Your Acoustic Guitar String Gauge Guide (AT86)

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Featured in This Episode...
#4 String Guage Selection Guide
#3 This week's featured artist has been on constant repeat for the entire Acoustic Life team. I'm talking about Phoebe Bridgers.
#2 A Hockey, Bourbon, Guitar Collision
#1 Jason Momoa and Colter Wall

[@eddiesguitars]

BEST EPISODE EVER!!! Guitars and hockey - two beautiful worlds colliding into happiness!

[@guyvishnu]

Ok, Tony. Just an idea I'd like to see on Acoustic life. We guitar geeks often lust after certain guitars. How 'bout each episode having a Guitar Pin-up picture of a special guitar.

[@jrvierra]

On Bridgers - Noah! Wow. You are amazing. You nailed it on noticing the "spaces". I have always thought that art is mostly about the "negative space" defined by the artist. Phoebe paints with negative space. You explained it brilliantly.

[@boydbc]

Awwww....cute pup! I've had dogs in my life since I was born. I can't imagine life without man's best friend.

[@sharontiano1348]

Congrats Noah.. your daughter (and the rest of the family) are going to discover a whole new kind of love .. your daughter is beautiful

[@philthomas4471]

Happy Acoustic Tuesday from Vinton, IA. Loving the show and catching up on previous installments of your show. Have a ways to go in order to get caught up!

[@pickerdad8402]

A big THANK YOU to Tony for the segment on string gauge! I've been playing and studying guitar for a very long time, and most of what Tony said about string gauge I had never heard before. That's pretty rare. As a fingerstyler, I had really never given any thought to medium strings, but thanks to this show, I realized that I have one guitar tuned to open C, where the low E is tuned down 4 semitones (frets), and I have been struggling with buzz. Actually I describe it more as string "rattle" against the frets. Now I'm inspired to try medium gauge on that guitar. Also, I had never considered scale length in my string gauge decision, and now I can make some more intelligent string choices. Thanks again Tony. Acoustic Tuesday is a treasure

[@blakewicklein8571]

Hello from Bellville, TX. Hope y'all are having a great Acoustic Tuesday! I'm playing electric guitar on Easter Sunday and 300 people will be there at the minimum! Wish me luck.

[@colakeith1]

Love the great guitar geekness emanating throughout! Great tips and fun today!! Phoebe Bridgers will be a wonderful addition to my music compilation. Thank you, Tony and Noah. Our guides through the dark forest to the light of illumination of the land of Acoustic Life!

[@stupiddooley2140]

Great show, and yes I do watch the Acoustic Tuesday show on my 50" plasma T.V..

[@wushu3162]

Tuning in from singapore! As always great show and so informative! Loving it!😬

[@DrFearCo]

I run an oasis and a humidipak and it works perfectly. You also never need to re hydrate the boveda packs since the oasis releases enough humidity that the humidipak stays hydrated. It will add humidity in the winter and remove humidity in the summer. Works great

[@voucherboy8588]

Happy Tuesday from Cardiff, Wales!

[@tedr.]

Saw Phoebe Bridgers with Better Oblivion Community Center in Providence RI a few weeks ago. Very cool!

[@sp1kline]

I like the artists that you mention and how you put out some of their work. Conversation about Bridgers was very good.

[@paulhudson7719]

Tuning in today from Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Travel is great, but even better with a dose of home in the form of Acoustic Tuesday. Thanks to the entire TAC/AT team. Paul H

[@kerrif6414]

And interesting trivia about hockey and guitar - thanks!

[@jeteye97]

Good grief. What perfect timing! Just what I’ve been doing by trial and error on my new J-45 Studio model. I found Elixer phosphor bronze HD lights to my liking, so far. All the best to all of y’all!

[@kjgas6945]

Another great show. My favorite guitar is my seagull S6 original I've had a lot more expensive guitars but the seagull is the best for me.

[@arvedbohn6133]

Talking about string gauges: What I like to do is going with really heavy strings to go very low (I don't own a bass, so I'm tuning very low to still be able to get some of those low notes while playing). I'm tuning my acoustic guitar to ADADAD, I'm using a 7-string electric set without the G-string to accomodate the low A string (013-074). It's awesome for being able to get some bass into your guitar playing, especially while holding a bar chord and playing the melody over it (the low A comes in really handy for this) and, of course, for doing what I love to do: Playing medieval/folky tunes and using the low strings as drones! ;) Greetings from Fridingen an der Donau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany! :D