Warwick 42300 ML Red Label

I picked these strings up for my back-up bass. Given how low the price was I was not expecting very much. I was pleasantly surprised.

The strings were a little difficult to get onto the bass due to the odd winding toward the taper - the outer wind resolves into a kind of spiral that makes the string end a little higher tension that I have found with other brands, but it was nothing too difficult.

Once on, I found the strings to be very bright and crisp. I have them on an Ibanez SR300 ( H/H active bass ) and they sound pretty good. The bass is nice and deep while the highs are snappy and clear.

I'll certainly be happy to order another set of these as my back-up bass strings in future. For my main bass I will stick to La-Bella tape wound black nylons, but for my other basses where I just need some nice workable strings these ones will do me very well.

More than a year ago now, I bought a cheap used 5 string bass because I needed one to record my own song, turned out to sound prett good, but the strings were completely dead and, not having that much money, I went for the cheapest stainless steel strings I could find. I was blown away by the quality and tone of these strings, I'm extremely happy with my purchase and the strings still sound decent today. This gauge is good for standard, half-step down and whole step down tuning, but I managed to tune my bass to drop G# and it still had some clarity and tightness to it. Stainless steel strings are known to be bright and metallic sounding, so if you're a metal, punk, rock or pop bass player you should definitely try them out!