Do you use the same guage on every bass?

[jasper383]

I find that my P bass feels and maybe sounds better with 45-105 guage, and my J copy with light guage (40-90?) strings. Does anyone else do this?

Sometimes I wonder if having different guages slows me down technique-wise because the feel is different. Should I pursue the same guages across basses?

[HMZ]

I use the same gauge on all my basses 45-65-85-105 it seems to work for me.

[tplyons]

45-100 with flats, 45-105 rounds.

[joeyl]

Originally Posted by tplyons

45-100 with flats, 45-105 rounds.

+1

Also I tried the 50-110 flats and they put a nice bow in the neck, at full y tightened truss. I may try this on a new P neck I bought, because obviously the J neck is too thin for this kind of abuse

[Dave Siff]

My main tuning is DGCF, and I use either the La Bella Hard Rockin' Steels D Tuning set (.054-.075.-.090-.111) or Ernie Ball Power Slinkys (.055-.075-.090.-.110.) For standard tuning, I like .045-.105.

Yes, 43-104 La Bella 760FL's on all of my basses.

George

[1kinal]

I always use the same guage for 4-strings. 45-105.

I'm still experimenting with low-B but my choice is either 130 or 135.

I do use different brand or type (SS, nickel) depending on the bass.

[hartke20g]

i usually buy some ernie ball super slinkies and d'addario (whatever the standard set is called), put the E & A slinkies and D & G d'addarios on my J bass and the E & A d'addarios with the D & G slinkies on my OLP. i really detest having to setup my basses again with different strings.

[nad]

Nope. Heavy flats on my P, not so heavy rounds on the J, pretty light rounds on the Sterling.

Different basses, different sounds, different techniques, different approaches.

[agreatheight]

I generally use 45-105s on my fretted basses, but prefer 40-100s on my fretless.