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Topic: E9 extended tuning |
Frank Parish
From:
Nashville,Tn. USA
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Posted 12 Jun 2023 3:38 am |
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I have a few questions if anybody can answer them.
What are your 11 and 12 string gauges for your E9 extended tuning? I'm using the standard Emmons SIT strings with .038 for my 10th string.
I'm getting a tingy kind of tone from my 4th string. I don't see any wear on the changer finger or the roller. I changed the strings from . 014 to a .015 and remains. I used to hear of this a long time ago and they called it hysteresis. I have never experienced that in all the guitars that I have owned. I don't know if it's the string because that one string has so many different pools on it or the guitar or maybe even the pickup. I'm thinking to change the pickup cuz there may be a problem in the magnet there. I'm having a lot louder tones coming out of this pickup on the 11 and 12 gauge strings. It's a booming kind of sound and so I am wondering if I need to use smaller strings for those two back there. I cannot find any extended e9th sets of strings anywhere to go by so I make this stuff up as I go. Currently I am using a 42 gauge string on 11 and a 50 on 12. Is that too big? I'm a little new at this extended E9 thing but I'm catching on yet I'm having this tone thing going on too. It's just a real high-pitched kind of a ringing sound I just call it tingy it's just doesn't have a nice clear Tone to that number four string. Any help would be greatly appreciated. You can email me or answer here I will be watching thanks. |
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Georg Sørtun
From:
Mandal, Agder, Norway
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Posted 12 Jun 2023 4:08 am
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| String 11 "G#": .042W, string 12 "E": .056W. |
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Eric Dahlhoff
From:
Point Arena, California
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Posted 12 Jun 2023 9:16 am
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String 11 "G#": .046W, string 12 "E": .060W.
I drop the "E" to "C#" and .056 was too floppy.
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Bobby D. Jones
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 12 Jun 2023 8:55 pm
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With the 4th string being both lowered and raised causes the problem.
The section of string where it bends on and off the Changer Finger Work Hardens, And the string starts stiffening. The string will lift up off the changer finger.
Then it sounds like the Gremlin is trying to sing harmony with the 4th string. |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Georg Sørtun
From:
Mandal, Agder, Norway
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Posted 13 Jun 2023 6:20 pm
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| Eric Dahlhoff wrote: |
| I drop the "E" to "C#" and .056 was too floppy. |
FWIW; I drop the "E" to "B", and a nickelwound .056 behaves, and sounds, just fine. |
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