Bought a cheap Peavey T-25

[sergiomunoz74]

For using as my beater guitar in a industrial grindcore thing I'm putting together. Just drums and me, it's the first time I'll have a second guitar in a long time, and I was trying to set it up to play nicely in a low tuning, I was used to just using my pitchfactor to tune it down two whole steps. I wanted to ask what do people tend to use as far as string gauge and tuning combos for heavier stuff? I don't think I wanna do crazy low tunings because I need to maintain clarity when Im shredding nonsensically through blast beats and synths n shit.

[gnomethrone]

i like the ernie ball Not Even Slinky sets for dropped b / c# standard on my jazzmaster. nice snap while still being easy to chord. might be a little light for the peavey's shorter scale. what are ya thinking about tuning to?

[sergiomunoz74]

Actually I was thinking aroud the same C flat standard or b standard. I don't jive well with drop tunings but the scale is a gibson scale (24.75) so yeah I wasn't really sure as my current guitar is on E standard and uses regular ol 10's but the scale is like 25.1 or something.

[Olin]

Always been a fan of D'addario for no real reason outside of "their box is better" and that I've had no faults with them. For super low tunings, EXL157's are super thick (just baritone strings) but I would recommend EXL148's 100%. I put them on when I'm in C standard or lower and never have any issues, plus a plain G string instead of the usual wound G's you get usually in that thickness.

[BoatRich]

I use the D'addario NYXL 12-60 for drop C# and Kalium 14's any lower.

[DRodriguez]

I have no good advice on low tunings, but I just want to say peavey guitars are underrated. Great snag.

[sergiomunoz74]

Yeah I figured this would be great guitar to have in my practice space so I don't have to cart around my EGC back and forth. Especially since I don't live in the nicest areas of Chicago haha. Either way I think Im gonna try some of those d'addario's. It seems like it would be great as I'd rather not have a wound G too. I might do C sharp and if I need to tune any lower I'll just use my pitchfactor as no one notices the difference beside me when I play my standard E guitar pitch shifted down to C flat.

Im just hoping I like the neck on this guitar as people say its really thin.

[fcknoise]

I use a set of snake oil jazz strings, because it has a wound g string. Wound g strings are bomb