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Thanks - that was fast!!!!!! Just received my strings in less than 24 hrs. That was a fast as Amazon back in the early days!
- Rob
Dean Markley HELIX HD Electric Guitar Strings
The Dean Markley NPS Helix HD electric guitar strings provide a smoother feel and a brighter, more resonant tone than any other string. As a matter of fact, the Helix HD is the most innovative break-through in string technology since the beginning of stringed instruments!
To make the Helix HD, the patent-pending, Hyper-Elliptical Winding process took over a year of many trials to find just the precise elliptical shape for the winding wire. This shape then had to be paired with the correct winding process that would produce these stupendous results--the maximum mass for the string's diameter that still maintained the string's vibrancy.
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 any conventional string. The STAR gauge strings are a little heavier with a wound and a plain G string, making it a little meatier for blues and rock players.
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.
Imagine your usual string's feel as you press and strum the normal wrap wire. Your fingers experience resistance as they go down into each depression between the wraps. Now imagine the smoothness while playing the less coarse wrappings. Your fingers glide more easily and smoothly along the surface of the wrap wire.
Helix HD -- Enjoy experiencing the most innovative guitar string made... Ever!
Oh, and one other thing... As a pleasant side effect of this revolutionaly technology, the strings last much longer--they give your wallet more mass too.
Technical Info
2511 Light: .009, .011, .016, .024, .032, .042
2512 Custom Light: .009, .011, .016, .026, .036, .046
2513 Regular: .010, .013, .017, .026, .036, .046
2514 STAR: .010, .014, .022w/.018p, .028, .038, .049
2515 Light Top Heavy Bottom: .010, .013, .017, .030, .042, .052
2516 Medium: .011, .013, .020w/.018p, .030, .042, .052
Customer Reviews
Dean Markley Helix Gauges
06 July 2010
I don't understand the thinking behind the gauges: the Medium set has a .013 as a second string (B) same as the LTHB and the Regular sets. Yet the STAR set has a .010 top (E) and a 0.014 second.
If you're using an .011 top (E) and .018 third (G)- as offered by the Medium set -you want a second string (B) between those two gauges and a bit closer to the third string's gauge, [because the interval between (B) & (G) is a third as opposed to a fourth between (E) & (B)].
I didn't do math at "A"-level, but to me, that comes out as a .015 gauge, not a .013.
I look for a balanced set. This is an anomalous set and it stopped me buying these.
Helix strings
16 April 2010
OK, here's my two pence worth as I bought these to see what the score was after I failed to find a single review for them on the internet. They're a bit of a disappointment when you open the pack, after looking at the Dean Markley website you expect these strings to have a super tightly packed wrap on the wound strings giving the string a very smooth feel but to be honest you'll be hard pressed to tell the difference between these and a normal string on appearance alone, it may be more noticeable on strings of a heavier gauge than the 10-46 I use. BUT my tele had been eating the wraps on the wound strings over the frets with D'addario strings whilst practising bends to the point where the wraps were breaking at multiple points along the same string, this damage occurring within the space of a week. This has not occurred to date with the Helix strings, so maybe the wraps are more resilient to damage. They've been on the guitar a few days now, the tone is nice and there are no clear flaws other than price, for 2 sets you could have a 3 pack of GHS Boomers or D'addarios for the same money, certainly worth a try.
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