge. I'm impressed. They got the bass thru treble balance right on these. Not quite as extrended as the Rotosounds but completely lacking the unpleasant treble peak of most bass strings. Bass is very articulate and solid. None of the woompy or bleh sound most bass string brands have to me. Nor do the neons change crunch factor of the instrument. Daddarios to me deminish crunch, Ernie Ball enhance it just a little, and rotosounds dont mess with it but rather let it remian as it is for the pups and woods. However their is one caveat about the DR neons sound. The output level to pups, pups signal level of sound heard is slightly less then with uncoated strings like Rotosounds. Its like one has lowered their basses volume control just a little bit. Like one would do to get a slightly less saturated tone. While this isnt enough to be a deal breaker, it does mean I cant use my basses volume control to the same useability level for controlling sound saturation and drive like I can with regular stainless steel strings. Its not a bad drop. But it does prevent the strings from equalling Rotosound swing 66. Overall, DR neons will be the only strings I use other then Rotosounds from now on. Rotos will remain my fave overall with DR neons being great alternative that deserve next best thing rating with the diff being only minor. I am experiencing less of the fretting nuances slow down that the guitars plain strings are temporarilly casuing me. We all know Rotosound swing bass strings are among the roughest feeling strings out there. Lol. Neons dont feel rough, but theyre is an equivalent that I'll call a allmost drag like feel to them. They certainly feel much better then Elixers do to me. And I think once i get used to the diff feel of the strings, I'll be fine with them. Compared to other coated strings, the stuff DR is useing on the neons feels closer to metal. One just doesnt quite notice ones in contact with the strings quite as much.
I dont recommend DR neons to those who dont like Rotosounds. I dont reccomend DR neons to those with heavy handed fretting. Not because of any wear on frets, fretboard, or fingers reason. But rather because esp with the guitar strings unwound (plain) strings, you dont notice your touching the strings quite as much as with regular uncoated strings. At first anyway. However their is no decrease in ease of getting harmonics including light tap touch ones and bell tones.
The bass version is very very close to the deliscious sound of Rotosounds. Better then any other strings Ive tried. (My warlock bass has fresh 4 day old set of Rotos so it wont be getting the Neons installed till around late January or sometime in Febuary). The brand new out of box sound is slightly brighter in the treble dept then the rotos are for the bass strings. But its a comprable brilliance rather then treblyness. Many brands have a unpleasant overly trebly sound to me. Elixers just have it all wrong to me and are terrible sounding and feeling.
These DR neon strings are expensive. I hope they last at least twice as long as Rotosounds. Otherwise theyre cost is gonna keep them from being bought and used as much as Rotosounds get.
Visually? Very kewl. except the guitars plain strings are not as visible as regular uncoated strings in moderate to low room light. In bright light and under blacklight the wound strings glow the most.
I did the guitar first, cause I knew if I didnt like them I wasnt going to like them and I didnt want to waste the month or so of useableness of the Rotosound swing 66's on the bass if the new strings where only going to be on for five minutes or so. Thats about how long most brands of strings are on my instruments. I'm very picky. But the strings, both guitar and bass arent getting taken off as fast as possible! Good news indeed. Lol.
On the guitar strings, the tuner couldnt read the plain B & high E strings at first. Like the guitars volume controls had been turned all the way down. That stopped after a few seconds for each after putting them on and striking them repeatly. They dont have the nasty unpleasant sound or feel of Elixers. Crunch factor for the sound isnt diminished like Daddarios do. Nor is crunch enhanced a tad like Ernie Balls do. The overall tone of the strings is a little darker then Rotosounds, GHS etc. Listening at first to the tuned up strings unamplified at thought I might find the wound strings on the guitar dull sounding compared to Rotosounds. However amplified that wasnt the case. They are a little darker sounding then the Rotos, but they also completely avoid the unpleasant treble peak lots of string brands have. The DR Neons treble is extended instead more like rotosounds brilliance. Harmonics come out easy.
Ok heres the one negative about the guitar strings to me. The unwrapped strings have a hard to feel presence to them compared to uncoated strings. This causes me for now to be fretting a little harder then normal. Which is decreasing fretting nuances speed just a little bit. I think once I get used to their feel I'll be back to regular fetting speed and ease with them. Again this has nothing to do with string tension imo. But rather that its a little harder to feel the strings on ones fingers for now anyway. The uncoated strings are also less visible then rotosound and other regular uncoated guitar strings. The pic attached is accurate portrayal of visibility diff.
