I have read that Bill Collings didn’t use EVO fret wire on his mandolins because he didn’t like the tone it produced. It was here on the ‘Cafe that I read it, I don’t care to put the effort into searching the archives to validate this statement.
bgpete, I agree with you. A mandolin that I play almost everyday for the last 10 years, that gets an annual set-up, got EVO frets last year. I thought it sounded brighter. Bottom line is, after playing every day for 10 years, I know what it sounds like when it’s dry, I know what it sounds like when the humidity is high, I know what it sounds like with dead strings, for that matter I know what it sounds like with 5 different brands of strings played with 20 different varieties of picks. I can guarantee that switching from nickel-silver to EVO made a difference, it made The A and E courses brighter when fretting.
Can I “prove” it?...No, but what I hear is not a figment of my imagination that was conjured up by a preconceived notion that changing frets would change the tone.
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