Very good point! I noticed the same, although I'm not really a solo guitar player that much. Also - something I've noticed as well in the last 3-4 months - NYXL rust faster - go black - even when not in use. I've strung one of my guitar which I haven't played for 3-4 months at all with completely new strings, and most of them already started going black. My XT strings on other guitar are almost as long, and rust is not that much present. I'm thinking of switching to XT these days completely because of this :)

@@PetarMakesNoise very interesting…are they very similar in tone?which one seems to be brighter?

Yep, exactly the same thing on my side :) I'll be using NYXL for my studio sessions, but XT for everything else definitely. Amazing strings.

How long can XT last?

NYXLs have a stiffer core wire which both makes them feel almost a gauge up but also gives a very loud and clear high end. They have slightly muted midrange and at least seemingly tighter bass (possibly from the slight drop in mids). I'm mostly a clean player these days so I cannot real comment from personal experience, but they seem to be very good for playing real heavy stiff for this same reason. Before the pandemic, I finally decided to try the NYXLs. I'm didn't hate the tone but I'm not sure that I loved it either. It made my Les Paul sound even more harsh with my old Marshall Studio 15 (that amp never fared well with lower output pickups, which is all I own now). With my Super Reverb, I can't say if I like them better or worse than the pure nickel strings that I usually used before. But they hold up amazingly well, so I keep buying more. I can't decide if I like them or the DR Veritas electric strings better at the end of the day, at least when it comes to 9s (NYXL 10s are too stiff for me).

Thanks man. I've decided to use XT 1046 since I prefer a string with soft bends.

Thanks man! Great info shared there as well, wasn’t aware of EXL woundings. As for single coil tests, yeah, I think there would be some audible minor difference in high end, but I’d attribute that to single coils picking up more noise in general. Would be interesting to test for sure. Don’t have a single coil guitar yet, might have to change that in the future :)

Thanks! Which Elixirs do you use? I could never get along with them unfortunately, sounded too dull for my taste, and under hands it was kinda weird feeling, can’t really pin words on it. NYXL are still my go-to strings, but I use XT on one guitar I play less often, and strings do last quite long time. Try them, maybe you’ll like them :)

@@PetarMakesNoise I always used the Nanoweb 10's on my strat, and 11's on my tele. They definitely feel different to normal uncoated strings (say D'Addario or Ernie Ball). I really don't like the feel of most uncoated strings now, because I've been using Elixir for so long. But The NYXL feel absolutely great to me. Elixir definitely sound a bit duller out of the box, but (compared to most strings) sound way better after a week with my sweaty hands. Most uncoated strings only last me 1 or 2 gigs at most, elixirs will last for months even when I'm gigging. I'm with you though, NYXL are definitely at the top of the tree for recording, but I'll be trying out the XTs on the guitars that I don't use so often or for shows. They're arriving today and looking forward to giving them a go, so thanks for the vid!

looks like fab filter to me

NYXL are on the "harder" side when it comes to toughness of strings, very close to stainless steel hardness. It really depends on the softness of your fret material, to determine how much wear (grittiness) will be there. Maybe your frets are way softer than NYXL strings, and they wear out the frets faster? I guess usually it's Nickel frets, which is "standard" - but these days even nickel frets have some mixture of other metals in them to make them harder. You can try XT - but XT coating is there to provide longer life of strings (meaning protect it against rust, acidity in fingers / hands, sweat, etc). It won't make too big of a difference in regards of frets wear (at least I think)? If your frets are wearing too fast, maybe switching to softer string material would be better for you. (maybe I totally misunderstood your statement, sorry if that's the case)

haha sure, but not in comparison against NYXL ;)

What’s 14$ compared to 4$? nothing when it comes to the the extension of your voice on record, in your heart, from your soul. Science be damned if the voice in my head sounded like Ernie ball super slinky’s on a first date I’d buy a set for every occasion and if that voice connected me to that universal ohm somewhere out in the abyss where the guitar disappears and my hands become fire breathing dragons ripping out chunks of my soul into the ethereal darkness shining light across the interstellar voids of space and time for all eternity….. hell I’d even pay like 40$ or 50 bucks for a turn on that pony ride😉 But you can’t just buy a ticket to that show , it’s got to be earned. Alls I’m saying is you can’t put a dollar amount on the chance of having a true medium representation of the voice you hear inside your heart it’s too complicated to explain it but I imagine it’s something like the sound of the first time you heard your mothers voice, in uteri while your soul was still being molded and all the energy from your ancestors was simultaneously being transferred into the flesh and bone that you carried on from the womb and poured your life force in to the tomb where you rejoined with that viscera uniting it once again as matter and energy colluded into a frequency of wavelengths that condensed it into an infinite flow of vibration and eminence to be passed on to the next generation. If the soul exists it’s in those wavelengths, it’s transferred into the physical dna that makes us what we are. In the words of KC -“all we are is what we all are” and if all I have to give back to the gods that gave me rocknroll, is my vibe hammered out on a 6string guitar built by the samurai masters in Japan I want my declaration to be crystal clear and unwavering from the steal scrapped in the city of New York hard earned from the mills in Detroit and born from the blood of the earth and the sweat of my brothers in western Pennsylvania and northern West by god Virginia (it is almost heaven) so that my final translation is unmistakably me, through and through, no one will ever have to ask it be repeated. I imagine it’s truly what they meant when theorizing the voice of the almighty being too much for our earthly bodies to process and it would melt our brains right out of our ear drums, yeah.. or something like that. They say the lady of the lake plucked the singing sword from the streets of glory forged in the fires of hell and quenched it in the blood of man and then imprisoned it in stone for a millennia while awaiting its equal prophet to loose it from the rock and thrust it into the hearts of darkness so that every man may be United by its song and live in harmony. It’s all too familiar don’t you suppose,,, anyway I’m done no offense, I’m just bored and I like to write words sometimes too. If you can’t justify the cost then don’t buy them, i however will spare no earthly expense to add my voice to the All that we all are.. DRED 10:18