Booda said:But to sit there and insinuate that a person must know nothing about tone is fukin ridiculous.
Good Luck,
B.
Not really. I like Elixirs and know nothing about tone.
Booda said:But to sit there and insinuate that a person must know nothing about tone is fukin ridiculous.
Good Luck,
B.
Booda said:If I had tons a money I'd probably have a Taylor too... especially since they come w/ Elixir strings
B.
tom18222 said:its funny you make this because i went to go buy some at gc the other day and they dont sell them anymore because elixir wanted to charge like 25 bucks for a pack of strings.
so the guy told me to try the daddario exps, which he says are they same thing, i dont know if its true but whatebver. i tried them, they were 10 bucks, and they sound great.
turtlishous said:WHAT!!!!!
would you buy a car because you like the fact they put goodyear on them in the lot.
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this thread is re-dick-uless!
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Light said:Well, the issue is that Elixir didn't want to give up their whole profit margin, and Banjo Mart felt they should. It's the same thing that Wal-Mart does; i.e., large retailers trying to bully manufacturers into giving up any chance of making money while treating their employees fairly. The business model of losing a little on every transaction but making it up in bulk simply doesn't work.
Oh, and EXPs are not the same thing at all. They have a similar coating, that is true, but the process is quite different. D'Addario coats their strings BEFORE they wind them, which means that they can use far less coating, and the strings sound pretty darn near normal. Elixir can't do that, because they don't make their own strings. They buy strings from GHS and then coat them, which means they need far more coating, and the sound that much deader.
Light
"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
Light said:Well, the issue is that Elixir didn't want to give up their whole profit margin, and Banjo Mart felt they should. It's the same thing that Wal-Mart does; i.e., large retailers trying to bully manufacturers into giving up any chance of making money while treating their employees fairly. The business model of losing a little on every transaction but making it up in bulk simply doesn't work.
Oh, and EXPs are not the same thing at all. They have a similar coating, that is true, but the process is quite different. D'Addario coats their strings BEFORE they wind them, which means that they can use far less coating, and the strings sound pretty darn near normal. Elixir can't do that, because they don't make their own strings. They buy strings from GHS and then coat them, which means they need far more coating, and the sound that much deader.
Light
"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
punkin said:So tell me light, recommend if you will. For my next set of acoustic strings, I like a bright shimmery sound. I'd like to run with your suggstion.
Thanks,
donkeystyle said:doesn't elixer claim that one of their types of strings is coated before it's wrapped?
danny.guitar said:I don't know why people go to such great lengths to make their strings last.
I've heard of people going so far as to boil their strings in hot water. And even coating them in vegetable oil.
Strings go dead and need to be replaced. That's something you should accept as soon as you start playing the guitar.
Light said:Ain't marketing grand.
They buy their strings from GHS, or at least they did the last time I heard. They could also very well buy some of their strings from D'Addario, or some other manufacturer (though there are not that many, and those are the two major ones). Hell, for all I know that was their beef with Banjo Mart; maybe GC wanted them to buy from a cheaper supplier, and they didn't feel the quality of that supplier was worth it. All they said to me was that Banjo Mart was making demands they were not willing to meet.
Light
"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi