Will Silverslaps & Evah P weichs work ok with a mag pup?

[fatback]

What it says, really.

Need new strings, but want to keep my pickup options open.

[chrkelly]

Probably not, you need strings with metal cores for mag pickups.

[slobluesine]

Silver Slaps don t have any steel in them, Prestos or Eurosonics as they're sometimes called are similar to Silver Slaps in tension and feel and do have some steel in them

[fatback]

Thanks for that. Any idea about the evah pirazzis?

[slobluesine]

Evah Pirazzis are Steel Core AFAIK, havn't tried them tho

[chrkelly]

Evah's are most definitely synthetic.

[slobluesine]

seem's they're Steel wound

[url="http://www.pirastro.com/homeset.html"]http://www.pirastro.com/homeset.html[/url]

[chrkelly]

[quote name='slobluesine' post='1123929' date='Feb 11 2011, 03:22 PM']seem's they're Steel wound

[url="http://www.pirastro.com/homeset.html"]http://www.pirastro.com/homeset.html[/url][/quote]

That's true but it's only the thin outer wrap that's metal, inside it's all synthetic. You could try them with a mag pickup but I doubt there's enough metal in there for it to work properly. Might be an expensive experiment if it doesn't work out.

[slobluesine]

if you want low tension steels bump down some Spirocores and get a high C

[fatback]

Thanks for the advice, gents. Maybe bumping steels and a mag is the way to go.

[fatback]

[quote name='slobluesine' post='1124179' date='Feb 11 2011, 06:32 PM']if you want low tension steels bump down some Spirocores and get a high C[/quote]

How does that compare to getting a solo set and retuning?

Since I've gone the mag route, I definitely need to know more about steels.

Edited March 15, 2011 by fatback

[Beer of the Bass]

Thomastik Dominants worked fine with a Kent Armstrong mag pickup for me, and those have a synthetic core with steel windings, so it's probably hard to predict without trying them. As chrkelly said though, its a costly experiment...

[tino]

[quote name='fatback' date='Mar 15 2011, 02:17 PM' post='11631

Since I've gone the mag route, I definitely need to know more about steels.
[/quote]
Im told Tommy was a fairly competent guitarist and a whizz on the banjo and that David was pants as a prospective PM

[fatback]

[quote name='tino' post='1163645' date='Mar 15 2011, 08:33 PM'][quote name='fatback' date='Mar 15 2011, 02:17 PM' post='11631

Since I've gone the mag route, I definitely need to know more about steels.

Im told Tommy was a fairly competent guitarist and a whizz on the banjo and that David was pants as a prospective PM [/quote]