Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Tricalibur on April 08, 2007, 07:26:05 PM
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I know there wa sa rather large topic somewhere in this forum about string guages but im a little bit too lazy too search through it to find an appropriate answer. So, what guage strings do you guys recommend for this tuning, that is, 4 whole tones down form standard on each string.
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I find 12s are about right - I'm used to 11s in standard tuning.
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12's for sure. But 12-56's, not 52's... 52's are a bit sloppy.
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Whatever gauge you're happy with, also depends upon the scale length IMO (F or G). FWIW, for C try a set of EB "Skinny Top Heavy Bottom" 10-52.
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Whatever gauge you're happy with, also depends upon the scale length IMO (F or G). FWIW, for C try a set of EB "Skinny Top Heavy Bottom" 10-52.
i use those for drop C and i find them too loose...
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I use 13-56 on my C Standard SG, that being said on a 25.5 12-54 should probably be ok.
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String guage is a matter of personal taste in feel and sound, so, what strings are you used to and in what tunings now?
As a general rule packs are ballanced to keep quite even tension on all the strings, and as another rule if you change guage by '001', say, 9 to 10, then thats an equivelent tension change to one semitone. So 10s in Eb are about the same tension as 9s in E, if the same brand
P.S. C is 3 tones down ;)
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Well, in a 24,75 scale, you will have a lot of trouble. ahahahah start with 013. and stop when you feel it TIGHT.
but if you have a 25,5 scale, then 0.13
if you have a 25,75 013 too.
Q:)
Thats what i use with my Schecter Avenger.
www.youtube.com/wfd666
theres a video there
C standard
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Whatever gauge you're happy with, also depends upon the scale length IMO (F or G). FWIW, for C try a set of EB "Skinny Top Heavy Bottom" 10-52.
Yeh thats what ive been using for C#. And there about right for that but for C would 56's realy be big enough? What about for 'B'? And BTW im playing a 24.75" guitar.
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sorry for my ignorance, but where's the need to drop the tuning by that much?
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^ tone...
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sorry for my ignorance, but where's the need to drop the tuning by that much?
If you dont already know, theres no way we can explain it to you.
:twisted:
P.S. The lowest I keep any of my guitars in is B standard/drop A, strung 11-70.
So. Much. FUN!
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Whatever gauge you're happy with, also depends upon the scale length IMO (F or G). FWIW, for C try a set of EB "Skinny Top Heavy Bottom" 10-52.
Yeh thats what ive been using for C#. And there about right for that but for C would 56's realy be big enough?
I don't think so, my guitar in C (a 25.5 scale Parker Fly Mojo) has 13-56 on it, the low C is quite floppy at that. But I've never got round to filing out the machine head to accomodate a thicker string.
I reckon I'd be happy at 13-60.
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Well I play 11-60 in C#, and I find this also works for C. If you play 10-52 in C# you may find it tight, but you may find the tonal benfits of a tighter string make you stick with it.
I get that by mixing the first five strings of an 11-53 ghs set with the 60 from a zakk wylde set. GHS's are a little slacker for the same guage because they're round-cored, not hex-cored, so the higher guage may not be so tight.
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I'd say go all out and get a fat-ass set of .13's. 8)