This review has been a year and a half in the making, as it has finally come time to restring my Les Paul. A little backstory, one of our personal guitars has had a D'addario Beta Test NYXL set on it since January of last year. So just over a year and a half now. We offered to beta test to offer a good representation to our friends and customers of what these strings were all about. So, without further ado...
What they are: NYXL strings are a comparatively new offering of electric guitar string offered by D'addario.
What they claim:
D’Addario NYXL guitar strings will bend farther, sing louder, and stay
in tune better than any string you’ve played before. Envisioned,
perfected, and manufactured by D’Addario in New York, this newly
engineered, break-resistant, high-carbon steel core and plain steel
alloy delivers a whole new level of freedom, confidence, and power.
NYXL’s provide more strength and up to 131% greater tuning stability by
utilizing a completely reinvented wire drawing process coupled with a
revolutionary “fusion twist” process for the plain steels. The
reformulated nickel plated string windings have greater magnetic
properties resulting in higher output and enhanced mid-range frequency
response for more presence and crunch.
First impressions: Well, our first impressions of the new strings are a little... out of memory, but we'll cover what we can here. We had an interesting first experience with the strings, that involved cutting the high E too short. In reality, this actually put these strings to a good first test regarding stability and breakage, yielding great results.
