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D’Addario NYXL Are The Best Guitar Strings You Can Buy in 2024.  This is why...

D’Addario NYXL Are The Best Guitar Strings You Can Buy in 2024. This is why...

 Click to shop NYXL now!   WHAT IS D'ADDARIO NYXL? Let’s first begin by outlining what D’Addario NYXL actually is… NYXL is D’Addario’s premium range of non-coated electric guitar and electric bass guitar strings. Decades of insatiable groundbreaking in strings technology has amalgamated this heady concoction of high-strength steel and the highest quality, premium wrap wire. D’Addario quotes: “NYXLs will bend farther, sing louder, and stay in tune better than any string you’ve played before.”... read more.

Are light gauge guitar strings better for the Blues?

Are light gauge guitar strings better for the Blues?

There has been a long held belief amongst blues guitarists that you need to play heavy gauge guitar strings if you want beautiful blues tones. This idea has existed since the very early days of electric blues guitar, and was later perpetuated in the 1980s by Stevie Ray Vaughan. Vaughan has one of the best electric blues tones of all time, and he also favoured very heavy gauge guitar strings.As such, conversations amongst blues guitarists... read more.

Are all guitar strings the same?

Are all guitar strings the same?

Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just starting out in your guitar playing career, we’ll be the first to admit that choosing a set of guitar strings can be quite baffling at times.  There are so many brands out there… and a lot of the time, many sets look the exact same as one another. You’d be forgiven for asking the question “what’s the difference between all these sets?... surely they're all the same!?!”  Well,... read more.

Custom Gauge Guitar Strings

Custom Gauge Guitar Strings

After months of beavering away, we recently announced the launch of our brand new ‘Custom Gauge Set Builder.' This brand new feature has been designed to allow our customer's the opportunity to create their very own set of strings where they can choose each individual gauge within their set. For many years, we’ve proudly stocked a large number of single strings from some of the worlds’ biggest string brands including D’Addario, Ernie Ball, Rotosound, Elixir... read more.

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