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D'Addario XL ProSteels Bass Guitar Strings - EPS170-5 - 5 String - Long Scale - Regular Light, 45-130

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About this item

  • Bright and Durable: Our brightest bass guitar string, XL ProSteels are made with our proprietary Hex-Core, ensuring perfect intonation, consistent feel, and reliable durability
  • Rich Highs, Tight Lows: Stainless steel wrap wire produces enhanced interaction with magnetic pickups, offering a palette of harmonically rich, brilliantly penetrating highs, combined with pronounced, tight-and-tough lows
  • Strings for Every Style: From jazz to metal to rock, bluegrass, blues, folk and more, we make great sounding strings for every genre and level from beginner to pro, including strings for bass, acoustic, classical, and 12-string
  • Sound Better, Play Better: Shop our whole collection of guitar accessories including string winders, picks, straps, capos, tuners, cables, gear bags and cases, plus strings for banjo, mandolin, ukelele and more
  • Made in the USA: As the world’s largest and most respected maker of musical accessories, D’Addario strings are made to exacting specifications at our cutting edge New York production facility


Product Description

XL ProSteels are D’Addario’s brightest bass guitar strings. The unique, highly magnetic alloy in ProSteels delivers super-bright tone with magnified presence and attack. Made with a high carbon steel core and stainless steel wrap wire, ProSteels produce enhanced interaction with magnetic pickups, offering a palette of harmonically rich, brilliantly penetrating highs, combined with pronounced, tight-and-tough lows. Made for 5-string basses, 45-130 Regular Light gauge strings take our most popular bass gauge and add a low B-string.

From the Manufacturer

EPS170-5 is the 5-string version of D’Addario best-selling ProSteels bass set. With the addition of the .130 low B string, EPS170-5 offers the ideal combination of biting high end, punchy lows and super long life. Fits long scale basses with a string scale length of up to 36 1/4 inches.

ProSteels are D'Addario's brightest and most magnetic bass strings. A specialized steel alloy delivers harmonically rich, brilliant high-end coupled with deep, tight lows that work in tandem to create the coveted "Piano tone" steel players crave. Great for both articulate fingering or aggressive picking, ProSteels give you the extra edge and punch you need to cut through the mix.

D'Addario, the world's largest manufacturer of musical instrument strings, is known as The Players Choice with a reputation for unsurpassed quality and consistency. D'Addario's innovative packaging reduces waste and provides protection from corrosion. All D'Addario strings are manufactured in the U.S.A. using proprietary, digitally controlled, state-of-the-art machinery for unmatched performance, set after set.


