DR Strings HI-DEF NEON™ - MULTI-COLOUR Coloured Electric Guitar Strings: Medium 10-46

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With hexagonal core wires and silver-plated nickel-plated steel wrap wires, their loud and aggressive sound compliments their vibrant color. At this point in my guitar career, I don’t feel like I need color-coded strings, but I can’t deny the fact that they can be extremely helpful for new guitarists that can avoid putting the wrong string in the wrong place. That said, the resurgence in popularity of pure nickel strings suggests that players still value that vintage experience, and in terms of warm tone and smooth playability, they are hard to beat. The most common spec for the electric guitar string is nickel-wound steel, which offers a little of the warmth of nickel but with a brighter top end. Of course, thicker strings let you down-tune your instrument, which makes it sound heavier but there’s no reason you can’t get a heavier sound with thinner strings too.

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Strings with colored ends are not common among manufacturers, but there are some big names in the industry that do produce color-coded strings. HI-DEF NEON™ Colored Electric Guitar Strings feature a luminescent coating designed to give your stage presence a little extra pop, especially under UV black lighting. It takes that long to develop a feel, an understanding, an instinct to make the constant tiny adjustments that only a hand can make. Guitar strings are going two ways right now: one is looking forward to using cobalt, coating strings, and new tech, and the other is looking at offering players an authentic vintage experience.While the coating does give them a different feel I think colored strings can be a great option for guitarists that are trying to learn to play scales. It’s often said that thicker strings on a shorter-scale guitar, like a Fender Jaguar for example, feel better than lighter gauges as they add a little more tension. Identifying guitar strings by color code is easy as long as you have the package with the instructions, or from an article like this one.

DR Strings HI-DEF NEON™ - MULTI-COLOUR Coloured Electric

If you’re having a hard time identifying your strings, and you just don’t want the hassle of restringing your guitar in case you make a mistake then you might want to check out brands like D’Addario and Fender that make high-quality strings with colored ends. DR's remarkable and proprietary K3 Technology coating is the first coating that makes no apologies and no excuses for not delivering sound equal to uncoated strings. The color code system that string companies use is not universal and each brand has its own method of marking its strings. Strings are often battered to within an inch of their life with our right hand (if you’re a right handed player) and the acidic sweat and dirt that builds up on our left hand can sit on the strings surface attacking and compromising their physical appearance and their strength too.Over the years they have continued to thin out their coating and their latest electric offering is their ‘lightest coating yet’ and is described as having ‘the same crisp tone as an uncoated string’ and providing a ‘natural feel’. Their thickness is measured in 1/000th of an inch and is usually referred to as 9’s, 10’s, 11’s - meaning that the thinnest string (your top E) is 0.