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Normally i use heavier strings. This thing arrived with a fresh set of daddario .010s and my normal set for solidbody / semihollow is .012 .015 .021p .028 .038 .050.
BUT...I'm really digging the lighter set and when I heard the recording, it sounded fine to me and as I get older, I find it harder and hard to bend on the heavier set so I'm going to leave these on here...
Thanks to Barry Cunningham for recording this for it. It's Jack A. Zucker and Kip Reed, live at La Fiesta Restaurant where we play monday nights from 530-9
By the way, I had been using a yamaha sa2200 for a year or so but I really missed the gibson sound. It's not necessarily better than the yamaha but it just sounds like a gibson. The yamaha sounds brighter and more modern.
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07-23-2024 06:48 PM
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This is really nice! You sound great.
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It sounds like a Gibson. And for us guys who are closer to 70 than 60, 10's are in our future whether we like it or not.
Nice playing. As always.
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Sounds great Jack. Once I saw the SA2200 up for sale I figured you must have gone back to a 335. I have 10s on my semi. I find they don’t really sound all that different from heavier strings. I like heavier flats on my archtop, but 10s on everything else is plenty warm (lately rollerwounds).
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Yeah, they sort of sound different when i'm practicing but the recordings of the 335 with 10s sound pretty similar to my archtops with 12 flats.
Originally Posted by John A.
Yep, i already struggle with stretches that used to be nothing for me... Originally Posted by Stringswinger
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I throw a 10 and an 11.5 on top of this set on the old ES copy and tune a half step down and it works real nice for bending the strings plus I get enough bite to retain clarity in the lower registers. They take a real beating and hold up real well.
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Very nice.
I like the guitar sound. If I may ask, what is the rig?
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Lovely playing, as always Jack. Think the new guitar suits you!
Is the "Yes Sir That's my Baby" quote inspired by the new guitar? ;-)
When my 335 arrived it also had .10s on, I quite enjoyed pushing the strings around and pretending to be Freddie King, but couldn't play jazz on them and moved to .11s which are as light as I could reliably play jazz on at the time. I actually had to practice a lot to get it together with the right hand after years of playing a 175 with .13's and a wound 3rd.
For a little while I copied Adam Roger's gauges (.11 bottom and up a gauge on E and B IIRC) but after about a year shrugged and moved to standard D'Addario .11's (after a dalliance with Balanced Tension)
I wonder if I could deal better with .10s now I've changed my technique a bit.
I hear you on the sound - I'm glad I got the 335. The Yamahas and Ibanez semi's are great guitars, but they are different. This guitar always sounds GREAT on gigs, cuts through.
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2000 Gibson 335 through Fractal FM3 modeler through an alto ts310 pa cab Originally Posted by rpjazzguitar
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I have recordings of myself where I forgot what I played and really have to listen carefully to tell the difference between my archtop with flatwound 12's or 13's and my semi with roundwound 10s. Ultimately what gives it away is the attack and a very slight difference in the high E's, but it's not something that immediately jumps out. Originally Posted by jzucker
I think a lot of this comes from the player. We all have a sound that comes from how our hands interact with the instrument, picking dynamics, etc. Plus I think most of us have a sound in mind and make adjustments in technique (not always consciously) to get that sound on different instruments/rigs. A friend of mine with whom I play a lot has a 335; I have a D'Angelico semi. He plays his, and I play mine through the same amp and they seem different. We swap, and and it becomes obvious that what I thought were sonic differences caused by the gear were really differences in the players.
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