New strings
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Bludave
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Re: New strings
IMHO when tuning down that low you need a fairly heavy string just so they behave when you play them. Detuned strings tend to feel very sloppy under my fingers. I use dropped D, open D, and open G mostly on acoustic. I use 13 thru 56 on those guitars. I use open D and open G to play slide on electrics and I use D'adarrio nickel 12's on these guitars. The advantage is you won't have to do a whole lot of adjusting to get the guitar to play correctly. Just action, truss rod and intonation. Your good to go!
IMHO when tuning down that low you need a fairly heavy string just so they behave when you play them. Detuned strings tend to feel very sloppy under my fingers. I use dropped D, open D, and open G mostly on acoustic. I use 13 thru 56 on those guitars. I use open D and open G to play slide on electrics and I use D'adarrio nickel 12's on these guitars. The advantage is you won't have to do a whole lot of adjusting to get the guitar to play correctly. Just action, truss rod and intonation. Your good to go!
RepVenom
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Re: New strings
Thanks. Ok well I think I'm gonna go for either the Ernie Ball Skinny Top Heavy Bottom strings, Beefy Slinky strings, or the Not Even Slinky strings. They are all good for downtuning but I just want the perfect one for Drop C. I don't want them to be too thin and I don't want them to be too thick, just perfect ya know? So I might go for the gauge in between the other two but maybe the thickest one is the best, or the thinnest. I would just like to have an idea at least before I pay about 20 bucks to have them installed (would try it myself but I've never done it before and I heard I might have to have a professional file down the nut so the bigger strings can fit through).
Here are the string gauges for the ones I mentioned.
http://www.ernieball.com/site/products_strings_nickel.php
Thanks. Ok well I think I'm gonna go for either the Ernie Ball Skinny Top Heavy Bottom strings, Beefy Slinky strings, or the Not Even Slinky strings. They are all good for downtuning but I just want the perfect one for Drop C. I don't want them to be too thin and I don't want them to be too thick, just perfect ya know? So I might go for the gauge in between the other two but maybe the thickest one is the best, or the thinnest. I would just like to have an idea at least before I pay about 20 bucks to have them installed (would try it myself but I've never done it before and I heard I might have to have a professional file down the nut so the bigger strings can fit through).
Here are the string gauges for the ones I mentioned.
http://www.ernieball.com/site/products_strings_nickel.php
XSSIVE
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Re: New strings
10-52 will be too thin IMO, i use 10-52's in E and drop D on a few guitars...11-54...getting warm, this may work on a 25.5" scale guitar but not for me, still too much flab in the strings...12-56 should work on anything in drop C...but for me, the best strings i found for drop C are the GHS Zakk Wylde signatrue lo tune strings which are 11-70...yeah it's a monster low E but man it sound so good and thick and has no flab to it at all. perhaps the 10-60 set of GHS zakk wylde strings would work for you, if not i'd go with the 12-56 EBs personally since i hate flabby strings. what type of guitar and what scale length is it that they are going on?
-Mike
10-52 will be too thin IMO, i use 10-52's in E and drop D on a few guitars...11-54...getting warm, this may work on a 25.5" scale guitar but not for me, still too much flab in the strings...12-56 should work on anything in drop C...but for me, the best strings i found for drop C are the GHS Zakk Wylde signatrue lo tune strings which are 11-70...yeah it's a monster low E but man it sound so good and thick and has no flab to it at all. perhaps the 10-60 set of GHS zakk wylde strings would work for you, if not i'd go with the 12-56 EBs personally since i hate flabby strings. what type of guitar and what scale length is it that they are going on?
-Mike
