Re: What's your preferred guitar strings for a jazz arch top?
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So pleased to see some of you back, especially the familiar names.
Keep up the fun exchanges. Preferably very little politics.
On Sunday, 6 December 2020, 17:03:39 GMT+8, Jay Mitchell <jay@...> wrote:
Tom Samarati wrote:
> But I'm thinking about changing strings on my Peerless ES-175 clone
> because I don't like the feel of the D'Addario 11-50 XL's.? They feel
> stiff and too tight, hard to play.? I'm not a note bender yet the
> D'Addario strings seem to cramp my hands and creativity.? I even tried
> the D'Addario NYXL.? Didn't like those either.
Like yourself, I've not gotten good results with the D'Addario strings
I've tried on my archtop guitars. I was definitely motivated to get them
to work, because they work great on my solid body instruments, and
they're generally inexpensive. I tried a set of their half rounds and
left them on the guitar less than a week.
Although I played flats for several years back in the day, I've only
used round wound strings on my archtops in recent years. My go-to
strings have been Thomastik-Infeld Bebops since ca. 2010. I've tried
their .012" and .013" sets and prefer the heavier ones. They play much
lighter than their gauge would suggest, and the plain strings have a
coating that makes their tone a much better match for the tone of the
wound strings. The downside is their cost, but they last several times
as long as any other string I've tried, which makes the added cost close
to a wash.
Jay
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