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With all due respect - that is utter rubbish.
You've clearly never been in on a really good tracking session, in a decent studio.
New strings everytime - absolutely definitelywith that genre. You can get brilliance eq'ed out with a gentle cut, you cant add harmonic content into the sound of old strings, and that is what will make the bass heard against the guitars and over laptop speakers.
Old strings maybe OK for MoTown (not necessarily tru either in fact ) but they are definietly the right way to go for rock, pop, funk, and pretty much everything else when recording.
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This. Particularly if you're playing metal, there's plenty that will add warmth but nothing that will add the brightness and harmonic content of fresh strings. Reading back, I realise I've mostly just repeated Simon's post, bears repeating though.