Good Brand of Strings?

I just started playing a steel strung acoustic again after playing a nylon string classical for a cpl years and I was wonderring if anybody could reccomend a good brand of strings.

I just changed the old strings on the Tacoma I just got to a set of Martin Marquis and it sounds kind of tinny.

I know it's not the guitar becuase I played it with the old strings for a week and it was just fine. In fact I'm tempted to put the old strings back on.

 

i use elixirs and i love em

 

i use martins, but i dont use the marquis. i cant remember what it was... i know it was like 80/20 phosphor broze or somethin... well it was the martin strings and it was black and red in the middle... im having a mind blank right now sorry man, when i remember ill let ya know... these strings are great. try the SP ones, they are pretty good i had them last time i think. peace~

 

Martin is the way to go, if you don't like the "bright tones" or tinny as you call it, try GHS or Martin nickel wound for a warmer tone.

it also takes new strings awhile to settle, that may be an issue

 

martin or dean markley

 

i usually use martin DR strings for my acoustic, i'm thinking about switching because they wear out too quick for me. i use elixirs on my strat and have used them on acoustic many a time, but they don't feel right on acoustic...ahh, who knows what i'll use next?

 

I think part of it is that I'm so used to the mellowness of nylon strings that the metal seems, well, metallic.

That and the fact that I had it tuned too high (I was tuning it to my friends guitar. Didn't realise he had his tuned way up until I tryed to sing to it). Now that I've got it more or less in the right key it actually sounds pretty good. Action's much better too (duh).

Anyway, thanks for the feedback everyone.

 

Pyramid.

 

I use Ernie Ball super slinky bass strings, but i've been meaning to go out and buy some Pyramid Gold's

I've heard very good things about them

 

from what i have noticed, GHS are the most widely found and the cheapest.... i like them, but i just started using martins, i dont think they sound metallic... like they did at first but i always seem to have that problem, after a while after crap builds up on them they sound nice, go figure

 

addamas - great sound and super long life for acoustic strings - if you can find em!

 

Hiya Ape. Me, I just got a Fender 6 string Acoustic. It has Brass wound Steel on it. I prefer either "Ernie Ball" or "Black Diamond" brand SILVER wound. I hate brass wound. (Although Brass is great for building your calouses!) Silver just sound better. My man John, uses Silver wound on both his acoustics. (12 string and 6.) He used his 12 string on "Rocky Mountain High". (Silver or Nickle wound.) Depends on YOUR style of pickin.

 

It's worth noting that almost every brand of phosphor bronze string sound overly bright and tinny for at least 2 or 3 days,and then mellow out some.(I wouldn't use anything but phosphor bronze,btw.They last so much longer than other recipe strings.)
Elixirs don't,but the coating is a love-em or hate-em proposition,and some people complain about breakage.
I use Newtones,which can be found at the Guitar Gallery online.They sound broken-in right out of the package.They're expensive per set,but they last so long that it comes out even.They have a fat old-fashioned sound.They should be called Oldtones,but the guy that makes them is named Newton.

 

Use Phosphor Bronze on naturally bright guitars... unless you like really tinny treble and play alot of fingerstyle.

Martins/Collings & 80/20s can be powerful shit. I use 80/20s just because 70s models D-35s are (naturally) too muddy for playing any real lead, because of the factory strike and crappy rosewood bridgeplates (the necks are low profile with no volute = headstock can snap off). I don't know how Billy Nershi does it with his '73 D-28 or how Michael Hedges did it with his Barbara, but Sunrise makes one hell of a pickup... Leo Kottke uses the same on his guitars.

I'd kill for an HD28 or just about any Collings... okay, maybe not kill, but, you know.

Who wouldn't kill for scalloped braces?

 

I hate Elixir strings...they are hard and fat....not a great tone....just exspensive.....peronally i like the Gibson Vintage Reissues. they are hand wound just like in the 50's.....and they just sound good both acoustic and electric....

 

i been using elixers, you have to change them less often, but when they need changin, you have to change them.