So many good pickups from SD! I’ve got jazz and JB in one guitar, the other I was considering pearly gates and Seth lover but now if I do change them I think I’m going to get P-rails.
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those two pickups are excellent if you’re in a PAF / Classic rock tone quest. the Pearly Gates works better for crunch/saturated tone where it brings a nice bite in the high-mids. the Seth Lover is a bit more subtle. the 59 (SH1) is somewhat in between.
also you might want to check the SD Antiquity line : expensive but really excellent pickups.
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Well, I haven’t put the new tex mex pickups in my pacifica that I bought two years ago so I’m not buying anything any time soon 
I like to spend my time playing and working on music; I’m more into upgrading skills than gear 
unless it’s plugins… One can always use more plugins 
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They keep coming for free (or almost free 
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It’s the almost free that are problem 
I managed to resist the crazy good Toontracks black Friday specials… now I have to get through boxing day. 
and Arturia’s deal on Pigments. I should just buy it… They won’t stop until I do 
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Pigments is awesome. It got me too this time - and the last thing I needed was another synthesizer 
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I have been thinking for quite a long time whether or not I should fit a SD JB and SH-1 into my Yamaha SG700S!
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@howard Nice looking guitar.
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Thanks!
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That is a super-nice guitar, Laurent @terb . . . 
Especially that particular color! Whoa! . . . Hope you gets lots of fun and satisfaction out of it, too!
Cheers
Joe
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Have you ever played guitar before? 11’s might be a bit macho for your first strings.
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I was just playing my LP a couple of days ago and enjoying how easy it is to play on the 9-46 strings.
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I have only a short while on it, but I have been researching and for rhythm guitar, heavier strings seems to be the common advice. Which is what I am interested. I have not put them on yet, but at $12 a set for strings easy to experitment.
Have also read that someone going from bass to guitar might find heavier strings more familiar.
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There’s a lot of misconceptions that people have about what kind of stings one should play and over the years people have gravitated towards heavier strings because they thought that you needed them to get a nice fat tone but you don’t. Fat strings just make you work harder, thinner strings force you develop a lighter touch, esp if you have jumbo frets because you’ll bend notes sharp if you’re not light with them.
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Yeah. Generally you’re going to have enough to worry about at first as there’s a lot more finger strength and dexterity required than bass, at least in my experience. Lighter strings are definitely easier to learn on. That said I do prefer 10s to 9s, but I don’t think I would go heavier than 10s at this point.
$12 is also about double what most strings cost, FWIW. Guitar strings will last about a month or two tops, when you’re first starting out and playing a lot. Maybe less.
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Also some folks that use heavier strings will tune their guitar down to Eb to make them a bit easier to play. Personally I like 10’s on a Les Paul style of guitar but I put 9’s on my strat clone.
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I’d say that 10/46 should be a default choice, if you don’t know what gauge to choose.
I myself play on 10/52 on Fender scale length, and 11 to 12/54 on Gibson scale length, but this have to do with my personnal attack. I used to choose 11’s for my Fenders for about 10 years, I changed only a few years ago to 10/52. strangely I like much lighter tensions on a bass. I think it’s very, very, very personnal overall.
my new Stratocaster is in 10/46 right now, but I will switch to 10/52 very soon. still, 10/46 has always felt kinda natural to me, even if it’s not my first choice. so, yeah, I’d say it should be some kind of default choice.
just my opinion / just trying to help.
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