OK, so for those who hate elixirs, move on since I dig em and that's where I'm a goin here ...not to mention my miscellaneous rambling a coming...
I've long used the elixir lights on my 12er, and it sounds great ...no complaints. Well, kind of. For the past year or so, I've bugged Elixir with an occasional email about offering their 12-string set in
PhosBronze as they
only offer them in 80/20s. And every time, the party-line response was "we have no plans in offering that option...yada yada."
So now --the slow, lame-brain that I can be at times--
just realized that elixir has an 6-string extra-light
PB set that is the same gauge as the 12-s set in 80/20 ...voila! I'm thinking of trying this and keeping the octave set the same since they are all plain steels anyway, except for the low-E octave which is wound. Hmmm, I wonder (aloud) if that PB-low-E and 80/20-octave-e will play nice together or will cause sonic consternation in my OCD-ness??? OK so who here has:
1. Gone from 80/20 to PB (any brand) on their 12ers as I'd like to hear what your tonal impressions are given all those jangly steels strings playing along?
2. Do you think one lone wound 80/20 string will sound off along with the other PBs?
All my acoustics have long since worn PBs, so perhaps I'm over-thinking this. I'm considering just buying the set, but balk given the cost of a whole 12-string set plus a 6-string set for one guitar... lol, which I admittedly laugh at as I type this considering what I've popped in the rest of this guitar madness
Thoughts, advice (and/or chastising) welcome.
Edward