9s or 10s for me?

[ily]

I use 10's on my luke
i love 10's sounds and feeling but i love of 9's also for the B and E strings
i'll try custom set 9/46
if i don't love it i'll continue on 10's

 

[BrickGlass]

The Hybrid Slinky set is awesome. As stated, it really is the best of both worlds.

 

[D.K.]

I've been primarily using 09's for years.

Now, as my main guitar is Morse, and it has a rather stiff feeling because of the way the bridge is, I found that to get my silo closer to the Morse feeling-wise it made more sense to string it with 10's. Tonewise, however, I feel that the silo lost a bit of it's shine and quackiness with 10's. Nothing dramatic, but noticeable.

Also, I have had some guitars in which the truss-rod was not working 100% the way it should, and I could not get rid of the buzz on the 09-ers, so the only solution was to give the neck more physical tension by putting 10's on it.

 

[mikeller]

In the middle for me (9.5-44's) on all my electrics

 

[D.K.]

Mike, that's interesting!

Who makes those sets?

 

[B2D]

Mike, that's interesting!

Who makes those sets?

We sell those at my GC as a D'addario set. EXL120+

 

[Hendog]

I put 10's on everything. The just sound better.

Also, 9's are so flimsy that I inadvertently bend notes when hitting open chords. Now I'm talking just slightly but I have an ear for pitch and it bothers me.

 

[fbecir]

Ernie Ball makes some very fine strings ... perhaps it's not fair to advertise some other brands on the EB forum ...

Personally, I am not sure that the tolerance of manufacturing allows to do an extra gauge between 9 and 10.

 

[mikeller]

Ernie Ball makes some very fine strings ... perhaps it's not fair to advertise some other brands on the EB forum ...

Personally, I am not sure that the tolerance of manufacturing allows to do an extra gauge between 9 and 10.

I couldn't agree with you more. I tried not to give a name until I was asked. Actually the difference between the 9 and 10 is insignificant, but it becomes quite noticeable on the D, A, & E strings.

My name dropping response has been deleted out of extreme respect to Ernie Ball Strings.

 

[lukather101]

I’ve got 10's on all apart from my Luke , i personally think the way the Luke feels from the factory is superb so i haven't changed it.

 

[bischero]

Jimmy Page played 8's live. EVH always played 9's actual it was a 9-40 set. He had tiny low strings, and his tone was well the most recognizable tone in the past 30 years. I started out on 9's then I moved up to tens so i didn't seem like a wimp. Recently I got 9.5's and loved them. So I figured movin back to 9's is no difference. I went out and bought 5 sets of super slinky's. WHy make it harder on myself? I'm not in a band anymore so I got no one to impress but me.

 

[aleclee]

In the middle for me (9.5-44's) on all my electrics

Same here.

 

[Gio_Force_One]

I have used the david gilmour set 10 - 50 and the eric johnson set 10- 52 they werent to bad gauge wise , but i always go back to the regular or power slinkys. except on my strats i like the lo tunes that are 11 15 19 28 38 58 i just think they sound better on those. but i will keep regulars slinkys on my Y2J I use that all the time anyway.

 

[Ripper]

You got to have both. Really. Best of both world.