Your email address will not be published. (Read 12235 times) JacksonRR. Scale length can be a factor when selecting gauges. I also recommend LaBella strings because they have great, crisp tone, and make string sets specifically for Drop tunings on a six string. Similarly, if you’re a player that likes to play in 9s but likes to play full time in drop D or even drop C, we have drop 9s, drop 9 and a halves and drop 10s as well which can all be great choices there. Check out the Stringjoy Guitar String Tension Calculator. Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with more great videos like this one: What’s up, everybody? That just barely made it above the 52. This is just standard seven string tuning that we have right here. B or C standard they might feel way too loose. I'm thinking something along the lines of Ernie Ball Beefy Slinkys (gauges 11-54) or Not Even Slinkys (12-56), but do you guys have any suggestions? For our 10s, it’s just like this except we have a 13 and a half on that B string. B - (.64) E - (.52) A - (.36) D - (.26) F# - (.13) B - (.10) Thats still pretty light I think for the higher strings, too light actually for me but its all preference depending on how tight you want the tension. I don’t really see the advantage of that. But if we go where we need to go to balance everything out a bit better, we would have to go all the way up to a 54 which would balance just right but, again, cause some issues for certain players. One of the most common questions we get from players is what do you do when you have a multi-scale guitar? The .010 gauge string is the smallest, referring to the first string and the .046 is the largest or sixth string. If you go with the 56, you might start to see some of that big volume disparity come into play. For instance, a .010 gauge means 0.01 diameter inches. Let’s say you play in totally different tunings or you have a number of different guitars with different scale lengths. Today, we’re talking a little bit about how to pick the right string gauges for when you’re downtuning on your guitar. Same here. Guitar string packs are usually referred to by their thinnest string, e.g. To get the most out of this tool, read these instructions to understand what it does, how it works, and how to use it. Let’s say you don’t really see any need to boost the gauge on the fourth and the fifth strings since you’re not changing the tuning on those strings. Let’s take a look. If you haven’t seen our last video where we talk about balance tension, that could be worthwhile to watch. Lightweight; Posts: 949; Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't. We’ve used this very same logic in all of our drop tune sets. B or C standard they might feel way too loose. If it is a 5 string then it'd be better to have B Standard. Looking for advice from my Drop B comrades. A 34 inch should work, as long as you intimate it properly. The other big problem is that as you continue to get lower and lower, the need to jump up in gauge becomes even higher. The first step to deciding which saddle is right for a certain tuning range is to use our String Tension Gauge Calculator . If I drop down to e flat, 1 half step, they will feel like 9 gauge, so I use a 11 gauge set for my guitar I have set up for e flat tuning. Then you just have a 28 and a 38 in the fourth and the fifth which is basically what you’d see in a typical medium set, a set of 11s for electric guitar. It’s not so bad. Drop D: 10-52 (light top heavy bottom) 10-52 (light top heavy bottom) Eb Standard: 10-52 (tigheter feel on low strings) 11-48 (normal tension) Drop C#: 11-48 +52 (normal tension) 11-54 (normal tension) D Standard: 11-54 (higher tension) 11-48 (normal tension) C Standard: 12-56 (regular tension) 12-56 (normal tension) 11-54 (loose feel) Drop C: 11-54 +56 (normal tension) The question ultimately is how heavy of a gauge is it appropriate to put down on that six string in order to balance everything out. Now, you have this huge differential in gauge between that 80 on the seven string and that 52 on the six string. The standard tension saddles, that come with the bridge, cover about 80% of common tuning string gauge combinations. I tried EB's Not Even Slinkies 12-56 once, but that G string was unwound and super thick. Karl is using a combination of gauges found in two packs of Ernie Ball Strings: Beefy Slinky Nickel Would Electric Guitar Strings, Power Slinky Nickel Would Electric Guitar Strings, Karl is tuned to – B – F# – B – E – G# – C#. We could do some things to try to patch this up a little bit, going with a 40 there would kind of smooth that slope down a little bit from the 30 to the 52, but ultimately this still is not a very great solution for playing in drop D. From looking at this, it seems obvious that a heavier gauge is going to be needed on the six string. So I have a .124 set for my 5 string, and a .124 set for my 4 string. This is going to feel like a wet noodle. Right now, we have what is a typical set of 10s for seven string going with a 10 on top and a 56 on the bottom. Drop D Guitar Tuning So, first make sure your guitar is in standard tuning (E A D G B e).Go to this page for a free online tuner.. One which the guitars are tuned in C and the other where the tuning is drop Bb. Low Tension Saddles nominally 8 - 22 pounds. Apr 22, 2017 Melbourne, Australia . It’s measured in 1/1000th of an inch. If we’re going to play it on a seven string set, we’re going to have to go all the way to a 70 and we end up with an increasingly large differential in tension on these lower strings than on the top strings. We have a five and a half pound difference there. So how do we know what tensions we need for our specific tunings and string sizes? Only thing is that gauge, drop B is about the lowest it can really go. Your fourth and fifth strings are, of course, just fine, but the sixth string is way, way, way down here in terms of tension and we’re talking about pounds tension versus the fifth string that it’s next to. There are a couple of reasons for this. Drop B is a big difference for the lowest string. The second problem is that you’re going to have a lot more volume on that string just because of the increased mass on the string. But ultimately I think that you can do a little bit better to sit right in between those two. 3. Do any of you use custom string sets? The good news is that having that multi-scale guitar where you have the longer scale and the lower end strings is really just going to make an existing set of strings play all the better for you. If you’re going even lower, a drop 12s or a drop 13s can be great choices as well. All right. Some players prefer a loose fitting string and use gauges that are smaller than normal. Sounds simple, right? If the thicker strings do not reach the bottom of either, you have bigger problems than fret buzz. I think you’d be in a much better circumstance if you better balance out the tension overall rather than ending up with these huge 7.4 or 7.2 pound differentials from one end of the string set to the other, these massive gauges on the bottom and then really dinky, smaller gauges on top. I tried to do a search on drop tuning or drop-b tuning but came up with nothing. I got some advice on another forum but just wanted to double check before I go messing around with my guitar. So that may be what your friend is talking about because 10 down to B is just stupid floppy but for the three low strings he uses relatively thicker strings ranging from 38 for the D(A) string, 50 for the A(E) string and 70 for the E(A) string. Ultimately, I recommend trying a few different options and seeing what works best for you. Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next > MetalGuitarGuy17 New Member. We’ll talk about why those are not necessarily the best idea. You can adjust for that with pickup configuration just the same as you would have to if you’re playing in regular drop D, but it’s going to take some work. In practice, this means that if we normally play with .009 to .042-gauge string sets in E Standard, we should go to .010 to .046 for Eb Standard, .011 to .049 for D Standard, and so on. 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