Bright bronze strings

[seraphim7s]

Am I odd? I slapped a new set of medium bronze (80-20) strings onto my acoustic after using phosphor bronzes for some time, and they just sounded far too bright for my liking - they rang out and kind of 'obscured' the quality of the chord.

 

When they mellowed after a few hours of playing, they sounded great! Not quite so sure about the feel, but the sound is certainly better.

 

Anyone else feel like this?

[Herb Hunter]

I've found medium bronze (80-20) to be too bright so I stick with phosphor bronze on my guitars. I had a Brazilian rosewood Breedlove that sounded a bit dull until I put medium bronze (80-20) strings on it. So until I traded that guitar in for something else I used medium bronze (80-20) on it.

All strings loose brightness as they age through playing.

[solitaire]

Oh, I think so too, except with my new Martin SP 80/20 Cryogenics - these were spot on right out of the box. This Cryo treatment makes for rather fullsounding strings, a bit slick for some guitarists though...

[onetubetone]

Yeah I think Phosphor Bronze and 80/20 Bronze strings each have a "different kind" of bright. The way I hear it, the 80/20s have more of that really high-end zing to it with less high mids, while the Phosphors have less zing and more of a full high-range. Personally I like phosphor bronze strings much better, but that's just my taste.