I definitely don't want to go "all the way" because I'm a strummer. flats will sound way too muddy. I need to retain some brightness.
D'Addario describes the Half-Round guitar strings as "Bright tone with semi-flat smooth feel" and "Ground flat for playing speed and comfort. Heat treated for extra brightness." That sounds good to me.
My problem here is that I'm used to playing light top/heavy bottom strings on my electrics:
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But I'm switching up most of my guitars to a round "G" and also tuning to D-standard. any set with a wound 3rd brings the high strings heavier and the low strings lighter, and I don't like that at all.
So when I got my X-50, I bought individual strings to make a set of 11's with a wound 3rd:
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after trying that out, I realized that maybe I should move the lightest and heaviest strings up one tick to:
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And you guessed it, nobody offers electric sets configured like either of these.
The closest two sets offered by D'Addario are the medium top/extra heavy bottoms with an unwound G, which would require my chasing after and buying wound G's and throwing them into the boxes.
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or
The half-round lights:
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