KVR Audio

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Tue Jan 25, 2022 10:56 pm

I just restrung my 1980 G&L Skyhawk with a set of GHS Boomers from Univibe Music in San Francisco. This puts their purchase date around 1988.

They seem fine.

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Wed Jan 26, 2022 11:28 pm

I always wondered how long old strings last in the package. Now I know, thanks for that.

GreyLion · Post by **GreyLion** » Thu Jan 27, 2022 6:13 am

Of course, we can't hear the higher-frequency notes and overtones anymore, so they may be duller than you think.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Thu Jan 27, 2022 6:14 pm

I still have around 15 sets of strings from 2009 when I made a trip to just strings.com in NH. Again though I will go on record saying that I dont care for new strings, dull has never been an adjective to describe my tone...btw nice to see GL, hope you're well

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Thu Jan 27, 2022 9:43 pm

Then why did you buy them?

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Thu Jan 27, 2022 11:14 pm

really?

GreyLion · Post by **GreyLion** » Sun Jan 30, 2022 5:25 am

Hey, Hink! Yeah, I drifted away for awhile, from KVR and music and life and people in general. A liver transplant last year turned that around. Playing more, enjoying things much more. Keep on rockin'!

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Wed Feb 02, 2022 1:22 am

wow, glad you're ok

GreyLion · Post by **GreyLion** » Thu Feb 03, 2022 5:12 am

Thanks, Hink! It's good to have some color and texture back in my life, including hanging out here a bit again. And KVR is still good, though, as we all do, I miss the Old KVR.

Incidentally, I cleaned out the barn some last week, and found a pouch full of GHS and Ernie Ball and Fender guitar strings from sometime in the Nineties, in a backup bag I used to carry to gigs. Had a bunch of old cables from Mars Music, too. All perfectly good, I'm sure. But I tossed 'em.

Sometimes, you just outlive your gear.

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Thu Feb 03, 2022 6:15 am

GreyLion wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 6:13 am Of course, we can't hear the higher-frequency notes and overtones anymore, so they may be duller than you think.

I’m duller than you think.

I’ve not used this guitar in a while. Mostly I use my Steinberger GM-4T, which has fresh strings on it and sounds good. The sound isn’t right for the track I’m working on, but the G&L is. I just haven’t really played it much in the past year and the strings were noticeably dull. I remember seeing the pack in my drawer before I moved this summer so I figured I’d throw those strings on it and that’s when I saw that they weren’t strings I’d picked up recently. They seem to sound pretty good, but the time since I last played it with new strings was also a time when I was using a Kemper Profiler and now I’m using an AxeFX 3. Too many variables to make a good judgment, but they’ll do until I get to a store for a new pack.

GreyLion · Post by **GreyLion** » Sat Feb 05, 2022 2:23 am

Yeah, there's probably a thread here somewhere asking how often people change strings. I've read about guys saying they change before every gig, or once a month. I used to change every couple of years, if then. Still do, I guess. I change when they get to where they won't stay tuned.

Don't know about you, but I don't particularly like the bright, zingy sound of new strings anyhow. Maybe there could be a new fashion statement for pre-dulled strings, like with relicked guitars. (Which I think are dismally stupid, incidentally.)

Or maybe vintage strings. I bet pre-CBS Fender Bullets would auction for a fortune.

Ol’ school.