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recs for bright strings? mellow strings?
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Arash
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Joined: Aug. 9 2006
From: Iran (living in Germany)
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RE: recs for bright strings? mellow ... (in reply to guitarbuddha)
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ORIGINAL: guitarbuddha Give the guitar to someone good and hear the tonal pallette change with the same strings. D. I was in a cycle shop the other day and there was a guy who was a minimum of four stones overweight and couldn't even couldn't sit right on the bike. He was asking what the lightest saddle was. I swear the salesman actually said he would go faster with the new saddle. The world is full of mystery. Used to be cycling was mostly about having a decent bike and training a lot. Now it is about paying three times as much for a weird fragile bike and forgetting about training. yeah but i think if you give a cheapo guitar to Antonio, Gerardo, God (also known as Paco;), etc. those treble strings wont always magically start to "sparkle" either. Or to stay with your example, if the saddle is made out of iron, then it will be a pain in the a.ss literally for any cyclist, no matter how good he is. Sometimes you see some pros trying out cheapo guitars and you clearly see they feel totally uncomfortable and even miss a lot of notes if the guitar is really bad. This "good players can make any guitar sound and feel good" is exaggerated sometimes. Also when you say 'give the guitar to someone good', you automatically assume that turnermoran is a 'bad' player and can't even get a good tone out of treble strings, which i think we don't know either. Its pretty easy to test a guitar and the sound of the trebles, if you know the basic flamenco techniques (you don't even need to play anything specific), so i think nearly anyone can do that. Also one reason why imo even beginners should start with a mid quality guitar with good sound (or sound potential) and feel instead of the cheapest piece of wood available. It will increase motivation. Back to question: if the guitar has the potential, then changing strings MIGHT SLIGHTLY improve the sound of the trebles, but if the guitar is a "dead" guitar, then changing strings wont help. Most of the time, the sound of the trebles wont change a lot with different brands anyway, its more the "feel" under your fingers which can be totally different with different strings. Also i think its pointless to tell you a specific brand and model. The answers were "general" for a good reason. Because each guitar is different and each player is different. LaBella might feel good under my fingers and sound good on my guitar, but not for you and your guitar, etc. There is no way around trying out different strings on YOUR guitar and under YOUR hands to find the best for you. For instance i think Blacksheer always puts on EJ46 on his guitars because he feels those suit them good. David from Sanchis told me now he always uses Savarez Cantiga, etc. etc...... and even there i am pretty sure many buyers of those guitars change the strings later since they found something else which suits them better
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