I had them changed earlier this Friday. They were on my guitar for two months and I let it catch dust since they got darker. I live in a very humid country so strings wear out much faster even when they're not played.
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Just yesterday 😅. Had the previous set on for a month now. But those were the cheap ones that came with the guitar. Still trying to figure out the fitting string gauges. Love those Jackson guitars, at some point if I learned to play guitar, I hope to afford one.
Haven't changed the strings on my LTD MH400 baritone. I've had it for 2 years. The strings on it have been there for at least 2,5 years (previous owner changed the strings before posting it for sale). Imo the best sounding guitar still, main guitar I pick up for most of my videos.
Could hear it night and day in the iso examples. I'm actually kind of surprised because in the full mix you could slightly notice it, however it was less obvious than I thought it was going to be, you could totally get away with that.
The more distortion there is and in a full mix after post prod there is basically no dif. Mostly comes out at low gain, with the sharper sound, but that is also miniature. If you're not looking for the difference, you won't find it either.
honestly, i did not think that there was that much of a difference, especially in the high gain tone. for me, the biggest difference is playability. new strings feel and play so much better, that that alone is worth it. as a student, buying new strings for all my guitars every few months can get quite expensive, so wat ive done is just switch from the expensive stuff to brands like rotosound and dr, or even the harley benton hqs strings. they might not last as long as nyxl's or whatever, but here in europe they're litteraly half the price, or less. now it is somewhat manageable to switch strings every 2-3 months! great video, loved the plethora of different samples
As a broke student I actually did the opposite. For me, probably due in large part to our climate, those cheaper strings will rust in a month or even just a week or two, and the playing experience will be ruined. It becomes very costly, so I've decided to just pay double the price for elixirs, and they'll last me at least half a year. On my 8 string they even went as far as 9-10 months while still playing and sounding decently. It's so worth it, because now I only have to spend that money 1-2 times a year per guitar.
In all honesty, it's hard to tell in the high-gain portions. It's effectively the same to me. For the rest though, the DIs, clean sounds, etc, I can hear a difference, but I cannot tell if it's a brightness thing or the newer strings just sound a touch louder compared to the older stuff. Good on you for doing this experiment though!
Changing strings for the sound is absolutely not worth it because the difference is only one gentle turn of an EQ's treble to make up for it. But the rest--the tuning stability, itonation, playability, etc.--those would be the factors to place emphasis on, and each person has to judge for themselves when they have reached that threshold and needs to replace the strings.
There are not only linear, but dynamic issues too. Old strings, especially with no care loose attack and sustain (mutes for example, will not be as long and wavy dynamic as could). It affects more on lower strings.
This actually relieves me a bit. I thought it would be around a 50% difference, where it’s more like a 5-12% difference. Def sounds better, but I’m not feeling too guilty for recording with old strings as much.
I had a huge difference happen to me when switching to orange strings. Sounds more juicy. Also, if your guitar sounds too bright, use ebony. It makes it darker. Baked maple however makes it warmer
I borrowed a fender strat from my uncle around 8 months ago, He didn't use it and I bet that he hasn't changed the strings in a while since the guitar was meant for a pop punk band.
Whenever I think about a certain topic, Keyan shares a video about that... Bro are you listening me? Loved the comparison, I recently started guitar reviews and some guitars had week old strings, not heavily used for recording so I think they will do the job. I give away the DI tones so people can reamp to their needs, I'm the one playing them but at least they can use their own signal chain for testing and stuff. Now I can send your video to people who are bitching about it, because at least for "testing" purposes I don't thing there's not a big difference. For recording and real tone comparison, I guess fresh strings are a must though. Thanks for the vid!
I don't think it is actually a matter of better or worse. It is all vibration moving air into sounds. Dependent on the desired vibes of the sound, and the personal subjectivity applied to all music, will determine which best suits for what application. There will be some songs that benefit from that small, but noticeable, brighter ringing. But there will also be tracks where that slightly darkened, less ringy tone will just slot into the mix perfectly. It works both ways, as sometimes you will need a bit of a high shelf on old strings, and conversely sometimes you need to pull some highs out of the overly bright tone.
