What are your go to electric guitar strings?

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Name and size?

I've been experimenting with half step down tuning for the new gig. haven't found anything I'm comfortable with or that really feels that great.

Playing a Gretsch as my main guitar for now and a G&L Tele
 
ernie ball pink super slinky (.009-.042)
i've tried from .0075's to .012's and the .009's are what i've settled on for Strats.

i generally go to .010's for the Les Paul's or other gibson style/length guitars.
 
Ernie Ball .010-.046, mostly...my Telestrat likes GHS Nickel Rocker .010-.046 better...I occasionally will put a set of GHS Burnished Nickel .010-.046 on my Strat to darken it up a bit...and I used EB .009-.042 on my "Floyd" guitar...

12Pack said:
Name and size?

I've been experimenting with half step down tuning for the new gig. haven't found anything I'm comfortable with or that really feels that great.

Playing a Gretsch as my main guitar for now and a G&L Tele
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What are you using for strings now?
 
jelloman said:
Ernie Ball .010-.046, mostly...my Telestrat likes GHS Nickel Rocker .010-.046 better...I occasionally will put a set of GHS Burnished Nickel .010-.046 on my Strat to darken it up a bit...and I used EB .009-.042 on my "Floyd" guitar...


What are you using for strings now?
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GHS Boomers at this point. 10.5 and I may go up to 11's
 
10s and whatever is on sale. :grin: I bought a bunch of Dunlops on the SDOTD a while back and they've been fine. If I had my 'druthers though, I'd probably go with D'Addarios.
 
12Pack said:
GHS Boomers at this point. 10.5 and I may go up to 11's
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It's a pretty small jump, so there shouldn't be much change in tension since your going to be tuning down 1/2 step...if it's more of a "feel" issue then changing brands may help alleviate it...EB has a "Power Slinky" set that runs .011-.048 that you may find a bit "softer" to play than the Boomers...
 
electrics- D'Addario 10's
Acoustics- John Pearse phosphor-bronze Med (12's)
Dobro- 13's, Not sure what brand at the moment.

I did string the Strat I built for my son with 11's, but that's because he is a bass player and likes the tension.
 
D'Addario 10-46 on my JM vibrato equipped short scale guitars and 11-49 on my teles.

I use them because you get points with every pack and once you have enough points, you get free stuff :grin:
 
Chad said:
D'Addario 10-46 on my JM vibrato equipped short scale guitars and 11-49 on my teles.

I use them because you get points with every pack and once you have enough points, you get free stuff :grin:
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D'Addario has a frequent-buyer program? Who knew? :shrug:
 
I'm a bit out of the mainstream in that I use 9s or 10s on short-scale Fenders. I like Elixir coated strings.
 
EB 10 for normal use.
EB Not Even Skinny for B Standard Death Metal use.
DR Tite-Fit 10s for extreme vibrato dive-bombing gymnastics...they really do hold tune better.
 
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