That’s more what I look to do with my gauges on my LP’s. I want it to sound as Les Paul-y as a Les Paul can get. You could certainly take a different approach and balance out and try to counteract what makes a Strat sound like a Strat, or Les Paul sound like a Les Paul.įor me, because I have a Strat, I don’t want my Les Paul to sound not like a Les Paul. For me, I’m looking more to bring out the characteristics that make a certain guitar unique.
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What matters is more what your tastes are, what you’re looking for in a given guitar, and how those gauges can complement it.įor me, I have a lot of different guitars, so what I’m looking more to do with each guitar that I have, as you’ve seen probably in this series where I go through different guitars, and what I prefer on them.
It’s worth noting that there’s no specific gauge that is just right for a Les Paul. You have people playing like anyone all the way up to 12s and 13s, and on and up for some slide players that favor the LP. You have people like Jimmy Page, even Billy Gibbons on a couple of LPs playing things that are like 8s or even 7s in BFG’s case. They look like hell, they’ve been on here for 10 years, and today long-overdue, we’re going to actually put a proper set of strings on it in some proper gauges that I think are going to sound really, really good.Īlright so down to brass tacks, different players, even really famous players have used completely different gauges on Les Paul’s over the years. These are probably old D’Addario strings. It’s had probably the same set of strings on it for almost all that time. I don’t know that I’ve had it out of its case in I don’t know, maybe 10 years, maybe more. Actually, that is the guitar that is sitting in front of me today. As such, because that guitar was so special to me, I completely retired it, put it in its case, and it’s basically been there ever since. I didn’t have strap locks on it, and I chipped where the fretboard meets the neck. Then one time when I was playing a metal show at 17, it fell off. I hot rodded it a bunch with a bunch of different stuff to make it sound and feel and play a little bit more the way that I wanted it to.
It was everything for me, it was totally my tone, I had no desires that weren’t fulfilled by it. I played tons of gigs with it when I was like anywhere from 13 up to 17. I loved it, I feel like I went everywhere with it. I first started off with a cheap LP style Epiphone guitar, and after a little while, I graduated to what I thought at the time was the Holy Grail of guitars, which was an Epiphone, but I was 14.Īn Epiphone Les Paul standard, that was the first guitar I remember being truly special to me. Now while I may not be a huge LP player these days, that wasn’t always the case. This should be a little bit of an interesting one, because personally I’m really specifically not a Les Paul player these days, but that said, there are a lot of players that do play Les Pauls, or similar style guitars that I have worked with to dial-in perfectly gauged sets of strings for their particular tastes.Īs such, I’ve got a pretty solid understanding of what strings do work for Les Pauls, even though I don’t really play much these days on a Les Paul myself. Today we’re talking a little bit about what gauge of strings I tend to prefer on a Les Paul. What’s up everybody, I’m Scott from Stringjoy Guitar Strings in Nashville, Tennessee. Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with more great videos like this one:
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