Flatwound vs. Roundwound
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sir_andrew_of_left_coast
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Well John, If you can get the folks doing the Elixirs to put together some electric 12 string "trial" sets - with at least two wound octave strings (three would be better) I'll give them a try I was looking last night at guages and buying three sets of electric Elixirs to "build" a twelve string set probably doesn't make sense (when most of the second set - for the octaves) would end up being plain strings - where going with Elixir provides no benefit (since the plain strings aren't coated).
Also, their electric guages don't really give me a 1-to-1 guage equivalent to what I get with the RIC compressed round wound set.
I'm leery of going with 9's on my twelve string as that was what came on my 360/12v64 (or its what Elderly had on it when I took it home) and they just didn't work for me.
I was looking last night at guages and buying three sets of electric Elixirs to "build" a twelve string set probably doesn't make sense (when most of the second set - for the octaves) would end up being plain strings - where going with Elixir provides no benefit (since the plain strings aren't coated). Also, their electric guages don't really give me a 1-to-1 guage equivalent to what I get with the RIC compressed round wound set.
I'm leery of going with 9's on my twelve string as that was what came on my 360/12v64 (or its what Elderly had on it when I took it home) and they just didn't work for me.