: How often should I replace the strings on my guitar? When and why should you replace your guitar strings?

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I use Elixir strings on my main gigging guitars, generally 009's so fairly thin, and I usually get around 3 months out of them before I feel they are getting rusty and starting to have that atonal squeak sound. When I change one I change them all as I have Floyd Rose or Kahler trems on most of my guitars - and the same goes if one snaps: I replace the lot.

To make them last this long I do use fast fret every time before I play, and I wipe them down afterwards with a cloth.

My acoustics don't get played anywhere near as much so I change the top E maybe once a year, and as they have fixed bridges I only change a broken string, not the full set.

Seems to work for me.