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clean playing was down to a minimum; everything else was shredded cheese!
Nickel-plated .11-.49 are my favorite strings on a Strat with single coils.
They help cut back on some of that single-coil bite, and their distorted
sound is actually pretty chunky (obviously more-so with humbuckers).
I stopped using a floating tremolo in the early 90's (still
have Floyds on all my guitars - bolted in), but i still need to
use .11s. In some bands we'll tune down a half step and the .10s
are too watery for me. I also use .11s when i have a guitar that
is tuned open and down (dgdgbd, dadf#ad). When i know i'm gonna be
playing slide i make sure and put .11s on!
Like the EXL110s, i have used the EXL115s in every possible situation
and they have never let me down. No weirdness or surprises.
There is one noteworthy thing that affects whether i buy D'Addario
EXL110s or Ernie Ball 2220s: I'll go through these "phases" where i like
either the .49 better or the .48.
When a guitar is tuned down (open) the .49 is fine and i definitely like
its sound (clean) better than a .48, but there is that subtle imbalance
in the way they feel and it REALLY bugs me sometimes.
2220 = .11 .14 .18 .28 .38 .48
EXL115 = .11 .14 .18 .28 .38 .49
It's such a small thing but i guess i'm weird that way!
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