Saturday, May 8, 2010

How many strings...?

At any one time in the house, I actually have 237 strings in my guitars. Yikes... !

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bro,
As amazing as the number of strings, is the 30 over guitars you own...
:-)
~1mband~

subversion.sg said...

he he... :-) some people question if i really need that many guitars. yes i do, otherwise i would have sold them off & keep to the minimum.

Anssi Sajama said...

Would you care to sometime list all the guitars you have, and tell us why you have decided to keep them and not sell? It would be interesting to hear. :)

subversion.sg said...

i did list them down before... in one of the 2008 entries :-) will be doing stock check soon...

Ijau D. Koceng said...

bro, do u have any guitar equipted with heavy 12-52 gauge strings? if yes, how does it feel both in terms of sound and playability?

subversion.sg said...

no, i don't own guitars with such a heavy string gauge set but i did play one equipped with a set of .012 in it @ one of the guitar stores here. the gauge was bothersome for me, i can't play mistake-free as the action was high to compensate fret buzzing. to make matters more repulsive (to me), the guitar was in standard tuning so the high tension induces more lethargy, pain & mistakes in my playing.

all my guitars here are equipped with .009s (for 25.5" scale) & .0095s (for the ones sporting 24.75" scale length). the only oddity being my RGD320 with a necessary set of .010s due to the extended scale length (26.5").

Ijau D. Koceng said...

thanks for the info... is it possible to use heaviest gauge strings available to turns guitar into a hybrid bass? without some help of octaver... shorter scale = easier to play

subversion.sg said...

no bro- it's about frequency range, some bass frequencies, the guitar cannot cover.

Ijau D. Koceng said...

even with the existance of an (cheat) octaver?

subversion.sg said...

octave displacements would interpret the signals but it won't cover the frequencies adequately- it sounds like a very detuned guitar. the guitar element is still there...

the other way to cheat is to use synth notes. if you hear pop music closely, some basses are not produced by stringed instruments, especially so for non-band performances.