See what Slash, Jimmy Page, and Eric Clapton are raving about.

Ernie Ball Titanium Reinforced Coated Electric Strings combine the latest technological advances in string manufacturing. All wound Slinky strings are treated with a micro-thin layer of enamel that prevents decay and corrosion up to five times more than uncoated sets. In addition to treating the wound strings, Ernie Ball has taken it a step further by reinforcing the plain strings with a patented winding of titanium wire.

Titanium's inherent strength prevents string breakage, string slippage, and is proven to keep your strings in tune better than conventional plain strings. Ernie Ball Coated Slinky strings maintain the feel and sound of uncoated sets, combining the added protection with the vibrant tone Ernie Ball customers have relied on for over 50 years. Perfect for those who want to avoid guitar string breakage.

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Ernie Ball 3121 Coated Electric Regular Slinky Guitar Strings Features:

• Titanium reinforced
• Treated with a micro-thin layer of enamel to prevent decay and corrosion

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Ernie Ball 3121 Coated Electric Regular Slinky Guitar Strings Specifications:

• 10-13-17-26-36-46

Ernie Ball 3121 Coated Electric Regular Slinky Guitar Strings

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Not pleased

Posted by noah from CA on Jul 15, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Engineer

Reviewer's Play Style: rock

I do a lot of studio work, and hate restringing my guitar every week. I like ernie ball tone a lot more than elixers, but elixers stay live for.... forever, basically. So i was super stoked to hear about Ernie Ball Coated strings. I finally bought some, and put them on an sg standard, and dug the sound. For two days. These strings went completely dead in under a week under relatively light use. I wipe my guitar necks down after every session to keep them lasting, too. I've had a pair of elixers on my strat that have lasted me 4 months! they don't sound perfect, but they still sound usable.

If you are going to be restringing your guitar every week anyways, you might like these. Maybe I got a bad set, but these fell very far under my expectations. At the least, I don't think these are worth the extra money over their non-coated ernie ball counterparts.

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my new favorite strings

Posted by Pedaltron from Stillwater MN on May 31, 2009

Experience w/product: I have used it

Reviewer's Background: Active musician

Reviewer's Play Style: alternative, rock, blues, jazz, metal, praise

I have been an extremely diehard dadario fan for the majority of my playing career and until now had no convincing reason to change but with the economy the way it is and the rate I normally go through strings (about a pack a week on my main guitar) I decided I needed to give coated strings another shot. compared to my normal XL's these strings retain the majority of the sonic character of a nickel-steel string albiet with a touch less high end response. feel wise there is almost a wet feel to the coated plain strings that takes a little getting used too but most players won't find it a problem. now as far as string life goes I have played our last 4 gigs with the same set of strings and inumerable hours of practice in short the string life is vastly improved and obviously I haven't broken any yet although my guitar has all graphite parts so I rarely break strings anyway. I would reccomend these over other coated strings for a few reasons mostly the fact that the coating doesn't fray on the wound strings and the entire set is coated vs the bass strings only a'la Elixer not too mention the titanium solder on the wrap gives me added piece of mind and does seem to positivley effect stability somewhat with trem use

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Decent, But not my favorite

Posted by JamesRocksPRSGuitars from Marysville on Mar 28, 2009

Experience w/product: I have used it

Reviewer's Background: Active musician/ Music major in college

Reviewer's Play Style: Jazz to progressive rock

Being a die hard elixir user, I find these strings quite warmer sounding, kinda like an "old school" sound you get with pure nickel. however, they feel quite comfortable to those who want a longer lasting string, without the feel of coated. But I yearned for the bright sound of my elixir nanowebs, I only had a set of these on for a week before switching back to my elixirs. I tried testing the strength of these strings, didn't break at all.

Try them, you have nothing to lose. they're cheaper than elixirs, and cheaper than cleartones, but strings are personal taste. These strings feel too much like Cleartone strings and sound, without the higher price tag of Cleartone. Not bright enough for me, but solid, even for a week I noticed more tone loss than I would with elixir nanowebs.

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Hands Down Best Strings on the Market

Posted by Anonymous Musician on Mar 12, 2009

Experience w/product: I have heard about it

Reviewer's Background: N/A

Reviewer's Play Style: N/A

Great Strings. Put them on my PRS two weeks ago and they still sound great. Stay in tune extremely well too. I'm switching from D'addario right away.

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Great Strings

Posted by SpinnyBones from Sacramento, CA on Mar 10, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Rock Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Classic Rock, Blues

Ive been a longtime user of Elixir strings, and I decided to try these after seeing an ad with Slash using them. They feel great out of the package and what I found most impressive with these, is that they stay in tune incredibly well. Tonally they are a little warmer than what I'm used to with Ernie Ball strings, but they still have a great snap to them that Im not used to with Elixirs. Im a converted customer of these strings and wont look back.

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