FYI, im using lp custom alpine white.
I was using e.balls since i have it.
And i changed to D'addario that day.
Guess what?
i found that D'addario sounds very weird.
It gives me the feeling like "kang kang kang".
im SURE there's no problem with my strings installation.
Just wanna wonder here who tried them both b4?

And how do you rate your D'addario strings in 5?

my rating is 2.5/5

I love d'addario's. Maybe coz i use them more often. I like the feel of the thicker strings. I used EB's before but i use d'addario's more coz the shop who sells ernie balls always tutup lol.

4.5/5

You have to get them "worn in" first.
I didn't like D'addarios for my Lp-100, but I love them in my RR3.

But try Dunlop for your LP man....... to me they sound really good.

Yea, the strings are thicker. so im feel weird when playing them.

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Added on February 6, 2009, 7:34 pmya, i installed two weeks liao eh.
Dunlop? Where can i get it? never heard b4.

This post has been edited by ginolo: Feb 6 2009, 07:34 PM

i think i know wat's ur feel. i got the same problem too.

Jim Dunlop strings. Youc an find them and Bents and Guitar Collection. Around RM25 a pack.

D'Addario! cheaper

I like EB's but they last like toilet rolls. Although D'addario's don't sound and feel as good as EB's, at least they help me save more money.

Totally agree with this man!

Haha, its good that got ppl understands my pain.
So what are u going to do with it?
Remove them?

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Added on February 6, 2009, 11:02 pmHuh? my previous E.Balls lasts months.
My fren start using E.Balls which he installed it YEARS ago.

This post has been edited by ginolo: Feb 6 2009, 11:02 PM

I used to use D'Addario 0.09-0.42 / 0.10-0.46.. But eventually,I prefer Ernie Ball 0.11-0.48 Power Slinky... It sounds warmer to me ...and it doesn't break much when i'm playing.. D'Addario always breaks especially when i am doing bendings ..

yeap.
Im thinking whether wanna remove my d'addario which installed in my lp.

*ps* i just broke my 1st string just now when playing "smooth - santana"

did you wipe ur string after u play? after i hav the habit of wiping the strings each time after i play, the strings last longer.

yup. replaced them with ernie balls regular slinky. my fav strings

hmm, a thought. which famous guitarists use d'addario's? most are using ernie balls right? maybe i should try EB's again

the pink package?

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Added on February 7, 2009, 12:23 amgoogle is the answer.

This post has been edited by ginolo: Feb 7 2009, 12:24 AM

anyone tried ernie ball rps-10's? do they sell them here? like in bentley or something?

to me...

daddario (usuali the nickel wound) sounded so much warmer
EBs are brighter and it jus sounded more to ur face kinda feel


but u noe sum people's hand sweat wud kill dadd in less than a week but better with EB
and vice versa


so mus see u got "缘 faith" with it or nt haha

i seriously dont get what you mean.

actually, i find tat Ernie Ball rust kinda fast. I'm using D'addario's now. Thinking of switching to GHS Boomers or Dean Markley Cool Strings.
Elixer strings are good too, but the price will kill.

but the best strings when i was starting out was those "cap Ayam" brand of strings. No matter how much u play, they dun seem to rust, although sound abit crappy at times, but it was good because i was on a budget.

I try Ernies once in a while but find that I always go back to Daddarios. To me Ernie are the ones that are easier to break between the two.

For acoustics though I prefer ghs though, I don't know where to find them here.

D'addarios for everything!!! Even flossing your teeth

Between this 2 ... Which is smoother ( Won't cause so much friction to the hand ) , And sounds warmer and bassy ?

I'm considering D'Addario at first ... But now this thread shows us ... Well ?


Can introduce other type too as long as it fulfill my needs . - Smooth , Sounds Warmer and Bassy

weird, i find ernie balls much warmer than d'addario.
i have lots of ernie ball packs right now, power 11, regular 10 and hybrid 9 which i dont really need anymore since no guitar for it
the only packs of d'addario i have are for my 12-string electric and classical, cos its friggin shithard to find ernie ball ones here.

thinking of letting them to me?lolx

same here.

Ernie Balls is warner than D'Addario ? But D'Addario is smoother than Ernie Balls ?

smoother in terms of "won't cause friction to the hand" depends on the windings. You can get flat wounded ones which sound different than round wounds. And then there's nickel, copper, steel windings etc....

