installed elixir polyweb strings on my pseudo-pgm..
ok nga yung feel nya kumpara sa ibang strings but i find the sound very sterile upon turning-up my amp's volume. checked both the clean and driven sounds and tried tweaking my amp and pedal settings but to no avail. my drive pedal sounded like a POS overdrive pedal that lost it's balls in a street fight. (and no, i do not hate OD pedals. i just hate the ones that make their control knobs appear like mere embellishments..) i even used my guitar's treble-compensated volume control to see if it makes it sound any better but it made it sound even worse.
my original objective in testing an elixir string set is to see if it could withstand my awful bends and stay in-tune after a month or so (it's not an issue of me not knowing how to tune a guitar. it's about how the strings yield to the abuse my awful bends give them. of course i know how to tune my instrument.
).. but after reading what kawayan_strat posted and after what i heard with my own ears for the past 2 weeks, i'm taking these strings off my guitar and perhaps try going back to regular strings. might give pyramid a shot before going back to ernie ball or if budget does not always permit, fernando.
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perhaps it's not a good idea to combine elixirs with my pickups. might work for some but definitely not for all.
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gear used:
ibanez rg570 custom with V7, S1, and V8 pickups.
amp:
solid state
pedal:
custom made MSIAB