u/HermanbobGooz

I was at guitar center the other day and saw a beautiful ESP LTD MH1000 in the charcoal burst finish that I wanted to try, so I grabbed it and tuned it to Drop C (was already set up in C# standard and was still intonated just fine after tuning)

I also noticed the strings seemed really light for how well they handled this tuning and I asked the clerk what gauge strings they were. After a few seconds of feeling it up, he said 9s, which I didn’t quite believe but he was adamant.

They were light and easy to bend, but not too floppy or loose. Could it have been something along the lines of a 9-48 set, or was he just straight up wrong? I used to play with 11-54s on another 25.5 scale guitar yet the strings on this LTD feel much lighter