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hotcheeks wrote:My advice to you is to stay away from flatwounds as they are not recommended by the factory because of the neck tension they produce. Try some stock ric 12 strings sets instead.
#1- the tone lasts longer, and #2- the use of them will keep your warrnty intact, if you are the original owner of the guitar.

With all due respect, that's not quite correct. The Pyramids are verboten. The custom T-I set of flats at POTR are just fine, and intonate well on a 6-saddle bridge. I can't play them, because my fingertips turn black from the pure nickel wrap, but my friends' guitars, which I helped set up, sound great with them, and are a viable alternative to the RIC factory set for those who desire that tone.

Also, many other manufacturers' 12-string sets, even with low tension (9's or 10's and such) do not intonate well on a 6-saddle bridge because of using a plain 3rd G unison string instead of a wound string, which is necessary for both the unison and octave G to intonate properly.

In addition, the tone of rounds absolutely does not last longer if you're talking about continuing to sound the way they did the day you installed them. It's not even close. The RIC rounds are excellent strings if you like that round-wound tone, but if you're into the vintage flat-wound sound, you aren't going to beat the TI strings for tone or for being easy on the neck. They will hold their tone literally for years without really changing much, unlike any round-wound.

As far as the binding goes on the 660/12, you have to check very carefully, since almost all recording equipment nowadays is digital. The white squares typically represent the binary 1, and black squares the binary 0.

Carefully go over the guitar and make sure that you have the correct alternating pattern of zeros and ones, and have a long talk with your recording engineer or your recordings might be out of phase.

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buchrob wrote:As far as the binding goes on the 660/12, you have to check very carefully, since almost all recording equipment nowadays is digital. The white squares typically represent the binary 1, and black squares the binary 0.

Carefully go over the guitar and make sure that you have the correct alternating pattern of zeros and ones, and have a long talk with your recording engineer or your recordings might be out of phase.

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I put on the RIC 12-string set onto my 330/12 about a year ago. (I used D'Addarios for over 20 years.) I also changed out the Hi-Gain pickups for Toaster-Tops. I love the RIC strings! I think they had as much (or maybe more) to do with getting the "vintage" sound than the change in pickups!

buchrob wrote:As far as the binding goes on the 660/12, you have to check very carefully, since almost all recording equipment nowadays is digital. The white squares typically represent the binary 1, and black squares the binary 0.

Carefully go over the guitar and make sure that you have the correct alternating pattern of zeros and ones, and have a long talk with your recording engineer or your recordings might be out of phase.

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Actually, it's a specially designed Error Correcting Code and if your recording engineer knows what he's doing, it'll actually fix all of your mistakes...

Like they said, it's not the type strings you use...it's the binding. The binding makes the Ric sound better. Also, Fireglo's sound better than other colors....especially when playing Beatle tunes.