I’ve always been a 13-56 acoustic string user. Occasionally I’d try the poorly named Bluegrass sets (12-56), but always went back to 13s.
I decided to try 11-52 on my 60-something Gibson SJ, and really wanted to love them. I guess they’re a *little* easier to bend, but A LOT less in overall sound. It’s less dynamic, less full sounding, and just overall worse. Pretty bad overall trade off for being slightly easier to play.
The funny part is, the guitar isn’t hard to play with mediums. Yeah, minor third bends are questionable, but the action is reasonable low, and sounds awesome. Slide playing is obviously infinitely better, too, unless you like that all buzz kind of sound.
I decided to try 11-52 on my 60-something Gibson SJ, and really wanted to love them. I guess they’re a *little* easier to bend, but A LOT less in overall sound. It’s less dynamic, less full sounding, and just overall worse. Pretty bad overall trade off for being slightly easier to play.
The funny part is, the guitar isn’t hard to play with mediums. Yeah, minor third bends are questionable, but the action is reasonable low, and sounds awesome. Slide playing is obviously infinitely better, too, unless you like that all buzz kind of sound.
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