Just start with one set of strings and everytime you change them get another set (brand, winding, material...). In less than a year you'd have covered pretty much everything. Assuming you change strings as often as i do

This post has been edited by Bassix: Feb 7 2009, 09:12 PM

ginolo: i have frens palm sweat can rust dadd in a week
most of my frens even me has find ernieball longer lasting to us

Ahh, what D'Addario VS Ernie Ball. In the end, Elixers ftw! It's cheaper because I change strings every month and Elixers last me 3 months with wiping.

eb lasted me 3 months with wiping.

question.
when your strings karat d, lets say the three thinnest ones, but the rest is still okay, do you replace all or just the three?

haha. i say it depends on whether you are very particular about tone or not.
for me, i will just replace the thinnest 3 strings once or twice and then only i change the whole set.

haha same here the skinny 1s 1st

i change the whole set. dont like having loose strings lying around

my 2 cents:

i was an EB user before (like a year). tried switching to d'addario because the EB i was using was out of stock. never looked back. why?

1. d'addario is somewhat more twangy when fresh. but as it stretched out, it begins to get warmer. it gets even warmer when it has aged (like a month). my NOT LP guitar can sound almost as warm as an LP.
2. EB rust faster than d'addario, in my experience.
3. never owned a fixed bridge guitar, from what i read, EB is not really good on tremolo bridges.
4. d'addario is easier to find, available at almost all guitar shops.
5. colour coded ball-end.

warmer as it aged....u mean as the brightness goes dead?

sumtime a string too bright may b annoying too

To me, Ernie Ball is better.
It's got a slightly better tone than D'Addario.
Besides, the new EB are packed much better than before, so it maintains the string quality.

hi5 EB!!

nw takin a break from EB,
temporary hangin on dadd

Before i was on elixir nanoweb i was on regular slinky's and it was great.I'll never touch dadd cuz they rust realllllllllly fast, like within a 3 week span.

yup. fresh, it sounds somewhat bright(not too bright). but after it has stretched out for a couple of weeks, it sounds warm.

1 - Woah, what guitar you using?
2 - D'addario rust faster according to the majority of ppl's comment in this post.
3 - My lp dont have tremolo. and i guess that you're strat user.
4 - It's because D'addario is more affordable
5 - Nth special with that, the quality of sound is more crucial.

I used EBs in my early days of guitaring...... But I find that for a struggling student, EBs are BAD because they snap like dry twigs and have to keep changing them. This was back when I was using my crap strat. I switched to a few different brands, but settled down with Dunlop (They can last FOREVER and sound great) for my Fixed Bridge LPs, and D'Addarios for my Trem guitars. I find the D'As stretch better, while Dunlops have greater "meat" in them.

I WILL be switching to Dunlops for my Razorback once the current strings wears out, and judging from them now, should be anytime soon.

i have never had a EB string break on me, but that could be cos i used to use 11's alot...now using more 10's...yet they dont break.

i would guess the breakage is due to something not filed down properly on the lp-100?

Like I said, it was on a crap strat.... but was using .009 at the time.

I have three electric guitars in the past which two of them are strats copy and the other was an LP Custom...

I used to switch from one string brand to another including the stoopid non-rust colored coded ball end by a brand I also cant remember...purchase it for RM50 that time and it sucks big time....

I settled for EB 10-46 on the LP, DA 13-56 on a strat and the other one held a EB 11-56 gauges....

LP mainly use for metalling around, while the strat with EB 11 i use mainly for playing rock loves songs which involves fast action...the 13 DA i solely reserved for hendrix and SRV type songs which is not that fast but certainly needs alot of fat sound....

in my early days, i used to love 8 and 9 gauges because it was easy to play and hate them because it was easy also to break them after a month or so fitted...crazy bends are prone to be the reason behind it...

Ironically, I never broke a string on my RR3, using .009 DAs........ I just change them after 3-4 month after heavy playing.....
And I really like to abuse the trem. ALOT. Still stayed in tact after that AND after alot of bends.

Wahh...very surprise considering you are one heavy metal-ish bending kinda of player....

do not listen to this. he's a dunlop fanboi

Who says Dunlop fanboy??!!!

