Guitar Construction & Tone

[kawai2g4b]

DR High Beam 10s on most, 11s or 12s on my PBC Tele and drop tuned guitars.

[BrokeDownSouth]

Regardless of brand, I find higher gauge give me a better more mid-rangey 'brown' tone - more noticeably on the unwound strings.  I run 11-50's on my Strat's and Tele's.  I got a Steinberger Spirit in yesterday and I could only get a set of double ball end .09-.42's last minute.  They felt like little spiderweb strands after playing 11's for so long.

[Dante]

Changing string gauges wouldn't be terrible, it's a bitch on the Floyd Rose, but a cheap swap. I always found it incredibly easy to bend strings on this guitar anyway, I could afford to go a bit heavier.

Thanks for the tip...but I literally put a new set of 10-46 gauge strings on that guitar TODAY  :hair-out:

[rnolan]

I use DR 10- 46 on "strat" scale lengths and 10 - 52 on Gibson scale lengths, I found the bottom end a bit floppy on the shorter Gibson scale so went for the 52, also better for dropped D

[kawai2g4b]

Regardless of brand, I find higher gauge give me a better more mid-rangey 'brown' tone - more noticeably on the unwound strings.  I run 11-50's on my Strat's and Tele's.  I got a Steinberger Spirit in yesterday and I could only get a set of double ball end .09-.42's last minute.  They felt like little spiderweb strands after playing 11's for so long.

Damn you are right about that.  I fell like I will rip them off the instrument when I do any vibrato.  My background in double bass does not help me with light gauges either.

[BrokeDownSouth]

Damn you are right about that.  I fell like I will rip them off the instrument when I do any vibrato.  My background in double bass does not help me with light gauges either.

So it looks like I literally am ripping the .09's off the Steinberger.  I have had 2 sets in a row (within 3 days) where the high E hasn't broken, but the wrapping around one of the ball ends (double ball end strings) is slipping causing the string to lengthen to the point that it is useless.  :???:

These were GHS double ball end strings.  I just ordered a set of D'Addario double ball end 10's; hopefully they will be better quality than the GHS.

[rnolan]

Don't know if DR do a double ball end model, the lock the ball ends off better than most brands and IMHO are definitely better strings than GHS or D'Addario.  I found D'Addario start off super bright then finally settle, but the should be better than GHS.

[kawai2g4b]

Agreed on the DRs.  It takes me a loooong while to kill off the treble in those strings.  The Ernie Ball Cobalts are worth their hype by the way.