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

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Hexagonal Core Wire on a Ball End with a Luminescent Multicolor Coated Silver Plated Nickel Plated Steel Wrap Wire. The use of the finest core and wrap wire materials ensure this classic design meets modern performance standards.

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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. With the rise of rock and roll in the 60s, the family decided to produce the first electric guitar strings to have nickel-plated steel alloy. If you’ve been playing the guitar for some time you’ll no doubt be familiar with the concept of coated strings.They feature a hexagonal core wire and a silver plated nickel plated steel wrap on the wound strings. However not all companies use separate packages for each string, there are companies that use paper tags to indicate which strings are which and they can be removed once the strings are installed. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and producers spends hours testing products to help you choose the best music-making gear for you.

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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’. As you can imagine D’Addario is still an innovative brand so it doesn’t come as a surprise that they are the most famous company that produces color-coded strings for acoustic, electric, classical, and bass guitars. The colors each company uses are different and even if we take a string from D’Addario with a red-colored end and swap it with a red-colored string from Rotosound, one will be a red- A note and the other one red – D note. All these brands have gone to great lengths to create their own proprietary coatings and as a result, each is different to the other not just in its makeup but it’s thickness and texture too. 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.

Everyone from Slash to Keith Richards, Angus to Hetfield has used Ernie Ball Slinkys to achieve their signature sounds. 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. TITE-FIT™ Electric Guitar Strings utilize a nickel plated steel wrap wire wound on a round core wire to produce a fatter sound. For D'Addario's latest XS Acoustic string range they've taken the decision to coat the outer surface of the string after it's been wound which is a first for any of their coated string ranges.

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After substantial playing, and towards the end of their stated life you may start to see some fraying of the coating around the high-impact areas (picking position) but that’s pretty much cosmetic and the strings will keep going, and going, and going… ! These are quite different types of construction - so using electric strings on an acoustic won’t be optimal. We speak to plenty of guitar players every day and you may or may not be surprised that there're players out there that can tarnish a standard set of strings in a matter of minutes due to sweat and acidic perspiration from their hands.

While not as popular as, say, Ernie Ball's Skinny Top Heavy Bottoms, we found the Heavy Core set to be comfortable and very consistent in tension at lower tunings.