11s hell yeah

I've been using 11s for 15 years. I can't imagine playing without that tonal meat under my fingers.

 
I am not equiped with ears that tell me that thicker gauge strings sound better. I prefer 009's on strats and 009's or 010's on teles and the Newport, depends.

On HB guitars I tend to go with 010's. But especially on strats I tend to think that thick strings mostly gets ice picky.

 
Eleven on everything electric in standard pitch for the last 20 years. Tried 10`s on a strat recently but I bent out of pitch when soloing. 11`s gives me control.

 
MCChris said:
I'm man enough to admit that I'm not man enough to go there. Not at standard pitch, anyway.
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This/\ I leave that shit to my co-guitarist. He digs the beef and bombast of 10's and 11's and I like my 9's for the slinky, spongy action. Makes for a killer combo, IMO. I cover the searing highs and chewy mids, he gets the growl of the lows and girth of mids that I don't hit. Fits our soloing styles as well.

 
diablo175 said:
MCChris said:
I'm man enough to admit that I'm not man enough to go there. Not at standard pitch, anyway.
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This/\ I leave that shit to my co-guitarist. He digs the beef and bombast of 10's and 11's and I like my 9's for the slinky, spongy action. Makes for a killer combo, IMO. I cover the searing highs and chewy mids, he gets the growl of the lows and girth of mids that I don't hit. Fits our soloing styles as well.
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Good summary. Applies to me, as well.

 
I'm in the process of having a local builder put together a Tele style guitar for me, and I'm really considering putting 11s on it. I mentioned in another thread that I have 13s on a Hagstrom Viking, and that guitar plays well for what I do (in don't really do many Gilmour-esque bends). If the 13s on the Viking are doable, then the 11s might be right where I need to be. I don't care for the feel of 9s, 10s aren't bad. We'll see!

 
I've been on 11's for 15 years. Now when I play something with 9's or 10's, I over compensate my bends.

 
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Been farting around w 9 s for the last year, doing a jazz gig w female singer and upright bass so I threw some 11s on the ole CE22. Man that's the shit, so much better in every way, easy to bend after all the bass playing and 12 string stuff I've been doing
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You really need to check out 11s on thinlines and semihollows. The extra downforce creates a better transfer between the bridge and the top, which then energizes the tone chambers or hollow body. My Newport really lit up when I tried Elixir 11-49s, and with that substantial neck, the action was still very easy.

 
This gets .011s when it arrives tomorrow...24.5" scale is the reason.



 
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Both guitar players in my band use 11's.

They've been using that gauge set for about 10 year now.

 
My guidelines:

11's for 24.75/Les Paul scale.

10's for 25.5/Strat scale.

My PRS McCarty gets 10's.

 
similarly to the above - Virtuoso 26.25" scale gets 10s. I'm scared to put 11s on that long noodle neck; different brands of 10s require a couple days for the neck to settle in as it is!

 
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