Description
Acoustic bass is a different animal — no pickup coloring the tone, no amp doing the heavy lifting. What comes off the strings is what the room hears, and that’s exactly why Ernie Ball built the Earthwood line around a phosphor bronze wrap. These 4-string sets use wire that’s 92% copper, 7.7% tin, and 0.3% phosphorus, wound around a tin-plated hex-shaped steel core for reliable tuning stability and consistent feel under your fingers.
The result is a warm, mellow voice with a natural gold-orange shimmer to the wrap wire — not just a cosmetic detail, but a sign of the alloy balance that gives these strings their ringing sustain and clean, articulate low end. Whether you’re fingerstyle plucking or digging in with a pick, notes bloom and decay naturally instead of dying fast or turning muddy.
If you play an acoustic bass guitar unplugged around the house, at a stripped-down gig, or in a writing session where you need to hear every overtone clearly, this is the string that lets the instrument do the talking.
- 92% copper / 7.7% tin / 0.3% phosphorus wrap wire
- Tin-plated hex-shaped steel core
- Warm, mellow tone with excellent clarity and ring
- Distinctive light orange-gold coloring
- Single pack, 4-string set (2070)
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