Texas_minor_blues
Rosewood or Bust
I have been thinking about posting this for a while to get some feedback from the collective knowledge base here. What is your preferred string gauge and also do you feel gauge impacts tone? I know guys like Billy Gibbons use 7s and have tone for days. On the other hand David Grissom goes for 11s on his DGTs and SRV was known to throw 12s and I think I even read that he slapped some 13s on a guitar once. Again all 3 guys have tone for days. With Gibbons, my perception is that he is an major outlier, again just my perception. I know for me I feel most comfortable and find the tone most pleasing when I use 11s and have been using them exclusively since around 2008. Typically when I hit up guitar shops and feel the 10s on the guitars I feel a difference but not as bad as when I grab a guitar with 9s (this has led to many a broken string haha). Anyways what are you thoughts ?