A few questions on Strings.

[Shredder87]

I've got a few questions regarding guitar strings, since I will need to re-string my 12-string acoustic soon.

1. I have used Rotosounds on my electrics for the past year or so, and they seem to be excellent strings. I will be sticking to them for a long time. What are Rotosound's acoustic strings like? Are they as good as their strings for electrics? Do they do a 12-string set?

2. What other brands to a 12-string set for acoustics? What brand would you recommend?

All opinions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks y'all,

Smithy

[Dee]

D'addario for life!

[Ozzdoc]

D'addario's are nice, same with Blue Steel and Ernie Ball.

[sirbrandon101]

You can try Martin. Last time I changed my acoustic strings(6 string) I just asked the guy at the store what he would recommend(oops! ) and he pointed me out to the most expensive Martin strings they had. $9USD. They are HORRIBLE! Honestly worse than the strings that came on the guitar.

[jaken777]

D'addario Or Dean Markley sound great IMO ,

Why haven't they tried to make stainless steal coated strings?

I know you can't make strings totally out of stainless steal because the magnetic pull of your pickup wont work or register to well with stainless steal,
magnets don't stick to stainless steal at all so in theory if you coated a regular steal string, with stainless steal it would work & last longer than any string on the market today right?

The stainless steal strings would sustain vibration reaction time longer meaning that the sound of your guitar note's on the string will sound for much longer than a regular string in theory

There's food for thought bro's... Jake

[Scali]

I've actually used a set of stainless steel strings once. They didn't corrode, but still you'd get dirt caught between the windings, so the sound quality decreased. Also they sounded quite 'raw'.
I can't recall the brand, it was a pretty unknown brand. I just tried them because they were cheap enough. The guage was also slightly different from normal string sets, probably to counter the difference in tension a bit.
But they do exist anyway.