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bo1142

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I put lights on my GSmini and......
« on: December 14, 2011, 05:48:58 PM »
I put lights on my GSmini and it sounds great.  I lost a little volume, but it made playing alot easier on my fingers.  If anyone is tempted to try it, I highly recommend it.  If I'm planning on playing with a group of others, I'll bring my 814ce, so losing the volume doesn't really matter to me, it's more about comfort.
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2003 Fender Strat MIM
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LindaLoo

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Re: I put lights on my GSmini and......
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2011, 04:47:10 PM »
Ooh, I bet they're pretty...

....Oh.  :-[ :-[


Seriously though, I've put lights on mine and I'm happy with the results.  I just play on the couch so volume isn't really an issue for me.

Hoping that one day a Taylor 1 11/16" 12 fret Grand Concert will be a BTO possibility! :)

BigSkyTaylorPlayer

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Re: I put lights on my GSmini and......
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2011, 05:04:14 PM »
Ooh, I bet they're pretty...

....Oh.  :-[ :-[

LOL....I was thinking the same thing.....lights on a guitar????  Oh.....!

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Re: I put lights on my GSmini and......
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2011, 05:14:46 PM »
Before long, someone is going to go to the trouble of decking out their guitar with fairy lights as a response to thread titles about lights!

Although I've presently got uncoated mediums on my GSmini, I put a set of Elixir pb lights on a few months back and they sounded great. My next set will probably be 80-20 nano lights.

Even though official advice on the GSmini is that mediums work best with the scale length, the lights also sound very good. I seem to recall Bob T being asked somewhere if it would be a problem switching to lights on a 100 series guitar, and his answer was that the guitar will still sound great, it'd just lose a bit of volume and have more of an intimate sound. My experience on the GSmini is just the same. In fact sometimes the intimate sound is a bonus, for instance if you're using it as a travel guitar and playing late night in your hotel room etc.