what gauge guitar strings do you use, and what tuning?

[justinhedrick]

C pentatonic.

That's absolutely bizarre—you tune your guitar to C - Eb - F - G - Bb - C?

this seems odd to me too, no power chords for you, huh?

[BigSwordfishtrombone]

My jaguar is tuned to D standard with 11-48 nickel strings (with a wound G). I've learned that I really need the wound G for my sound.

[dogfood]

Drop C#, because bassist dude likes C#.

As you can see from the pic 1) my left fore finger and I had a separating of ways!  Yes, I fret with my left hand.  Insert Iommi jokes here.  2) Soon after our bitter departing I discovered drop tuning.  Which, I really don't need, it's a hair bit easier on my left fore finger since the tip of my finger has zero fat padding.  Try not to understand this out the hard way--trust me.

I incorporate all sorts of jazzy chord crap so as to not look like I am playing one finger barre chords all the time...and because I like all sorts of jazzy chord crap.  Not that anyone notices either the one finger bar chords or the jazzy cool sounding chords. 

Personally, I would play in Standard E or Drop D because everything on Classic Rock Radio was in (relatively) that kinda tuning.  But, we have been moving away from that for quite some time, haven't we?. 

[Andrew Blakk]

In the band we use drop-c tuning. I've been playing around with diffrent gauges during the years. Mostly on the thicker strings. But recently I've been using 0.11-0.54. I kind of prefer 0.12-0.60-0.56 when it comes to riffing but I't noticed that the overall intonation gets so much better and I play better as well with the thinner ones. It's fun to struggle and fight with the guitar but kind of hard to struggle all the time if you're a weak ass person as myself. 

[moose23]

Bass in C or C# .065 - .125

Would like to try .060/.065 - .115/.120 but finding them at reasonable prices is hard.