EXL110-10P : Good strings.

Unsurprisingly these are popular for a reason. They're good strings.

It's hard to know exactly what to say about strings. For years I had been a long time Ernie Ball Regular Slinky user. Like many people I was probably, at least in part, influenced by the long list of famous names listed on the packaging of the Ernie Balls. No matter what specific kind of guitar music you are into, within that list of names has to be at least one of your guitar heroes, probably more.

For me it was (amongst others), Slash. And if Slash was using Ernie Ball strings, I was gonna use Ernie Ball strings too.

So for years I was probably quite reluctant to even try another brand of strings. Although eventually (and I can't remember how or why exactly) I decided to try some D'Addario strings and I was completely sold on how much brighter (but not too bright) and more articulate they were.

A true sign that you have found something new that works for you, is that if when you try to go back to 'the old ways', whatever that may be, (in this case Ernie Ball strings), it's just not the same anymore.

I mean, I hate to have to put a product down, but compared to D'Addario strings, it's like the Ernie Balls come out of the packet like they've already been used for a week and they're pretty much 'dead'.

Sorry Ernie Ball. Sorry Slash. :)