DR Strings Dragon Skin+ DEQB-13/62 Coated

i've been using Elixirs 12-68 for ages on my [fairly uncommon, or rather rare] Ibanez MMM1 baritone neck-through sporting a 28" scale, which i tune B-B, and never really had a reason to look elsewhere – until i did.

it's the 3rd string, what would be the "G" on a non-baritone, standard-scale guitar, that pulled me to try this DR Strings Dragon Skin+ set: it's wound, here, not plain – which is my exact preference!

now mind the step, please: Elixirs don't come with wound-3rd string, unfortunately – so i've always been buying a single .024 wound string along with my Elixir set of choice, in order to have my ideal balance of tone and tension on my 28"-scaled heavier-than-stone baritone.

on my last trip to Thomann online deli, unfortunately, the Elixir Nanoweb .024w string wasn't available, which spoiled my shopping expedition, and turned open a door of opportunity to this DR Strings set.

sound-wise, set delivers the tone that serves my purpose for a baritone: detail-rich, plenty of attack, with all the high-end spark that i need – balanced throughout the full extension of my instrument.

at close inspection, quality looks flawless: no strange hiccups in the outer wrap, which is perfectly sealed at ball-end edge, too, and consistent finish onto any string.

as for surface feel, they're not exactly my cup of tea, though: that slippery sensation i get on Elixirs isn't here (which means a lot of guitarists will probably love these): there's more purchase, more friction, and (consequently) a louder mechanical noise from left-hand fingering, too.

then, peculiar to my guitar seriously long scale, the .062 6th string obviously tunes to a lower tension than the .068 i'm used to, and from this come kinda slower attack, while it's only fair to expect that a shorter scale isn't affected as much, probably.

where they've lost one star in my rating, though, it's on their overall length: 3rd and 4th strings end up significantly shorter on their respective tuning peg of a 3 + 3 headstock, which allows far too few turns around its shaft (and a lot less than the other strings); again, maybe a shorter scale guitar might be less affected by this... but a 6-inline headstock might reveal this shortage on the highest 1st 2nd string potentially, nonetheless.

Harley Benton Amarok-BT BKNT Flame Burst kommt ab Werk mit diesen Saiten...
Ist meine erste Bariton mit den ersten beschichteten Saiten...und es klingt gut.
Saubere Bässe, schöne Mitten und briliante Höhen.

Spielgefühl ist sehr angenehm, ganz geringe "Rutschgeräusche".
Ich kann jetzt keine Angabe über die Haltbarkeit machen, aber im normalen Gebrauch klingen die Drähte sehr gut und fühlen sich sehr gut an.

Gleich mal 5 Satz für diese Gitarre geholt.

Gut und im Preis überzeugend.

Passt.