If there isn't a fret buzz, and the intonation is good, then you're good. My guitar teacher suggest I moved down to 8s on my strat. jjudas, Jun 5, 2017. jjudas, Jun 5, 2017 #2. July 2019. As far as the setup goes, I'd try without first. I use 10, 11, 14, 26, 36, 48 sort of a Blackmore set Re: 9s vs 10s. Going from 9s to 10s was a lot harder to get used to and bigger effect on tone than going from 10s to 11s I found. ermghoti II 5 posts. My current strings have to go. I've been using 10s on Strats and LPs forever, but I'm thinking about just throwing some 9s on everything. I'm hoping to gain some speed and agility. Posts: 531. One is that sort of chronically in electric guitar string sets, there’s a much lighter gauge B-string than there ought to be. Reactions: 1 person. I cant even play 9s anymore. I thought it would change my tone but it doesn't enough for anyone to be like "hey those are 9s!". 9. I only have 10s right now and i dont feel like going to guitar center, and I want to try a warmer sound. If my heavy-handed hacker style, using 9s is the equivalent of me boxing a 9 year old. For all of my life i only had a strat on 09s. 10s are perfect for me, though I like hybrid slinkies (9s top, 10s bottom) on strats and teles . Sep 19, 2016 #74 Y'all got it wrong. So the small dif in tone is much more noticable. Aug 10. On my Trower which is tuned to D I use 11-48 On my Yngwie, I experiment. I want to put 10s on it. It's just not fair. Fun for extravagant bends and grandiose vibrato tho. Because they're thicker, they don't break so often. 48. John Vasco I'm with the band. Cheers, Do21or12Die 5. Kenneth Mountain, Pat V., 5ofeight and 1 other person like this. I use 10-46 on my Les Pauls too, I don't mind the difference, even with the scale difference. It also means that they're harder to bend. I think probably 10s because I tend to hit strings really hard and break them with my past guitars. Quote; Link to post Share on other sites. I play clean - well, amp breakup - with an OD pedal some. I’m not sure how going up a gauge will help tuning stability but maybe I just don’t know very much! Is that accurate or just my imagination? 25. YMMV. Edit: I suppose higher gauge strings are less likely to go out of tune due to temperature variations. 9-46 across the board, both les Paul's, bothe strats, and my Jaguar. Also, even though I said I've had a few guitars, I'm still new to guitar. As I've aged, my grip strength and endurance has decreased. Would this change require action or intonation adjustments as well? Popular Days. If you've been used to playing with 10s, 9s will play sharp out of tune. My last 3 guitars came with 10s and I played 'em that way at first, but as soon as I changed to 9's the guitar immediately seemed much more responsive to me. - Is the "classic" strat sound better achieved with 10's, 9's, doesn't matter? I honestly think it varies from people to people. But recently I started using 9s on Fenders and 10s on Shorter scale lengths like Gibsons. FWIW I swap back and forth between 9s and 10s several times a year. would gauge 10 strings work on a fender american strat with a tremolo? Member. I personally prefer 10s, but that's most likely because that's what I started with. The past ones were ones that I borrowed off my brother. 10s are perfect. Sometimes it’s subtle and sometimes it’s a lot. But I can't afford them in packs of 1 or 3. In standard tuning, of my 4 PRS guitars, two now have 9s, one the factory 10s, but the 4th one I just restrung with PRS 9.5s and I believe that is what at least 3 of the 4 will use in the future. 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