String thing?

[Julian Barton]

So I saw these things that go on your neck to stop unwanted noise. I am sure one of you professionals will understand my idiotic bable and know what I mean lol are they worth the money?

 

[Richard O'connor]

String mutters? Yeah I’d say they are. Especially for recording. Although I wouldn’t souly rely on these. Practise your technique so you don’t need it.

 

[Richard O'connor]

String muters sorry. Damn auto correct

 

[Julian Barton]

Thanks Richard

 

[Jak Angelescu]

@richard but string mutters sounds funnier haha! I’ve seen some people use just a long crew sock that’s kind of old. I honestly wouldn’t ever use them except for recording purposes

 

[Noah Berends]

I’m part of the long sock crew. Use a clean one though!
Edit: Legit answer, I only use it on rare occasions. They’re handy for recording but I’d never use one live.

 

[Lewis Blake]

You’ll only want them when recording so you can get the cleanest take possible, BUT no point in spending your hard earned bucks on them when a sock or bandana will do!
I’ve actually started threading those little cotton-makeup-remover-wipe-bwoiis through unwanted strings too, and it works insanely well.
If it’s string buzzing you want to get rid of,that’s all down to the set up.

 

[Billy Robertson]

If you get on YouTube and look up the videos of Syn recording in the studio you can see he uses a bandana I think and when I saw him play live in Nashville he used his right hand to covered the neck by the headstock to mute the unwanted strings in the afterlife solo.