Cleartone EQ Hybrid Metal Acoustic 7811

I've been using Cleartone for two or three years now on a range of guitars - Lowden S22 (O22 1985 vintage), Lowden S32 (1995), Sigma OM-T, Vintage V800 and Gordon Giltrap models, Tacoma Papoose, self-built OM. It's hard to get the popular 12-53s now but the strength of the copper-bronze bass on the 11-52s means they work well. This is the first string to lose its zing but that suits me, I play a lot of drop D 'bottom four' chords shapes when playing with my friends, and essentially add the bassline, sounds better with a full rather than bright bass. I bought some 13-56 as well but they really demand an overbuilt guitar and only my self-build falls into that class as it got a red spruce top with a robust 'vintage Martin' thickness. Lowdens don't need mediums, whether cedar or spruce top, and the cedar-topped Vintage models (both now cracked and repaired) probably wouldn't hold up to them. I play a solid three hours every Friday plus home practice and occasional additional sessions, and they last me 3-6 months a set before I think about changing. On some of the guitars, rarely played, they will last years.

I use a Larrivee OM02 acoustic guitar. I play mostly fingerpicking. On that guitar I always used .12 Phosphor bronze coated guitar strings from the same brand. I love the brand Cleartone.
The EQ Hybrid strings sounds a little too bright for me.

Pros: Good quality. They last a very long time !
Cons: Too bright.

If you like bright, go with it. Personally I wont buy them again.

Habe die Strings auf einer Taylor getestet und auf einer alten Sigma Western.
Die doch eher dumpfwarme tiefe E Saite ist nur Dank der gegebenen Taylor-Transparenz im Gesamtbild noch erträglich, der Rest klirrt und schwingt im Strumming völlig unspektakulär vor sich hin. Es hat nach meinem Empfinden weder mit ausgewogenem EQ noch mit "Cleartone" etwas zu tun. Auf der Sima hatte ich vorher Martin Saiten, die werden auch wieder draufgezogen. Allerdings sollte man auch von vorne herein nicht zu viel erwarten.