I'm a Gibson/Epiphone, Marshall AND Dunlop fanboy!

D'addario for me. Anyone here tried Martin strings b4?

I'm a Gib and Epi supporter too =D

1. i guess this point depends on guitars and pickups. my guitar and pickup is pretty rare.
2. this point depends on how you care for your strings and the amount of play time. mileage varies.
3. i'm using FR.
4. EB is cheaper than d'addario from my price list.
5. it's a pretty cool feature considering a lot of guitar techs recommend d'addario for FR bridges. i'd say it's a plus .

This post has been edited by zeroglyph: Feb 12 2009, 10:12 AM

EB - RM19

D'addario - Price Hike on Feb '09 - RM23

scary lah buy EB , later kena rusted strings how ..

what? you sure? no wonder i had the feeling to buy several packs of d'addario for spares last months. the new price is already in affect?

how about the price for dunlop?i mean string for acoustic guitar.

if ur talking bout the guitar i sold u...
iirc i strung it with EB 10 gauge, cos that guitar is a 24.75" scale

haha....it's still the same guitar. the eq5 is pretty sweet and versatile. i'm happy with my d'addario .009 at the moment. any particular reason why a 24.75" scale needs to be strung with 0.010 strings? i'm just too lazy to reset the bridge.

cos 24.75" with 009 just feels bad.
its like using 008 on a 25.5" scale.

i dunno why ppl are scared to go 10?
i had a friend who was using 9 for so long, i convinced him to go 10.
his first comment, not much difference in tension, but more sustain and tone.
that was also on a 24.75" floating bridge guitar.

yea, i got something for those short scale floating bridge guitars, still looking for the right one.
i just realised kerry king signature, the highest end one he uses is short scale, while the lower ones are 25.5.

and his new warlock signature is very tempting

This post has been edited by Everdying: Feb 12 2009, 10:44 PM

i think either u or myself is getting mixed up. that shadow is 25.5"(more common FR guitar) similar to RGs IIRC(i remember measuring it at some point). i've never played a 24.75" guitar before. 24.75" is your FR kramer, right? i also remember asking u what difference does a 24.75" scale makes.

u sure its 25.5? hmm i think that was my old charvel then.
maybe thats why i also got rid of the shadow

some 80s kramers and charvels (both US and jap) had 24.75" scale, just not easy to find nowadays.
and of cos the dimebag and now i know the kerry king, just shitass expensive.

floyd rose and 24.75" - the way its meant to be

and makes a big big difference in feel and tone.

This post has been edited by Everdying: Feb 13 2009, 04:12 AM

Hehehehe...... was watching Viva Las Vegas (actually, a semi marathon of old Elvis flicks)...... and he was playing a sunburst Fender Strat......

So weird seeing Elvis with a Stratocaster

Hmm, I read one article in UG, he said soak strings in WD40 for 30 minutes, wipe then restring. It seems that WD40 gives a coating like Elixers. Anyone wanna try? I personally don't think it's gonna be healthy for the guitar as WD40 has so much god-knows-whatever chemical stuff in it, and the chemical stuff is gonna rub into my fretboard.

hmm...interesting, i agree on the chemical part though.

Whoa. That's something else.
I'm afraid it will damage the fretboard and the pickups.
Wont give it a try. Unless someone sponsors me new pickups later on.

Once I read that WD40 is reallly bad for guitars... not recommend to put it anywhere on your guitar. Don't remember why though.

I guess its best to avoid using it la...

the WD in WD40 means water displacement.

so water displacement on the fretboard means...?

more rust..? xD

i use daddario for rec for countless time..give me the tone i want...ernie ball is just as good bcoz for me...when we enter the real "industry" in m'sia...for example when we do gig/concert/rec no matter how good you are it always come out "average" bcoz sometime the engineer/technician/p.a equipment will spoil you...listen to performance/rec in malaysia...the sound is just average no matter who play..same also for recording...
but if you talking about the real art of playing guitar...i still prefer d'addario bcoz when it's new it's "kang kang kang" can give my picking tone more audible-no need to pick hard...but to set the sound it's more tricky lah...heheh...u put a good topic here...

that is why bands need to have their own soundman.

OWWWw...my D'Add rust very fast ler..


i bought Jim Dunlop Zyle Waylde.
Going to replace it.