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12s or 13s on your Dreadnought acoustic?

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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    AliGorie said:

    On that point - has anyone tried DR Dragon Skins - which I believe are their ‘Rares’ with a coating of which I’m a fan.
    Yes, I have - they're the only coated strings I can stand. The feel is still different from normal strings, but not as offputting as the other coated ones, and it seems to wear off eventually - I've got a set which have been on about three years, and they feel like normal strings now but haven't corroded. I'm not 100% sure what they sound like compared to other coated strings since they're on my resonator guitar so they sound like a tin can anyway :). But from what I could tell when I've heard them on a couple of other guitars, they sound much more like normal strings too.

    I really can't bear the sound of coated strings normally - they're either tinny or dull, or both at the same time somehow! Although I'm not sure that the feel isn't worse.

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  • camfcamf Frets: 1175


    The extra lights sound nice, no?
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  • LewyLewy Frets: 3795
    camf said:


    The extra lights sound nice, no?
    Yep. Nicer on the fingerstyle than the flatpicking imo. 
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  • camfcamf Frets: 1175
    And I have two new sets of extra lights I thought I couldn't give away... hmmm. :)
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  • LewyLewy Frets: 3795
    camf said:
    And I have two new sets of extra lights I thought I couldn't give away... hmmm. :)
    I'm assuming they mixed the audio in such a way as to level out the differences in volume. It would have been an interesting alternative approach to leave the level constant and see how much the loudness varied.
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  • camfcamf Frets: 1175
    They're usually pretty good on that site about trying to keep everything the same in their comparisions. Unless it was done automatically by the recording process or the youtube compression I doubt they'd have reset the levels... kind of defeats the purpose. Could it be that the volume differences weren't that great?
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  • LewyLewy Frets: 3795
    I'd be very surprised if there was as little difference in the loudness in the room  between extra lights and mediums as there appears to be on the video. Just going from mediums to lights on my guitars makes a significant difference - although as is shown by the video the tonal difference can be worth it. My OM and J45 both sound better - if quieter- with lights versus mediums.
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