Electric Guitar Strings

mirv

I've been playing 2-3 months and I've been learning on and off, but I'm still a newbie. I like to take stuff apart and learn theory before I play, and recently I got bored and put on new strings I had hanging about. I changed from what I think were .010 D'addarios to .009 ones, and the guitar sounds far more 'twangy' and brittle compared to before. I'll go back after a few months, but I would like other peoples opinions regarding strings too. Another thing is that the guitar seems less earthed once I put the new strings on and it seems to buzz unless I earth it by placing my finger on a connected metal part of the guitar.

Which ones would you consider full and deep sounding? My guitar is a Les Paul copy btw.

bombidol

I usually use .13's or .11's either Ernie Balls or Di'addrio. Although if you can find them i always found Gibson Brite Wires to sound good.

mirv

.013 even on your electric? I've played a few acoustics (and a bad classical which had steel strings), and they're a bit too heavily strung in comparision. I seem to like somewhere in between easily barred and also full sounding.

bombidol

yeah i use .13 on my elec

mirv

You big viking you

Karl Hungus

I use D'addario 10's...
Standard tuning.

I once had 9's on there, and they sucked arse, stick to what you're comfortable with, mirv.

NeMiSiS

Used to use Ernie Ball extra slinky 11's, but found I couldnt trust the bastards ! Snapping like some kinda snapping metaphore.

Anyways now use D'addario 10's,but might go back to Ernie Ball 11's..if I can get the reinforced ones.

String selections in Ireland is ****ing piss poor,the price of them too ,pack of 10 D'addario 10's on music123 is 35 bucks ! for 10 ! In ireland what the **** do you get 1 pack for about 8 euro,**** **** ****ing ****

NeM

Don1

Rotosound .009s on my strat. Standard tuning.
Elixir .011s on my LP. Tuned down 1 fret.
Ernie Ball .013 on my Squire. Tuned down 3 frets+.


Works for me.

Lorddrakul

I used to play an old Ibanez copy of a Gibson LP Custom BLack Beauty. It had the low leveol frest and 9s used to feel really good on it. Then I got an LP Studio Ebony Gold and the nines just felt weird. I went up to 10s and the jumbo frets feel much better. A low set up is still easy to achive and the whole thing just feels better, more responsive and good sustain.

LD

loveheartsandnicotine

7's or 9's..lighter the string the better it sounds

Thomas from Presence

Have to recommend Elixirs. They last for ages (ie sound new and don't break!) and are as stable as a steady relationship with a girl who's as beat as the back end of a Double-decker who knows she's too beat to do any better.

They use to sell Maxima strings (gold plated! ;-) ) In perfect pitch till recent years. They were pretty cool too but damn dear. Looked real cool on a black guitar with gold or black hardware mind.

ferdi

i've always used standard rotosound strings. they are pretty reliable but i want to change my brand, just for variety...any suggestions? what about the ernie ball slinky ones, they any good?? what strings do youz use on yer basses and why?

mirv

Topic was about normal guitars

ferdi

yeah, i just didnt think it was worth starting a whole new thread

kanurocks

well technically the neck of the guitar was used to the higher gage when you changed you gave the string more freedom in the neck to m vibrate and hit off your frets and this can affect your action {ie the hieght between your strings and your fretboard }and also make it a b***h to tune. To get rid of the problem you need to switch the gage back or if you have done to much damage .send it shop bound get a new neck piece and make sure you stick with the same gage .but since youre only on your first guitar dont lose any sleep.When you trade up dont go messing i know.:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: k?/?-

mirv

For some reason, I'm not going to trust your in depth technical analysis of the situation and stick with the idea that : low guage = twang.