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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on October 5, 2015 at 10:34pm

Usually acoustic strings don't do well with magnetic pickups due to unequal sound(solid strings will tend to be very bright and loud compared to wound strings). This might not be a big deal if you have a 3 string CBG with all wound or all solid strings. If you have a pickup without individual pole pieces like a lipstick tube or rail type that problem will be lessened for instruments with both solid and wound strings.

Electric strings on a acoustic guitar will tend to have more treble and less bass. Using bigger strings will change that. Just depends on your personal tastes.

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on October 8, 2015 at 4:23pm

For me it's electric all the way. Even on my acoustic. 

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Permalink Reply by John Sawyer on October 8, 2015 at 6:04pm

The nice part of electric strings is they're lighter. Makes for easier fretting and bending. The downside is they have less tension, so the are not as loud acoustically. You can adjust for that by buying heavy strings, or using the EAD strings and tuning them up to Gdg...

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Permalink Reply by Richey Kay on October 8, 2015 at 6:54pm

Another +1 for electric strings, even on acoustics, lighter, brighter, keep their best tone longer, work better with magnetic pickups...

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