g'day again,
this question comes hot on the heels of my post about a broken machine head... I currently have my Thumb strung up B E A D with a set of Red Labels (my string of choice for tuning experiments!). I'll be auditioning for a well-established local metal band who tune to drop C, and...
After the EMP strings have been recommended by many of you I bought a set for my Alembic 6-string. Compared to other strings, the tension of the EMPs is fairly high (which I really appreciate).
On the other hand, the tension of the black labels on my new Corvette could be significantly higher...
does anybody perhaps know what to do with the string tension of my warwick basses which i don't use quite often? most of the time my instruments are tuned one semi-tone lower in order to reduce somewhat of the string tension. would it be wise to tune strings one whole-tone lower when the...
OK,
I am going to use a larger guage string and will need to lower the string tension. Will I need to lower the bridge? Is there anything else that iwll need to be done?...
My 2001 Thumb LTD was strung with Ernie Ball .045 - .105 strings and was free of fret buzz with the factory string height (2mm between the G string & 24th fret, 2.5mm between the E string & 24th fret).
I just restring it with DR Lo-Rider .040 - .100 because I want to get snappy tones. The...
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