Magma Strings GCT-E Classic Bass Strings

Honestly i didn't know what to expect from these strings and i must say i'm pleasantly surprised.

Obviously, your classic guitar will never sound like a bass but it sure fits better on your lap, hands and car than an acoustic bass.

Will you be heard by your friends in that beach party playing group? Absolutely not... but neither would you be heard with an acoustic bass with a much bigger body. It's just physics and lower sounds are very much harder to hear.

But it is an amazing feat to get a cheap classical guitar to remotely sound like an acoustic bass and i'm pretty happy about that.

Congratulations my argentinian Magma Strings friends, good work!!

(PS: You only need to file down the nut slots to fit the two lower strings. Be careful to not file down too much or the strings will buzz on the first fret.)

Please note that you will have to make two modifications on your classical guitar to use this strings. One is permanent and that is widening the holes on the bridge to accomodate the (much) heavier gauge of these strings. The other one is not permanent and that is widening the slots on the nut (for the same reason you have to widen the bridge holes).

Since I have luthier skills I didn't mind at all this and waited for the Magma Transpositors order with an already modified guitar.

They do as intended and now I have kind of an acoustic Fender VI (for those who play electric) and that opens possibilities for experimenting in composition and arrangement.

The problem I have with this product that I expected the volume of the set to be well balanced. Instead, the lower E string is noticeably quieter than the rest and that is very frustrating.

The other issue I have is that higher G, B and E strings' construction is poor. Part of the wounds got marred and opened leaving the core to be seen over several frets after little use.

I love the fact that a little company from Argentina came to the fore with such an original and attractive product but the promise is only accomplished by half.

I find the price payed is disproportionate given the poor quality of the final product. I hope MAGMA STRINGS will improve their balance, projection and durability on this particular set of strings because the concept is great.

If I take into account that to find out all this I had to permanently modify an instrument (as mentioned above), I feel kinda raped. Luckily the instrument was not expensive.

très bonne facture et très faciles à mettre en place, elles transforment votre guitare en basse ... quel intérêt ?
- le timbre d'une guitare avec la tessiture d'une basse
- très peu cher pour la transformation
(à voir à l'usure si la table tient la tension)
- dreadnought ou jumbo à favoriser à cause de la taille de la caisse ...
- regler le truss pour avoir la meilleure action possible

perso je les ai testé sur une harley benton à 88 euros, c'est nickel et ca fait le boulot parfaitement (et même mieux q'une basse acoustique à 300 !)
A tester avec differents mediators pour l'attaque mais
Suoer dans les mediums/aigus un peu frisant dans les graves , rien de surprenant , mais la jouabilité est excellente ...

Ich habe eine Konzertgitarre von Höfner mit den Magma-Saiten ausgestattet. Ich träumte von dem Thomann Fusion Classic Bass und sah hier die Möglichkeit, das gleiche für 39 Euro zu bekommen. Ich habe den Vergleich nicht, aber die Lösung ist wirklich gut. Die ganz tiefe e-Saite hat weniger sustain und klingt etwas dumpfer, als die übrigen Saiten, aber das ist wahrscheinlich der Physik geschuldet. Ich habe nur die Basssaiten gewechselt und das Ergebnis könnt ihr hier hören, ein Stück von mir, das auf diese Konstellation zugeschnitten ist: habe ich es für Bandzwecke vorgesehen gehabt und wie das funktioniert, der Test steht noch aus.