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Re: String gauge tone mania
Well said Lew...I also want to say this...In Jimi's "day", which for the record was not that long ago they DID have real light strings...If you read up Jeff Beck was "scolded" by Hendrix for using light strings...Jimi called them "rubber bands", at the time Jeff was using .008's. Johnny Winter also used light strings years ago...he would take part of a set of guitar strings and part of a set of banjo strings...his strings were....007, .010, .013, .020w, .030, .040...this was quite some time ago, so you see light strings were around. Now on to tone...I started out using 9-46 because that was what was on my dad's guitars...over the years I moved to 10's 11's and then 12's...I moved back down to a custom set guaged 11-52...in the past few months I have started changing out the high efor a .010 and the g has gone from a .018 to a .017, and I love it...I belived that it did make a difference, I belived that I had a better/stronger bottom end, and more sustain...from time to time I also tune down and the bigger strings did help with that, and for the most part I still belive all that stuff. For almost 10 years noy Billy Gibbons has been using a custom set of strings that go .008, .010, .012, .020, .030, .040 andon top of that tunes anywhear between E standard, C, B or all the way down to A...with the SAME STRINGS! So you see, maybe tone has nothing to do with string size...or maybe like always Billy is just the exception to the rule!
Well said Lew...I also want to say this...In Jimi's "day", which for the record was not that long ago they DID have real light strings...If you read up Jeff Beck was "scolded" by Hendrix for using light strings...Jimi called them "rubber bands", at the time Jeff was using .008's. Johnny Winter also used light strings years ago...he would take part of a set of guitar strings and part of a set of banjo strings...his strings were....007, .010, .013, .020w, .030, .040...this was quite some time ago, so you see light strings were around. Now on to tone...I started out using 9-46 because that was what was on my dad's guitars...over the years I moved to 10's 11's and then 12's...I moved back down to a custom set guaged 11-52...in the past few months I have started changing out the high efor a .010 and the g has gone from a .018 to a .017, and I love it...I belived that it did make a difference, I belived that I had a better/stronger bottom end, and more sustain...from time to time I also tune down and the bigger strings did help with that, and for the most part I still belive all that stuff. For almost 10 years noy Billy Gibbons has been using a custom set of strings that go .008, .010, .012, .020, .030, .040 andon top of that tunes anywhear between E standard, C, B or all the way down to A...with the SAME STRINGS! So you see, maybe tone has nothing to do with string size...or maybe like always Billy is just the exception to the rule!
