Electric Guitar Strings?

[Old Gold]

Hmm... I've had a packet of Fender Bullets sitting on the window sill for a couple of months. I won't be chuffed if they're all dead rusty.

The D'Addarios currently on my guitar have lasted for ages. Still sound pretty smashing.

[Bigsby]

They were selling guitar strings in Asda for 50p the other week, but they were 9s, so I passed.

[Cabbage]

Any recommendations on bass string gauges? I tune my main bass down to drop C for a lot of the stuff I play, but I reckon I need to move up to a higher gauge to counteract the buzz I've been getting from the looseness of the strings. Also, any particular brand I should try?

Some excedingly dull advice:

I'd recommend using a 5 string set for drop C. I use Rotosound 5 String Swing Bass Strings 45-130 and chuck the .045 string. I also lifted the action as well, the extra string hieght and tension gets rid of all the buzzing, though it does make playing past the 10th frett a bit of a work out!!

[Guest droid]

Some excedingly dull advice:

I'd recommend using a 5 string set for drop C. I use Rotosound 5 String Swing Bass Strings 45-130 and chuck the .045 string. I also lifted the action as well, the extra string hieght and tension gets rid of all the buzzing, though it does make playing past the 10th frett a bit of a work out!!

DDT Bass Strings | DR Strings I use the standard Hi Beam sets,expensive but they last for ages.

[Cabbage]

DDT Bass Strings | DR Strings I use the standard Hi Beam sets,expensive but they last for ages.

Apparently rotosound do something similar now. I'll test them next string change an report back! If the suspense hasn't killed you!

[Lemonade]

R&B is until 5.30 (7 on Thursdays). Dunno how much that helps though ?(

Rotosounds are ok. I don't use them. British made hence cheaper but I don't bother with them.

D'Addario are my choice as they're a little brighter and tend to last longer than the Ernie Balls (personal experience).

Fender Bullets/Super Bullets - R&B don't stock them anymore as - like with DR - we were getting them coming through oxidised (batch after batch) and so lost faith and don't keep them anymore.

The day after you posted this I went into R&B and there was a box of Fender Bullets on the desk, you lying shit In fact you were standing next to me as I picked them up, went "Hmmmm" before asking for 4 packets of D'Addario's.