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Best Bass Guitar Strings

Ernie Ball Regular Slinky Nickel Wound Bass Set, .050 - .105
For over 50 years, Ernie Ball Slinky electric guitar strings have been the favorite of musicians across the globe, Ernie Ball's signature recipe consists of specific gauges and core to wrap ratios for balanced rich harmonics and that signature Slinky feel. Most popular bass string alloy.
Reviews
"Ernie Ball makes consistently great quality strings."
"When the set oxidizes the sound changes significantly."
"I'm surprised how well the B string plays."
"As always, great strings."
"replaced some 2 year old strings with these, and my bass guitar has a high end now!"
"About the heaviest gauge string on the market."
"Slinky's are always a good choice if 50-105 is what you are looking for."
"Great strings from Ernie Ball every time!"
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D'Addario ECB81 Chromes Bass Guitar Strings, Light, 45-100, Long Scale
D'Addario Chromes Flatwound Bass strings are famed for their smooth feel and warm, mellow tone. ECB81, D'Addario's best-selling Flatwound bass strings, are known for their warm, mellow tone and smooth polished feel. String Gauges: Wound .045, .065, .080, .100.
Reviews
"Still on the "out of box" pickups I get a semi almost upright sound but only if I play close towards the neck with the treble raised midway (on a Washburn bass). To me its a mind over matter thing with these strings, yes they sound nice but honestly, with proper technique you can achieve a similar sound quality with round wounds. With a good amount of pressure I get a nice Jaco sound but that could also be attributed to my fret removal, using Wooten's method's these strings can sound righteously funky (yes, funk on these can sound great), they are great for doing oldschool covers in general as they do boost that soulful thump (if handled properly) one can hear in motown music."
"I replaced my TI's with these because, even though the TI's are awesome strings, I was looking for something with a little more "old school" tone but not too much that there is no versatility. There are some complaints about the strings being a bit "sticky" at first."
"So I decided to trade my bass and got the offer I wanted but had a second thought to try flatwound strings on it first before getting rid of it, I am so incredibly glad I did that, I almost gave up on a Bass I love so much now."
"The best thing however is the lack of stress on the fingertips. I can play for 5 to 6 hours a day and back to back with minimal discomfort in my fingertips on either my right or left hand, this mean I never have to stop a practice session due to finger fatigue and I do almost all finger picking."
"This set, by its design, gives a very strong and powerful signal to the amp,...and therefore makes even my Schecter Diamond Series 4-string sound largely like the early P-bass with bottom to spare. The price is fair, and we'll see what kind of life they exhibit, as I don't want to be spending lots of hard-to-find cash on new strings at a frequency that is aggravating."
"On the advice of a my instructor I switched to Chromes because I was having difficulty hearing the subtleties of my playing in our (classic rock) live band mix."
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Ernie Ball 5-String Regular Slinky Nickel Wound Bass Set, .045 - .130
For over 50 years, Ernie Ball Slinky electric guitar strings have been the favorite of musicians across the globe, Ernie Ball's signature recipe consists of specific gauges and core to wrap ratios for balanced rich harmonics and that signature Slinky feel. Most popular bass string alloy.
Reviews
"Ernie Ball makes consistently great quality strings."
"When the set oxidizes the sound changes significantly."
"I'm surprised how well the B string plays."
"As always, great strings."
"replaced some 2 year old strings with these, and my bass guitar has a high end now!"
"About the heaviest gauge string on the market."
"Slinky's are always a good choice if 50-105 is what you are looking for."
"Great strings from Ernie Ball every time!"
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Best Classical Guitar Strings

D'Addario EJ45 Pro-Arte Nylon Classical Guitar Strings, Normal Tension
*J4501 - 0.028 inch (0.711mm) 15.3 lbs (6.94 kg). *J4502 - 0.0322 inch (0.818mm) 11.6 lbs (5.26 kg). *J4503 - 0.0403 inch (1.024mm) 12.1 lbs (5.49 kg). *J4504 - 0.029 inch (0.74mm) 15.6 lbs (7.08 kg). *J4505 - 0.035 inch (0.89mm) 15.0 lbs (6.80 kg) *J4506 - 0.043 inch (1.09mm) 14.0 lbs (6.35 kg). D'Addario's best selling Pro Arte set, Normal tension offers balance of volume and comfortable resistance.
Reviews
"At the time, my A-string had broke on my classical guitar, and I needed to get another to replace it."
"Took about 1 week of daily check/tuning for the strings to settle after restringing all strings on the guitar."
"I wish that I would have purchased the type of strings that have a "ball end" because they are so much easier to install."
"sounds great check UT "How to restring change Nylon Guitar Strings on GUITALELE Classical Review D'Addario EJ45 Pro Arte" and enjoy the sound."
"I've used D'Addario Strings my whole life."
"The strings really work nicely with my classical guitar."
"Strings were of high quality, I just don't enjoy restringing nylon strings."
"I know many folks love these strings and use them regularly."
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Best Acoustic Guitar Strings

D'Addario EJ16-3D Phosphor Bronze Acoustic Guitar Strings, Light, 3 Sets
Buy 3 sets and save with this environmentally friendly, corrosion resistant 3-pack D'Addario's most popular acoustic guitar string set Preferred for its warm, bright, and well balanced acoustic tone Made in the U.S.A. for the highest quality and performance String Gauges: Plain Steel .012, .016, Phosphor Bronze Wound .024, .032, .042, .053. D'Addario's most popular acoustic guitar string set.
Reviews
"- Bass not as strong as heavier strings, but easier to play."
"I bought a beat up used 12 string and the last step in its rehab was a fresh set of D-Addario EXP strings."
"Replace the string that came with the guitar with these and I'm very happy I did."
"These are great for the price."
"They are definitely strong but have problems staying tuned literally 30seconds after I've tuned it! That may be the way I string my guitar, who knows but it just happens every time I need to tune my guitar and it's annoying."
"I have only had these strings on my guitar for just a short time, but have used D'Addario's over the years.The strings are very good, tune easy, sound good."
"Great sounding strings."
"They corroded extremely fast and the sound quality changed drastically."
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Best Electric Guitar Strings

Ernie Ball Regular Slinky Nickel Wound Sets, .010 - .046 (3 Pack)
Regular Slinky wound strings are made from nickel plated steel wire wrapped around a hex shaped steel core wire. Played By Legends around the world including Slash, Jimmy Page, Metallica, Eric Clapton, and more...
Reviews
"I've used super slinky for years."
"Mine are 2 months old and still like new."
"Even though I usually go with D'addario, these are a pretty good substitute if you don't have the money to buy D'addario!"
"While I've been using string gauges in the .009 - .042 range for many years, I began thinking about the sounds of the guitars in the 1960s being built around heavier gauge strings."
"I feel like these are the standard strings..."
"Decent sound on a Strat but not as slide friendly with neck curvature."
"I gave a .10-.46 set a try and I really like these strings."
"My brother plays a Stratocaster and insists on Extra Slinky for faster bending and finger comfort."
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