String Set With Heavier Treble Strings?
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Driver Blues
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Re: String Set With Heavier Treble Strings?
I changed the strings up to this:
My last set of strings was a set of slinkies that was 11ish on the bottom and 10 up top. How will the tremolo react with more tension? Will it get more range?
I changed the strings up to this:
My last set of strings was a set of slinkies that was 11ish on the bottom and 10 up top. How will the tremolo react with more tension? Will it get more range?
Re: String Set With Heavier Treble Strings?
If you float the trem, then you will have to wholly readjust to reclaim equilibrium.......otherwise as you tune up strings, the previous ones go flat and the base just pulls further and further forward.
Trem Range is a function of physical space.......if you haven't routed the guitar at the same time you change strings, then range of trem movement remains the same.
Additionally, I think you need to bend further to get the same pitch change on heavier strings if memory serves. So the same physical arm movement may well result in fractionally less pitch change.
If you float the trem, then you will have to wholly readjust to reclaim equilibrium.......otherwise as you tune up strings, the previous ones go flat and the base just pulls further and further forward.
Trem Range is a function of physical space.......if you haven't routed the guitar at the same time you change strings, then range of trem movement remains the same.
Additionally, I think you need to bend further to get the same pitch change on heavier strings if memory serves. So the same physical arm movement may well result in fractionally less pitch change.
Re: String Set With Heavier Treble Strings?
That used to be a standard Fender set, they recently stopped having that gauge in the regular line and re-introduced it as the Hendrix set, as he was a popular user of that gauge (although others used the same gauge back in the early 60's, it was one of the only rock gauges around back then). Other companies also make that gauge, I think DR might, and I know that you can get 10-38 Pyramid Classics.
Al
That used to be a standard Fender set, they recently stopped having that gauge in the regular line and re-introduced it as the Hendrix set, as he was a popular user of that gauge (although others used the same gauge back in the early 60's, it was one of the only rock gauges around back then). Other companies also make that gauge, I think DR might, and I know that you can get 10-38 Pyramid Classics.
Al
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Re: String Set With Heavier Treble Strings?
I played with .11s with a wound third for several years with my Epi Dot. It sounds great, but if you're a fan of bending the G string be aware that it's going to be radically more difficult. That's the reason I eventually went back.
I played with .11s with a wound third for several years with my Epi Dot. It sounds great, but if you're a fan of bending the G string be aware that it's going to be radically more difficult. That's the reason I eventually went back.
Sirion
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Re: String Set With Heavier Treble Strings?
I think they purged quite a few non-standard sets from their line recently, including the .009–.040 set that I swore to for years as well. Admittedly, the only difference to their .009–.042 set is the thick E string, but whilst I can definitely live with that, I would prefer the less boomy sound of the .040 any day of the week, even if it means that I have to watch my right hand more.
I think they purged quite a few non-standard sets from their line recently, including the .009–.040 set that I swore to for years as well. Admittedly, the only difference to their .009–.042 set is the thick E string, but whilst I can definitely live with that, I would prefer the less boomy sound of the .040 any day of the week, even if it means that I have to watch my right hand more.
Re: String Set With Heavier Treble Strings?
The Fender 9-40 set was the second "rock" string set that Fender came out with back in the Sixties, after the 10-38 gauge set. At the time, Gibson also had a 9-40 set and Fender wanted a set that was light but a little more balanced than the 10-38. This was before Ernie Ball came out with Super Slinkies, after that all the string companies went with EB's gauges and the sets became standardized, when before the gauges used by different companies were all over the place.
Al
The Fender 9-40 set was the second "rock" string set that Fender came out with back in the Sixties, after the 10-38 gauge set. At the time, Gibson also had a 9-40 set and Fender wanted a set that was light but a little more balanced than the 10-38. This was before Ernie Ball came out with Super Slinkies, after that all the string companies went with EB's gauges and the sets became standardized, when before the gauges used by different companies were all over the place.
Al
Sirion
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Re: String Set With Heavier Treble Strings?
That sounds just about right. It surprised me greatly, though, that this set went out of production, owing to the EVH connection. It is well known that he used these on the first Van Halen albums, and considering the lengths some people go to emulate him I would think there would be a market for them, but apparently not. Beats me.
That sounds just about right. It surprised me greatly, though, that this set went out of production, owing to the EVH connection. It is well known that he used these on the first Van Halen albums, and considering the lengths some people go to emulate him I would think there would be a market for them, but apparently not. Beats me.
