String Gauges 101
Having trouble figuring out what string gauges to use on your guitar?
Hopefully this helps.
Here's a good chunk of info on different string gauges and why you might choose one over the other. Hope this helps!
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My signature string set with Cleartone: https://www.cleartonestrings.com/shop/product/rob-scallon-signature-set/
I've since changed my preferences to use the 9 set on my 8 string 99.9% of the time. So we've since done away with the 10 set.
Here's a recent main channel video with certainly the weirdest group of string gauges I've ever use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cHdm9HOX8Q
Also the video style was very much inspired by me watching a lot of Wheezywaiter recently: https://www.youtube.com/wheezywaiter
Having trouble figuring out what string gauges to use on your guitar?
Hopefully this helps.
Here’s a good chunk of info on different string gauges and why you might choose one over the other. Hope this helps!
Code: robscallon (gives 10% off anything on Cleartone’s website)
https://www.cleartonestrings.com/shop/
My signature string set with Cleartone: https://www.cleartonestrings.com/shop/product/rob-scallon-signature-set/
I’ve since changed my preferences to use the 9 set on my 8 string 99.9% of the time. So we’ve since done away with the 10 set.
Here’s a recent main channel video with certainly the weirdest group of string gauges I’ve ever use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cHdm9HOX8Q
Also the video style was very much inspired by me watching a lot of Wheezywaiter recently: https://www.youtube.com/wheezywaiter
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I just got 10 packs of 14 gauge
13’s like stevie the lord
compromise for lead and rhythm for an extended range rhythm guitar
I was about to bring up how much I love light top heavy bottom, but as I started typing you brought them up haha
is it weird that i find 0.012 normal
damn, the people at guitar center fucked me over. They said 14's were a good start. No wonder my wrists feel like they got hit with a hammer
Ditch the attempted comedy. Just tell us about strings.
My fingers getting swole! Dude, great video!
But cannibal corpse songs are a half step down, right?
I used 11's on a Telecaster when I was in my 20's (can't remember the brand but normally a hybrid type set with the low strings not too thick) and 8's on a friends Les Paul always felt like elastic bands in comparison due to the various things you mentioned. Mind you that guitar never stayed in tune after the first bend anyway whatever it was strung with so it didn't really matter 😉 Now, coming back after 20 years off, I'm sticking with 10's. Not too stiff to bend a note but not like cheese wire when I bend either.
More tension equals better tuning stability? Not in my book. Well probably not in any book.
You kinda look like metal Ed Sheeran
I used to play 13's and nobody wanted to play my guitar, I moved to 10's and enjoyed my acoustic my more afterwords
Playing cannibal corpse will keep me on your lawn
I'd prefer a .005 gauge. I'm a very lazy person & all that finger movement is very tiring. Now I need a nap after posting this exhausting comment.
What about blues
Anyone else suddenly thinking Rob looks a lot like Theon Greyjoy after those Inner Thoughts Cam segments?
strings? I use bridge cables to keep satan awake while he slowly feeds off my ever-dwindling life energy.
That’s not how gauges work. The smaller the guage the bigger or stronger the object is, such as shotgun shells and AWG(American wire gauge). The smaller the guage the bigger the shotgun shell, the smaller the guage the thicker the strings. ELIXIR STRINGS RULE!
U look like my english teacher, but doesn't have hair?
I love guitar so much that I wish my dick was shaped like one
I love guitar so much that I wish my dick was shaped like one
I get 12s!!!! I AM SO METAL!!!
13s – scare kids
Bass strings – kills kids
What about centimetres for the other 95% of the world
The light/medium/heavy naming conventions are OLD. Back in the 50s-60s, 11-12 gauge strings were standard until guitarists started replacing the high E with a banjo string, ditching the low E string, and moving the other strings down to create a lighter set of strings. Ernie Ball started packaging and selling these lighter sets as Slinkies circa the late 60s, which is when 9-10 gauge sets started to become standard.
awesome video for me dude