yeah I did that to, but the lighter string lightened the bass tone and it wasn't as heavy and deep. Me personally I play a six string and I use the heavy guage ones for my B-E-A strings and use a lighter ones for my D-G-C for soloing purposes. I know one day when I had all light strings and went to my church I had to turn the bass all the way up to get what I was used to getting and my slapping I guess was too hard and it sounded terrible and had to mute more so. I was using the ken smith slap masters super lites. They probably were too light. So to each is own, whatever that floats the boat.