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Eddie The Goose
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Ernie Ball Skinny Top/ Heavy Bottom (10-52) on everything for nearly 20 years. Never seen the need to change what ain't broke - and these seem to rarely break!

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Ernie Ball strings 10 - 46's

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zontar wrote:
On electric guitar, I started with a brand called Mohawk, the strings were made in Germany, and a step up from barbed wire. After winding through a variety of brands I came upon GHS Boomers--and that's my main brand, although sometimes I put Super Bullets on my Mustang.

The last time I tried Ernie Balls, they didn't last long--they felt odd.


I noticed that with strings that were easy to bend too, they seem to go dead very quickly, which is why I switched to strings that are a bit stiffer. They keep their tone a lot longer IMHO

-Harley 8)

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I use super slinkys too :)



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D'Addario .9......feels great and just so right. :D

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D'Addario .9 - feels good and sounds good to me :P

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Ernie Ball regular slinky.10-.46. They give my strat a punchy tone.

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used to use slinkys all the time, but found that they went dull really quickly
sometimes use elixer nanowebs ,expensive but they feel nice, and last
ages. the strings on my new strat are the 250s and they seem to be very
good, hold tune well and are bright and punchy. :)
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Super Bullets and D'Addario (9's of course).
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Depends on the Guitar.

On my Les Paul I like Pyramid Nickel Classics Traditional (.12-.52) with a wound G-string. Very nice feel, but very expensive.

On strats and guitars with a longer-than-gibson scale I prefre Ernie Ball Powerslinky's (.11-.48). Almost the same feel like .12's on a Paula. but without a break a neck low E string. 52's on a strat can be fickle.

Also I'm looking forward on testing those new titanium coated Powerslinky's by EB I've been hearing good things about.

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I use D'Addario 9s. Great strings.

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E Ball .10 slinkys for my LP
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D'Addario Super XL: .010 - .046

For acoustic: D'Addario Phosphor Bronze: .011 - .052

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daadario 12's can't say a bad thing about em
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