GHS White Bronze strings?

[Woody Sound]

Anyone tried these to get a more acoustic-y tone? They have good reviews on the Acoustic Guitar Forum, so I just ordered one set. We'll see.

SETS - WHITE BRONZE - GHS Strings

[EllenGtrGrl]

Do you know what the alloy content is? These sound interesting, but I have to avoid strings with nickel or chromium in them (I'm allergic to both). I hope they aren't another variation of the monel & nickel strings that are becoming popular for acoustic guitar.

Update - I sent off an inquiry to GHS a short time ago, asking if the strings contained nickel or chromium. I'm always looking for new electric guitar string options, due to the allergies I mentioned, severely limiting the electric guitar strings I can use.

[Woody Sound]

Do you know what the alloy content is? These sound interesting, but I have to avoid strings with nickel or chromium in them (I'm allergic to both). I hope they aren't another variation of the monel & nickel strings that are becoming popular for acoustic guitar.

Update - I sent off an inquiry to GHS a short time ago, asking if the strings contained nickel or chromium. I'm always looking for new electric guitar string options, due to the allergies I mentioned, severely limiting the electric guitar strings I can use.

All I know is what's on their web site, they call it "Alloy 52." The folks on the Acoustic Forum say they have the sound of bronze yet good magnetic quality for mag pickups.

Update: I did a very quick unscientific/undisciplined google search, seems that they are around 50% nickel. Not sure if that's true or not for the strings, but this mfr appears to cite an astm standard which is usually pretty solid depending on the application.

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[daverepair]

Anyone tried these to get a more acoustic-y tone? They have good reviews on the Acoustic Guitar Forum, so I just ordered one set. We'll see.

SETS - WHITE BRONZE - GHS Strings

I'm very interested to hear how you like these strings: I assume you'll be trying them on a guitar with a magnetic pickup, and hoping for a more 'bronze' acoustic tone?

[339 in june]

Anyone tried these to get a more acoustic-y tone? They have good reviews on the Acoustic Guitar Forum, so I just ordered one set. We'll see.

SETS - WHITE BRONZE - GHS Strings

Not yet ! But it seems promising : "these strings are magnetically active which makes them ideal for acoustic/electric applications"
Sure will try them on my Eastman AR503
Thanks for the link

[deacon Mark]

I have tried them and was horribly disappointed by the sound. Scratchy and and mess really.

[Woody Sound]

I'm very interested to hear how you like these strings: I assume you'll be trying them on a guitar with a magnetic pickup, and hoping for a more 'bronze' acoustic tone?

Exactly, for a more FG rhythm sound.

[Woody Sound]

I have tried them and was horribly disappointed by the sound. Scratchy and and mess really.

Tnx, that's not optimistic, but we shall see.

[RomanS]

I have used the GHS White Bronze strings for years on my squareneck Dobro (with a Lace Sensor magnetic pickup), and I recently put them on my Godin Kingpin (the 2x P90 model).
I personally like them a lot - I have also tried that guitar with:
- D'Addario Nickel Bronze strings: best for acoustic playing, but really hard to get balanced with the P90s (had to remove the pole screws for the B string completely, screw the ones for the high E down all the way, and raise them pretty far for the rest of the strings).
- Martin Retro monel: same problem/procedure with the P90s, worse acoustic tone than with the D'Addario NIBs (I love the Retros on my Loar LH300, and my ladder-braced Harmony flattop acoustic - perfect 1930s old-timey tones - but on the Kingpin they are far from my favorites).
- GHS White Bronze: acoustic tone is somewhere half way between the Retros and the NIBs - not as warm/full as the NIBs, not as brash as the Retro monels. With the P90s, the string balance is better than with either of the other two types - you still have to lower the poles for high E & B a bit, but not as radically as with the other string sets; the plugged-in tone definitely has an acoustic vibe/clarity to it - you'll hate these strings it if you want a muffled, dark flatwound, post-1940/50s, generic "jazz" tone, but it's perfect for earlier styles (from Charlie Christian to Western Swing, from jump blues to rockabilly); not as bright as stainless steel electric strings, and more of an acoustic edge than pure nickel ones.

To sum up my opinion of the GHS White Bronze:
- Not the best for purely acoustic playing.
- Not at all for you for a dark electric be-bop jazz tone.
- Great for adding a bit of a brighter, more lively, clear, decidedly acoustic vibe to a guitar with magnetic pickups, especially for rootsier music styles (I presume they would also work for playing music in the more modern Julian Lage/Bill Frisell styles, since those guys use much clearer guitar tones...)

[EllenGtrGrl]

All I know is what's on their web site, they call it "Alloy 52." The folks on the Acoustic Forum say they have the sound of bronze yet good magnetic quality for mag pickups.

Update: I did a very quick unscientific/undisciplined google search, seems that they are around 50% nickel. Not sure if that's true or not for the strings, but this mfr appears to cite an astm standard which is usually pretty solid depending on the application.

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Oh well, so much for the White Bronze strings. It sounds like they're a variation on the nickel-bronze alloy strings, some other string manufacturers make. So, not for me, courtesy of my immune system.