Ernie Ball strings are slinkier than "regular" strings.
Ernie Ball strings are slinkier than "regular" strings.
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Here's what I honestly think is the biggest gear assumption:
Anyone, regardless of tin ear or inability to tap two measures of 4 in time, who accumulates enough of it can call themselves a musician.
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Same here. I use EB's because they're noticeably..uh....slinkier than say, D'Addarios.
They're certainly easier to bend than D'Addarios.
Tone is in the fingers, eh? Let's hear your Vox, Marshall and Fender fingerings then...
I switched from EB's to D'Addarios a couple years ago just to see what everyone liked about those. Never did notice a distinct difference, but seemed to like the DA's better anyway, so I just kept using them.
As far as slinkiness, maybe there's a variance in the ratio of core:winding thickness between brands on the heavier strings? Maybe the windings are larger diameter on the EB's which makes it softer on your finger, thus SEEMING slinkier? Surely there'a an explanation for this...
Here's the crazy thing about human perception... D'addario's feel "slinkier" than anything else to me!
I don't have a real preference between the two. I guess I lean towards D'Addario though. I think their 10 packs are more readily available. I had an e-mail exchange with one of the D'Addarios a few years ago. He lived in my area as a child and knew my town and surroundings well. Maybe that made me feel some loyalty to the product?
I'm 'addicted' to the DA color coding... :)
Your bridge pickup must be a higher K rating than the neck.
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Has anyone mentioned the myth that a Strat "quacks" in positions 2 & 4 because the middle pickup is out of phase?
I remember when I was a teen, pulling a Strat apart, realizing all 3 pickups were the same and wondering what the secret was!
Don, I don't think that one is a myth - it is my understanding as well, that one of them is wired reverse polarity. I'm not sure you could see that just by looking at the pickups but, electrically, that is what attenuates the hum that you would normally get with a single coil pickup, and hollows out the sound to create the so-called 'quack.'
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Actually,anytime you get two pups close together,the "quack" happens.Example,my Epi SG/LP has 3 pickups I put in there,and any two close together have that sound.Even a SG Special with 2 P-90s (Townsend) hints at quack in the middle position,because the pups are a little closer together.
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I was under the impression that you actually get *more* "quack" with a non-RWRP middle. That seems to be the case with my Squier Strat, which has GFS 60s Repros with a non-RWRP middle.
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American Fenders are "expensive".
LOL! Good thing you don't play keys!!!!!!!!
Price a Nord.
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On a regular old Strat, all 3 pickups are the same and they "quack" (or whatever you'd like to call the Strat's in between sounds). It's the proximity of the two pickups that causes that sound. The RW/RP idea came later simply to reduce noise. It has little, if any, effect on the amount of "quack" that you hear.
Ah...well I learned something new today! Thanks!
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Don, I gotta call you on that one. I've changed from a RWRP to a straight RW, and the quack went from "yeah, OK, I guess so" to "That's what I'm talking about!". Since I built the pickups with my own two hands I feel fairly qualified to speak about them.
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Strap locks never fail.
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim