String Showdown: Elixir 80/20s VS Elixir Phosphor Bronze Acoustic Guitar Strings

0:00 Intro
1:52 Strumming
2:47 Arpeggio
3:25 Funk Jam
4:54 Fingerpicking
Hey Whats up everyone this is Jeremy and Welcome to the string showdown where today the Elixir 80/20s will be pitted against the Elixir Phosphor Bronze Acoustic guitar strings. Both sets will be Custom Lights for their gauge sizes and Ill be using my Taylor 812ce for both sets. Let me clarify what the name of these guitar strings actually mean because it was something I myself had to research.

The 80/20 bronze name is a bit misleading because these strings, which are 80% copper and 20% zinc, are in actually brass. Brass by definition is a mixture of copper and zinc.

Bronze is an alloy also containing copper, but instead of zinc it has tin.. Elixir Phosphor Bronze acoustic guitar strings are a copper alloy with roughly 8% tin and a small amount of Phosphorous.

The wire that lives underneath the wrap wire is made of steel in case you were wondering.

These strings are coated with Elixir Nano web material. Now, These are different from polyweb material because nano webbing is thinner. This coating prevents the squeaks when sliding up and down the string. And it just generally makes the stings feel slick.

I mic’d all of these examples the exact same way with a stereo spaced pair of mictek c5 cardioid condenser mics pointed at the 12th fret of the guitar. I did not add any EQ or compression but I did adjust the volume of each clip so that they are close to volume relative to each other. As we know, louder things sound better so I didn’t want that to influence the actual characteristics of the timbre of the strings if I had one clip slightly louder than the other.

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Elixir Strings Phosphor Bronze Acoustic Guitar Strings - https://amzn.to/33lRZLk

Elixir Strings 80/20 Bronze Acoustic Guitar Strings- https://amzn.to/32gDc3j

Also, check out my twitch channel! I stream video games every Tuesday and Thursday at 8pm eastern but I'd love to chat about guitar stuff. https://www.twitch.tv/ragequitmedia

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