What Gauge Strings do you Play?

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Guess I'm about to find out. Got a 5-string-minus-the-wuss-tiny-string set for 10bux less than new, hells yeah.
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Normal 10s for electric guitar, medium top/light bottom for acoustc (and women), and 45-105s for bass.

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I'm looking for a set of .12's that have a would G and at least a .56 on the low E. Any recommendations?
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Found the answer. Just getting a pack of Not Even Slinkys and then some spare wound .24 G strings! (TWSS)
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after the gig last night... it's settled

i totally love my cobalt 11s :)
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Dood so far these .130 BEAD cobalts are glorious when paired with mudbuckers. Brings some much-needed articulation but playing fingerstyle way up on the neck is still instant dubtoans.
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Just threw some DR .12s on my Tele Deluxe. Tuned to C standard. Definitely fun, but I want to try some of those "drop tune" strings to get some tension back. Anyone have much experience with them?
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have any of you tried these?
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im kind of going back and forth between them and
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kbithecrowing wrote:I use 12s. This is the set I'm using now and they're pretty nice. Bottom strings are kind of bright but in an interesting way. Only thing I don't like is the huge unwound G-string. Sounds kind of dead compared to the others.

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i just use what comes on the guitar from the factory

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Boxbie wrote:because the plain 24 G is so fucking stupid.


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You can buy wound .24's in 3 packs from Musician's Friend
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I've got 8s on my bastardised LP Jnr, mainly because the headstock has been repaired, 10s on everything else except the 79 Strat that has 12s and big fat frets.
I really don't feel or hear any difference between Ernie Ball, D'Addario, Gibson, and Dean Markley strings. I suspect they're all made in the same factory anyway, so I buy whatever's available.

My classical has Hannabach Silvers though, as nothing else touches them.

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The D string on my cobalts broke for like... no reason

so, being thrifty, i bought a set of GHS Gilmour 10,5-050s again since for one set of cobalts, i could buy two gilmours

i used to use them for a long time, not with the jazzy yet, we'll see... playing a show next saturday

i like the hybridness so far :) the 050 is well chunky!
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tuned to D standard or drop C

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