Positive Mental Trip

Luke Weiler of Positive Mental Trip has used DR Strings on his American Fender Stratocaster guitar on and off from 2006-2019. Almost all 2013-2014 PMT shows Luke was using DR strings. “I like DR Strings a lot... I’ve used DR, Ernie Ball, and D’addario strings on my electric guitars for the last 14 years playing live.” PMT Luke

Luke Weiler of Positive Mental Trip has used D’Addario EXL 115 guitar strings live with PMT. Ussually on his American Fender Stratocaster or Schecter C1 Elite. From 2006-2014 those were luke’s main 2 live/touring electric guitars and D’addario strings as well as DR and Ernie Ball Electric Guitar Strings were always around.

Luke Weiler of Positive Mental Trip has used Ernie Ball Regular Slinky strings on and off since 2006. During sessions for both “change your mind” (2012) and “The Black and White album”(2017) all his electric guitars had Ernie Ball regular slinky strings. Luke really likes Elixir Nanoweb and Polyweb strings the most but has a lot of guitars and plays all of those guitars a lot. Luke also loves the sound of D’addario and DR Strings on electric guitar but 90 percent of the time from 2006-2019, Ernie Ball Regular Slinky strings have been on all his electric guitars except the Godin Multiac.(nylon string electric synth guitar)

Luke Weiler of Positive Mental Trip uses Elixir Nanoweb custom light acoustic guitar strings on his Gibson J185 custom acoustic. “When I was on the road I was very hard on my guitars. Some nights I would play 2-3 hours on my acoustic or more. If the venue was less about the experimental dance music with synth loops and wild lead guitar shreds I might play acoustic for 4 hours a night. I had thicker gauge strings on all my guitars so I would’nt break strings during a performance. This took a toll on the Gibson in particular. I had to use 10 gauge strings on it for ahwile to fix the damage I caused it. I can put 11s on again now after a few years of baby-if it with 10s and it seems to be doing alright after a year. I will keep elixir custom light strings on it from now on to play it safe.This is a guitar I want to use on recoridings when I’m 50 and I want my son to use on recordings until he grows old.”

Luke Weiler of Positive Mental Trip has been known to use Elixir Nanoweb electric guitar strings on whatever electric he is playing the most. This changes a lot. He ussually keeps Ernie ball strings on most guitars and keeps 1 pair of Elixir coated strings on the guitar he feels he will be practicing, using in the studio, and playing live with the most. “Someone told me once I should change my guitar strings every 10 hours I play. That would cost me way too much $. I play 10 hours of guitar every 2-4 days!. The coated strings tend to last longer and unless they are dead as hell I play a set of strings until I bust them. I’m hard on strings and I do go through them a lot. I definitely play longer then 10 hours on every set of strings. It always feels good to put a fresh pair on when I’m done with the last one, since I play them straight to death.”