New answers tagged strings
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On some Gibsons/Epiphones, the saddles are triangular in section, as in a right-angled triangle. This means that it is possible to take off the saddle and turn it through 180 degrees, and the point of contact for the string will move back or forwards enough to get the extra adjustment for intonation you require.
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This looks like a good spot to mention flatwounds (again and again). You can slip and slide with no squeeks! <rant> All that extra top-end is just noise harmonics anyway, siphoning energy from the fundamental </rant>
On an acoustic, you can go a little-bit lighter on the gauge without too much loss of power. 12s are the "standard" for ...
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If your out-of-range saddle is under plain string, you will probably be okay if you change string gauge (without changing action). If the out-of-range saddle is under an unwound string, then it could go either way.
Ideally speaking, gauge does not affect the intonation of unwound strings which are made of the same material and tuned to the same note in the ...
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You have asked two questions.
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"What is the measurement of the G-string that you should use on your Epiphone Les Paul guitar?"
The correct technical term for what you call the "width" or "thickness" or "diameter" of the string is its gauge.
Take your guitar to a qualified guitar technician or luthier, or at least to your local music store, and have ...
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For increased bending you have three solutions:
Change to nylon strings - this will cause all sorts of changes in the setup of your guitar, and will sound very different, but you will be able to bend much higher
Downtune the guitar - lower tension = easier bending
Improve your bending technique. I can get 5 or 6 semitones on the 7 th fret on my G-string, ...
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Bending and sliding are two different things.
For slides, by which I'm assuming you're talking about sliding a note up and down a string with your finger and not a glass or metal "slide", you want to be able to move the note without generating too much of the annoying string noise you can get. For that, using coated strings to lubricate the sliding a little ...
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Sounds like a possibly bad batch of strings to me. I've never used that brand, but however cheap it might be I can't imagine that any surviving brand would deliberately ship strings in that condition.
One possible thing to check though, I've found strings to deteriorate relatively rapidly (though not quite to this degree) after a great deal of climate / ...
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