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D'Addario XL ProSteels Bass Guitar Strings - EPS170 - Long Scale - Regular Light, 45-100

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Style: Long Scale


Size: Light, 45-100


Features

  • Bright and Durable: Our brightest bass guitar string, XL ProSteels are made with our proprietary Hex-Core, ensuring perfect intonation, consistent feel, and reliable durability
  • Rich Highs, Tight Lows: Stainless steel wrap wire produces enhanced interaction with magnetic pickups, offering a palette of harmonically rich, brilliantly penetrating highs, combined with pronounced, tight-and-tough lows
  • Strings for Every Style: From jazz to metal to rock, bluegrass, blues, folk and more, we make great sounding strings for every genre and level from beginner to pro, including strings for bass, acoustic, classical, and 12-string
  • Sound Better, Play Better: Shop our whole collection of guitar accessories including string winders, picks, straps, capos, tuners, cables, gear bags and cases, plus strings for banjo, mandolin, ukelele and more
  • Made in the USA: As the worlds largest and most respected maker of musical accessories, DAddario strings are made to exacting specifications at our cutting edge New York production facility

Description

XL ProSteels are D’Addario’s brightest bass guitar strings. The unique, highly magnetic alloy in ProSteels delivers super-bright tone with magnified presence and attack. Made with a high carbon steel core and stainless steel wrap wire, ProSteels produce enhanced interaction with magnetic pickups, offering a palette of harmonically rich, brilliantly penetrating highs, combined with pronounced, tight-and-tough lows. 45-100 Regular Light is our most popular bass gauge, providing a perfect blend of response and playability. From the Manufacturer EPS170, D'Addario's best- selling ProSteels bass set and the standard gauge for most electric basses, offers the ideal combination of bright, booming tone and comfortable feel. The most versatile and universally appealing set for those that desire the brightness and rich harmonics of ProSteels. Fits long scale basses with a string scale length of up to 36 1/4 inches. ProSteels are D'Addario's brightest and most magnetic bass strings. A specialized steel alloy delivers harmonically rich, brilliant high-end coupled with deep, tight lows that work in tandem to create the coveted "Piano tone" steel players crave. Great for both articulate fingering or aggressive picking, ProSteels give you the extra edge and punch you need to cut through the mix.D'Addario, the world's largest manufacturer of musical instrument strings, is known as The Players Choice with a reputation for unsurpassed quality and consistency. D'Addario's innovative packaging reduces waste and provides protection from corrosion. All D'Addario strings are manufactured in the U.S.A. using proprietary, digitally controlled, state-of-the-art machinery for unmatched performance, set after set.

Brand: D'Addario


String Gauge: Medium


Color: Multicolor


Instrument: Bass Guitar


String Material Type: Steel


Item Weight: 3.53 ounces


Product Dimensions: 6 x 14 x 10 inches


Country of Origin: USA


Item model number: EPS170


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No


Date First Available: December 5, 2006


Color Name: Multicolor


String Gauge: Medium


String Material: Steel


Number of Strings: 4


Size: Light, 45-100


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    • Good
Style: Long Scale Size: Custom Light, 45-105
the product arrived early.
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2025 by Andres
    • Intactas
Style: Long Scale Size: Light, 45-130 (5-String)
Llegaron en muy buen estado
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2025 by Raydel Villegas
    • GREAT STRINGS!!!
Style: Long Scale Size: Medium, 50-135 (5-String)
Wooow, pretty nice sound, LOVE IT!
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2025 by Adrian Oleas
    • Pleaseantly surprised
Style: Long Scale Size: Medium, 50-135 (5-String)
I am not a fan of D'Addario strings for bass, but I am glad I listened to a couple reviews of these particular strings for drop tuning. I play in one band that uses Eb tuning for blues rock covers where I need to use a 5-string active Fender Jazz bass, again, not one of my preferred products (I mostly play Warwick and Ken Smith basses, which do not have the sound or look for this band's target market). I struggled with many different strings with higher tension from LaBella, Rotosound, Sadowsky, DR DDT, and Fodera. None set up well on this bass with playing tension or intonation consistency at the drop tuning. Flatwounds were the right tension, but the high end was just not sitting well in the mix. I changed the stock Fender bridge to a higher mass Hipshot A and the pickups to Reed James VVN Vintage Neo noiseless models with higher magnetic density than the original Fender Noiseless. Nothing seems to work. I bought these strings as a last resort prior to buying a new, custom jazz-style bass with 35" scale. I'm glad I did! They give enough tension at Eb tuning to have accurate intonation and feel. Not the best low B, but usable without being too un-focused or mushy. They also are not as bright as I expected after reading the product info. I do have back off the treble somewhat for this style of music, but not as much as some of the other steel string I tried, but more than nickel strings. I put these strings between, say, Pedulla or Warwick Black Label and above Rotosound Swing Bass Nickels. I would recommend these strings if you are detuning to Eb on a 34" scale bass and still need good playability and brighter strings than flatwounds. . I just bought 2 more sets as a backup. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2017 by BfloBassist
    • They are just as advertised
Style: Long Scale Size: Light, 32-130 (6-String)
Pretty decent bass strings great tone and long life
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2025 by Dandan
    • Good Bass Strings
Style: Long Scale Size: Light, 45-100
I randomly picked D’Addario bass strings. Have never had issues.
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2025 by BrewingRAGE26
    • Will tune to Drop C#
Style: Long Scale Size: Heavy, 55-110
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If you -like me- were wondering how low a set of heavy Pro Steels will go without sounding like hot garbage, the answer is Drop C#. These strings are perfect for that clanky, almost overbright tone of the likes of D.D. Verni and other speed metal players of the 80's. I put them on an unbranded Glarry that I bought for 80 bucks on Amazon and dressed out in gold hardware. Let me tell you, with these strings this thing sounds just as good if not better than my Ibanez. I would say the heavy set would have a perfect range of Drop C# to D Standard without being overly tight for most players. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2024 by Grimothy Grimothy
    • The strings for your stingray you didn’t know you needed
Style: Long Scale Size: Super Light, 40-95
Do you have a stingray? Do you love the way the mids sit in a mix? Do you love the high end zing that only a stingray has? These strings are a match made in heaven. Using these on your stingray is like adding NOS to your engine. The voicing these strings add are just unbelievable. I’ve always used DR sunbeams for stingray basses but I think I’ve just found my new squeeze. Highly recommend these, give em a shot. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2024 by Aaron Braga

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