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The joy of semi-acoustics. My 330 has always refused to settle down with 10's mostly because of bridge break-angle but it loves 11's, which luckily suits me okay. Recently tho it's acquired a delightful phantom ringing noise on the G string which has eluded me despite poking, prodding and holding every single freaking component. I strongly suspect the tailpiece (an original, it took me ages to get round to finding one) but I cannot suss exactly where the noise is coming from. But fuck it the thing is 60 years old so it's probably allowed a complaining squeak or two.
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In much less interesting set-up experimentation news: Although the Riviera was playing great I thought i'd try 9’s on it. Although it played great with 10's i felt that the high E string was stiffer feeling than the other unwound strings. I put this down to the weird frequensator tailpiece which makes the string length behind the bridge much shorter (and therefore tighter) on the top three than the longer bottom three.
So I switched the tailpiece around to have the longer string length on the top three and put a set of 9's on... lived with it for week or two but nope. The 9's felt slinky enough but I found them hard to get hold of for bends. Hard to explain but when I went to bend it felt like the string would slip out from under my fingers, as if i was about to "drop" the bend all the time. The other thing was that every string bend was accompanied by ticks, pinks and creaks from the bridge. Not sure if this was down to the lighter strings or the tailpiece switch... either way it made it virtually unplayable. Certainly unrecordable.
Switched back on Friday immediately fell back in love with it. Easy fretting, bending and no more ticks and creaks. Weird how much difference it made.