Murph Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 13 hours ago, Jinder said: My workhorse guitars for pub/club/function gigs (two Takamines) get a fresh set of Ernie Ball Everlasts every four gigs. Brilliant minds work the same! I always used 4 gigs max for acoustics as well. (see post above) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted July 10, 2023 Author Share Posted July 10, 2023 Interesting - 58% of us use non-extended play strings and 60% keep strings on for longer than 6 months - with half of those over a year. So, it would seem a lot of us use regular strings and like the way they sound for quite a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 On 7/10/2023 at 8:26 AM, fortyearspickn said: Interesting - 58% of us use non-extended play strings and 60% keep strings on for longer than 6 months - with half of those over a year. So, it would seem a lot of us use regular strings and like the way they sound for quite a while. We either get used to the gradual change in tone, or we like the flatter/mellower tone. Or we're just getting lazy... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olie Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 3 minutes ago, Murph said: We either get used to the gradual change in tone, or we like the flatter/mellower tone. Or we're just getting lazy... I think that if we had a realistic recording of a given guitar with new strings on it, we could replay it and compare it to the sound of older strings on the same guitar. That might provide a wake up call to put on new ones. I'm in the camp of those who like the sound of new strings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustystrings Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 Sometimes it's every six months or so, but in general I change my strings every year whether they need it or not - though I realized at one point I never bothered to change them in 2019, and I think I went 18 months that time. I have been using John Pearse pure nickel .012-.054 on my J-45 for nine years or so now, playing with bare fingers almost always. My taste in how I want my guitar to sound has changed dramatically from 30 years ago, when I changed strings every couple of weeks and always wanted the hyper-jangly sound of new phosphor bronze being slammed 'round with a Dunlop tortex pick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted July 12, 2023 Author Share Posted July 12, 2023 9 hours ago, olie said: I think that if we had a realistic recording of a given guitar with new strings on it, we could replay it and compare it to the sound of older strings on the same guitar. That might provide a wake up call to put on new ones. I'm in the camp of those who like the sound of new strings. I wonder ... if you put on a set you liked, played it for, say, 6 months - then you get a new set of the SAME STRINGS and leave three of old ones on and put three new ones on of the same gauge - you would immediately be able to compare them. For example, leave the G,B and E on the normal 3rd, 2nd and 1st string positions but put new G and B and E stings on the 4th, 5th and 6th strings positions. Then you could compare one against the other. I guess you don't need to do this if you've had several years of replacing old strings with new ones. But it would be a quick and easy way to confirm what your audio memory thinks it remembers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBSinTo Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 I change strings whenever my guitars ask me to. RBSinTo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 10 hours ago, RBSinTo said: I change strings whenever my guitars ask me to. RBSinTo Where do I get a talking guitar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBSinTo Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 21 minutes ago, Sgt. Pepper said: Where do I get a talking guitar? Chief, Check out the j-45 "Chatty Cathy" or the much older and rarer j-45 " Gabby Hayes" variants, which both have this feature. RBSinTo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62burst Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 35 minutes ago, RBSinTo said: Chief, Check out the j-45 "Chatty Cathy" or the much older and rarer j-45 " Gabby Hayes" variants, which both have this feature. RBSinTo So. . . getting back the OP, how often do you change the string on the back of your J-45 CC ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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