String gauges

[darryl.bellotti]

I play 10-52 mostly. As soon as I go any lighter, it feels like I'm playing spaghetti or something. I used to have 11's but it was a little too stiff. So 10-52 was a good compromise. I use the black Dunlop 2mm picks as well and that combinations seems to work well without any string breakage whatsoever. I pick a lot and quite heavily and I wear those picks out like its nobody's business, but the strings always hold out. I use Ernie Ball strings too. They have a nice sharp, metallic sound that I like.

[wazkelly]

I used to use the black 1.00mm Dunlop picks on bass and didn't know they went to 2mm? Agree that you would need something very stiff on that gauge.

[corsair]

I'm quite sure everyone went through various conniptions decididing what they liked best, eh; in my case I fancied myself as a crash hot lead guitar player - I wasn't then and am even less now!! - and tried .008s! Which were totally awful and unbefitting my heavy handed right hand technique... such as it is....

I found the heavy strings give a heap more projection both acoustically and through tbe amp, and I can, in fact bend strings especially up the dusty end. The wound G is there because I don't like the clang of an unwound G especially on the cowboy chords or when playing partials...

[Simon Barden]

I started on .008"s and used them for at least 10 years before swapping to .009"s.

[dave.king1]

I prefer 10s on all of my guitars, standard EB 10s on the Strat, Thinline & Shergold, 10-52 on the solid Tele and Elixr flat wound 11s on the Tele I use for recording rhythm pieces to minimise string scrapes.

I don't have anything with a shorter scale length but if I did the strings would go up one.

Different strokes and all that

[kel1985]

I play 9s on all my guitars...just personal preference.