Ok, the Bass strings compared to Rotosound swing66. Both again are 45 gauge. I'm impressed. They got the bass thru treble balance right on these. Not quite as extrended as the Rotosounds but completely lacking the unpleasant treble peak of most bass strings. Bass is very articulate and solid. None of the woompy or bleh sound most bass string brands have to me. Nor do the neons change crunch factor of the instrument. Daddarios to me deminish crunch, Ernie Ball enhance it just a little, and rotosounds dont mess with it but rather let it remian as it is for the pups and woods. However their is one caveat about the DR neons sound. The output level to pups, pups signal level of sound heard is slightly less then with uncoated strings like Rotosounds. Its like one has lowered their basses volume control just a little bit. Like one would do to get a slightly less saturated tone. While this isnt enough to be a deal breaker, it does mean I cant use my basses volume control to the same useability level for controlling sound saturation and drive like I can with regular stainless steel strings. Its not a bad drop. But it does prevent the strings from equalling Rotosound swing 66. Overall, DR neons will be the only strings I use other then Rotosounds from now on. Rotos will remain my fave overall with DR neons being great alternative that deserve next best thing rating with the diff being only minor. I am experiencing less of the fretting nuances slow down that the guitars plain strings are temporarilly casuing me. We all know Rotosound swing bass strings are among the roughest feeling strings out there. Lol. Neons dont feel rough, but theyre is an equivalent that I'll call a allmost drag like feel to them. They certainly feel much better then Elixers do to me. And I think once i get used to the diff feel of the strings, I'll be fine with them. Compared to other coated strings, the stuff DR is useing on the neons feels closer to metal. One just doesnt quite notice ones in contact with the strings quite as much.
I dont recommend DR neons to those who dont like Rotosounds. I dont reccomend DR neons to those with heavy handed fretting. Not because of any wear on frets, fretboard, or fingers reason. But rather because esp with the guitar strings unwound (plain) strings, you dont notice your touching the strings quite as much as with regular uncoated strings. At first anyway. However their is no decrease in ease of getting harmonics including light tap touch ones and bell tones.
The bass version is very very close to the deliscious sound of Rotosounds. Better then any other strings Ive tried. (My warlock bass has fresh 4 day old set of Rotos so it wont be getting the Neons installed till around late January or sometime in Febuary). The brand new out of box sound is slightly brighter in the treble dept then the rotos are for the bass strings. But its a comprable brilliance rather then treblyness. Many brands have a unpleasant overly trebly sound to me. Elixers just have it all wrong to me and are terrible sounding and feeling.
These DR neon strings are expensive. I hope they last at least twice as long as Rotosounds. Otherwise theyre cost is gonna keep them from being bought and used as much as Rotosounds get.
Visually? Very kewl. except the guitars plain strings are not as visible as regular uncoated strings in moderate to low room light. In bright light and under blacklight the wound strings glow the most.
PS. Because the guitar version strings are darker right out of the box, then the 2 month or so rotos that where on the guitar. I'm not as confident that I'll like their broken in sound as much as the bass version. If they start to sound dull with break in, I wont be getting them again. Unless it takes 3 months for them to get broken in. Lol. For now I just raise the guitars tone knob to about 5 rather then the 4 its been at with the rotos. For the bass strings Ive turned the basses treble down by about 1. Broken in those strings will prob see tone back to reg used places with rotosounds. Keep in mind that I concider rotosounds as among the least trebly stainless strings made. They have a brillaince to them rather then a treblyness new. Rotosound users will prob be the only peeps who undertsand that one. Lol. Also. I'll prob raise the guitar pups neck and bridge treble side just a tad to give the treble strings slightly more output. But we'll wait a couple days to give the strings a little more play in time first. For the bass strings I'm not inclined to adjust the pups. The volume balance between E-G strings is same as Rotosounds to me.
I'm beggining to dislike the guitar strings performance. Processors tuner still continues to have problems reading the plain B and high E string. The weaker magnetic level of these thin coated strings decreases the overdrive voice drive as well. Its appearing that the coating is too much for such thin strings if theyre to have good magnetic performance with the pups compared to the rest of the strings. The bass strings however continue to perform fine across the board. If guitar strings plain strings perforamnce doesnt improve soon I'll be takeing them off and going back to just rotosund pink 9's for the guitars.
