Your Favorite/most Consistent String Brand

Limited to whatever the music shops dictate in my non-ebay/mail order friendly country.
That means Rotos whenever possible, ernies, fenders and some yamahas now and then.
Over the past 15 years I have bought d'adarios once a year. They always break after the first solo though.No exceptions.Strange but true.

 

SOBs are the best by far in my opinion. No other string comes close. I've had a set on my Strat for I don't even remember how long and they're still sounding and looking great.

 

I play jazz and really like Thomastik "George Benson" .014-55's.
For some reason (maybe due to Benson being such a bluesy player) they're really friendly for bending, taking in count the heavy gauge.
Great volume and they really last.
Top notch!:AOK

 

GHS electric boomers .10's are consistent.
I use Augustine regal blue for classical.
I don't fart around anymore.

 

Everly's

 

D'Addario XL is what I have on most of my guitars. There might be better strings but the XL are consistent, long lasting and cheap & easy to find.

 

ghs burnished nickels OR elixir

 

i've always used ernie ball and have been happy with them. i've really only tried GHS and D'addario outside of that....

 

If price were no object, Petillos every time. I can't afford them so often with the way my hands sweat though.

I mostly use D'Addario for electric and Martin SP for acoustic. I find both extremely consistent from year to year to year to year. . .

 

D'Addario.

In over 20 years, I've never had a bad set, or string for that matter.

 

SOB pure nickel 9.5 and EB Hybrids.

 

D'Addario.
I never knew there was such a thing as 'string inconsistency' until I started trying other brands

 

I've used D'Addarios for years and they're great, but I recently got a new guitar that was strung with Elixirs and I love them. I think I have a new favorite.

 

+1. There are all I have been using for the last 10 years.

 

GHS Boomers for about 15 years now

I like Ernie Ball Earthwood lights for acoustic.

-ZP

 

thomastik infeld

 

dr 10's

 

D'Addario's. Mine have always been very consistent.

 

I'm a brute, especially when I'm really digging in on some aggressive chugging. No string is safe with me and I've tried D'Addario, EB, DR, SOB, Rotosound, GHS. Not barring breaking a string, I will say from a pure life/stability expectancy, the SOB strings are great but just last week I was really digging in and snapped the A string on my JP6! I've been pretty much using 10s for the past few years, first 10-42 and then I moved on to 10-46. Now if I snap the low B on my JP7 (56), I think I need to re-evaluate how I play!