Daddario EJ15-3D

My Cort folk had heavier gauge strings for "punchier" tone but they were harder to play, making clean pull-offs and hammer-ons was difficult. Not so with the 10-47's. And the whole of the playing time is an easier time because less muscle is needed to just push the strings against the frets.

When I play fingerpicking I don't use the nails, only the flesh of the fingertips, so fewer highs are emitted. Combined with thicker strings that have less highs, some of the acoustic's nicety is lost. The 10's give out more highs, problem solved. Moreover I play the bass, so nails have to be super-short. Playing with a pick makes the change more apparent.

The tone is not less powerful because what is lost in "punchiness" is gained in harmonics, the energy struck into the string is the same, so the wood's vibration is just as strong. And it seems I felt the extra highs as much as they can be heard. I realize the 12's made the tone metallic, too.

So now it will be 10-47's only for me. The 12-53's were also D'Addario so only two strings needed a tiny filing of the saddle to adjust intonation.

D'Addario really makes great strings. I play a lot of gigs, and I tried a lot of different guitar strings but I must say that these strings have really helped me a lot because they are really solid and they keep clean sound for a long time so I really don't have to think for how long will they last and will my guitar have a bad sound. Polishing them before gig and I am pretty shure that they will last a long time.

Since I am in a band that has our own songs and we also do a lot of covers, we play a lot of different styles of music and D'Addario strings really helped my to keep my sound and in particular the sound I like.