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  • #16
    I'm pretty much settled in with standard XL 10-46's, but I do play around with the wound G on a couple guitars.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by JMP/HBE View Post

      All of the above. Was E flat and 1/2 & 1/2 for a long time but currently A440 from my last band.
      Oh they can be a pull & i feel it but oh the toans !!!
      When i switch from E flat to standard & vice versa usually requires a truss rod tweak.
      The price of good tone.
      Last for months.
      The only way I can do those on 25.5” in E would be like on my Tele which is pure rhythm. 24.75” and Eb would be very comfortable.

      I’m interested in trying the newer 10-49 sets. 10-52 is a bit too big compared to 10s, but I like more than 46 for the bottom.
      Oh no.....


      Oh Yeah!

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      • #18
        Originally posted by PFDarkside View Post

        The only way I can do those on 25.5” in E would be like on my Tele which is pure rhythm. 24.75” and Eb would be very comfortable.

        I’m interested in trying the newer 10-49 sets. 10-52 is a bit too big compared to 10s, but I like more than 46 for the bottom.
        Last year i tried the orange 10-46 XL's like above cuz the band played A440 standard and i thought i needed it. The tone of the 10-46 was so bad & so different not in a good way that i went back to .011 to .056 and thats where i stay.
        Wasted $75 bucks in strings.
        To be honest the string pull/tension isn't really that different but the tone sure is.
        Having said all that bending the 22nd fret/note with .011's can be murder but i don't play that note much.
        Last edited by JMP/HBE; 03-29-2021, 07:38 AM.

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        • #19
          I like 10-52s on Fender scale instruments - that's as custom as I get. The regular bass strings on 10s just feel too floppy to me, but 11s on a fender in standard tuning are just a little too hard to bend for me. Regular 11s are great for Gibson scale stuff. I ran 11s with a wound third for several years, but bending that G string was a ***** so I gave up.
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          • #20
            I used to, for fun. But these days the standard sets do fine enough for me. It got too fussy to be ordering and storing individual strings and second-guessing my decisions. Nowadays I appreciate the consistency of standard sets. Heck even switching between brands on the same string gauge will give different feels. But do what you want! That's the beauty of this
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            • #21
              Originally posted by JMP/HBE View Post

              Last year i tried the orange 10-46 XL's like above cuz the band played A440 standard and i thought i needed it. The tone of the 10-46 was so bad & so different not in a good way that i went back to .011 to .056 and thats where i stay.
              Wasted $75 bucks in strings.
              To be honest the string pull/tension isn't really that different but the tone sure is.
              Having said all that bending the 22nd fret/note with .011's can be murder but i don't play that note much.
              I usually pay about $5 for XLs.
              “I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt

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              • #22
                Originally posted by JB_From_Hell View Post

                I usually pay about $5 for XLs.
                Just ordered 10 sets of XLs for $40.
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                • #23
                  I get mine from Curt Mangan. I was using 10-48 that was a friend's signature set, but ordered up a few of my own 10-50 for my drop D guitars. Catch them when they have a sale and prices are competitive

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                  • #24
                    I used to use a custom variation on the 11-56 set posted previously (11-15-24w-32-44-56). D'Addario from guitarstringsonline.com.

                    But ever since, I tried Ernie Ball Not Even Slinkies (12-56), and I liked the tone better. I would really prefer if they had a wound 3rd, though. That plain 24 is just stupid-feeling.

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                    • #25
                      When I first started playing when I was a teenager, I forced myself to use Ernie Ball 11-48, for no other reason that I knew they were the strings that Slash uses lmao. When I learned enough to understand the implications of him tuning to Eb, I gave myself permission to drop down to 10-48. Shortly after making the switch I realized that string gauge has way less affect on tone that I initially thought as a total beginner.

                      For a little while on my Les Paul I started to use the treble strings from a set of 11s and the bass strings from a set of 10s, I remember liking it at the time and being really upset that you could only buy hybrid sets with heavier bass strings, when I wanted the opposite, looking back it seems insane to me.
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