I like different strings on different guitars. I have a 60s style Strat and prefer pure nickel, round wound but on my more modern HSS, prefer NYXL. Also, I use Half round strings on a Casino with a Bigsby as I was playing that in a 60s band and it felt lovely. I keep a string change diary and experiment a lot!
Well done video. Hearing these all side by side with the only the strings as a variable really helps me figure out the differences. Some have very simulator sounds while other are very noticeable. Thank you for this video!!
As a 40 year veteran of the guitar, you can imagine how many strings I have tried. I picked up a pack of the D'Addario NYXL 9 set and they're the best strings I have ever found. Not only do they sound fantastic and feel like butter on your fingertips, they last forever. I don't know what kind of voodoo they use to make them, I think they coat them with unicorn tears or something like that, but they are the only strings I will buy now. And they're just a few bucks more than a set of EB Slinky's
I tried em but wasn't overly impressed. I like my EB Primo Slinkys and Dunlop Rev Willys better and they're inexpensive to boot. 52 years playing here. I play strat mostly so they gotta have that snap. Strangely enough even though I live in Nashville for 35 years I haven't tried the locally made StringJoy brand yet... but players rave about those also... $12 /set though... Not sure about that.
I myself love and have always used Ernie ball regular slinky for years and love them over any other string. I’m thinking of trying regular slinky cobalt (10’s). In my 30 years I’ve tried a lot but I have just loved the sound and feel of Ernie ball regular slinky strings
Great video and playing. Well crafted demos to show the differences. I love the sound of those Half Rounds with that Fender/Fender. I've been using the NYXL 10-59 (7 string) on an old Schecter though a Boogie F-50 mostly playing country/country rock for the past year or so. I enjoy the NYXL attack and consistency between pickups and gain levels, especially with my underwhelming neck single-coil. Readily available 7 string sets makes life easy as well.
Best strings I ever tried on a Strat was the Thomastic-Infeld Blues Sliders. Something about that thread wrap on the low strings. Unfortunately my sweat destroys strings quick, and at $20 a set, only used them for special occasions
D’addario Pure Nickel wins out for me. Way more lively, easier to intonate than other pure nickel sets. Feel is awesome too. Kind of underrated in my opinion.
The problem with shoot-outs like these is that the feel of the strings changes how you play. You hold the pick differently. You dig in a little differently. There's too many other variables to tell differences just from listening. You really have to try them yourself.
D'Addario all the way. If you look at a pack of Ernie Ball compared to D'Addario - Ernie Ball will always have corrosion on their strings because humidity is always going to get to them unless you get an extremely fresh set right off the presses. D'Addario seals their strings so they're always fresh and never corroded. As for gauges; I prefer EXL116's on my Strat with Lace Sensor Gold pickups and EXL110's on my Epiphone ET290 Crestwood and Custom Les Paul. I would put heavier strings on the Crestwood but those guitars have a thin body so the neck will "lift up" is you try putting anything heavier than 46-10's on it. Don't really play anything but my Strat though so that's why I don't really care that there's 10's on anything else lol.
You've got pretty much all your labels wrong. Text descriptions on the screen don't match the package, e.g. D'Addario Electric XS are NOT phosphor bronze, round wound strings are marked as flat wound, semi-flat as round wound, etc.
Underrated comment!! Those cheap and nasty nickel D'addario's......sound as good as the most expensive D'addario's sets they make now (clearly those cheap and nasty nickel's, are NOT cheap and nasty, and are worth every cent).
The moment he said that tonewoods make a difference, I completely tuned out, and can’t take anything he says as fact. And no, YOU don’t make much of a difference in tone. 20 players can play the same riff, and you will hear little to no difference.
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I like different strings on different guitars. I have a 60s style Strat and prefer pure nickel, round wound but on my more modern HSS, prefer NYXL. Also, I use Half round strings on a Casino with a Bigsby as I was playing that in a 60s band and it felt lovely. I keep a string change diary and experiment a lot!
Well done video. Hearing these all side by side with the only the strings as a variable really helps me figure out the differences. Some have very simulator sounds while other are very noticeable. Thank you for this video!!
