string issue?

[gush]

My last string purchase was from GC and I think it was about a dozen sets with three different brands. Slinkys, NYXL and a couple off brand.

I put a set on the mahogany CE I bought a couple months ago. After setting it up it wouldn't stay in tune very well but I haven't had time to mess with it.

I put new mann trem on my ce24 a couple weeks ago and after new strings and a set up IT wouldn't stay in tune. Now this guitar was very stable with hard trem use before so this had me puzzled.

Thursday I put new strings on my cu24 and my ce22. Friday night my cu24 wouldn't stay in tune worth a dam. Saturday night my ce22 would go out of tune occasionally.

My trem guitars have worked very well so it kind of hit me sat night that my tuning issues may be this batch of strings.

The strings didn't appear to have anything wrong with them but this sure makes sense.

Anybody else have this happen?

 

[BMiller]

That is strange. The only thing beyond the guitars themselves (check the tuners for tightness, is the trem at the right height and in the pocket of the screws, are the strings stretched properly, all the basic stuff) would be the temperature change and releative humidty fluctuations that we've been seeing here in Iowa (I'm East of you in the mighty Bett).

For example, I had no issues when I changed the strings on CU24 last Sunday. That was when the weather pattern has baselined and left us with all that snow. I changed the strings on my SE Tremonti Custom on Friday and I could not get it to stay in tune at all. Same strings, same package (3 pack of D'Addario 10's), same bench. The only thing that I noticed that was different was that the thermostat on Friday said that it was 70 degrees in the living room but it felt much colder than that. Today I went back to the Tremonti, stretched the strings again, retuned, and all is well again.

I pretty much have only used the XL10's since I stared playing 20+ years ago and have very rarely, if ever, gotten a bad set. It's possible, but across three brands as in your case is strange.

Let us know what you figure out!

 

[markintime]

What I just noticed tonight while trying to tune my new S2 Standard 22 was that my if my right hand was resting on the trem I kept having to go back and forth. And I kept stretching but that didn't seem to make any difference. It wasn't drastic but the needle would show a few cents flat one time then it would be sharp the next. Once I realized what was going on, I stopped thinking slipping tuners and so forth. Plucked the strings without touching the bridge and all was well. Vigorous trem work afterwards did nothing to change the tuning. Don't know if anyone has ever noticed the same thing, but maybe that's something to consider.

 

[vchizzle]

I've had one string that would be an issue and wouldn't intonate properly, but never a whole set or multiple sets. I don't have trem guitars at all either.