Custom guage string sets

[JB_From_Hell]

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.

 

[Mincer]

I usually pay about $5 for XLs.

Just ordered 10 sets of XLs for $40.

 

[chadd]

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

 

[Rex_Rocker]

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.

 

[oilpit]

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.