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Old 06-04-2011, 11:29 AM
solitaire solitaire is offline
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What cryo'ed electric guitar strings are available?

I know of the GHS Sub Zero Boomers, which are a bit bright, and the Dean Markley Blue Steels which are a bit muddy and perhaps bluesier than the GHS. What other options are there?
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Old 06-05-2011, 10:45 AM
robertkoa robertkoa is offline
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Is there any scientific reason cryogenically treated strings would sound different ?

You take them down to say minus 200 or minus 300 degrees and the molecular motion vastly decreases BUT then you play them at 75 degrees, room temperature( they would return to the same molecular motion as before they were "chilled" )- why would they sound different ?
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Old 06-05-2011, 11:51 AM
Secret Ingredient Secret Ingredient is offline
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Cryo treatment fundamentally alters the material: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...11227501000650

What effect it may have is up for debate, but the fact that cryo treated metals are different from non-treated, both at room temp, is not up for debate.
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