D'Addario EXL140-8 Electric Guitar Strings (Light Top/Heavy Bottom, 8-String, 10-74)

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With light top strings and heavy bottom strings, this 8-string pack offers excellent balance across the full range of your 8-string guitar.

The EXL140-8 combines one of D'Addario's most popular hybrid sets, EXL140, two additional low strings to create a set optimized for 8-string electric guitars. This combination delivers powerful low end for heavy chording and flexible plain steel strings for bending.

XL Nickel Wound, D'Addario's most popular electric guitar strings, are precision wound with nickelplated steel onto a carefully drawn, hexagonally shaped, high carbon steel core. The result, strings with long lasting, distinctive bright tone and excellent intonation, is ideal for the widest variety of guitars and musical styles.

Features:

- Optimized for 8-string electrics tuned F#, B, E, A, D, G, B, E
- Round wound with nickelplated steel for distinctive bright tone
- Environmentally friendly, corrosion resistant packaging for strings that are always fresh
- Made in the U.S.A. for the highest quality and performance
- String Gauges: Plain Steel .010, .013 .017, Nickel Wound .030, .042, .054, .064, .074

Item # Note Inches mm lbs kg
PL010 E 0.0100 0.2500 17.520 7.950
PL013 B 0.0130 0.3300 16.620 7.540
PL017 G 0.0170 0.4300 17.900 8.120
NW030 D 0.0300 0.7600 26.720 12.120
NW042 A 0.0420 1.0660 27.650 12.540
NW054 E 0.0540 1.3710 25.500 11.570
NW064 B 0.0640 1.6300 19.980 9.060
NW074 F# 0.0740 1.8800 14.780 6.700

- Optimized for 8-string electrics tuned F#, B, E, A, D, G, B, E
- Round wound with nickel-plated steel for distinctive bright tone
- String Gauges: Plain Steel .010, .013 .017, Nickel Wound .030, .042, .054, .064, .074

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 800-323-2746

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars. (2 ratings)
Submitted August 27, 2013 by Sean T in Northampton, MA

"A Very Unintelligent Set of Strings"

Overall: 2 out of 5 stars
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This string set should have been named "Light Top, Super-Heavy Middle, and Floppy Bottom." That pretty much sums up my review. They're great strings obviously, but the gauges don't make a good set. I did some calculations, ordered my own custom set of D'Addario singles (9.5, 13, 17, 24, 32, 44, 60, 80) and voila! The muddiness on the low F# and B strings evaporated (it wasn't the pickups' fault after all), the middle strings became bendable again, and string-tension is pretty even across the fretboard which is SO much more playable. Buy D'Addario all the way, but don't buy this set if you don't want serious tension and tone problems. 8-string guitarists need to be especially picky with strings, and this set was not intelligently assembled.

Musical Background:

Clarinet 9 years, Guitar 2 years, 8-string guitar 1 year

Musical Style:

Metal, Jazz, Rock, Folk, Classical, World, and odd combinations
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