Ernie Ball P02726 Cobalt Not Even Slinky Electric Guitar Strings 12-56

These cobalts are my favorite kind of strings, been using them for a decade now. They seem to last longer and sound better than regular slinky's and any other pure nickel strings. Much easier on the nickel allergy as well.

You can feel the difference when playing compared to other strings.

Use for drop c tuning on a 25 1/2 scale guitar. Nice and stable. Not ta very bright and crisp sound from them but tuning is rock solid.

I love these strings, wonderfully SHARP but with good low end too. I play only with fingers so I need a lot of attack and these have it; the high frequency off the wound strings is head and shoulders above plain nickel wound. The unwound strings are, of course, exactly the same as regular slinkys. I have med-jumbo Jescar SS frets and this too helps with brightness. If you don't like bright you can always roll it off at the amp but these strings have great power. One thing I noticed with my last set (which last ~2-3 months of 1-3h daily playing) is that a couple of the new strings snapped at the Sperzels, but once I rounded off some sharp edges with a needle file the EBs are again bullitproof. An added benefit is that with fairly radical Kahler usage and no lock nut they come back to pitch 90% of the time, very stable after about 1 week break in.

These are really awful strings. I have to restring again- annoyed

Alright, So I got a new pack of the same strings which did not break on me as soon as I started tuning. All I can say is...WOW! these are honestly one of my new favorite strings. The sound on each string sounds great. I had the Gibson guitar string then the Standard Slinky. These are way better, major difference in string sound! I play a lot of metal and hard rock. I only got these because Kevin Skaff from A Day to Remember use these in his guitar. Now I see why.