Amazing! I will add this to my study playlist and office as well. Very calm and motivated

What strings are used? Two different sets?

Live it. In the market for one now. What do you exactly use for the strings? I have a 6 string banjo now and use the daddario Nashville set. Thanks

What gauge strings? I have a '76 acoustic "big bowl." 👍

This was by far a very informative presentation. 1 own a 74 Takamine F385 and still going strong only bc of using light or ultralight gage stings , having the neck checked for bowing and low action every 5 to 10 yrs. But the biggest improvement was ensuring I had a bone nut and saddle installed right from the get go… Thankyou again for reassuring my maintenance and upkeep plan.

I hav Ernie balls coming for my 12 string. Looking forward to them even more now

Retro strings are tonally meant to be flat picked, not finger folky.

Gonna look into that and buy a set. Thank you Greg

Love the hummingbird inlays on your Guild 12-string - full custom or commercially available?

Been Playing 12-string since 1967 or so learning from Pete Seeger Kpttke etcand your videos are the best i have seen on guages etc You are a brilliant 12-string player thrown in!! WELL DONE!!!

Very informative. I appreciate your passion towards the instrument and music in general. Thank you. Liked. Subscribed

For my 1998 JF-30 12-string, maple back and sides, spruce top, ebony bridge and fingerboard, made in Westerley, Rhode Island. I use D'addario EJ38 Phosphor Bronze 10-47 light gauge strings tuned to E standard. This Guild has dual truss rods, one beneath the high strings and one beneath the low strings. They can be adjusted separately for possible neck twist issues. I've made no truss rod adjustments and it plays like a dream! To play in D standard I would string it with 12-52s, otherwise it will buzz from too low of string tension.

I picked up a 6 string banjo because it took me an age to learn guitar even halfway decent. I learned some banjo picking stuff to play on the bangitar to get more of a banjo sound then found I use some of the banjo technics when playing my guitar. It's a win win.

Just wanted to say you have a great name

Thank you so much ... those 9 gauge g strings pop too easy ...capo it is for me now!

this is the best video i've seen on string guages for 12 strings. i learned a ton from this. thank you.

Thx

I have an Ibanez 12 l bought a month ago. Tuned to d and capo=play foreverrrrrr

How did you hook up the Dean pick up…..

Crow River Waltz at 7.00…is that not normally in E flat tuning ?

anytime would be the right time for this video!!! Thanks

1963 was my revelation year. I found an LP of instrumental 12 string tunes by Billy Strange. This one . . . kzbin.info/www/bejne/mn6akqV5mb2mgbs And that was it. Then in 1964 . . . kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZamnIdqaJmoh5Y By then I'd bought my first 12 and haven't been without one since. My collections of CDs and vinyls has grown massively, as has my love of this instrument. It's great for a lot more than strumming - it's wonderful for playing melody and lead. There are a lot of very famous 12 string players, but I'll end with 3 names you may not know, or may not associate with 12's Angela Lancieri, whose sense of touch is astonishing ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIjLqmmhodSSorc Justin Johnson , a phenomenal slide guitarist who has also recorded several videos of him playing a 12 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rn64pqCGe6p6mbM If you want a tutorial by him, check this out (he demos slide at the end) ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4e4m3SBqdV9m6M Finally - Eiro Nareth . . . kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYnOdGxoidard9k If you like the more old-style, folky/jazzy/blues style of 12 string music, check out the CD 'The complete 12 string story' with music from the 60's. This is available on Amazon as a set of mp3 downloads or (sometimes) as a CD. Finally . . . kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIKTn4N4h8eLgq8

The visual of the strings is incorrect at the end. The B is a 13 and G is a 17. Just clearing that up for anyone confused like me, lol

@starlightgrecording559 Guitar Studio*** Gerard Stroh Here!!! When I Was Young Back in the 70's I Would Play John Denver Albums and Carly Simon and Harry Chapin and America and What Got Me Started on 12 String Guitar Was John Denver and He Played A Custom Built Guild Guitar and it is Called Guild F612 xl nt That Was Built For John Denver and His Name is Carlo Greco and He Work For Guild Guitar Company in the 70's and it Was A 12 string Guitar With an 18 inch at the lower Bout and the Body Was 21 inches Long and it had A 26 1/2 Scale Length and it Was Like A Baritone 12 String Guitar and He Had to use A Capo on the Second Fret to Do Use E standerd Tunning Because the Scale Length is too Long for The Octive G String to Be Tune up The Pitch*** When I Was 15 years old I Played and Own A Yamaha 12 string Guitar it Sounded Good But it Was Hard to Play!!! and in 1987 I Got My First Guild 12 String Guitar and it is A Guild D-25-12 String Guitar and It Has 2 Trust Rods inside the Neck and It Has Very Low Action and At The Same time I Special Order A Guild B30-E Acoustic Fretles Acoustic Bass Guitar and it Has A 18 inch Body at the Lower Bout and the Body is 21 inches and it is A Super Big Acoustic Bass!!! I Own 5 Guild Guitars and I Also Own A 8 String Baritone Guild Guitar and I Own A Jumbo Guild Guitar and I Have it Tune Down to B to B and I Have 5 Pairs of Octive Strings and I have an Octive String Whare The B String is and It Sounds Awesome!!! I Also Have An Rickenbacker 360-12 string Electric Guitar!!! I still Like To Get A Fancy Guild 12 String Guitar Like John Denvers and or Get A Nice Used Guild F-512 Guitar Some Day**** Guild Guitars Is My No.1 Choice**** All From Gerard Stroh!!!

