Guitar Strings - Acoustic Guitar Strings - Nickel Bronze - For 6 String Guitar - Natural, Clear, & Focused Tone - NB1356 - Medium, 13-56

Love these strings. Put them on a 3/4 size guitar and they added depth to a guitar that sounded boxy and plasticky.

Tried these strings for the first time & really like them. I tend to prefer nickel wound strings, & I also tend to prefer D’Addario, so these seemed like a home run. I was intrigued by the claim that these would bring out the “true sound” of my guitar. Damn effective marketing. I can’t definitively say it does that, but I CAN say that they do make my SJ-200 sound like a big, boomy cannon more so than other strings I’ve used. The tone is fairly bright. More so than I expected, but not complaining. Nice punch from the rosewood b/s, & gorgeous sustain. I can’t speak to longevity yet, but if they maintain their sound for any reasonable length of time, I’ll consider switching over to these full time. Or at the very least, add them to my rotation. My biggest concern is the price. As great as they sound, they’re very expensive for uncoated strings. I’m also not 100% sold on the balance. Lows & mids sound fantastic, but the highs don’t stand out as much as I’d like. But again, this is on an SJ-200, so I need to also put them on a more treble-friendly guitar.

I have experimented with tons of guitar strings over the years. I used to switch between John Pearse, D’addario and Martin SP, all medium phosphor bronze. I like the warm one but tone either left after a few weeks of playing or didn’t get to the sweet spot until after a few weeks. I would read about players like Neil Young and Tony Rice talk about these nickel bronze strings and how their tone was well balanced with warm but not too bright or shrill. Now recently Martin has relaunched their Monel strings as Retro strings and Tony Rice and Laurence Juber have their own signature sets. But I wanted to try D’addario because I heard their sound demos and watched their videos first. I have gone through two sets of strings in the past 6 months. I mostly play fingerstyle way with either thumb and fingers or thumb pick. Sometimes I do Deep River Blues, sometimes a modal vamp, sometimes a James Taylor song. These strings sound beautiful and the tone just lasts. I keep my OOO Blueridge in the living room at all times so I can pick it up and just jam. It is great when digging in and when played softly. When playing acoustic, the tone is 80% hands. How do you articulate melody or drive the rhythm or create texture? The creative joy and challenge is finding all the sweet spots of tone, discovering new ways to play something that seems tired or just enjoying the groove. These strings let me do just that. I play for my enjoyment. I strum and hear the harmonic richness and love coaxing great sounds out of my instrument with these strings.

Very good guitar strings they lasted quite some timeI I will get them again there is nothing better than new strings on a guitar. The sound the feel. it’s great.got a thumbs up

I typically use coated light guitar strings, but needed an uncoated set for my Pickasso, so I decided to swap to this medium set. They're louder and stiffer than what I'm used to and a fair amount brighter / sharper, perfect for the application. In my head I'd assumed they were brass colored, but they very much silver-nickel toned, matching my tuners!

Love the quality Always on time

I see some poor reviews about these strings due to the sound. My experience with this strings is that they remind me of how flat wound strings open up. Most of the time when you put new strings on a guitar they sound really good at first and dull over time. These strings are kind of the opposite. When you first put them on, they sound very bright and have a "tin" sound. But after an hour or two of playing they seem to open up and start sounding really good. These strings last forever, too. Most Bronze strings need to be changed after every 15-20 hours to keep them sounding good. I can leave these strings on for 3-4 months no problem and I play an average 12-15 hours per week.

I am not sure if it was a bad batch of strings or what, but these strings were delivered on January 4th of 2026 and today is January 20th and my High E string broke. I am hoping it was just a bad batch, but now I am skeptical to buy these again.