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D'addario Pro Arte Carbon
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Andy Culpepper
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Joined: Mar. 30 2009
From: NY, USA
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RE: D'addario Pro Arte Carbon (in reply to Andy Culpepper)
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OK, I put my medium tension set on my guitar today. I think they sound fine. The basses are good and have a nice presence. The trebles are a tad lackluster though. Rasgueados don't sound quite as explosive as I would like. Overall they sound OK, but I'm not going to be using them on my guitars because... THE MAIN PROBLEM I have with these strings is that the diameters are vastly different from normal strings. This causes huge problems with the nut slots! The basses are within 2 thousandths of an inch of most strings, which is fine, different brands vary by that much all the time. But the 1st, 2nd and 3rd strings are all smaller than EJ45s by 4.5, 5, and 7 (!) thousandths respectively. On my guitar the trebles all had an annoying buzz in open position that you get when the nut slots are too large. And if I slotted a nut to be used with these strings, normal strings would sit up too high in the slots causing excessive string height at the first fret, one of my biggest pet peeves. So as far as I can tell, if you are ever planning on switching between between these trebles and nylon trebles, you can't use the same nut. Bummer!
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Andy Culpepper, luthier http://www.andyculpepper.com
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