lordgalvar wrote:Pepe wrote:lordgalvar wrote:I broke d'addarios every time I played 'em.
I really have to see you playing guitar someday!I play D'Addario strings more than eight years now and I have always changed them after several months, because they started becoming dull. In those eight years there was ONE e1 string that snapped during playing. I don't have aggressively sweating fingers, though and maybe the German climate is better for guitar strings?
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Haha, when I switched to my Jag (before going back to the Yamaha) I broke strings less. I played D'Addario for years though. And the few sets that did survive a month, like you say, would go dull. Haven't had that problem with Rotosound or B52s. I sweat though (and generally get my heart rate up to crazy levels out of frantic movement and anger! Gotta play angry to the punks).
And I always used to play in less than ideal conditions (like empty pools, buildings that caved in, places with moisture). It would also get hot (like up to 120 degrees). I think mostly I like lighter gauge strings and the Yamaha has pretty strong springs in the trem. Combined with only doing bends and not really playing guitar (and using steel picks, hitting it, pulling strings off on accident and just doing weird stuff) not really surprising I destroyed strings.
A few times I had all six break at once haha. I think those were ernie balls or ehx though.
I like D'addarios more than Ernie Balls but the just can't survive an offset tremolo. They always unwind. I found out that I can solder the wind at the end to alleviate the problem but it's such a fucking hassle.
Ernie Ball 11s, never tried anything other than EB or the big d
