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DR Strings Black Beauty Bass 5 String - 45-125
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DR's Black Beauty strings offer bass players a superior black coated string without sacrificing the crisp tone, clarity, and volume of traditional DR HandMade Strings. EXTRA-Life has a super thin advanced .0003" black coating on the plain strings and on the wrap wire, the thinnest coating DR knows of.
**Black Coated Bass Strings on Hexagonal Core
**Black Coated Bass Strings on Hexagonal Core
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Closest Store Guelph, Ontario
Crisp punchy sound! I bought them for my Washburn acoustic, but they were too metallic sounding for that bass. I put them on my Gibson RD Artist bass and love the sound! That bass takes a long scale plus string, so I was pleasantly surprised that these strings fit that guitar!
Posted by JD on Dec 3, 2022
Great Tone with a Pick 1 of 1 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store Scarborough, Ontario
I put these on an Ibanez SR505 and use mostly Ibanez (soft and hard) Elastomer 2.2 picks with this setup since they protect the coating. Moreover, the tone of this combination is simply awesome! Very lively, very soulful, very complex, including the B string, and with very little pick noise. As far as the coating goes, I have experienced no flaking. But, the strings do need to be protected from damage while installing.
Posted by Jono on Mar 18, 2022
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Closest Store Peterborough, Ontario
I played a show with these. It was a caverness building with tons of on-stage gear, none of it mine. I was merely insurance for "no shows". I was surprized to actually hear myself. I have saved these strings in an acoustic bass case in case one of the Optimus strings break. This my not be what you are looking for but don't kid yourself. This is way better than most, by far.
Posted by Brittain Johnson on Jun 16, 2019
Excellent investment 0 of 0 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store Toronto (Bloor St.), Ontario
As soon as they arrived I put them on my Fender Jazz and tried them out...and I'm fully satisfied!..A great sound, still keeping that bright roundwound tone but slightly less punishing on the fingers and frets. So glad I got them!
Posted by Denis on Apr 15, 2019
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Closest Store Toronto (Bloor St.), Ontario
I love them!...arrived this afternoon, so I put them on my Fender Jazz and tried them out...they sound marvellous!..not as harsh on the fingertips as regular roundwounds. I hate changing strings (the previous ones on my Jazz were put on 25 years ago), so I wipe them down after every playing ...let's see how long these Black Beauties last
Posted by anonymous on Apr 12, 2019
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| Product | SKU | Qty |
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| Black Beauty Bass 5 String - 45-125 | 191822 |