Biggest difference is with the clean parts. Sounds like you removed a blanket over the pickups 😅 The distorted riffs also have that little extra snap on top, that i feel are missing with the old strings.. Also had the Juggernauts for a long time on my 7! Great pickups!
this perfectly shows what ola england meant when he said "old strings sound like shit" but Greeta van fleets guitarists use old strings cause it better colours his tone and bands sound as a whole. Bits of of the distortion lead part sounding better with old strings in the sound comparison demonstrates a bit about what I'm talking about with Greeta van fleet.
Great video my man. The 1-yr old strings hold up just fine. If playability is not affected and hindered, I don't see the issue haha. The new strings obviously have better attack, more bite/high-end and a tad more clarity. But then again, "a bit" is still "a bit".
I can attest to this as I own the exact same guitar except mine has Fishman MF. I change my strings every 6 months because of the evertune bridge. For me the sound is barely noticeable but when the strings start to diminish in color I have to change them. Also new strings feel amazing.
#1 thing for me is the attack response. Especially live in IEMs I notice strings get duller after 3-4h of sweating. Then I end up picking harder and harder to get that attack back. Which increases fatigue and pushes the strings more out of tune. So new strings before every gig it is. But just practicing at home without the sweat I don’t care as much.
Probably either the humidity where it is stored or you have acidic fingers (if I recall some people have more acidic sweat in their finger than others) could be wrong though.
I just forcing myself to be fine with the sound of old strings. I enjoy playing with fresh ones, but the extra articulation doesn't last very long in my experience to be worth changing very often. But yeah, modern metal is a kind of asmr genre, wenn it comes to clanky low gain sounds
Danke für die Mühen. Mittlerweile nutze ich sogar ganz gezielt Gitarren mit alten Saiten. Gerade Akustikgitarren bekommen da nochmal einen anderen Vibe, der natürlich zum Arrangement passen muss. Spielgefühl ist nur leider immer Scheiße mit alten Saiten
Old strings lose so much clarity and presence. I could definitely see that being a positive for jazz or blues players though. My guitars deserve some TLC...
Pretty sure they will just want flatwounds or some other type of new strings that sound mellow when new and won't be problematic with tuning, lost sustain, etc.
Honestly, you don’t need to change strings as frequently as some people think. If you keep it in a case in a climate controlled environment, it’ll be fine. It’s more of an issue if you like to hang your guitars to literally collect dust.
Just want a second set of eyes on this (couldn't find a good explanation on google) - I got myself a guitar with Evertune, when I put it in bend position I end up having to fine tune the guitar quite frequently, it doesn't really do what Evertune promises. Is this normal?
If you've put the saddle in zone 3 then the evertune won't be able to do what it's designed to. The "trick" is putting it just close enough to zone 3 that you can bend into it, basically meaning you only need to bend harder if you want to do that.
Be honest … when was the last time you changed strings??
Thanks for watching!
Guilty as charged... 10 months... new year new m̶e̶ strings i guess.
I had them changed earlier this Friday. They were on my guitar for two months and I let it catch dust since they got darker.
I live in a very humid country so strings wear out much faster even when they're not played.
Just yesterday 😅. Had the previous set on for a month now. But those were the cheap ones that came with the guitar. Still trying to figure out the fitting string gauges. Love those Jackson guitars, at some point if I learned to play guitar, I hope to afford one.
Umm depends on the guitar. I have guitars I haven’t changed the strings on in years
Haven't changed the strings on my LTD MH400 baritone. I've had it for 2 years. The strings on it have been there for at least 2,5 years (previous owner changed the strings before posting it for sale). Imo the best sounding guitar still, main guitar I pick up for most of my videos.
Maybe not an INSANE difference in sound, but most definitely in playing experience.
Could hear it night and day in the iso examples. I'm actually kind of surprised because in the full mix you could slightly notice it, however it was less obvious than I thought it was going to be, you could totally get away with that.
