
Dean Markley- Carl Verheyen Balanced Bridge String Set
THE REVOLUTIONARY SOUND OF THE FUTURE FOR AN IMPRESSIVELY BALANCED BRIDGE Dean Markley and Jeff Landtroop of Dean Markley Strings got together with Carl Verheyen to develop the Carl Verheyen Balanced Bridge Helix HD™ Electric set of strings. It is the perfect set to to balance the 6 screw or 2 screw bridge of the Fender Stratocaster: .009 .012 .016 .026 .037 .046 . They started with the Helix nickel-plated steel bass strings. Well, here… Let Carl tell you in his own words. "My goal was a strong, solid bottom end that would also react to the back pickup and become twangy when needed. The integrity of a .037 A string seemed to beef up the bottom, and the smoother finish of the Helix winding assured a fast playing surface. "Next I concentrated on the top three strings. I do a lot of 1st finger bends on the high E string, so to insure there was still flesh on that fingertip at the end of a gig, I went with a .009 for the high E. The B string is where I experimented the most, because my ul