DR Red Devil Strings - Awful!!!

[tangodown87]

hi all,

tried my first coated strings recently, the aforementioned DR 'red devils'. Paid in excess of £30 for them as they were 'extra long life' and they went dead so quickly!!! absolutely gutted and cant believe how little life they gave me.

Now ive never had coated strings before so is this just me being stupid? I was hoping they would have that 'twang' for a hell of a lot longer. I would say maybe 3/4 hours play and they seemed to just die!! Would love to hear anyone elses experiences?

Thanks!

[Spike Vincent]

I've used DR Black Beauties and I didn't have any real issues with longevity.DR did seem yo have some quality control issues a while ago,maybe you got a duff set.

[Lfalex v1.1]

I find Elixir coated strings last for ages.
Paradoxically, I find DR's non-coated offerings to have greater longevity than most other non-coated strings.
I've never tried coated DRs, though.

[Merton]

I've used DR Black Beauties and Red Devils, both sets lasted over two years of reasonable gigging, recording and rehearsing. About to swap my Red Devils for some Black Beauties again, I love them

[Happy Jack]

Had them on my Duck Dunn for a year - sounded great, no problems with longevity, but the colour coating flaked off pretty quickly where I did most of my plucking.

Sounds like you got a duff set.

[tangodown87]

must have been a dodgy set, bit dissapointing as they arent cheap!

thanks for the replies all!

[yorks5stringer]

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must have been a dodgy set, bit dissapointing as they arent cheap!

thanks for the replies all!
[/quote]

You could try sending them back perhaps?

Edited July 4, 2012 by yorks5stringer

[bartelby]

I've had a set of DR Neons on my Stingray since January and they've still got a bit of brightness left. They must have over 100 hours of playing on them.

[BigRedX]

DR Strings don't suit everyone. I couldn't get on with any of the sets I tried, no matter how many rave reviews they get here.

[tangodown87]

i think i will try sending them back, no harm in that i suppose

[cameltoe]

I got my first defective set of DR sunbeams recently after using them for a couple of years.

I had read about people finding the odd dodgy packet but never found them myself til now. Sounded OK when strung up but the D-string went dead after 1 rehearsal.