What kind of guitar strings should i buy?
D’Addarios are good strings. For years, I’ve used Dean Markley medium bronze strings on my acoustic and I like them a lot. A couple of the guys in my bluegrass band really like Elixir coated strings on their acoustic guitars; they seem to last a really long time without going dead. In my experience, most string brands really aren’t that different from one another. The things that make strings sound different from each other are the materials they’re made of (phosphor bronze wound vs bronze wound vs brass wound vs nickel wound vs coated, etc) and the thickness or gauge of the strings. So, as far as I can tell, medium-gauge phosphor bronze strings, for example, all sound pretty much alike no matter whose name is on the package. So the strings that you should buy are the ones that sound best on your guitars. Fortunately, strings are cheap enough ($5-6 a set for most brands, Elixirs are more money, maybe $12 a set?) that you can buy a couple of different sets and try them out to see which
