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robroe wrote:3 months after that i went back and said got anything bigger? the guy said uuuuuuuuuhhhhh yea i got these 13's but they aren't roundwound, they are flatwound. they sound like shit unless you got a semi hollow jazz box. they make roundwound's but we don't carry them.

so i fucking bought them and never looked back.

ITT: why all of robs guitars sound like cheap drums.

I had 10/52s on all my guitars for over a decade. Now I am slowly switching them back to 9/42s. If Billy Gibbons is on 7s, 9s are heavy enough for me.

SGJarrod wrote: in the last month or so my local Guitar center has been blowing these out for $4 a pack.... I bought some but have not had a chance to use them yet..... not sure if they were discontinued for the Cobalts or not

I don't think they've be discontinued, I'll be annoyed if they have haha.

I checked and they are still on the EB site so I bet GC is just not carrying them in store anymore...therefore, blew them out

Rhysyrhys wrote:

blane wrote:10-52's?

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I hate Zakk Wylde but those strings are bloody good. I miss playing light heavys, I might start again. Big old low E but not a cheese grating on the top strings.

I know its had a bunch of cool applications but really heavy G, B and E strings have never really suited me, I always feel they're a lot less brilliant and toppy sounding on 25.5 scales. I know its a bit of a must with a shorter scale. Actually, bet these would amazing on a jagstang. Wonder what that'd sound like...?

Thing with the Zakk Wylde's is that they really do make perfect sense for tuning down. You need thicker guages on the thicker strings because you're going to be smashing them around with chugalug power chords, but you just don't need the thin strings to be any more rigid than they are at all. Tuning down to C with what are essentially your average G, B and E strings from a set of tens is perfectly fine. But having that big 60 guage to pedal along with makes all the difference.

ekwatts wrote:

Rhysyrhys wrote:

blane wrote:10-52's?

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I hate Zakk Wylde but those strings are bloody good. I miss playing light heavys, I might start again. Big old low E but not a cheese grating on the top strings.

I know its had a bunch of cool applications but really heavy G, B and E strings have never really suited me, I always feel they're a lot less brilliant and toppy sounding on 25.5 scales. I know its a bit of a must with a shorter scale. Actually, bet these would amazing on a jagstang. Wonder what that'd sound like...?

Thing with the Zakk Wylde's is that they really do make perfect sense for tuning down. You need thicker guages on the thicker strings because you're going to be smashing them around with chugalug power chords, but you just don't need the thin strings to be any more rigid than they are at all. Tuning down to C with what are essentially your average G, B and E strings from a set of tens is perfectly fine. But having that big 60 guage to pedal along with makes all the difference.

That 60 just feels monstrous and oversized which make single note riffs sound so beefy and clean chords really deep sounding. If the rest of strings were a 13 or 14 set, or whatever 60 is the low E for, I don't think I'd find enough other pro's to out way the obvious finger breaking cons..

I use 10-60 Boomers on my Super Sonic and Cyclone both tuned to Drop C. I tried an 11-70 set on the SS once and they were pretty cool but a little too thick. On a 25.5" scale guitar I use 10-52. I really like the 10-60 sets. Beefy sounding and feeling. The 10-60 Boomers used to be the Zack Wylde set when GHS gave him money. Now that Dunlap throws cash his way.........You know. I'm glad his name isn't on my pack of strings anymore. I don't want GHS to think I'm buying those strings cause his dumb name is on the package.

I noticed browsing through some string websites last night that some other companies appear to be bringing out their own Zakk Wylde copies as well now. Rotosounds have their new "Dark Zone" strings and D'addario also have a new "Extra Heavy" set, all have a 60 as the lowest string, though there are slight differences between the different sets, most notably with the D'addario set which has a much bigger jump from A to E, going from a 46 to a 60 while most of the other sets go from around 52 to 60.

I hate D'Addario's.. I used them when i was in Jazz band in HS and they always seemed cheap. They we good for the first couple hours of playing then they sounded like a wet tunafish sandwich after that. I switched to the blue Steels for a bit but went EB after that just cuz they're cheaper. I bought a set of DR's for my bass and broke a string in less than a day i was pissed. I'm not to particular about guitar strings but i def stick to the EB Reg Slinky Bass 5 on my bass. My bandmate has an 8 string and uses a .75 on his low F#... sounds fucking gaytarded.

Quite the opposite actually, I play mostly jazz and something evenly medium/heavy like 13-53 on 24.75 or 12-50 on 25.5 (flatwound) gives me a better chord definition, feel etc. I do like a roundwound 11-52 on the Mustang though !

I've been trying out D'addario 10-52's on my new '65RI...but I have to say that I'm having second thoughts. The next time I swap strings, I think I'll put on some Gibson 10-46 Brite Wires for comparison.

You guys are so manly. I have regular 10s on my '73 RI, 9.5s on my Kurt Cobain, and over the weekend I had a guy rave about how my Cobain played and demanded to know all the details.

iCEByTes wrote:

The only strings I have ever broke in my life, I never break strings but with these I am guarenteed to break one string per set