Originally Posted by Planobilly
This all reminds me of the sounds produced by tube amps using different brands of tubes. Also, how all the purest who will only play through tube amps put a transistor effects pedal first thing in the signal chain...

Obviously, different brands, sizes, and types of materials, as well as how they are wound (for example, flat wound), guitar setup, the amount of string bending, the style of music played, and several other factors all affect sound.

One must be comfortable playing the guitar, which is a significant factor in considering string choice.
If I could only get 14-gauge strings, no matter how good they sounded, I would stop playing guitar.

Sometimes, Rick and other people on the internet just need something to talk about, no matter how meaningless it is.

Billy

Ok…

In 1973, I wrote the dullest 52 page paper on musical instrument strings covering most of these topics while working on a minor in Physics. A part time job in a music store gave me access to strings and then there was a physics lab for me to play in. I sold a copy to a string company that no longer exists but I don’t know if the paper is in a file cabinet in any of the successor companies. I went through a major paper purge before getting married in ‘79 including a hundred+ cases of work product on the 1976 rewrite of the Copyright law being hauled out of my basement. I don’t miss any of that.

Flexibility is the key to everything being discussed and neither commentator knows that it’s a factor. With electric instruments, the magnetic properties are also important.

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