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Created to extend the life of plain steel strings 3-5 times, the Anti-Rust Plated Plain Steel thechnology is the perfect complement to the coated wound string.
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- 3-5 Times Extended Life of the Strings- Feel like Traditional Strings
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By Christopher Orlando (North Centereach, NY United States)
I have been playing guitar for over 45 years, and these strings are the best sounding I've ever put on an acoustic guitar. You can put these on the cheapest guitar and it will sound like a much more expensive one. Unless you have a certain application for your acoustic that you need a specific sound for, these are the strings for you.
Point in case, I am in a Beatles' Tribute band and have the Epiphone EJ 160 John Lennon acoustic. I need it to have the specific sound John Lennon gets on I Feel Fine, and have to use flatwounds. With this one exception, I put Elixir strings on all acoustic guitars, and recommend them to everyone.
By AC (Ft Laud, FL USA)
The best there is if you don't change your strings as often as you should. Great sound out of the box and they maintain their level longer than cheaper strings. I think new strings of almost any brand sound great initially, but unless you are a gigging musician, which I am not, why change them once a week? Great strings even though they are pricey.
By Nessander
I tried these not knowing what to expect, and have been very pleasantly surprised. I tend to have sweaty hands, and my guitar strings get a lot of crud on them and then eventually rust. Although I have learned now to wipe them down each time I play, they still deteriorate pretty quickly, and it's a pain. When I wipe them down with a cloth, they leave black streaks of crud on the cloth.
The Elixirs are not as bright as other strings when you first put them on -- that is true. However, other strings lose their brightness after just a few hours of playing, so I don't see this as a major disadvantage. The advantage is that these strings get very little crud on them. When I wipe them down, there's nothing on the cloth! I've even stopped wiping my strings down as carefully.
So for a player like me, these are a godsend. I don't detect any loss of tone. They are a bit slippery, and some people have reported having trouble because of this, but it's fine for me.
Definitely they're worth a try. Although they're twice as expensive as regular strings, they'll last longer, so they're worth checking out! Ernie Ball makes titanium coated strings that I'm interested in trying out, and there are some other brands, too.
By B. Batchelor (Dallas, NC)
I play in a house band in a club in Charlotte, NC. These are the only strings I will use. I've tried many different types over the years, and I love these strings.
By A. Bromage (Kirkland, WA United States)
I remember getting to try these out before they came on the market. At the time they were called 'Gore-Tex' or something like that. I wrote them back saying the coating was too thick. (I'm sure I wasn't the only one who said that).
Well now it's ten years later and they have a very successful product on their hands. Make sure you get the NANOWEB version, unless you're a jazz player. The 'polyweb' coating is just too thick for my tastes. It really mellows the tone of the strings a lot. The coating on the nanowebs is just right.
I used to play D'Addarios. After you play on these for an hour or two, they sound like a 2 day old set of D'Addarios. This is perfect, especially because they sound like that for WEEKS!
I gig quite a bit, and these will go for about a month before the tone goes dead enough to be objectionable. I usually change them out before then, just to prevent string breakage. With that said, these strings are not any more prone to breakage than other brands.
I also like the fact that the newer version (been out for a year or two now) has anti-rust coating on the E, B, and G strings as well. This makes a big difference to someone like me, who has sweaty hands. The anti-rust really does work.
Downsides? Well, price is one.
The other would be the fact that if you're addicted the zing factor you get with brand new strings, you may be dissapointed. Out of the box, these are deader sounding than a new set of GHS, Ernie Balls, D'Addarios, etc. But if you compare them a week later, the Elixirs will still be sounding as good as the day you put them on.
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