Gruv GearFretWraps String Muters 3-Pack (Wood Print, Medium) (FW-3PK-WOD-MD)

They work real good, I like them. The only part I find a little difficult is trying to use the first fret for a bar cord with this on. Maybe more of it needs to be over the nut so very little is on the fret. Its for me to get used to. But it works well.

So far so good. I just purchased these and am not yet familiar with the durability quite yet but they seem to be made of decent materials.

Studio guitarists and bassists have been dampening strings for as long as I can remember. Nowadays because of YouTube and the prevalence of uber-technicians like Guthrie Govan, many more guitarists are catching on to these old tricks. You might find videos of him or others who use hair-ties to mute strings.Mutes are particularly useful for beginners who have problems muting strings while practicing. Pro players use mutes when doing two-handed tapping or crazy fast and long legato passages. So, if a guitar god like Guthrie can use a mute, there is no shame in us mortals using them too.Over the last fifty years, I have tried every string-mute their is: Herb Ellis's expensive contraption, Emily Remler's slightly less expensive contraption. Both of those work wonderfully, but they require mounting to your guitar and they are expensive. I have also tried a huge number of rubber & foam pads, socks, tape, felt, velcro, leathers, sponges, gels, violin mutes, modified capos.... you name it.Of all the doohickeys for muting strings, this is the most convenient because you can attach it AFTER you put your strings on. Just like a hair-tie, there is no modification to your guitar.Also, you can adjust it easily for partial muting, or move it up the neck for more severe muting. If you really have a problem with those pesky open strings, you can use two. That will kill any unwanted vibration. That is a good thing to know for the manifold legions of distortion-crazed metal-heads out there. Modern amps and effects pedals make electric guitars so sensitive, you can literally breathe on the strings and they will vibrate.These are not exactly cheap but I would not say they are prohibitively expensive either. It would be nice if we could buy just ONE. That would bring the price down a bit. As it is, I keep one in a gig bag in case I have to do some terrifying shredding to impress youngsters or other cases of arrested development.Certain session gigs might require a technically-challenging passage and I don't want to be the guy who makes everyone do a second take. So it's nice insurance to keep these handy.The extras I give to students or just make them use so I don't have to hear their slop.If they were less expensive or we could buy just one, I'd rate this five stars.

TL:DR--These work very well. Took care of the ambient ring of the Floyd Rose parts above and below the fret board that came through my tube amp and made it into recordings. Those cringy recordings. Buy them.I'm kind of a cheapo when it comes to indirect, accessory type items like this but after buying a new tube amp that goes down to 0.1 watts to allow full gain at apartment volumes through a Krank 1x12, I started noticing the amount of background noise from above the nut and the retaining springs in the back of my Floyd Rose Schecter C-1. Just this awful ring, smiliar to when a snare or tom is untuned and it rings it's note followed by a rediculous twang "yeow" sound, the backlash of the vibrations you want to hear. I also have an Ibanez 7 string that is not a FR but also has EMG's so I picked up the 3 pack and they did the trick surprisingly well.If you have an FR the retaining bar behind the nut makes placement a little goofy but it does it's job well nonetheless. I placed mine higher up towards the tuners where the strings were flat and in good contact with it. The Ibanez was easier of course. And it made a huge difference in the subtle but noticable feedback in the amp during mutes and such. I bought 3 and used two but because one comes out to 6 bucks I couldn't bring myself to cut up the third and place it under the springs in the FR and then my dog ate it so....yeah. The Large sizes that fit 6 and 7, the actual fuzzy part is the right size to cut the bands off of and place under the Floyd Rose springs between the and the body in that cut out. A little thicker than I'd like I'm not sure if it would put extra tension on the springs and thus throw off your tuning but someone should try. I don't need to buy any more. Just gonna use a basic dish sponge lol

As a guitar player who is branching out into bass, string muting is one of the worst things I deal with. Strings on a bass are as big around as a baby's leg, and if you blink at one, it starts resonating. In practice, touching a string doesn't mute it very effectively. You have to grab it and wrap both hands around it, stand on it, and squeeze like you're trying to choke it to death. Even then, the sympathetic vibrations are so strong that it will writhe and buck in your hand, and try to resonate anyway. Wow.Of course I am being silly, and it isn't really THAT hard to mute a string on a bass. However, I came across one passage I could not mute satisfactorily for love nor money. I tried shoving foam under the strings, and it worked, but it was hard to get a consistent sound. I decided to give these FretWraps a try.You lose the open strings and the first fret, and it is kind of tricky to find the sweet spot where you have just enough tension but not too much. This is at its worst when you remove the thing for some reason, and go to put it back. In spite of those quibbles, these things are just what the doctor ordered. I end up with an almost acoustic upright bass sound, unwanted sympathetic vibrations are kept to a bare minimum, and if I could still grow hair, these things would probably double really well as ponytail wraps.

Works well to mute strings.

They work to subdue annoying overtones - combined with flats there’s very little string noise - can muffle the low B a bit much.

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I like them! I've only run into a couple minor snags (pun intended). The threads of the fabric catch on the high E area of the nut on my ESP Eclipse, so there's almost always a loose thread wedged in there, though it's merely a cosmetic annoyance. My LTD Phoenix (Firebird) has a slightly wider fretboard and the velcro can barely reach to fasten itself, so the fit is a bit tight and it can come loose. These are moreso issues with my guitars than the product. It fits perfectly on my Charvel San Dimas.

These fretwraps are great for tapping if you're playing Eddie Van Halen stuff you love it it dampens the guitar strings