Dean Markley HELIX HD Electric Guitar Strings (REG)
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Balanced string gauges and special winding process give you a tone like no other.
Gauges: .010, .013, .017, .026, .036, .046.
Made of nickel-plated steel, Dean Markley HELIX HD electric guitar strings have a general gauge range for the average players needs to give you a balanced sound. However, these are anything but ordinary strings. It took over a year and many trials for the Dean Markley team to find the precise elliptical shape for the winding wire that make up the patent-pending, Hyper-Elliptical Winding process of the Helix HD. This shape then had to be paired with the correct winding process that would produce these stupendous results—the maximum mass for the electric guitar string's diameter that still maintained the string's vibrancy.
The Hyper-Elliptical Winding process results in an increased number of wraps along the length of the string. This increases the mass of your string, without changing its diameter or material.
More mass makes a fuller tone; more windings give a smoother feel as well as a brighter, more resonant tone. This provides a smoothness and performance unrivaled by conventional guitar strings.
When you press and strum a normal wrap wire, your fingers experience resistance as they go down into each depression between the wraps. With the Dean Markley HELIX HD electric guitar strings you'll experience smoothness. These less coarse wrappings let your fingers glide more easily and smoothly along the surface of the wrap wire.
Features
- Made for use on electric guitars
- Nickel-plated steel
- Features Hyper-Elliptical Winding process for smoother play
Get better sound with a fresh set of HELIX HD Electric Guitar Strings. Order today!
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Pros
- Good Tone
- Strong
Cons
Best Uses
- Concerts
- Practicing
Comments about Dean Markley HELIX HD Electric Guitar Strings (REG):
They sound great are easy to play, and replace my other strings at half the cost. SO far I haven't had to change them and am thinking of restringing all my axes. I change them after a long rehearsal at SIR, the guy said that is all they use on ALL the rentals, so i figure they will last
Pros
- Consistent
- Good Tone
- Long Life
- Strong
Cons
Best Uses
- Backup
- Concerts
- Practicing
Comments about Dean Markley HELIX HD Electric Guitar Strings (REG):
These strings are probably the best non-coated electric guitar strings on Earth. These Dean Markley Helix strings are better than GHS Progressive strings which claim to magnify your playing. Well, the Helix's actually get the job done more handily!
Wonderful to play and hear. These strings are smoother-sounding compared to Dean Markley NickelSteel strings.
Give your sound the HD treatment today! Don't be apprehensive like I was once before on these strings.
Comments about Dean Markley HELIX HD Electric Guitar Strings (REG):
Supposedly one of the greatest benefits of these strings is having less string noise (due to having more windings). I have noticed no such thing. You will still get string noise. It might be less screechy than the average string noise of other strings, but it's definitely still there. Don't expect these to sound like flat wounds. I will have to do more testing, but I can't really determine that these strings necessarily have any more sustain, better tone, or more volume than my usual set (D'Addario EXL 10s). I changed the strings when the old set was tone-dead and grimy, so it's hard to say how much of the improvement in tone was due to this set, or just due to the fact that they're new. I will say this though: the strings were already slightly corroded in a few spots upon opening the box. That was a huge disappointment. I can't speak for any other brands, but D'Addario wraps string sets in air tight bags inside the box, and I've hardly had an issue with corroding strings right out of the box. That said, it could just be this batch or something. But still. They're also a bit expensive. I'm not sure yet if they're worth it. try for yourself.
Comments about Dean Markley HELIX HD Electric Guitar Strings (REG):
After 2 days and a total of around 5 hours of play I think I've finally broken them in. I strung my PRS SE Singlecut (Gibson '57 pickups)with a set of these in .011 and my acoustic in .013. They sound OK but I still prefer EB Slinkys and Martins. I still haven't broken in the strings on my acoustic and even on my electric they still sound just a tad tinny. They really weren't kidding when they said more mass per string, my fingers are killin' me and the .011s bend more like .012s would. I definatly like how much easier it is to slide and I'm hoping less crud will build up between the winding so it'll stay easy. These strings also put out a lot more sound. I had to turn the gain on my Marshall MG10 down from 6 to 4 to keep the same ammount of distortion and I haven't tried them on the Blackheart 100W yet (it's not at home). Over all I like these strings but I would not recommend them over EB slinkys.
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