Okay, I didn't buy my set online, but I wanted to write a review to cast an doubt aside. I have been a guitarist for years, but had only used Ernie Ball's and Dunlop strings. Recently I have started increasing my gouge sizes which made me turn to try these. I got the 11-50 set (had only used 9s and 10s-46 in the past except for recently trying the Heavier Ernie Ball sets). I had always heard minimal differences in the strings I had used. Always thought to just find what was comfortable to you and sound wouldn't change... As soon as I put these on my Zakk Wylde Bullseye, and hit my first couple of chords on the clean channel. It sounded brighter. I liked it, but just a minimal difference as I had mentioned before... But the moment I switched to the dirty channel and kicked on my overdrive pedal, it sounded like there was a monster roaring in my amp! For whatever I played on the dirty channel, whether it was very light gain to play CCR, or the gain turned to 11 for BLS, the tone was unbelievable and a super great variety. Other strings keep the same basic response whatever your settings are changed to. If you are set to high bass, and low treble, they still have insane treblet, low bass and vice versa. But not these strings. These change response to match what your amp/pedal is set to! Need high treble and low bass? They will give you that. Need 10 bass and 4 treble? They give you that, but still with unbelievable clarity! Very versatile. I know this is a long review, but I am blown away by these strings. If you are like I was and thought strings didn't make much a difference, try these!