What strings do you use?

JackGriffiths

Thought this could make for an interesting thread, forgive me if there's already one similar -

What strings do you use for your electric? Personally, I started with 9s, went to 11s, 12s, 13s, back to 11-52 and now have settled on 10-52. I've been through EBs, Rotosound, D'Addario, Dean Markley and have now found that 'thing' in Dunlops. 

Jack

ICBM

11s. Plain third (18) on solidbodies, wound (22-ish) on semi-hollows.

Usually D'Addarios or DRs. (Annoyingly DR don't do them with a wound third, so I have to change that.)

bertie

JackGriffiths said:

What strings do you use

all of 'em

Bellycaster

Elixir 9's. I used to use Ernie Ball Super Slinky. I use 9's cos I have skinny fingers, like E.T.

guitarcookie1

D'Addario 10's.

I find Rotosounds lifeless & Ernie Ball's feel slimey.

Monkeybone

Ernie Ball Super Slinky on the Strat, Regular Slinky on the Tremonti.

DulcetJones

On electric it's D'AddarioXL 10's(was 11's when I played in a band, they lasted longer and my hands were stronger).  I prefer D'Addario for all my guitars, nylon and steel acoustic and bass.

ThePrettyDamned

10-52 for D standard and drop C, 11s for E standard (I just prefer more tension for some reason in standard...).  

chillidoggy

Elixir 10's. I have short, fat, sweaty, un-coordinated fingers.

JookyChap

I tend to use 11s on electrics 13s on acoustics, don't really care about the brand as I don't tend to have the guitar long enough for them to rust or need changing again.

SimonC

I took my Les Paul in for a setup last year and the Guitar Doc recommended SIT 10's.

So I gave them a try and have been suitably impressed. 

They do seem to improve tuning stability and appear stay bright just a bit longer than the Dean Markleys I was using previously.

John_P

D'Addario 9 - 46   Usually because it's easy to buy a 3 pack..   I should probably look at buying in bigger packs though.  

Cirrus

Ernie Ball power slinkys, 11-48.

drwiddly

D'Addario 9's usually but Rotosound, Ernies and GHS are all OK. The last 3 pack of DR's I got were all rusty so I've gone off them!

Kebabkid

I moved up from 9-42 to 9-46 and have been using D'Addario XL120 = 9.5 to 44 (hybrid set) for the last couple of years. However, after playing bass for the last couple of months and returning to guitar, I'm ready to move up to 10s and I particularly like the Thomastik Power Bright set.

Linking in another thread on here about tweaking the guitar if you change string gauges, I think my guitars will need a tweak for this one, although they didn't when I moved from 9 - 9.5s (Charlie Chandler takes care of my guitars and did the checks, although I'll see what his opinion is on this latest change).

Elixir 11's on acoustic

bertie

OK I'll play

10s, 10.5s and 11s  on the leccys'

11s 12s 13s and 17s on acoustics

Stevepage

10 - 46. Though on my Strat I use 10-52.

Not fussy on brands. I get what I can afford at the time. Most of the time I use Legacy strings

timmysoft

GHS Boomers 10-50 are my favourites.

monquixote

10-46 Elixirs on my Electrics (though I'm trying Dragon Skin on my PRS at the moment)

11-52 Elixir Nanoweb on my Acoustics. 

beed84

10-46 Regular Slinkys on a Les Paul.

11-48 Power Slinkys on a Strat.

Augustine low tension on my classical.

mcsdan

Gibson Vintage Reissue 11s (11-50) on Les Pauls.

Fender 150 10s (10-46) on my strat.