With distortion it's already much less noticeable. Old strings, don't make that much of a difference in my experience. But I also use evertune bridge.
Old strings kinda lose the high end/harmonics because of the gunk.. but yap in a mix it's hard to differentiate between the two
@@dimejoe2621 Kinda like dialing back the tone knob on a tube screamer which is not necessarily a bad thing tonal wise.
@@johnyang799 yap actually it's somewhat that kinda 'tone knob being rolled off a little less than half, maybe 1/3' thing
The more distortion there is and in a full mix after post prod there is basically no dif. Mostly comes out at low gain, with the sharper sound, but that is also miniature. If you're not looking for the difference, you won't find it either.
honestly, i did not think that there was that much of a difference, especially in the high gain tone. for me, the biggest difference is playability. new strings feel and play so much better, that that alone is worth it. as a student, buying new strings for all my guitars every few months can get quite expensive, so wat ive done is just switch from the expensive stuff to brands like rotosound and dr, or even the harley benton hqs strings. they might not last as long as nyxl's or whatever, but here in europe they're litteraly half the price, or less. now it is somewhat manageable to switch strings every 2-3 months! great video, loved the plethora of different samples
As a broke student I actually did the opposite. For me, probably due in large part to our climate, those cheaper strings will rust in a month or even just a week or two, and the playing experience will be ruined. It becomes very costly, so I've decided to just pay double the price for elixirs, and they'll last me at least half a year. On my 8 string they even went as far as 9-10 months while still playing and sounding decently. It's so worth it, because now I only have to spend that money 1-2 times a year per guitar.
I absolutely love that lick at 4:11
Check out his song "Pulse"
In all honesty, it's hard to tell in the high-gain portions. It's effectively the same to me. For the rest though, the DIs, clean sounds, etc, I can hear a difference, but I cannot tell if it's a brightness thing or the newer strings just sound a touch louder compared to the older stuff. Good on you for doing this experiment though!
You could a do blind test next time, I wonder how many people would actually hear the sonic difference as opposed to the visual one.
Changing strings for the sound is absolutely not worth it because the difference is only one gentle turn of an EQ's treble to make up for it. But the rest--the tuning stability, itonation, playability, etc.--those would be the factors to place emphasis on, and each person has to judge for themselves when they have reached that threshold and needs to replace the strings.
There are not only linear, but dynamic issues too. Old strings, especially with no care loose attack and sustain (mutes for example, will not be as long and wavy dynamic as could). It affects more on lower strings.
This actually relieves me a bit. I thought it would be around a 50% difference, where it’s more like a 5-12% difference. Def sounds better, but I’m not feeling too guilty for recording with old strings as much.
isolated strumming and lead showed the difference like day and night!
I had a huge difference happen to me when switching to orange strings. Sounds more juicy. Also, if your guitar sounds too bright, use ebony. It makes it darker. Baked maple however makes it warmer
I borrowed a fender strat from my uncle around 8 months ago, He didn't use it and I bet that he hasn't changed the strings in a while since the guitar was meant for a pop punk band.
Favourite sound: guitar string change asmr. God damn.
Whenever I think about a certain topic, Keyan shares a video about that... Bro are you listening me? Loved the comparison, I recently started guitar reviews and some guitars had week old strings, not heavily used for recording so I think they will do the job. I give away the DI tones so people can reamp to their needs, I'm the one playing them but at least they can use their own signal chain for testing and stuff. Now I can send your video to people who are bitching about it, because at least for "testing" purposes I don't thing there's not a big difference. For recording and real tone comparison, I guess fresh strings are a must though.
Thanks for the vid!
Huge difference in the DI's
I don't think it is actually a matter of better or worse. It is all vibration moving air into sounds. Dependent on the desired vibes of the sound, and the personal subjectivity applied to all music, will determine which best suits for what application. There will be some songs that benefit from that small, but noticeable, brighter ringing. But there will also be tracks where that slightly darkened, less ringy tone will just slot into the mix perfectly. It works both ways, as sometimes you will need a bit of a high shelf on old strings, and conversely sometimes you need to pull some highs out of the overly bright tone.
