DUNLOP DHCN1150 Heavy Core Nickel Steel Electric Guitar 6-String Set, .011-.050 Gauge
- Brand: Dunlop
- Product Code: DHCN1150
- DHCN1150 – Heavy Core Nickel Steel Heavier NPS Electric Guitar 6 String Set, .011-.050
Heavy Core electric guitar strings are ideal for drop tunings. Dunlop uses carefully-selected core wire and proprietary wrap ratios to let you get aggressive with your pick attack, while retaining a tight low end, focused midrange, and smooth high end – whether you’re playing clean or distorted. Dunlop makes Heavy Core strings at their Benicia, California factory, and sweats the details throughout the design, manufacturing, and packaging process. Every set of Dunlop strings is packaged with three levels of moisture protection and sealed in a Vapor Corrosion Inhibitor bag. Into drop tunings. Gauge: .011, .014, .018, .028, .038, .050.
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2 Comments
Thomas N. Brogan
Such Excellence! Impressive Strings,
If you’re into that overusing pinch-harmonics for obnoxious squeals (heaven knows I am), these strings will deliver a swirling vortex of high harmonics the likes of which I hadn’t seen since using Rev. Willy’s Mexican Lottery Brand strings (also made by Dunlop – weird coincidence). So whether you want to accentuate some non-muddy d’jenting with well-placed pinch harmonics or throw a somber etude under the bus with cacophonous shrieks just because you can, these strings make it easer.
Now it isn’t all a bed of peanut butter cups and tequila. The plain strings; like the much smaller counterparts in the Rev. Willy set; are more slippery than silicon-soaked snail snot and that makes the initial break in period require patience.
If you like strings that give a thick, clear tone, can throw off pinch-harmonics at whim, and do so without demanding much in the way of physical strength and don’t mind having to wait almost 24 hours for the plain strings to settle in, you may enjoy these bubs. I don’t think they can handle drop tuning on a 24.75″ scale guitar, but they’re very, very nice in E Standard.
Very difficult to think of the musical wonderfulness achieved by these strings without maniacally laughing like Mel Brooks in Strange Brew when he discovers his sons are employeed at Elsinor Brewery.
Update: After weeks of not being nice to these strings and fretting them with a heavy hand, not only are they still going strong, but the dents left by the nickel silver frets on the underside of the strings is less than I’ve seen with other brands (SIT, Ernie Ball, DR Strings). Does that mean they’ll last longer and keep their shimmering brilliance for unreasonable amounts of time? Does it mean they’re developing more focused stress points which will become sudden breaks? No idea, but they’re rewarding weeks of harsh treatment with lovely sounds (and angry sounds, too, when those oh-so-easy harmonics are pinched from the strings). I’m very, very impressed.
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|C. H. Moody "Kassandros"
Serious strings: Serious players wanted!,
Even unplugged, the guitar has become much more resonant, and sustain lasts longer AND tails off more slowly. I find these the most comfortable strings I’ve ever played: they fret easily and cleanly, tones are clear & solid, strings still bend easily (more easily, for me, since strong hands, etc). Sound amplified is even thicker than before, and just delicious, to pay and hear. My instinct to move primitive/vintage has borne amazingly tasty fruit, and I feel more inspired every time I play. If you have never played a heavier, more substantial string, give it a try. You might turn your pedals & processors into extra cash if the naked sounds of your guitar thrill you enough….
I’ll be testing a pack of D’Addario EJ21 Electric Guitar Strings, Jazz Lights on my next string change, but I’m liking these Dunlops VERY MUCH & will certainly use them again.
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