I've decided to treat my Les Paul to a proper set up and think it's time to try different strings, all my guitars have Ernie Ball regular slinky's but this time I want to try something a bit more suited to the guitar/style of playing. The guitar will have OX4 pickups and the style of playing will be anything from Peter Green, Paul Kossoff through to Led Zeppelin so that said, what would you recommend? Or is it a non issue with strings and any old thing will do? I'm very interested to hear your opinions. Thank you.
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Or if you want to make things easier, any normal set of 8s, 9s or 10s will do fine .
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I guess different manufacturing methods, metallic compositions, etc can all change the way that the string interacts with the pickups' magnetic fields. Since the string is the first item in your signal chain I suspect it's important to get it right.
In short, it's not gonna break the bank to experiment.
currently using Ernie Ball..
but I have a set of NYXL's on my Strat and I'm liking them very much..
I've been talking to D'Add and I've created a custom set for my V's
I'm basically trying to get as close as I can tension wise to a set of Hybrid 9's tuned concert on my V's which are tuned D-standard..
with Ernie Ball I've been using the power slinky gauges but with a 40 and a 50 for the 5th and 6th
with the D'Adds they'll be 10.5, 14, 18, 29, 40, 50
they'll be here tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to this lil' experiment
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