Harley Benton/Thomann cheap string sets ?

[chesterfieldblues]

Hi, Wanted to know if some of you already used one of these cheap string sets ?

http://www.thomann.de/fr/harley_benton_valuestrings_010.htm
http://www.thomann.de/fr/harley_benton_valuestrings_009.htm

They cost about 1 € for the whole six strings, seems interesting, but maybe these are no good for recording ?

Sad the biggest string set is only 10-46...

Thanks for every comments or review !

 

[if6was9]

My brother bought a few sets of the 10's for some of our less used guitars at home. Figured we'd give em a shot, better to have new cheap strings than manky rusted old ones.
They seem grand, they fell alright. They do break easier( he broke 2 in a week, different strings aswell, not the same one) and the tone is a bit more dead. I wouldn't buy em all the time but for keeping lesser used axes in fresh strings they do the job nicely.

 

[TheDriller]

would be nice to have a few sets around for emergencies.

 

[Trevoire520]

There's also the not quite as dirt cheap ones that are still less than £3 a pack, and come with an extra E and B string.

Think I might have to stock up for emergencies.


Humanmade in the USA!

 

[StefTD]

They are not that bad imo, a friend of mine plays them because he's broke
as fuck all the time and you can't beat it for this price.
The worst strings I have ever seen were from a german shop called conrad,
they sell all kinds of electronical stuff and so on, my guitar pupil bought his
strings there, he paid 4 euros for one set and they were soooooo unbelievable
crappy that I just cut em off.

 

[chesterfieldblues]

Thanks for your replies !

Anyone noticed some sonical differences on recordings, maybe ?

 

[slashvanyoung]

I bought some sets a few weeks ago and they're IMO not much better or worse than most bigger brands. They probably even run from the same lines as more popular brands. Wish there were more sizes available...

I honestly think that there's often a lot of "mojo bullshit" involved when it comes to (seemingly) big differences between strings of same sizes and materials (plus treatment) but different brands.

 

[chesterfieldblues]

Ok, for acoustic guitar strings, it seems that HB strings (1 &#8364 doesn't really stay in tune...I thought it was my guitar, but bought some Martin cheap (3 &#8364 strings set and it was a real improvement...