[VaSteve]

For my acoustic I use D'Addario's. As I recall they were pretty cheap (used to play a lot more and change a lot more often) and the sound was good enough for my purposes. I used to use extra lights, but went for lights last time. The color coding made it easy to figure out what went where when restringing.

I'm sure others will have better reasons for their choices based on semi-important things like "tone" and "sound".




PS: I never cared to much about oxidation - which usually only took a couple of days. Once that brassy finish went away, genrally so did the brassy new string sound.