How Often Do You CHANGE Your STRINGS?

[Murph]

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)

 

[fortyearspickn]

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.       

[Murph]

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...

[olie]

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.

[rustystrings]

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.

[fortyearspickn]

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. 

[RBSinTo]

I change strings whenever my guitars ask me to.

RBSinTo

[Sgt. Pepper]

10 hours ago, RBSinTo said:

I change strings whenever my guitars ask me to.

RBSinTo

Where do I get a talking guitar? 

[RBSinTo]

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

 

[62burst]

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 ?