Elixir® Nickel Plated Steel Bass Strings with a NANOWEB® Coating deliver a rich, rounded tone with greater clarity and heavier mid-range presence.
Working closely with the global bass community, we asked 4000+ players what they needed from a bass string, and recruited 1000+ players for field trials to help improve the playability and our protective NANOWEB Coating. Inspired by our field trials, Elixir Strings entire line of round wound electric bass strings now benefits from a NANOWEB Coating made exclusively for bass guitar. With playing experience also enhanced by optimized string tension profiles, flexibility and feel, our Nickel Plated Steel Bass Strings deliver:
Elixir Strings is the only coated string brand to protect the entire string with an ultra-thin coating, keeping gunk out of the gaps between the windings. With consistent performance from gig-to-gig, Elixir Nickel Plated Steel Bass Strings remove the hassle and expense of frequent string changes.
* Compared to original NANOWEB® Coating
**Elixir Strings player survey
| Part No. | Gauge | G-1 | D-2 | A-3 | E-4 | B-5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14002 | 4-String Super Light, Long Scale | .040 | .060 | .075 | .095 | - |
| 14052 | 4-String Light, Long Scale | .045 | .065 | .080 | .100 | - |
| 14077 | 4-String Light/Medium, Long Scale | .045 | .065 | .085 | .105 | - |
| 14087 | 4-String Light/Medium, Extra Long Scale | .045 | .065 | .085 | .105 | - |
| 14102 | 4-String Medium, Long Scale | .050 | .070 | .085 | .105 | - |
| 14202 | 5-String Light, Long Scale | .045 | .065 | .085 | .105 | .130 |
| 14207 | 5-String Light/Medium, Long Scale | .045 | .065 | .085 | .105 | .135 |
Elixir Strings was born in 1995. Although we were working with guitar strings already, they weren’t anywhere near a guitar. Instead, we were using them as convenient test subjects in our attempt to develop a better variety of push-pull cable. As part of this work, our research team was coating the strings with polytetrafluoroethylene, which you can just call PTFE in order to save some breath for your next show. The coated strings worked quite well as cables, but they sounded terrible as guitar strings. (Picture a guitar strung with day-old spaghetti.) Still, the mere idea got a couple of guitarists among us thinking… What if we could alter the coating and tinker with the process so the strings sounded great? Could we make a coated string that actually got called back for an encore?
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