I bought several packs of Gibson 740's a while back and love the feel/sound.
However...a friend told me that Gibson doesn't even really make strings...that they are made and packaged for them by a diff company.
Is this true and if so...who makes em?


Also...I was given a pack of ErnieBall once....sounded horrible....like a freaking banjo.....twang twang twang. What's the deal with that?

they are, but they will sound like shit, the reason being that electric guitar strings are made from magnetic materials, a steel core with either steel, nickel plated steel, or a straight nickel wrap, acoustic string are steel with a bronze wrap, bronze is not a magnetic metal, therefore the p/u's will only "see" the core moving, and thats all you will hear.

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i like dean markley blue steel, and ernie ball power slinkies, anything by those two brands is good imho