What strings do you use?
 

Hmm.

What kind of strings would do you guys use? Just a checking of preferences, btw.


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Crawldaddy

Eddie ball, I use heavy a gauge but 9s are best :)

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thats ERNIE.


good to see you back spikey.

ernie balls just dont do it for me. i bent a string in half playing them. so...i stopped using those. i tried blue steel and GHS....but i find that elixirs are the best. they last forever. the only reason i would ever use blue steel again is the sound they give. i use 11's on my strat and 9's on my esp. theyre a little light for metal but the floyd makes 'em work.

in not fussy, i've always just baught super slinkys, who the hell's gonna notice the difference anyway.

My thoughts exactly. You pay $4 at the most for a set that will last you around a month. The only difference is the guage size. I'm not spending $11 for a pack of strings that feel the same. Oh and I use Ernie Ball Regular Slinky (the green pack)

and strings down here at their cheapest are £7 for me. i can't find them any cheaper and they're the same ones your using and with the exchange rate you can times that by a half if you want to convert into dollars, see, i have no choice, the cost of strings is putting me slowly under the poverty line.

the only reason i pay the extra money for the elixirs is because they dont get all crusty and gritty after a few weeks. just...personal preference i guess, but i hate when strings get like that.

Mine do it within 8 days of putting them on. Party because I have clamy handsxcore and partly because I don't have anything to clean them with.

^exactly. i rarely clean my strings. ill wipe them down with my shirt when im done playing but other than that...i havent cleaned them for about a month.

if you dont want to spend the extra money, get "finger ease". its this spray on stuff (i forget exactly whats in it) but it cleans up the strings really well.

i dunno i think silver bullets

Well I use some of that string cleaner stuff too.. it's a great investment when you do because your strings don't crust up too quickly, like if you play everyday.. give it a dab every three days. I like GHS super steels. plenty of brightness.

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yeah , I use Ernie Ball strings.

Earnie Ball super slinkys....im not really sure what guage...and id kinda like to figure out..what should be a decent guage for a Les Paul lets say?

What ever you like. 10s are a good place to start.

I use Rotosound Yellows (10's) on my Epiphone Les Paul and there very nice sounding, much better than ernie balls i think

they're 9s

Ok thanks...i also play an epiphone les paul

there nice arent they, mine is in herritage cherry sunburst, you?

Ebony and black

You justed used two words that are in over 50% of porn

I use Dean Markley, 9-42 gauge

^and mean pretty much the same thing. is there any sort of binding on that thing?

and does anyone know if any companies make flatwound guitar strings? id like to try them.

I use Ernie Ball 10's, sometimes 11's. I don't like 9's, they're too light. 10's and 11's just have more balls. Plus, I don't bend a lot, except vibrato, so I'm at no loss.

I think ernie ball does. But just look around www.musiciansfriend.com if there are some to be bought. They'll be on there. And what is the difference between flatwound and the other kind (the name escapes me but it is what all other strings are)

flatwound strings are (obviously) flat. they dont have the ridges formed by the wrapping.

I have 11s on some spare guitars, but they wear out frets too fast for the amount of playing I do.

So on my main axe, I use 9s, cuz I don't want to refret the guitar every 4 months, which I would be doing if I was using 11s on it due to the amount of playing I do.

my acoustic has 13s and I can bend em no problem.

Daddario 9-46

Hey Guys
I use Fender Super Bullets 3250L, Nickel Plated Steel .009 to .042 electric guitar strings, I find these really good.

Cheers
FenderVGStrat

On my electrics, I've always used GHS 10's. On my acoustics, D'Addario phosphor bronze 13's.

Just got back into Elixirs on my Acoustic custom light Nanoweb usually.

You lucky bastards can choose.

We poor kiddos have to be happy with the musicshop being open. (': They only have one kind which suits my guitar, so I never bothered reading which type it was.

Since I last posted here, I've changed my preference. I have a set of DR 10's on my ESP which I HATE. They have horrible tone and they're too loose. I'm going to start using the same ones I have on my RS530. On my Ibanez RS530 I have a set of Ernie Ball Slinky Top, Heavy Bottoms. Top three would come from a 10 set, and bottom three would come from an 11 set. I just got a new 70's/80's (don't know) Ibanez Blazer Custom that I have Slinky 9's on.

My 80's Iceman doesn't have strings :(

medium gauge

Been Playing Dean Markley strings forever
Using BLUE STEEL NOW
9 gauge CL is what I have

^I played a set of Blue Steels a while ago. I wasn't impressed. They made my guitar sound tinny.

yup i'm not picky either, i'll use a music store's house brand if i know the salesman, if not i just go with Dean Markley or whatever's cheap

I really like the feel and tone of DR's - I usually go with 9's on my Les Paul and 10's on my Charvel (because I want a little extra on the guitars I abuse the whammy on!) These are usually the normal "Tite Fit" strings- although I've really liked the all-nickel strings on the Les Paul..gives a fantastic warmth to the tone- perfect for jazz and blues-rock type of stuff.
I remember finding a 9.5 gauge SOMEWHERE.. think it might have been DR.. but have also seen some D'Addario 9.5 gauge.. seems to work rather well because you have all the benefits of the lighter gauge for ultra-fast playing and brightness of tone- yet still get a good mid-range sound out of them.
I've YET to find a coated string that sounds good.. seems that I can't have coated strings and Low action at the same time... winds up sounding like a banjo.
I see a lot of odd stuff come out every now and then- Markley's making some sorta "California strings"?? -Looks like it's in a shoe polish can...what's THAT all about?

Over the years I've been through alot of string brands and types. Finally I've settled on XL's. I havent broken one yet- I broke Markley's constantly, and they stretch once, and stay. Plus I like their good but not overly bright sound. Great tone.

Electric: XL's - 11's
Acoustic: D'darrio phospher bronze - 12's

GHS Super Boomers 10-52 standard and drop-D tuning

A few years ago when I was playing a lot Elixir kept sending me string sets to use but I thought they sounded dull and lifeless.

elixers