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    Dead sounding strings

    Have you ever put on new strings and some of the sound old, or dull?

    I put on a new set of D'Addario XL Nickel's and the top E & B sound really dull, kind of dead. The only different thing I did was add a very, very small amount of GHS white graphite lube on the nut.

    It's kind of unsettling. I hear the dullness worse on the open string.

    Any thoughts?

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    Re: Dead sounding strings

    maybe the sauce you added? "i hear the dullness worse on the open strings." the simplest and cheapest test is to put another set on, see where you sit then. you might have just got a bad pack.
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    Re: Dead sounding strings

    Lots of guitars without a tilt headstock, staggered tuners notwithstanding, need a good String tree or two to stop the ping or the dullness I think.

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    Re: Dead sounding strings

    Quote Originally Posted by chuckocaster View Post
    maybe the sauce you added?
    Tha'd be my guess. An excess of graphite particulates can easily prevent a solid kinetic bond between string and nut. I'd try swabbing some of that colloidal lube out of the grooves wif a Q-tip an' a leetle WD40.

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    Re: Dead sounding strings

    Where these the same gauge strings you had been using?

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    Re: Dead sounding strings

    And possibly....


    how many downward wraps when you installed the strings?
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    Re: Dead sounding strings

    Downward wraps? LIke around the peg, maybe two? It's Suhr with locking tuners.

    I'm just going to clean the nut, I guess I was just thinking out loud.
    Kind of curious if a nut lube had done that to anyone else, I was careful to use a small amount.

    I'll get some new strings and post back here.

    Thanks ya'll

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    Re: Dead sounding strings

    I've gotten dead strings before and I've read posts before where people stopped using certain brands of strings because they were getting to many sets that had dead strings in them. I can't imagine that your nut lube would cause a dead string. I would change out that string and see if you get the same result.

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