amazed how just a simple string change makes things better

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:19 pm

hey peeps, i've been a user of gauge 10's for many years, yet these days i feel that on my les paul guitars, they feel too floppy. normally because gibson guitar are s shorter scale length than a fender guitar (ie. strat/tele etc).

i thought i'd try beefing up the strings to 11-52 and what do you know, tis makes a better coupleatones and sustains better. chords sound a lot nice too, especially on my les paul custom, which has always been missing something. i top wrap my strings, to give it extra mojo tone lol

More Cowbell · Post by **More Cowbell** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:24 pm

I put 12-52 jazz guage with a wound G on my friends Les Paul, its sounds great now.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:27 pm

flatwounds? i have a wound g on my 335 with 11-52 flatwounds, mmmmm jazzy

More Cowbell · Post by **More Cowbell** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:29 pm

They aren't flat wounds.

More Cowbell · Post by **More Cowbell** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:31 pm

STRANGS

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:31 pm

ahh i get you now

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:32 pm

I can't do anything less than 11s now, 10s feel too rubber-bandy to me. My artcore was getting no use at all until I put some 12s on it, it feels and sounds better now, I like using that guitar to experiment, I think it's tuned to BBBBF#B at the moment.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:33 pm

i used to tune CGCGCF for red eyes and tears by BRMC.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:34 pm

i put 9s on a guitar for the first time in my life the other day. i got them free with something a while back. they're rubbish.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:35 pm

i used to keep 9's on my old telecaster for when i had problems with my carpal tunnel, but since i had it operated on, i've been ok.

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:36 pm

I like 9s on my Tele, but I keep 10s on everything else. I'm not sure which guitar to put those 3rd wound ones Cowy got me on though.

Post by **Doog** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:38 pm

11-49< or death.

ElCapitan · Post by **ElCapitan** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 5:07 pm

Doog wrote:11-49< or death.

+1, I put them on everything.

James · Post by **James** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 5:11 pm

ElCapitan wrote:
Doog wrote:11-49< or death.
+1, I put them on everything.

If you ever cook me a jacket potato, I would prefer it with butter and cheese. k thx.

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:20 pm

James wrote:
ElCapitan wrote:
Doog wrote:11-49< or death.
+1, I put them on everything.
If you ever cook me a jacket potato, I would prefer it with butter and cheese. k thx.

Hahaha, bloody hell

Wilbur · Post by **Wilbur** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 12:42 am

Power Slinkys FTW. I had been using 10's but making the switch made all the difference. I still prefer Medium gage on all my basses though. (45-105)

Will · Post by **Will** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:27 am

Everyone with a plain G is a pussy

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:12 am

what does the wound G do exactly?

James · Post by **James** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:16 am

It feels a little better under your fingers for power chords on the A string and I find it feels better in general. They're generally thicker (1 or 2 units, so .022 instead of 0.20 or whatever the units are) which can make them quite a bit more difficult to bend. They're also much less prone to breaking. An unwound G can be a bit dodgy because it has a weaker structure than thinner unwound strings (ie e and b). The most common string to break is the high e, but then the next is the g because of the weaker structure.

Wound Gs are the way forward.

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 1:16 am

mage wrote:what does the wound G do exactly?

makes it really hard to bend the g string