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Pros

These are the best electric guitar strings i have ever had. They are not as good as thomastik strings, but at half the price, they are perfectly acceptable. The 11-50 are the perfect size. These strings have a very nice low end and are great for heavy...  Read More

My particular use is on a hollow body jazz box with active preamp, piezo tune-o-matic bridge and barcus barry insider. I like that because i let the guitar and amp do that. Thinking about putting them on my old acoustic too.

They have mellow sound and a slightly stiff feel - not too much but they are not wishy-washy feeling. Great warm, balanced tone.



Cons

Disappointed, and apprehensive about reordering. Wrong product description. Never had this problem with elixirs.

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Quality


Quality is excellent and they sound great.


Excellent quality combined with mellow jazz tone sound.


Yet with a les paul with the beautiful humbucker plugged in a jc-120, you get plenty of brightness.


I have used heavier strings for the e and b strings for rock before for the same reason but got the idea to use this set with t...  Read More

Price


These are good strings for a very reasonable price.

Competitiveness


It's a little different than the round wound strings.


Not sure why it took me so long to try out flatwounds.


The only strings slightly better than the chromes are thomastic-infeld jazz swings at 3x the cost.

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  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    great, wound, flat, good and set.
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  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 70.4% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 3,168 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 21 2022.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    If you have youre probably not reading these reviews


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I bought a used rickenbacker 3306 and it came installed with a fresh set of elixir round wound strings not sure which gauge


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Not sure if i could ever go back to anything else


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Big fan of cliff gallup an rockabilly so tried years ago to get classic sound with echo and reverb


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The low e string broke at the tuning post


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Perhaps a hybrid setup would be optimal on something like a les paul


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Im new to guitar but after slapping these strings on i got a call asking if i wanted to front for a stevie ray vaughn cover band and was offered a multimillion dollar record deal


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Im pretty sure it was my fault the string broke but it still happened

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