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What kind of guitar strings do you use?

Im using, ernie ball super slinky, and i love it..
I dont think thers better out there.. But it could be just me, i dont know!

I use for electric and acoustic...

I tryed fender, dáddario, and some other guitar strings...
But Ernie ball is the best.

edit - title edited from 'a simple thing!!'

tried ernie ball they kept breaking, both on bass and guitar, the bronze ernie ball slinky for bass sound too warm and muffle after four rehearsals.

i use d'addario xl jazz 12's with the thing on it 'optimized for standard and drop tuning'
been using them for a pretty long time. tried flatwounds, didn't like them because i couldn't do scrapes or have weird sounds with them



by the way, i know it's about guitar but a tip for bass players who love the feel of brand new strings when they're still bright and clear but with enough body and don't want to spend a fortune on d'addario strings : fender strings. they're pretty cheap and good, well atleast for bass strings.

i always swore by fender nickelplated steel 105-50 50 instead of 45, it's better. and the nickelplated steel instead of just nickel gives it extra character

thomann only seem to stock the 105-45's though and not the 105-50's anymore, that sucks

I use .012-.054 d'addario flatwounds on my Jaguar, .011-.050's on the Venus and Rotosound Reds on the Duo.

A simple thing... give threads useful titles.

poor chap won't be able to find his thread now...

At least everyone else will have a clue what it's about. And someone browisng for this sort of thread in a month's time has a chance of finding it.

On bass I use La Bella flats. The James Jamerson set. It's the first time I've ever had a set of strings where I've thought 'damn that's a good set of strings'. I'm really interested in trying out their guitar strings but I'm 'in between' guitars at the moment, planning on selling most and getting replacements, so I don't want to go for it quite yet. I still have the problem of not knowing which guage I like. I think for a while I've been playing with too heavy a set.

On my Jag and two LPs I use:


On my Strat and Jag-Stang I use:


On my acoustic I use:

.13 Chromes

Ernie Balls are shit. I'm part of the anti-Ernie Ball crew.

I use GHS think/thick 10-52s on my Batwing and Nu-Sonic (25.75" scale) and 11-56 D'addario's on my Jag and Dano.

all the time on everything.

ekwatts wrote:Ernie Balls are shit. I'm part of the anti-Ernie Ball crew.

I use GHS think/thick 10-52s on my Batwing and Nu-Sonic (25.75" scale) and 11-56 D'addario's on my Jag and Dano.

and i think d´addarios are shit!

James wrote:A simple thing... give threads useful titles.

blablabla...

d'adds 9s on my tele, 10s on strat. trying out some DR strings at the moment

what is the point of this thread?
just do a search and you'll probably be able to find out what strings every single member of this board uses.

in any case, i'm on the ernie balls are shit bandwagon. horrible strings.

weeping_moon wrote:

ekwatts wrote:Ernie Balls are shit. I'm part of the anti-Ernie Ball crew.

I use GHS think/thick 10-52s on my Batwing and Nu-Sonic (25.75" scale) and 11-56 D'addario's on my Jag and Dano.

and i think d´addarios are shit!

Yeah, well, I'd actually agree with you completely were you not completely wrong. D'addario's have pretty much become the industry standard. All guitar shops I've seen restring their sample guitars with D'addarios, and they come as standard on Fenders, I believe? Not sure about Gibsons, but it wouldn't surprise me if pretty much all of the major guitar manufacturers now ship their guitars with D'addario strings.

The artist endorsee list on the back of Ernie Balls reads like a litany of embarrassment. Slash? He can hardly even play (no, really, he's a really bad guitarist in real). They snap more often than even Rotosounds.

I like Rotosounds and d'Addario's.

I wouldn't get too caught up in what the industry standard is or anything like that. Ernie Ball were the industry standard. It probably has more to do with things that happen in board rooms than anything else.

weeping_moon wrote:

James wrote:A simple thing... give threads useful titles.

blablabla...

There are a lot of people who only visit the forum once every few days. If they come to see the effects thread and see

• A simple thing!!
• Help!!
• So today I...

It doesn't really help them decide which threads interest them enough to read on limited browsing time. Whereas if they see the same threads but the titles

• Which guage strings do you use?
• Help! (fuzz pedal debug)
• Just bought a French Toast

It's much easier. Everyone's a winner. In the pub it doesn't matter but in the knowledge sections it's best to keep things reasonably easy to browse so that people can get the most from them. Don't be a prick about it.

ekwatts wrote:

weeping_moon wrote:

ekwatts wrote:Ernie Balls are shit. I'm part of the anti-Ernie Ball crew.

I use GHS think/thick 10-52s on my Batwing and Nu-Sonic (25.75" scale) and 11-56 D'addario's on my Jag and Dano.

and i think d´addarios are shit!

Yeah, well, I'd actually agree with you completely were you not completely wrong. D'addario's have pretty much become the industry standard. All guitar shops I've seen restring their sample guitars with D'addarios, and they come as standard on Fenders, I believe? Not sure about Gibsons, but it wouldn't surprise me if pretty much all of the major guitar manufacturers now ship their guitars with D'addario strings.

The artist endorsee list on the back of Ernie Balls reads like a litany of embarrassment. Slash? He can hardly even play (no, really, he's a really bad guitarist in real). They snap more often than even Rotosounds.

i dont really care about slash... because theres nothing good about him that i like..

guitarist that i like that uses ernie ball is:

paul gilbert
a perfect circle
collective soul
john petrucci/ dream theater

weeping_moon wrote:

ekwatts wrote:

weeping_moon wrote: and i think d´addarios are shit!

Yeah, well, I'd actually agree with you completely were you not completely wrong. D'addario's have pretty much become the industry standard. All guitar shops I've seen restring their sample guitars with D'addarios, and they come as standard on Fenders, I believe? Not sure about Gibsons, but it wouldn't surprise me if pretty much all of the major guitar manufacturers now ship their guitars with D'addario strings.

The artist endorsee list on the back of Ernie Balls reads like a litany of embarrassment. Slash? He can hardly even play (no, really, he's a really bad guitarist in real). They snap more often than even Rotosounds.

i dont really care about slash... because theres nothing good about him that i like..

guitarist that i like that uses ernie ball is:

paul gilbert
a perfect circle
collective soul
john petrucci/ dream theater

Oh.

Dear.