Drop C Strings

[jauernis]

Any of you playing in this tuning? What strings are you using?

Recommend me a guage...I am not the heaviest of players, I do not hit the strings hard enough, my picking is a bit on the soft side therefore my playing can get muddy with too heavy of strings, so need a guage that will compliment a modern rock rhtyhm player in drop c making my tone a bit clearer.

 

[Splat88]

10-52 and 11-54 are my strings of choice and I've never had a problem with muddiness.

 

[Dylan S]

11-50 should be tight enough to play well and sound good, whilst still be llose enough to get a nice snap to them and not be 'woofy'.

 

[Kazrog]

10,13,17,26,36,50 is what I use.

 

[TheWinterSnow]

I use 10-52, work great, nice and loose enough that you can bite into them and get snap and brightness but won't go out of tune when you get a little carries away.

 

[JeffTD]

11-52 in D standard, would probably stick a 54 or 56 on there if I was doing drop C all the time.

 

[drew_drummer]

Damn. I play in drop-C, and I use 56-13's! If you're not wanting them that heavy... lowest I would go with drop-C is 11's. Try the Ernie Ball 'optimal for detuning' sets.

 

[gabriel g.]

Damn. I play in drop-C, and I use 56-13's! If you're not wanting them that heavy... lowest I would go with drop-C is 11's. Try the Ernie Ball 'optimal for detuning' sets.

I use them too.

But I do prefer the beefy slinky ernie ball strings for c-droped now.

A little more snap but also tight playing

 

[drew_drummer]

Hmmm. Might give it a go, see if I can notice any different; usually the only difference I can notice with these things is tuning tension at lower tunings.

 

[MetalJonesy]

I have always used/gone back to using D'Addario 12-54 for drop c tuning, sound great and balance out nicely on a floyd rose trem!

 

[iraobryan]

I use that tuning, and my favorite strings are Ernie Ball Power Slinky's (.011-.048). I wouldn't go any lighter than that. I used to use the Not Even Slinky's, actually still do on my back up, and they are great too.

 

[Jind]

I use Ernie Ball 2215 Skinny Top Heavy Bottom 10 - 52 strings.

 

[Sweetnothing]

Depending on guitar's scale, Daddario 10-52 ( 25") or 11-54/56 ( 24'75)

 

[exzem]

I tried different sizes, but I always come back to 56-12 for drop C on a 25.5" neck. Thinner than that always sound pretty dull/muddy when playing rhythm stuff for me.

Imo thicker strings+harder picking = better tone, at least for rhythm playing.

 

[colynomial]

Ernie Ball "Not Even Slinky". Dark green pack, 12-56.

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

I'm loving Everly 11-56's at the moment, but the bastards discontinued that set. I'll probably change to 12-56 after I ran out of Everlys.

 

[drew_drummer]

Ernie Ball "Not Even Slinky". Dark green pack, 12-56.

Actually, yeah. Now I think about it, that's the same pack I use, so I don't use 13's at all!!

 

[AudioPhile777]

for Drop C, I use D'Addario XL 11's (11-49)... work just fine for me... and I play play pretty aggressively...

 

[Machinated]

im using 10-52 in drop Db, if i was going to C id probably want slightly thicker strings.

 

[eken]

I use 13-56 in standard d tuning. before when I tuned to drop c I used the zakk wylde set 60 - 10 but i did never get enough tension. the gauges you guys are using tells me i must have done something wrong