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)