Elixir strings

tjmac66pc · Post by **tjmac66pc** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:34 pm

I just bought Elixir light guage strings, and must say the coating is phenomenal on these and they last double the time of regular strings...sliding is sooooooo easy and it's so much less strain on the fingers.... i strongly recommend these strings...they also come in medium and extra light, but the lights are perfect.... anyone else tried them out??

everydayDMBfan_18 · Post by **everydayDMBfan_18** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:38 pm

Hell yea!!!

Pickles · Post by **Pickles** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:49 pm

i love elixirs. theres nothing better.

DMBFan63 · Post by **DMBFan63** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:53 pm

They may only come in medium extra light and light where you get them, but where i go i can get Heavy, Medium, Medium light, light, custom light, and extra light

But yes, I love elixers :-d

jsgksu · Post by **jsgksu** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:54 pm

Yeah, I need to get my ass to the guitar store, I tried out those damn D'addario's cuz people on these boards praise them to and they suck. They sounded the way my regular elixirs sound after Ive had them on after a few weeks, and Ive had them on for like a month now so they really sound like shit.

tjmac66pc · Post by **tjmac66pc** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 6:06 pm

elixir's seriously make your guitar sound like Dave's acoustics at a concert...i'm really impressed with'em... i'm a changed man forever i think!

are heavy's harder to press down and extra lights the easiest? trying to figure exactly the order in which they go....

Ando · Post by **Ando** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 7:27 pm

Elixirs rock.

Straight up

grock · Post by **grock** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 7:34 pm

DMBFan63 wrote:They may only come in medium extra light and light where you get them, but where i go i can get Heavy, Medium, Medium light, light, custom light, and extra light

But yes, I love elixers :-d

i suspect you are speaking from memory because Elixir doesn't make "heavy guage" unless you mean "12 string heavy" which is actually the same as normal six string mediums. but from your post i don't think you meant this. so yeah no heavy's from elixir http://www.elixirstrings.com/documents/ ... e_list.pdf

heavy strings (14's) are quite uncommon.

grock · Post by **grock** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 7:36 pm

tjmac66pc wrote:are heavy's harder to press down and extra lights the easiest? trying to figure exactly the order in which they go....

heavier strings are at a higher tension on your guitar. this means you have to push down harder on the string to touch it to the fret. it also means that you have to bend the string more to fret so you can go sharp by shanging to too heavy of a guage. changing guages can cause damage to a guitar that is not set up to take the extra tension.

fatjack · Post by **fatjack** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 8:01 pm

DMBFan63 wrote:They may only come in medium extra light and light where you get them, but where i go i can get Heavy, Medium, Medium light, light, custom light, and extra light

But yes, I love elixers :-d

medium is the heaviest they have for acoustics

electric elixirs are the ones that you are talking about

fatjack · Post by **fatjack** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 8:04 pm

grock wrote:
DMBFan63 wrote:They may only come in medium extra light and light where you get them, but where i go i can get Heavy, Medium, Medium light, light, custom light, and extra light

But yes, I love elixers :-d
i suspect you are speaking from memory because Elixir doesn't make "heavy guage" unless you mean "12 string heavy" which is actually the same as normal six string mediums. but from your post i don't think you meant this. so yeah no heavy's from elixir http://www.elixirstrings.com/documents/ ... e_list.pdf

heavy strings (14's) are quite uncommon.

i've never seen a heavy set with 14's, i thought 14's were customed

and do you know of any acoustic string sets that are sold with a normal 13 gauge but with a .60 low e string, i want some fatter bass

DMBFan63 · Post by **DMBFan63** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 8:10 pm

Yea, I was speaking from memory, wasn't completely sure, now that i look at the elixer booklet you're right..

Ranting Thespian · Post by **Ranting Thespian** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 1:47 pm

grock · Post by **grock** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:55 pm

fatjack wrote:
grock wrote:
DMBFan63 wrote:They may only come in medium extra light and light where you get them, but where i go i can get Heavy, Medium, Medium light, light, custom light, and extra light

But yes, I love elixers :-d
i suspect you are speaking from memory because Elixir doesn't make "heavy guage" unless you mean "12 string heavy" which is actually the same as normal six string mediums. but from your post i don't think you meant this. so yeah no heavy's from elixir http://www.elixirstrings.com/documents/ ... e_list.pdf

heavy strings (14's) are quite uncommon.
i've never seen a heavy set with 14's, i thought 14's were customed

and do you know of any acoustic string sets that are sold with a normal 13 gauge but with a .60 low e string, i want some fatter bass

yeah buddy, just go to the guitar store and ask for single strings. elixir makes a .059 and d'addario seems to make every guage you could ever imagine.

kaizer · Post by **kaizer** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 6:20 pm

ive tried the elixirs and they sound schweet ...however as of lately i've been goin with the martin sp's medium gauge ...these sound really nice as well ...