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Musician's Gear

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Manufactured from the finest nickel-plated steel wire wrapped around a platinum hexagon steel core to produce higher magnetic response for greater brilliance, volume, sustain, and strength.
Musician's Gear Electric 5-String Nickel Plated Steel Bass Strings
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WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including Nickel (Metallic), which is known to the State of California to cause cancer. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov

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4.5

16 Reviews

90%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend

Lost their plating very quickly
A great deal for the price, whether you play a 4 or 5 string

Most Liked Positive Review

5

A great deal for the price, whether you play a 4 or 5 string

I have been playing over forty years. I played the Sunset Strip in the 1980s, so when we weren't playing gigs, we were rehearsing. I have never found strings worth $8-$10 apiece. I own a dozen basses; 4-strings, 5-strings, fretted, and fretless. Currently I use these on a fretless 4-string tuned BEAD, so with each pack,I get a free G-string! ;) At their current price, these Musicians' Gear 5-string sets are a great deal!

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Most Liked Negative Review

3

You get what you pay for

I needed a cheap set of strings. I had used the 4 string set before and they were great. This set out of the package the d sounded dead. I put them on before a show and within the first half of the show my fingers were BLACK. Something was coming off the strings onto my fingers. Okay well I cleaned the strings with string cleaner and no more black stuff. The very next show broke the A string. It might have been just that set. I have another set to try. We shall see.

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Best Uses
  1. Practicing5
  2. Back-Up4
  3. Concerts3
  4. Studio and Live use1
Cons
  1. Not available in-store1
Describe Yourself
  1. Experienced7
  2. Novice1
  3. Professional Musician1
Pros
  1. Good Tone9
  2. Consistent7
  3. Well Built / Quality6
  4. Long Life5
  5. Inexpensive1

Reviewed by 16 customers

  • Work as they should

    5

    Verified Buyer

    submitteda year ago

    byBrandon

    fromChattanooga, tn

    Submitted as part of a sweepstakes

    Seems great from what I can tell. Good quality!

  • Inexpensive bass string set

    4

    submitteda year ago

    byKraig

    fromOregon

    Even if you only play a 4 string bass, these 5 string sets are a better deal than you'll ever see. I've used this brand before and they were bight sounding and lasted a good long time.

  • They fit my Stingray special

    5

    submitted3 years ago

    byEnrique

    fromBrownsville TX

    These strings have that brightness and output that any big brand out there has to offer, idk about the alloy since these look more white/blue-ish than my usual rotosounds, these just do the job, do the test, if they stick to the bass pickup magnets, it means they´re good!

  • Budget priced, quality strings

    5

    submitted5 years ago

    bySyco G.

    fromOhio

    I gotta say, these are pretty decent strings for a .,.basement bargain priçe

  • I always use these.

    5

    submitted5 years ago

    byWayne D.

    fromRienzi, Ms

    As good as any of the ones that cost 2 or 3 times as much.

  • I keep these in stock

    5

    submitted5 years ago

    byRick F.

    fromWest Monroe, LA.

    The Musician's Gear line of strings is not a big line up, but it is a good one. Elloree Guitars keeps these in stock for what is built and serviced.

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  • submitted6 years ago

    asked byNick bdn

    fromNorth las vegas

    Do these strings fit long scale basses ?

    Open Reply - Beau
    These strings would work on a long scale bass.