I really like Martin FX Phosphor Bronze Lights on my cedar topped hog 514. They're the strings with Tommy Emmanuel on the package as it is said he uses them (among many others), but this is clearly the string he represents and sponsors him.
I've written about these strings many times on this forum, and no one, I mean I think no one, has chimed in and said they agreed, but they're under $5 so not an expensive test.
What I like about them is that the bass strings seems to have a grittiness to them, and at about three days old throw a lot of bass. They're supposed to flexible core, too, which supposedly makes for easier play and bends. But I feel like they're pretty tight and not that flexible, so not sure about that feature.
In the drier winter months I can play them for about a month which is pretty good for a non-coated, non-treated string. But when summer humidity arrives here in the dirty south, I can't get much more than a week out of them, and if I play a gig, especially outside, and as with the John Pearse, forget about it.
So then the trusty Phosphor Bronze Elixir Lights come back, or even the Phosphor Bronze Martin Life Spans, which have the Cleartone treatment rather than the coating like Elixir. They sound bright to me, too, almost too bright, and don't last as long as the Elixirs, IMHO.
The final note on the Elixirs as far as recording goes: they eliminate a lot of the string squeak and are worth their weight in that situation, especially if you have the ES2, which can be really squeaky.