NYXL are my fav strings, the best I've ever used so far.
I recently tried a set and thought they were amazing.
As a 40 year veteran of the guitar, you can imagine how many strings I have tried. I picked up a pack of the D'Addario NYXL 9 set and they're the best strings I have ever found. Not only do they sound fantastic and feel like butter on your fingertips, they last forever. I don't know what kind of voodoo they use to make them, I think they coat them with unicorn tears or something like that, but they are the only strings I will buy now. And they're just a few bucks more than a set of EB Slinky's
I tried em but wasn't overly impressed. I like my EB Primo Slinkys and Dunlop Rev Willys better and they're inexpensive to boot. 52 years playing here. I play strat mostly so they gotta have that snap. Strangely enough even though I live in Nashville for 35 years I haven't tried the locally made StringJoy brand yet... but players rave about those also... $12 /set though... Not sure about that.
100% agree all that matters is how the strings feel in your hands
I myself love and have always used Ernie ball regular slinky for years and love them over any other string. I’m thinking of trying regular slinky cobalt (10’s). In my 30 years I’ve tried a lot but I have just loved the sound and feel of Ernie ball regular slinky strings
Great video and playing. Well crafted demos to show the differences.
I love the sound of those Half Rounds with that Fender/Fender.
I've been using the NYXL 10-59 (7 string) on an old Schecter though a Boogie F-50 mostly playing country/country rock for the past year or so.
I enjoy the NYXL attack and consistency between pickups and gain levels, especially with my underwhelming neck single-coil. Readily available 7 string sets makes life easy as well.
Best strings I ever tried on a Strat was the Thomastic-Infeld Blues Sliders. Something about that thread wrap on the low strings. Unfortunately my sweat destroys strings quick, and at $20 a set, only used them for special occasions
D’addario Pure Nickel wins out for me. Way more lively, easier to intonate than other pure nickel sets. Feel is awesome too. Kind of underrated in my opinion.
The problem with shoot-outs like these is that the feel of the strings changes how you play. You hold the pick differently. You dig in a little differently. There's too many other variables to tell differences just from listening. You really have to try them yourself.
I got a guitar with a stripped truss rod and to adjust the neck I swap gauges 😅
Pure Nickel and NYXL sound best for my taste
Old school since 1968 Slinkys 9,s 10,s !
Make a video for acustic strings
We’re on it!!
@@premierguitar cool!
Phosphor Bronze... D'addario or John Pearse
White X more brite and overtones for me
D'Addario all the way. If you look at a pack of Ernie Ball compared to D'Addario - Ernie Ball will always have corrosion on their strings because humidity is always going to get to them unless you get an extremely fresh set right off the presses.
D'Addario seals their strings so they're always fresh and never corroded.
As for gauges; I prefer EXL116's on my Strat with Lace Sensor Gold pickups and EXL110's on my Epiphone ET290 Crestwood and Custom Les Paul.
I would put heavier strings on the Crestwood but those guitars have a thin body so the neck will "lift up" is you try putting anything heavier than 46-10's on it.
Don't really play anything but my Strat though so that's why I don't really care that there's 10's on anything else lol.
NYXL
Regular Slinky, and I'm good to go.
Holy shit was not expecting him to play Slint
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You've got pretty much all your labels wrong. Text descriptions on the screen don't match the package, e.g. D'Addario Electric XS are NOT phosphor bronze, round wound strings are marked as flat wound, semi-flat as round wound, etc.
I vote for chromes
ELA!!! \m/
You keep saying D'addario wrong vre!
You’re wrong. You can say words however you want
@@Ottophil NOT names!
Very unbiased, yes, also only uses D'addarios, fishy...
Shaity guitar jeeeeeez
Pretty much all sound the same
Underrated comment!!
Those cheap and nasty nickel D'addario's......sound as good as the most expensive D'addario's sets they make now (clearly those cheap and nasty nickel's, are NOT cheap and nasty, and are worth every cent).
Avoid my uncles crap
The moment he said that tonewoods make a difference, I completely tuned out, and can’t take anything he says as fact. And no, YOU don’t make much of a difference in tone. 20 players can play the same riff, and you will hear little to no difference.