The Best Round-wound Bass Guitar Strings of 2023

D'Addario's top-selling heavy gauge bass set

Round wound with nickelplated steel for a distinctive bright tone with clear fundamentals and booming, tight low end

Fits long scale basses with a string scale length of up to 36 1/4 inches

String Gauges: Wound .050, .070, .085, .105

Made in the U.S.A. for the highest quality and performance

.045-.130 Long Scale 5-string Bass Guitar Strings

Nickel Round Wound

Ernie Ball Bass Slinkys are played by legendary bands around the world including Tool, Rage Against the Machine, Zac Brown Band, Green Day, and Avenged Sevenfold.

Regular Slinky’s 50-to-105 gauge is one of the most popular 4-string bass gauges.

Rich, balanced tone.

Made in the USA with tin-plated, high-carbon steel core wire wound with nickel plated-steel.

Element Shield packaging ensures your strings stay as fresh as they were the day they were made.

50-105 gauged set with the benefits of an exclusive "Half Round" manufacturing process

Brightness and tension similar to standard round wound strings with smoother feel

Fits long scale basses with a string scale length of up to 36 1/4 inches

Made in the U.S.A. for the highest quality and performance

String Gauges: Wound .050, .070, .085, .105

45-100 gauged set with the benefits of an exclusive "Half Round" manufacturing process

Brightness and tension similar to standard round wound strings with smoother feel

Fits long scale basses with a string scale length of up to 36 1/4 inches

Made in the U.S.A. for the highest quality and performance

String Gauges: Wound .045, .065, .080, .100

D'Addario's medium gauge flatwound bass guitar set

Ribbon wound and polished for ultra-smooth feel and warm, mellow tone

Fits long scale basses with a string scale length of up to 36 1/4 inches

Made in the U.S.A. for the highest quality and performance

String Gauges: Wound .050, .070, .085, .105

45-130 gauged 5-string set with the benefits of an exclusive "Half Round" manufacturing process

Brightness and tension similar to standard round wound strings with smoother feel

Fits long scale basses with a string scale length of up to 36 1/4 inches

Made in the U.S.A. for the highest quality and performance

String Gauges: Wound .045, .065, .080, .100, .130

Warm booming tone

Nylon core with silver plated windings

Accurate intonation

Lower tension

Easy on the Fingers

Gauges 45, 65, 85, 105

Not long scale strings

Hi-Beams require much more time, care, and extra steps to make than other bass strings

The extra effort DR expends making Hi-Beams results in a bass string that is highly flexible, musically warm and renowned for durability, unusually long life, consistency, and string-to-string balance

They don't eat your frets

Balanced Tension sets allow the player to apply the same amount of fret hand pressure to each string

Round wound with nickelplated steel for distinctive bright tone

Environmentally friendly, corrosion resistant packaging for strings that are always fresh

Made in the U.S.A. for the highest quality and performance

String Gauges: Nickel Wound .050, .067, .090, .120