Ernie Ball 2008 Earthwood Bronze Reviews

Quality strings

Everything you'd expect from Ernie Balls really, I purchase these regularly.

Rock and blues

Sound amazing on my Taylor

Good Steel String

For this prices its good nothing special

My most perfect strings for any of my acoustic guitars. Much recommend.

Beautiful tone...

On a larger acoustic.

As expected

Sealed package with brand new high quality strings.

Good light sound

I don't know how to describe exactly, but they have this light, puffy sound. Not ear soar bright or boringly midrange. They have a specific sound, very good. Good at fingerpicking, strum, solo, slide. I would suggest to anyone. I've played some dull sounding and some to "specific" but these are a nice interesting sound not loosing the template for a good acoustic tone.

Ernie Ball 2008 Earthwood Bronze

Very good sound

more reliable then normal slinky

but still can rust quite quickly

I bought 3 sets of these strings mainly for two reasons.

1st, I use Ernie Ball 2004 Light set and the sound and playability is superb.

2nd, this set has a plain G string, not wound, which allows to fast change 3 strings chords without the usual squeak that wound strings provide. I was curious about that.

Well, yes, but the plain G string in this set detunes massively just for applying more pressure or just going up the neck. It's the only string in this set to detune.

When you go to the octave G on the 12th fret, you get almost a G#.

It's a pitty because the sound is pretty neat, good sustain, but detuning like that is not playable at all. I did test it for a while and could confirm - the G string on this set is very sensitive to pressure and goes up out of tune easily. The B and E stings, also not wound, stay in tune.

Back to the light 2004 Ernie Ball set with the wound G string.

Great sound and does keep in tune. Have to live with the squeak.

Francis Mann

An excellent choice

I have been buying these strings for years, they arouse a strange sentiment, I like their very clean sound. They also have a long lifetime.

sounds good

I'm less used to choose acoustic guitar strings. They sound good, maybe a little light for the gauge for my tastes.

Earthwood Bronze Stings from Ernie Ball

I have tried many different brands of string ( I have been playing for over 40 years) and Ernie Ball never disappoints always have great tone and last a very long time!

Great strings

Great Strings, makes the step from E-guitar to western guitar a lot easier and the strings sound beautiful

Best acoustic strings with plain G

I found that these are the best strings for players that don't like wound G strings for acoustic guitars (wich are the most common).

Very confortable, easy to bend on the light strings, clear sounding on the heavy strings. Overall pretty satisfied with these. Ernie Ball has more options on acoustic sets, but these just do it for me. So if any of you are looking for a light set with a plain G, this is for you.

Pros: Clear and confortable with a plain G string

Cons: If you are a heavy sweater on your hands, they tend to lose brightness pretty fast (but that might actually be one of the pros for some players)!

Bright when clean

Nice strings, very bright and clean, but as many others they must be cleaned or changed quite often if want your 'favourite sound' survive everyday plaiyng longer than two weeks.

Great strings

I have been playing guitar for over 40 years now, using various type & marks of strings. I mostly play electric guitars but I also have an accustic & a classic one too.

A set of Earnie Ball strings came accidental my way for my electric guitar so I install it on & that was it ! Of cause I haven't try all the strings on the market but now I don't have to look further around.

Last year I bought Earnie Ball for my acoustic ones, steel & nylon, with no regret. The strings are bright, keep tunes & sound on deep & bright.

I was used to accept when the D string teared apart long before the others but with Earny Ball strings, that is history.

They all last very long.

To the fingers the touch is soft with great ability of streching. My steel one felt like a new & maybe like an different one with those strings.

The caracter of an guitar depend mostly on the instrument, amps & strings. I like the caracter which come through here fill my needs. I know Jimmy Page like it for his guitars ( I saw it on youtube ) I would say : try it !

Not for me

These are great at first but they dull pretty quickly if you are playing your guitar every day.

Not bad for the price but wouldn't buy them again personally

Bright and clear

I only use Ernie Ball strings in my electric guitars so I decided to give these a try when I bought my acoustic.

They are very light and feel easy to play. They have a bright sound with great clarity that complement my guitar nicely. I have found that they keep their sound for a good amount of time and even when they dull a bit it's all right because they are bright to begin with.

Very good rock/country/blues strings

I used these strings for a couple of rock and blues recordings, as well as some slide parts on a country song and they sound great. They gave my guitar a harsher tone and they fel very durable. I changed them before they broke (as you should) just because of the sound got dull after a couple of weeks.