Aeolian
Platinum Member
My favorite heads and my favorite sticks? big win in my book. D'addario is the best in quality control I have never gotten a bad head/strings/snarewires from evans.
I'm not aware of any Evans issues, but D'Addario strings had an issue a couple years back where the ball end on .010 strings would come loose. I used to watch Chris Cain (who I don't think has an endorsment but should) start retuning his high E as it would start going flat and know exactly what was going on. About a song and a half (or one long song) and it would let loose. I know one local journeyman guy slogging it out 5-6 nights a week who wrote the factory and got a halfhearted admission that it was a known problem. They offered to replace any bad ones he sent back. His thing was to not use the one that came in the set, but to buy singles just for the .010. I had talked to the guitar tech for a D'Addario endorser I know and he showed me his technique for stretching/breaking in new strings. Once I started doing that, I stopped having problems and passed the technique on to all my friends. Haven't heard of the issue recently so they must have solved it. The things only last me about 3 gigs anyway so they don't stay on that long. Other strings didn't last that long, which is why I stuck by D'Addario.