Work for Charlie Kaman for years still do. When kaman Corp. Still have the music division, employees get discount. Charlie also created Gibraltar drums. Charlie passed in 2011. Just like any other founding fathers of American companies, children and grandchildren wants money, sold music division in 2013. I own a couple of early 90's high end ovation.

I have the Black Mountain light pick and I love it. Sounds great on my banjitar too.

That happened to me after a 2 x 12 bar rock'n'roll solo. The singer was nodding "go again!" and I thought "WTF what am I going to do!" ! I nearly screwed it up but I got away with it and the crowd love it so "Phew ...... thank goodness for that."

This is kind of the info I was looking for. Currently I have martin life span lights on a 1956 martin D-18. The issue is I wanted put some flexible core strings on but a truss rod adjustment is not an option because the guitar doesn't have one. I don't have much leeway. If I don't humidify this guitar through the winter and keep the humidity around 45%, it will start to buzz as it gets drier. I read somewhere that the flexcore strings have the same tension. Any insights?

Lovely, moody playing. Really nice.

Fantastic tip. My 1979 Classical 1613 thanks you.

I have two, a spalted maple six string and a sunburst 12 string. They are fantastic and have unique tone.

Can I plug this in to my fishman loudbox?

Are you really playing this two and a half steps down? B flat standard? I ask because this is how I have my Les Paul and I'd give anything for a 12-string I can adapt the same tuning from

Your analysis would apply to any guitar...good video!!!

Black mountain has a "jazz" profile pick that's a bit smaller and will get you closer to the strings.

ah! goes perfect on a quiet night, alone while looking at the stars and reminiscing life's precious moments!

Wow someone who can actually play a 12! lol Got a Maton SRS70C 12 recently and just ordered a G7th Newport 12 string capo. Played 12s live for years in standard tuning. I'll be tuning the Maton down a halfstep forevermore as I'll only be recording and multi-tracking alone from here on in. I'm after slightly reduced neck tension, a little more low end beef and to drone on with Irish bozoukis etc. No I am not changing my name to Leo. 😆 Great video thanks and all the best to you!

You are way more competent then the first video I watched at tuning a 12-string acoustic guitar.

Well, thank you for the info my Taylor 12 string thank you probably 1999 I keep it tuned at regular pitch and never had any problems with it even not using my light gauge strings and always stays in tune. I’m gonna try different varieties and different tuning.

Just this week it occurred to me that my crummy Samick banjitar might gain a new lease of life with Nashville tuning. I strung it with D'Addario EXL150H nickels and it sounds right, it plays in tune, and it's a fine fingerpicking banjo. Then I checked KZbin and found that other folks had done that before me. This could easily be the standard tuning for banjitar.

I have owned four banjitars. Two of them sounded OK and I should have kept the Gretsch. The one I own now is a Samick and it sounds pretty bad. At least it did until a few days ago, when I strung it with a set of electric nickel-plated strings in Nashville tuning. That was a revelation. It's like having a new banjo.

I tune my 12s down to C, then the g normally in the third position, is now in the "b" or 2nd position which the octave g gives advantages for melody lines with a high sound, especially capoed up. I also use a single string for the low C with 0.059" and the F 0.046" so the 12 is actually a 10 string.

My beef with the Classic Vibe Starcaster is that the neck pickup is too wide for the string spacing. See for yourself in this very video at 4:19. For this guitar, I think Squier just grabbed the widerange pickups that were really designed for their Classic Vibe '70s Telecaster Deluxe. The tele has "Fender" string spacing that fits the pickups; there's a Fender-esque bridge (i.e. with height and intonation screws for each of 6 separate saddles) there for it. So the Widerange pickups were also made, as with tradition, for wider string spacing. The trouble is that here on the Starcaster, there's a Tune-O-Matic style bridge (intonation screws for each of 6 sliding saddles, with dual height screws for the whole bridge), with traditional T-O-M spacing, and the Starcaster's neck width matches this narrow bridge. The old Fender Starcaster version also had a tweaked Fender-style bridge. The 2012 reissue had a TOM bridge, but the strings fit the pickups. I think that's because the reissue pickups were simply standard humbuckers with repositioned bobbins under a special 3/3 cover, and matching screw polepieces. In other words, the reissue pickups were Gibson-spaced, so they fit the TOM guitar. I think the Squier CV Starcaster's polepieces are threaded magnets, like the original Fender version (and not like the reissue), and that the pickups were made to git another guitar, but they don't fit this one, and the sound from the outer strings suffers from it, even raising the polepieces up progressively higher and higher.

Been playing on an Applause AE-28, but my brother just gave me a 1971 Ovation Balladeer to fix up (he knows I love a project.)

I like the Earnie Ball Silk and Steel 2051, 9 t0 46 gauge. I like a softer 12 string sound, and finger picking theses string is very pleasant.

Great suggestion, Greg. The slipping problem with Ovation guitars is annoying. Thank you?

It sounds very cool. I like it 👍👍 Did you have to re-adjust the truss to compensate for the difference in the string tension of that setup ??

Thanks for this refreshingly honest review. I put a set on my cheap Recording King parlor guitar, and I'm a little mixed on them myself. They work well when I'm singing because they are softer/gentler and give me some space. They also hold their tune really well and sound the same after weeks of daily playing. They don't corrode like phosphor bronze. But you're right about the bass response and generally thinner sound. I think they work well for some contexts and they're probably better on some guitars than others. But I don't know that I'll make the switch for my nicer dreadnought and OM.

I use Martin Retros on my 12-string - they break in quickly, have low tension and that transparent, balanced tone. Not for everyone but my choice. Oh, and they hold their tuning very well.