lucifer_sam

Dean Markley Alchemy strings. They're really brilliant, but the low e string is too bright and I can't play the blues on em.

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Alfred

Ernie Ball.

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Azothoth

Boomers Heavey gauge 10-56

Necromancer

What brand and guage of strings would you musicians suggest for an electric (active) acoustic guitar?
Thanks in advance!

GuitarBizarre

I recently switched to elixir strings and I'm loving them.

Guage is personal preference. If you play jazz and have strong enough fingers, you can get sets as high as .014 guage. The benefit is a thicker tone. If you have weedy fingers or are just starting out, go for .009s

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Necromancer

Thanks, I will check out elixer strings, I like 9s but I want to try out a set of 10s and see what happens.
I have a set of boomers 9s electric guitar strings, but I was wanting to try out a set of good acoustic strings, maybe they will last longer and sound better.

mr dave

i've been a d'Addario man from the get go. i've tried other manufacturer's, Dean Markley, Ernie Ball, no names, homemade - but i've always gone back to d'Addario (although the one time i got a homemade bass string it was AWESOME).

i use .010s for regular electric action, .013s for tuning down to C, and 'Chromes' / ribbon wound for bass.

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GuitarBizarre

Seeing as we're giving more detail:

Right now my 7 string has Elixer 10's on it. I replace the low E and B with a .049 and a .066 respectively. Since they're low strings, I buy singles of whatever brand, and keep them on the guitar for 2 string changes whenever I replace the other 5. That keeps the low end of the gutiar nice and beefy without me shelling out lots of cash on sets of singles.

My 6 strings have a set of d'Addario 10's on them for the S2170FW, just standard 10's.
My Viper has 12-56 Ernie Balls on, since I wanted to strengthen my fingers and play some jazz.
My NEW 6 string is my 'Blues' guitar, so I have that set up with 11 guage elixers to give me more of that SRV vibe.

My acoustic 6 string has 12 guage Elixers on.
My Acoustic 12 string has 10 guage rotosounds on because they're cheap.
My classical guitar, I don't actually know what strings are on it, except I asked for regular classical strings and got whatever I got.

The other guitars in the house probably have d'addarios on, since I haven't changed the strings on those in forever, the guitars above get much more playtime.

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mr dave

for your 7 string, i'm just remembering an old EVH trick here - have you ever tried a light gauge bass string? since you're buying singles anyway... apparently back in the day he'd swap out his low E for bass G or A string before tuning it down to B. i think it was mostly for 'Little Guitars'.

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GuitarBizarre

Believe it or not, .066 guage bass strings don't exist, or at least they're not easily available from the shops round here. Its just as much to buy singles online, so may as well get the guitar ones.

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