Andres
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2025
the product arrived early.
Raydel Villegas
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2025
Llegaron en muy buen estado
Adrian Oleas
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2025
Wooow, pretty nice sound, LOVE IT!
BrewingRAGE26
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2025
I randomly picked D’Addario bass strings. Have never had issues.
Dandan
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2025
Pretty decent bass strings great tone and long life
Aaron Braga
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2024
Do you have a stingray? Do you love the way the mids sit in a mix? Do you love the high end zing that only a stingray has? These strings are a match made in heaven. Using these on your stingray is like adding NOS to your engine. The voicing these strings add are just unbelievable. I’ve always used DR sunbeams for stingray basses but I think I’ve just found my new squeeze. Highly recommend these, give em a shot.
Grimothy
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2024
If you -like me- were wondering how low a set of heavy Pro Steels will go without sounding like hot garbage, the answer is Drop C#. These strings are perfect for that clanky, almost overbright tone of the likes of D.D. Verni and other speed metal players of the 80's. I put them on an unbranded Glarry that I bought for 80 bucks on Amazon and dressed out in gold hardware. Let me tell you, with these strings this thing sounds just as good if not better than my Ibanez. I would say the heavy set would have a perfect range of Drop C# to D Standard without being overly tight for most players.
Bjoern Erndwein
Reviewed in Germany on April 18, 2024
Ich spiele die Saiten auf meinem Spector Rebop. Klanglich sehr modern und schön straff.
Reginaldo costa
Reviewed in Brazil on November 27, 2023
Daddário PRo steels é corda que eu mais amo, sou contrabaixista há mais de 20anos, já testei e usei vários outros jogos e coisa só de alto nível , mas a melhor corda pra mim é a corda de aÇo Daddario Pro STEELS ...eu to fechado com Daddario sempre!!! meu sonho é ser endorse dessa corda!rsrs
Karthik
Reviewed in India on September 8, 2019
I have been searching for these strings in India since 8 years now. Most of the time they were either available in Mumbai or outside India so I carried on with Nickle wound. I always wanted to record modern thrash bass tone which could only be possible due to Lighter gauges stainless steel strings. They are brighter than Nickle wound and apt for Heavy metal songs. Trust me on this been playing bass since 2 decades now.
A.f.Ryngksai.
Reviewed in India on November 1, 2019
Like it and always using it.
Vaughan Gilligan
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 28, 2017
I'm absolutely in love with these strings. I've had them on only a day and currently love the sound and feel of them. On first impression, the strings felt a lot abrasive against my fingers than the D'Addario Nickel Roundwounds that I was removing from my Jazz Bass. The strings tuned right up to pitch and I only had to adjust them 2 times as they settled in.As for the sound, it's, well, amazing. The sound I get with the neck pickup (Jazz Bass) and tone wide open is simply incredible. Both pickups sound very good too as does the bridge solo'd. Roll off the tone and you get a nice, deep sound. The highs and the lows on this set of strings are balanced out very well.I play a mix of genres and bands, think Rush/Green Day/Iron Maiden/Smashing Pumpkins, bands like that. The strings adapt well to any sound required for my playing.The strings feel very rough, a lot tougher than traditional roundwounds. They will wear out your frets faster and your fingers will probably hate you after a few hours.I would recommend these strings for anyone playing rock/metal/progressive and looking for a really bright sound with deep low ends. I would not recommend the strings for beginners as they are very rough against your fingers and could be very painful if you haven't developed callouses.Conclusion: D'Addario ProSteels are great strings for bassists looking for a really bright sound with a balanced low end. They are very rough against your fingers so I wouldn't recommend them for beginners.Update 18 November 2024 - it’s been over 7 years since my review and I still stand by every word I said. I don’t play as much anymore, and as such am still running the last set I bought in 2020. Between then and now I tried a few other brands, but kept coming back to D’Addario ProSteels. I’d like to add as well that when the strings get old, they don’t develop that sticky feeling you’d get with nickel wound. They also still sound okay and definitely passable for most scenarios where the bass is a background instrument. I think I’ll treat myself to a new set after 4 years!
BfloBassist
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2017
I am not a fan of D'Addario strings for bass, but I am glad I listened to a couple reviews of these particular strings for drop tuning. I play in one band that uses Eb tuning for blues rock covers where I need to use a 5-string active Fender Jazz bass, again, not one of my preferred products (I mostly play Warwick and Ken Smith basses, which do not have the sound or look for this band's target market). I struggled with many different strings with higher tension from LaBella, Rotosound, Sadowsky, DR DDT, and Fodera. None set up well on this bass with playing tension or intonation consistency at the drop tuning. Flatwounds were the right tension, but the high end was just not sitting well in the mix. I changed the stock Fender bridge to a higher mass Hipshot A and the pickups to Reed James VVN Vintage Neo noiseless models with higher magnetic density than the original Fender Noiseless. Nothing seems to work. I bought these strings as a last resort prior to buying a new, custom jazz-style bass with 35" scale. I'm glad I did! They give enough tension at Eb tuning to have accurate intonation and feel. Not the best low B, but usable without being too un-focused or mushy. They also are not as bright as I expected after reading the product info. I do have back off the treble somewhat for this style of music, but not as much as some of the other steel string I tried, but more than nickel strings. I put these strings between, say, Pedulla or Warwick Black Label and above Rotosound Swing Bass Nickels. I would recommend these strings if you are detuning to Eb on a 34" scale bass and still need good playability and brighter strings than flatwounds. . I just bought 2 more sets as a backup.
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