D'Addario Guitar Strings - Acoustic Guitar Strings - Nickel Bronze - For 6 String Guitar - Natural, Clear, & Focused Tone - NB1253 - Light, 12-53

Great sound on my Loar archtop. Not as loud as the more expensive 1/2 wounds but great tone and even with my sloppy chording they don't squeak!

I was looking for a different sound from my Taylor 322ce grand concert 12 fret (mahogany t/b/s). I had been using daddario phosphor bronze strings for the past year. On the first strum, my guitar really sang! The sound is balanced, and clear, with great projection,and brings out the tonal qualities of the wood. My go to strings for this guitar from now on.

These sound great on mahogany top guitars and are my favorite strings for them, and mahogany guitars are my jam. The martin retro monel strings are very similar, but maybe have a bit more depth of sound in the low end, however, the Martins seem to die after a month or 6 weeks. I mean the 5th and 6th strings start to sound muddy and muted and lose their resonance. These are very close to that sound, but last a long time. They don't sound worse, they're almost identical to the martin monel but seemingly keep their sound/tone/everything for a long time. They also don't corrode even though they're uncoated, and are somewhere between coated and uncoated phosphor bronze strings in terms of stickiness/smoothness. I also really like them on some spruce top guitars, in particular a taylor 314ce. but one of my very old spruce dreadnoughts sounds wrong with them, an old yamaha. I also have them on a cedar top seagull and I disliked them at first, buy I think are sounding better after a week or so. Not sure about that one. I say they're made for and really enhance mahogany guitars. They sound so great on both of my mahogany guitars, a taylor gs mini and an all solid alvarez, and I will buy them for as long as daddario makes them for those guitars. People will ask you why you have electric strings on an acoustic guitar, because they're silver (nickel) in color instead of bronze.

These strings give me the deep bass tone I'm looking for as well as the great high end compliments! They play GREAT , they BEND Amazing, and honestly, as much as I play my acoustic, they LAST a LONG TIME! Amazon Packed together my order which arrived overnight, and the Packaging was absolutely pristine!!! Always the BEST by Two Great Companies!!!

These strings sound harsh after installation, but they even out and sound quite even and clear after some playing--and hold up a good long time. I wouldn't recommend them for immediate use in stage or studio as they don't sound good at first, but if you want one good set of strings that will last for a while with good tone and even intonation, I think they're a good buy. I don't put them on all my guitars, and don't put them on if there's a gig or recording session coming up immediately--but they're great on my main J-45 when I know I'm going to be playing it a lot. I've had my last set for 8 months and am only changing them now. I'm using the light set, but I'm going to try a custom light set on another guitar just to see how they feel.

There was a discussion about strings on an acoustic guitar forum and some "recommended" (strongly suggested) trying these strings. I searched the interwebs (YouTube) to see what reviewers said about them. There were several reviews, often comparing the sound of these against other strings. In all the reviews the results were similar. I thought the NB's improved the sound of each instrument. In my case, I have a Taylor 614CE that I was looking to tweak the sound a bit on. I was having a bit of buyer's remorse because I really loved the bass response of the 814ce, but OTOH the 814 sometimes sounded muddy to my ear. The 914 is a $5k guitar and out of what I'm willing to spend. I was just about ready to sell the 614 to look for something else when I tried the D'Addario NB's... and WOW! The NB's brought this guitar to life and did everything that this particular (614) guitar needed to sound amazing. The bass tightened up and projected and balanced out the mids and highs. If you know anything about Taylor, their guitars can be BRIGHT. The 614 being a maple body and sides needed some taming. The NB's help retain the shimmer but tamp down the "ice pick" highs that some Taylors are prone to. To be fair, I've had a set of them on my '81 MIJ Epiphone PR-755s for a week. They're pretty good on that guitar, but interestingly, THIS guitar's sound is not as balanced with the NB's as it is with a fresh set of Martin Marquis. Bottom line: You're going to have to try them for yourself. They're pricier than other sets so you have to be the judge. So far I haven't found anything that sounds as good on my Taylor, and I've tried *a lot* of different strings on it. They're cheaper than Elixirs and (for me) last just as long (I don't like Elixirs either after 2 weeks). I'm finding, for my taste, the NB's retain their sound up to and perhaps past 4 week, but I feel lose some of the extra projection at 3 weeks. Again, you just gotta try 'em to find out.

Only strings I’ll play now. Played Phosphor Bronze all my life but my Larrivee OM didn’t respond to them as well and they go dull in no time. Thought my acoustic was just not that great. Tried Nickel and was OK but then tried these. Will only play going forward. Incredible time and volume.

These strings are not as bright or responsive as D'Addario strings I have bought in the past. They do sound better under heavy handed strumming patterns though. Not my style of strings but the quality is good and they resist tarnishing and stay in tune very well.

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Great strings, I put them on my Taylor 114CE as Taylor’s are naturally very bright sounding guitars and I wanted it to sound a bit warmer and these strings have done the trick, they sound great, nice warm, mellow tone with a hint of brightness, easy to install, packaged very nicely, very affordable. Time will tell how well they resist rust but D’Addario always make high-quality products, also nickel strings naturally tend to last longer than PB’s in my experience with other Nickel strings sets.

I've grown accustomed to using phosphor bronze strings on my Martin Dreadnought. These nickel bronze strings came with a Collings OM I purchased recently, and I'm very happy with their clarity for fingerstyle and flatpicking. They usually last around 4-6 weeks for me (playing 1-2 hours a day). One benefit over PB strings is that I have not experienced any corrosion on them yet, they simply seem to lose their punch when they die. All in all I'm very happy with them and would recommend trying them out. They might not be a good fit for all guitars, and it's always a matter of preference (one players "clarity" can be another players "harshness" or "coldness"), but they work well for me.

De très bonnes cordes. Je voulais passer à autre chose ne supportant plus les phosphores bronzes tout en restant chez D'Addario même si au départ je pensait me tourner vers un jeu La Bella que j'affectionne aussi beaucoup et puis je me suis laissé tenter par ces 012.-053. Nickel Bronze et je suis satisfait. Belle sonorité, des graves chaudes et des aigus cristallins, une bonne tension bien que reste surpris de leurs souplesse ce qui est très agréable puisque je joue principalement du blues/bluegrass sur des Dreadnought, reste à voir comment elles supporterons le temps que je vais leurs accorder (Beaucoup !).

These used to be my go to strings for acoustic. So when my new taylor needed restringing naturally I went for these. Made me realise the elixirs that taylor use sound much better….