Originally Posted by
urbanknight
I usually like to build with the super thin butted spokes (like Laser or Revolution) up front and NDS rear, and regular butted (like Race or Competition) on the DS rear to even out spoke tension.
That doesn't even out the tension. The reason that some builders use thinner spokes on the NDS is because they'll hypothetically hold up better at the low NDS tensions due to being more elastic (meaning that they'll be stretched farther, and thus have more margin from de-tensioning).