Ernie Ball 2626 4-stars Reviews

Great, durable strings.

My only issue would be with the G (third) which for my liking is a bit too thick and, as such, hard to bend. Having said that, the guitar I use the strings on is tuned down to C standard. Other than that, these strings are great.

perfect for C standard tuning

Perfect for my Ibanez RGD320 tuned C standard

THICC strings

I used the Ernie Ball earthwood 0.12 string on my acoustic guitar and I thought to get the Not-Even-Slinky on my electric.

I played at the begining in standard E and it was such a mistake, the string were giving big tension on the neck so I got some fissures on it. I gave the guitar to a master to be repaired, and after that decided to go down. I played drop C, but the tension was also big, after that I went to drop A and this is the best tuning for these strings, they're feeling like some Regular Slinkys in the standard E, but the tone they give is so beefy and angry. The clean tones also pleased me, as they're still bright and can give some "glass" type of clean sound, with a good guitar and amp, of course.

Great for baritone tunings except that...

I bought this set for my ESP LTD MH-1000NT (which is not a baritone guitar, it has a standard 25,5" scale lenght) just to see how it handles such low tunings.

For this task these strings fit well, they sound good, except that... I don't understand why they are using non-wound 0.024" strings in this set. I don't know why this is a thing, the string sounds just plain weird in my guitar. Perhaps it would sound better with an actual baritone guitar?

Strings

I am an amateur guitar player. Ernie Ball seem to be the industry's standard together with d'Addario. For me, these 12-56 work well with standard tuned short scale guitars (like les paul) and I guess they would work well also with long scale guitars (like strat) tuned down half step of one full step to D# or D.

Bright sound and good stability

I started using these with standard D tuning because my regular gauge strings wouldn't stay in tune that low. I'm happy with these strings and just bought two more sets of them. Very stable but not too stiff to play.