Ok, Ive taken the guitar strings off. First I just replaced the plain strings with rotosound pinks to confirm the theory of coating causieng weak output for such thin strings. The rotos brought the level of the plain strings back to where theyre supposed to be. Replaceing the wound low E thru D strings restored guitars overall drive level to normal. The guitar strings did stay on longer then most. I'll give them that. Burt the coating just interferes too much with pickups ability to read them etc. The bass strings are still doing fine. The slight drop in drive saturation with them is very minor. So I wont be useing the DR Neon guitar strings again unless they switch the plain strings to uncoated. Changed the strings early cause wanted to do the guitar part for a recording with the Eagle rather then the SG and the neon strings interferance with the pups just wasnt going to be acceptable for recording sound. Hopefully DR next version of neons will have needed metal property for the pups on guitars. BTW my guitar pups are hotter then average. Id hate to hear what the neons sound like with low or vintage output pups esp the plain unwound strings. The wound strings do well, gots enough metal to keep sound within acceptable range drive etc wise. Not as much drive as uncoated strings, but acceptable. The plain strings just are too thin with the coating do well in my experience with them. Bass will continue to use DR neons with Rotosound swing 66 as their other string of choice. Guitars will remain rotosound pink and occasional ghs or dean markley.
I'm beggining to dislike the guitar strings performance. Processors tuner still continues to have problems reading the plain B and high E string. The weaker magnetic level of these thin coated strings decreases the overdrive voice drive as well. Its appearing that the coating is too much for such thin strings if theyre to have good magnetic performance with the pups compared to the rest of the strings. The bass strings however continue to perform fine across the board. If guitar strings plain strings perforamnce doesnt improve soon I'll be takeing them off and going back to just rotosund pink 9's for the guitars.
Ok, Ive taken the guitar strings off. First I just replaced the plain strings with rotosound pinks to confirm the theory of coating causieng weak output for such thin strings. The rotos brought the level of the plain strings back to where theyre supposed to be. Replaceing the wound low E thru D strings restored guitars overall drive level to normal. The guitar strings did stay on longer then most. I'll give them that. Burt the coating just interferes too much with pickups ability to read them etc. The bass strings are still doing fine. The slight drop in drive saturation with them is very minor. So I wont be useing the DR Neon guitar strings again unless they switch the plain strings to uncoated. Changed the strings early cause wanted to do the guitar part for a recording with the Eagle rather then the SG and the neon strings interferance with the pups just wasnt going to be acceptable for recording sound. Hopefully DR next version of neons will have needed metal property for the pups on guitars. BTW my guitar pups are hotter then average. Id hate to hear what the neons sound like with low or vintage output pups esp the plain unwound strings. The wound strings do well, gots enough metal to keep sound within acceptable range drive etc wise. Not as much drive as uncoated strings, but acceptable. The plain strings just are too thin with the coating do well in my experience with them. Bass will continue to use DR neons with Rotosound swing 66 as their other string of choice. Guitars will remain rotosound pink and occasional ghs or dean markley.
Here are some crappy Macbook pictures of the orange ones on my Ric. The pictures don't really do the strings justice! They sound good too. Rougher than Elixirs and less "scooped" on this bass. Much punchier. I'm gonna stick with Elixirs on my Schecter, but I think these are staying on the Ric.
The guitar strings aren't as nice looking on the plain strings, and I prefer the sound and feel of Elixirs better since they sound much "newer" and are a bit stiffer.
The guitar strings aren't as nice looking on the plain strings, and I prefer the sound and feel of Elixirs better since they sound much "newer" and are a bit stiffer.
They came today, and I just got them on my 4. I don't have a black-light right now but they look pretty damn cool in the natural daylight. They feel and sound awesome.
Lol that would be kewl. But in my experiments I find that the best effect is from blacklight not too close. Cause is those cases just a small area of the string glows. They do go well with hot dotz fret markers though. Lol.
Yeah I went ahead and put the other set on my Warlock even though itd just recently got new strings. Lol. I notice the neons also have just a tad more crack of thunder to their bass content compared to the rotos. Great strings for bass.
pictures dont really capture how cool they look in person. I really am impressed on how they sound.
Mine have some lil chips where there isnt color. Is anyone elses like that?