So when are you telling us you switched the new string audio to the old string audio?! 😂😂
Only Glenn Fricker would do that to successfully prove a point
I kinda prefer the way the old ones sound, but the new ones sustain better.
Biggest difference is with the clean parts. Sounds like you removed a blanket over the pickups 😅
The distorted riffs also have that little extra snap on top, that i feel are missing with the old strings..
Also had the Juggernauts for a long time on my 7! Great pickups!
this perfectly shows what ola england meant when he said "old strings sound like shit" but Greeta van fleets guitarists use old strings cause it better colours his tone and bands sound as a whole. Bits of of the distortion lead part sounding better with old strings in the sound comparison demonstrates a bit about what I'm talking about with Greeta van fleet.
For the clean section, the fresh strings sounded a bit harsher than the old strings. I prefer the slightly rolled off sound
Great video my man.
The 1-yr old strings hold up just fine. If playability is not affected and hindered, I don't see the issue haha.
The new strings obviously have better attack, more bite/high-end and a tad more clarity. But then again, "a bit" is still "a bit".
I can attest to this as I own the exact same guitar except mine has Fishman MF. I change my strings every 6 months because of the evertune bridge. For me the sound is barely noticeable but when the strings start to diminish in color I have to change them. Also new strings feel amazing.
#1 thing for me is the attack response.
Especially live in IEMs I notice strings get duller after 3-4h of sweating.
Then I end up picking harder and harder to get that attack back.
Which increases fatigue and pushes the strings more out of tune.
So new strings before every gig it is.
But just practicing at home without the sweat I don’t care as much.
Got an ET7 arriving this week :)
hey man is there any way i can find tabs for riffs at 3:00 and 4:14? also great video as always
All the riffs you hear are from my song Pulse.
TABs, tones, stems and even DIs are available on my webstore
Love my ET7
Could you pre eq the old strings to sound new in a mix?
Like, EQ match?
_me looking at my annoying Floyd rose guitar with 3 year old strings_ I'm in danger!
I'm surprised the old string weren't as rusty as i thought they'd be. Mine usually rust really quick.
Probably either the humidity where it is stored or you have acidic fingers (if I recall some people have more acidic sweat in their finger than others) could be wrong though.
Hi it’s me. The guy that never changes strings 🤓
I'm not changing my strings dude...
I just forcing myself to be fine with the sound of old strings. I enjoy playing with fresh ones, but the extra articulation doesn't last very long in my experience to be worth changing very often. But yeah, modern metal is a kind of asmr genre, wenn it comes to clanky low gain sounds
Danke für die Mühen. Mittlerweile nutze ich sogar ganz gezielt Gitarren mit alten Saiten. Gerade Akustikgitarren bekommen da nochmal einen anderen Vibe, der natürlich zum Arrangement passen muss. Spielgefühl ist nur leider immer Scheiße mit alten Saiten
You should try using some Fast Fret rub on your strings!
@@KeyanHoushmandLive stimmt, merci
I mean I use coated elixers so that I dont have to change them
if you don't use it how about giving it away? I'd gladly pick it up!
Old strings lose so much clarity and presence. I could definitely see that being a positive for jazz or blues players though. My guitars deserve some TLC...
Pretty sure they will just want flatwounds or some other type of new strings that sound mellow when new and won't be problematic with tuning, lost sustain, etc.
2:58 sounds like chorus of Heartflame - Hollow Vision
Honestly, you don’t need to change strings as frequently as some people think. If you keep it in a case in a climate controlled environment, it’ll be fine. It’s more of an issue if you like to hang your guitars to literally collect dust.
Just want a second set of eyes on this (couldn't find a good explanation on google) - I got myself a guitar with Evertune, when I put it in bend position I end up having to fine tune the guitar quite frequently, it doesn't really do what Evertune promises. Is this normal?
If you've put the saddle in zone 3 then the evertune won't be able to do what it's designed to. The "trick" is putting it just close enough to zone 3 that you can bend into it, basically meaning you only need to bend harder if you want to do that.