Re: DR Blues 9-42 ruined my tele sound, need help for replacements..
Firstly, everyone get off your high horses. This guy got a sound he liked; who cares how? People have done all kinds of unconventional things for guitar tone in the past. Significant amounts of Pink Floyd's The Wall are recorded with the guitar going straight into the desk. And we all know how terrible the tones on that album are... uh, right?
Secondly, I've got to say:
Why do you think people listen to music and TV on normal speakers instead of guitar cabs?
You do realise the music their listening to is 99% likely to be a recording of a guitar
played through an amp and cab, right? So their hi-fi is exactly reproducing the sound of a guitar cab. It's like saying, I never touch the tone controls on my hi-fi, so why do they need EQ in a studio?
Anyway. Are you sure that the strings on there before were 9-42? If they were 10-46 there's a difference right there.
And I was going to say, get some Slinkies, which you have. They're kind of a baseline guitar string sound, so once you describe what you don't like about them, we might have somewhere to go. However, you should be aware that new strings, when compared to 10-year-old strings, are going to have megatons of treble. So much so, that if you turn your volume so that the guitar sounds just as loud, you will then not have any bass. All I can really think to suggest is to get yourself some sort of EQ pedal like a Boss GE-7, and EQ your guitar with new strings to sound like how it sounded with they 10yo strings. Then you'll be able to get new strings whenever without worrying about destroying your tone.
