Adrian, Janick and Dave's guitars and Steve's basses

[Hangdalar13]

Well, I might try them for Les Pauls one day. From my experience, extended life strings for guitars with floating trems are a waste of money.

They are not really advertised as extended life, they just works better on the long range. I was an only Ernie user for 15 years, but those D'Addario NYXLs seems to work better for what I use them. One of my idols adviced me to try them. He too changed from 3 decades of using Ernies to those NYXLs. And he was right. After months, they still feel good, sounds good, and stay in tune very well. But it's only the NYXL. I tried the "standard" ones too, and didn't like them. So for the past year, I use those NYXLs on my main live guitars, and never had tuning issues, or did never break any. And I use a floating trem guitar too. They are fine. But I just use those guitars for rehearsals and live shows. So they last longer. For playing, practicing at home I use my SG. And on that I use the 10-52 light top heavy bottom Ernie.

In my experience, D'Addario's go dull a lot faster than Ernie's. Plus they don't have as many hybrid ranges, especially for 7 string use.

I use a simple 9-46 NYXL from D'Addario, then put on a single 68 from Ernie. I never used dedicated 7 string sets. Their 7th string is always too thin.

 

[matic22]

They are not really advertised as extended life, they just works better on the long range. I was an only Ernie user for 15 years, but those D'Addario NYXLs seems to work better for what I use them. One of my idols adviced me to try them. He too changed from 3 decades of using Ernies to those NYXLs. And he was right. After months, they still feel good, sounds good, and stay in tune very well. But it's only the NYXL. I tried the "standard" ones too, and didn't like them. So for the past year, I use those NYXLs on my main live guitars, and never had tuning issues, or did never break any. And I use a floating trem guitar too. They are fine. But I just use those guitars for rehearsals and live shows. So they last longer. For playing, practicing at home I use my SG. And on that I use the 10-52 light top heavy bottom Ernie.

I use a simple 9-46 NYXL from D'Addario, then put on a single 68 from Ernie. I never used dedicated 7 string sets. Their 7th string is always too thin.

Well, I break strings on floating tremolo guitars in 14 days if I use them as the main guitar (I'm playing LP's at the moment mainly, while floating trem guitars are used for specific songs). If I play loads of rythm, I usually snap the D string. If I play loads of lead, the thin E usually goes. Tried a lot of different ones, but at the end got tired of tension adjustments and settled on EB 9-46s. Also I kinda leave a lot of skin on the strings, since I'm quite heavy handed player, so I like fresh strings a lot.

Actually the longest lasting set of strings for a stop-tailpiece guitar were the Ernie Ball Rock and Roll pure nickel wrap 10-46 set. Those strings sound great and last a long time. But, they are kinda hard to get sometimes, so I settled on Regular Slinkys. The ideal gauge for me would be 9.5's for LP scale really, but those are expensive and again kinda hard to get.

 

[Mandume]

I've always assumed (looking at H's) that it's a coil tap for the neck pickup. So that's what I did on mine.

Never seen that toggle switch before, makes me feel dumb haha.

I think it's a coil split however though. A coil tap is most commonly used for single-coil pickups, it "taps" into the windings, so you don't get the full "output" of the pickup.

A coil split splits (duh) the coils of a humbucker, giving you a true single-coil sound (albeit somewhat different from an actual single-coil)

 

[KostamojeN]

Never seen that toggle switch before, makes me feel dumb haha.

I think it's a coil split however though. A coil tap is most commonly used for single-coil pickups, it "taps" into the windings, so you don't get the full "output" of the pickup.

A coil split splits (duh) the coils of a humbucker, giving you a true single-coil sound (albeit somewhat different from an actual single-coil)

We' all learn new things here

Such as me, right now!

I'll remember to call it a coil split ftom now on

 

[Mateus256]

Well, I break strings on floating tremolo guitars in 14 days if I use them as the main guitar (I'm playing LP's at the moment mainly, while floating trem guitars are used for specific songs). If I play loads of rythm, I usually snap the D string. If I play loads of lead, the thin E usually goes. Tried a lot of different ones, but at the end got tired of tension adjustments and settled on EB 9-46s. Also I kinda leave a lot of skin on the strings, since I'm quite heavy handed player, so I like fresh strings a lot.

Actually the longest lasting set of strings for a stop-tailpiece guitar were the Ernie Ball Rock and Roll pure nickel wrap 10-46 set. Those strings sound great and last a long time. But, they are kinda hard to get sometimes, so I settled on Regular Slinkys. The ideal gauge for me would be 9.5's for LP scale really, but those are expensive and again kinda hard to get.

I agree. I use Ernie Ball Primo Slinkys (9.5-44), which is the best sweet spot for string gauge. €6.90 on Thomann.

 

[Hangdalar13]

Well, I break strings on floating tremolo guitars in 14 days if I use them as the main guitar (I'm playing LP's at the moment mainly, while floating trem guitars are used for specific songs). If I play loads of rythm, I usually snap the D string. If I play loads of lead, the thin E usually goes. Tried a lot of different ones, but at the end got tired of tension adjustments and settled on EB 9-46s. Also I kinda leave a lot of skin on the strings, since I'm quite heavy handed player, so I like fresh strings a lot.

Actually the longest lasting set of strings for a stop-tailpiece guitar were the Ernie Ball Rock and Roll pure nickel wrap 10-46 set. Those strings sound great and last a long time. But, they are kinda hard to get sometimes, so I settled on Regular Slinkys. The ideal gauge for me would be 9.5's for LP scale really, but those are expensive and again kinda hard to get.

My picking is very aggressive so I do tend to break strings too But I usually break the A. And the D sometimes, but A is more common. Back in the days when I used Ernies, I broke one quite often, but I never break any of the D'Addario NYXL ones. It's interesting. More interestingly, I only broke strings on fixed bridge guitars. Never on a floating trem one. But I rarely use the trem, only in a few songs. In Wasted Years, for example

 

[Hangdalar13]

Gotta say that when I built my (non recessed) H Jackson 86 replica, it HAS to float, just so the strings don't bottom out on the frets. So there's definitely some upward movement too.

I'm planning to buy one of the cheap versions of Adrian's white Jackson. You know, just because I love Maiden England But I was always interested in if the tremolo can go up too. I don't pull it up too much, just like to do flutters here and there. I always tought the trem is bottomed out on the body so it can only go down.

 

[Maiden Australia]

I'm planning to buy one of the cheap versions of Adrian's white Jackson. You know, just because I love Maiden England But I was always interested in if the tremolo can go up too. I don't pull it up too much, just like to do flutters here and there. I always tought the trem is bottomed out on the body so it can only go down.

I have one, if you fiddle around enough you can get a little bit of up pull, defiantly enough for flutters.

 

[Hangdalar13]

Oh god what did we do with this thread

 

[Ascendingthethrone]

Can I ask a question about Adrian using his Lado over his Jacksons? What are Jackson going to think about this, as he is using it for most songs at the expense of promoting their products? Or can he just do what he wants?

 

[Hangdalar13]

Can I ask a question about Adrian using his Lado over his Jacksons? What are Jackson going to think about this, as he is using it for most songs at the expense of promoting their products? Or can he just do what he wants?

I think he is at a level where he can use whatever he likes. As far as I know he never had exclusive deals, where he can only use one brand.

 

[matic22]

The only big brand that has exclusive deals is Ibanez. Dueing TFF 2011 tour, he also played his Les Paul most of the night, while using the old Jackson juat for songs where tremolo was needed. The only appearance of the signature model was on The Talisman.

He even went so far to retune the goldtop between TNOTB and HBTN.