boardn10
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I have RSD which give some wrist pain and lighter gauges I'm funding seem to help me a bit.
But I'm struggling with missing the feel and tone of heavier gauges. The wound strings are not the issue, so I keep this heavy. It's the plan strings and only with bends. Bends can be painful. I've also developed some other wrist related issues that are impacted as well.
I did a half gauge drop from 10s for the plain strings to 9.5s. I know it's a small drop but it's noticable on bends.
I must be a glutton for punishment since I bumped them back up to 10s to better balance of with my wound strings and I think they sound better and are easier to play for everything with the exception of bends.
I should mention, only a handful of songs have a lit of bending and half of those are in standard tuning.
For rehearsal I use one guitar rather than having to haul to guitars to practice each week and just detune the guitar for Eb and drop C# songs. We play in standard E, drop D, half step down Eb and drop C#.
When we gif, I use two guitars and will probably have the standard tuned guitar with 9s or 9.5s and the half step down guitar with 10s for plain strings.
If I find I really like the 10s in standard as I used to, I'll have my Eb guitar with 11s.
But I'm struggling with missing the feel and tone of heavier gauges. The wound strings are not the issue, so I keep this heavy. It's the plan strings and only with bends. Bends can be painful. I've also developed some other wrist related issues that are impacted as well.
I did a half gauge drop from 10s for the plain strings to 9.5s. I know it's a small drop but it's noticable on bends.
I must be a glutton for punishment since I bumped them back up to 10s to better balance of with my wound strings and I think they sound better and are easier to play for everything with the exception of bends.
I should mention, only a handful of songs have a lit of bending and half of those are in standard tuning.
For rehearsal I use one guitar rather than having to haul to guitars to practice each week and just detune the guitar for Eb and drop C# songs. We play in standard E, drop D, half step down Eb and drop C#.
When we gif, I use two guitars and will probably have the standard tuned guitar with 9s or 9.5s and the half step down guitar with 10s for plain strings.
If I find I really like the 10s in standard as I used to, I'll have my Eb guitar with 11s.
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