Wall of Mouths

I used to use a set of Ernie Ball 12’s, though my guitar was tuned down to D. They weren’t any particular set; I selected each string seperately.

I’ve been using Rotosound Blues, hybrid of 10’s and 11’s guages 10-52 so low end is fom 11’s and fat for powerchords and top end is from 10’s so lighter for solos but thicker soundign than 9’s.

theyre pretty good and i got a great deal on them, 10 packs for £30 and a free guitar stand.

check out http://www.stringbusters.com they do most brands of strings, ernie ball, rotosound, d’addario, dean markley, fender etc,and most string instruments at bargain prices wiht extra discount on bulk orders and cheap shipping, e.g ernie ball pink super slinkeys are £3.80 a pack instead of the usual £5-6 in a shop. so evenwiht the £1 delivey its still cheaper. i think its run by the bass player from pitchshifter.

im considering going up to 11’s, though may just stick wiht 10’s for now and stick some 12’s on my old mockingbird whic i keep detuned as the roto blues dont like anything lower than drop c, i tuned it to drop b the other day and they’d slipped to b flat after 1 song.

I like 10s. Well, I USE 10s.

Andy uses DiAdario Jazz 12s, you can tell by the colour coding on the ends of the strings… OK, he told me (I’m not that observant).

Aparently he also ued to use them when he was playing on the Nurse album/tour, which bent his Telecastor into unplayability (E tuning at that time).

i used to use 11’s on my guitars, then I read a set up bit/tech/whatever on what Andy was using and he said 13’s so I started using them on the les pauls… baddabing! nice.Recently I pestered Andy into telling me the secrets of the N.A.N.E sound and he again said heavy strings.Cant go wrong with these my friends! But they do kill your pinkies and not all shops stock as heavy strings as these.For ballsy/all out heavy shit use a heavy gauge, for popy strummy stuff I’d use 11’s.Anything lower is for Steve Vai big girls!Having said that tho, I still break these heavy heavy gauge strings,,,, gee I guess Im just to heavy!!!!!!!!!!

Needless to say I am totally pissed right now!!!!

need an extra option
“Depends on the guitar”

On my Jackson I currently using .008s and they play great, something with the weight of the Floyd Rose, .009s and .010 tend to be too stiff on it.

On my strat .009s are the best but on my gibsons (2 SGs & 1 LP) I use .010s

I bought my shit guitar, second hand last year sometime.

I hardly play it, seeing as I’m a drummer by trade, and I actually have no idea what gauge my string are. From the feel though, they seem to be of a thinner gauge than say what the guys in my band use.

:rolleyes:

Really? DR string lost 2 weeks like every other strings. I buy the strings that are the cheapest.

Hm and for the poll, i prefer the middle size

:D

Title: Heres one for ya…

Can anyone recommend decent strings/gauges for ‘High Anxiety’ type-rock playing…?

I know the tuning is in C but what about the other 5 strings…?

Help would be sweetie sweet sweet! :)

Thanks Tatty. I’ll try that but what about the standard C tuning?

Well whats the standard C tuning andy uses in High Anxiety? If you know of course :)

GreenThing wrote:

I think it is the same as E tuning, but down 4 frets. Ie tune your E string to C and then tune as normal from there.

That maybe a bit misleading. Tune your E string to C then tune the rest of the guitar to that string.

So its C, F, A#, D#, G, C

sounds interesting

i usually tune my guitars to D standard, then drop the bottom string to C, so its drop C.Ive heard that Josh Homme does this quite a lot.Doesnt have sound good!!!!

Yeah, thats what we do, sounds awesome if you do it right!