D’Addario EXL160S Nickel Wound Bass Guitar Strings, Medium, 50-105, Short Scale
D’Addario XL Nickel Electric Bass strings are world-renowned as “The Player’s Choice” amongst bass players of all genres and styles. All XL strings are precision wound on our exclusive computer-controlled machines, ensuring each string has excellent into nation, clear fundamentals, and unparalleled consistency. The nickelplated steel wrap wire is known for it’s distinctive bright tone and excellent intonation and delivers a universally appealing tone for all playing styles.
Product Features
- D’Addario’s top-selling heavy gauge bass set
- Round wound with nickelplated steel for a distinctive bright tone with clear fundamentals and booming, tight low end
- Fits short scale basses with a string scale length of up to 32 inches
- String Gauges: Wound .050, .070, .085, .105
- Made in the U.S.A. for the highest quality and performance
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Decent strings for the price. I went with these … I bought these for my Fender Mustang PJ. Caveats: I am new to short scale basses (I used to play a Fender Jazz), and these are personal preferences.Having to cut the strings to fit was disconcerting (I double-checked that they were the short scale, the length was so off on the E and A). Mainly the tone is super-bright and metallic, and the strings are very noisy to play. Some of this could be the way the bass is set up, but even raising the action, there’s a lot of finger noise…
I bought two sets of these, one for a Fender Squier Modified Jaguar bass and the other for an Epiphone EB-0. I’ve been upgrading both and experimenting with strings, pickups, etc. just to discover what kind of improvements really work without spending a fortune or messing up an expensive legacy instrument. I had previously tried the lighter gauge 170S from D’Addario but wanted the same gauge as my longs scale for the short scale basses. After some neck and bridge setup changes, I am quite…