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D'Addario EXL115

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EXL115 is the popular choice for players who prefer moderate flexibility and a full, beefy tone.

XL Nickel Wound, D'Addario's most popular electric guitar strings, are precision wound with nickelplated steel onto a carefully drawn, hexagonally...

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Dave Grohl

Joe Beebe, Grohl's guitar tech says, “I use D’Addario EXL 115s, but I throw the bottom two strings away and I replace them with a .42 for the A-string and a .60 for the E-string... [Dave] is such a hard player; he’s a chainsaw live! He was breaking strings a lot, so I had to beef up the gauges a bunch and I also have to raise the action on him, otherwise he’s hitting the strings so hard all it would do is buzz all day long!”
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Gary Clark Jr

"The strings that I'm playing on the [Epiphone Casino] are these bad boys right here. I've been rocking' on these since I started. That's the go-to deal right there."
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Josh Klinghoffer

"On the Penguin, which we call 'Pingo'.. That one is .011-.049, again D'Addarios," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech.
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Brent Hinds

Brent Hinds is listed on D'Addario [official website](http://www.daddario.com/DaddarioArtistDetails.Page?ActiveID=3777&ArtistId=13893&sid=fa00be89-f9e4-424c-8716-581f463ca481) as a D'Addario Nickel Wound string user. Mastodon's lead guitarist declared in 2005, "I have always used Planet Waves cables & D'Addario strings. They rock!!!".
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Keith Urban

Chris Miller, Keith Urban’s Guitar Tech mentions that Keith uses D'Addario 11s pure nickel across the board on all his guitars at 1:25 of this “Rig Rundown” with *Premier Guitar*.
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Kevin 'Noodles' Wasserman

> All his guitars are sttrung with D'Addario .011-.049 strings.
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Bill Frisell

In this article Bill Frisell’s gear is explained.
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Jim James

According to an article in Premier Guitar, Jim James uses D’Addario EXL115 sets to string up his electric guitars. Original article, dated June 2011, can be found [here](http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/My_Morning_Jacket_Gymnasium_Americana?page=4).
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Jade Puget

D'Addario strings EXL115
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Ray LaMontagne

According to D'Addario's website LaMontagne is using the EXL115 strings.
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Adam Rogers

This gear is reported on his website.
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Anders Osborne

According to Premier Guitar's rig rundown, Osborne strings his 1972 Gibson ES-335 with D'Addario EXL115 strings.
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Jay Gonzalez

"His guitars also sport D’Addario EXL115 strings, and, like Patton, he uses a Dunlop 1.14 mm Tortex standard pick."
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Casey Moore

Mentions strings by name at 4:35
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Dominick De Kauwe

dom uses d'adario exl strings on his basses
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Bill Nershi

For guitarist, Nershi mainly uses a Collings I-35, a Santa Cruz D-Nershi Signature Model, a ’70s Martin D-28 ("FrankenMartin"), a 1955 Martin D-18, and a Ton Nershi T-Style Guitar. When it comes to amps, Nershi goes with his tried-and-true Fender formula involves a Blues Deluxe and a Blues DeVille. The handful of stomps that he relies on includes: Fulltone OCD, Fulltone Fat-Boost, Ernie Ball Volume Pedal, Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner, Fulltone Full-Drive 2, Pro Co RAT, Maxon Rotary Phaser, Dunlop Crybaby Wah, Line 6 Echo Park, TC Electronic G-Force. And for strings, picks, and accessories, he currently jams D'Addario EX115 (.010-.049), Rocktron MIDI Mate, Whirlwind Selector A/B, Sunrise acoustic pickup, K&K Pure Classic acoustic pickup, and Avalon U5.
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Liberty Ellman

According to Premier Guitar, Ellman uses the D'Addario EXL115 strings (10 pack version).
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Mike Stone

[This](http://www.guitargeek.com/mike-stone-queensryche-guitar-rig-and-gear-setup-2007/) rig diagram by Guitar Geek shows that Mike Stone used D'Addario EXL 115 string in his 2007 rig.
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Positive Mental Trip

Luke Weiler of Positive Mental Trip has used D’Addario EXL 115 guitar strings live with PMT. Ussually on his American Fender Stratocaster or Schecter C1 Elite. From 2006-2014 those were luke’s main 2 live/touring electric guitars and D’addario strings as well as DR and Ernie Ball Electric Guitar Strings were always around.
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Matthew Followill
Jack Johnson
Buzzy Lao

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EXL115 is the popular choice for players who prefer moderate flexibility and a full, beefy tone.

XL Nickel Wound, D'Addario's most popular electric guitar strings, are precision wound with nickelplated steel onto a carefully drawn, hexagonally shaped, high carbon steel core. The result, strings with long lasting, distinctive bright tone and excellent intonation, is ideal for the widest variety of guitars and musical styles.

Preferred for their moderate flexibility and rich, full tone, Round wound with nickelplated steel for distinctive bright tone, Environmentally friendly, corrosion resistant packaging for strings that are always fresh, Made in the U.S.A. for the highest quality and performance, String Gauges: Plain Steel .011, .014, .018, Nickel Wound .028, .038, .049

6 D'Addario EXL115 Reviews

solusash

117

Best Strings

These are what are on all my electrics. I mean, I'm not sure what you can say about this, other than they're amazing strings. They have a great sound, they feel great to play on them, they don't die for AGES... And as a bass player mostly, these let me do my bends on a guitar without fear of a break.

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dipsilva

72

Buzz

I've been using Ernie Ball 2223 on my Les Paul Studio and wanted to try EXL115. The low E started to buzz a lot. I thought it was due to the gauge change (.9 to .11). I thought it needed some adjustments on the bridge, truss rod... But before trying that, I removed the strings and restring my guitar with Ernie Ball 2720 (also .11). Where is the buzz?! Gone! And more: it nailed every string tune. Maybe someday I will try EXL 115 againg, but any time soon. Now my favorite strings are Ernie Ball 2223 and Ernie Ball 2720. I know not setting up the guitar when changing the string gauge is an illusion. But that was my experience.

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about 3 years ago
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dragoz292

130

Good.

Well every string is good and unique in its own way. this is not a fit for me mainly because I play metal music but it ain't a bad string.

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leobutterworth

600

Great strings

Great strings i recently swapped to these from ernie ball 12s so these feel thin!

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metal_mike666

164

My strings of choice

These are one of the sets I use when I play. Except I customized this set by adding a .42 for the A-string and .60 for the E. It gives me a much more beefy sound since I have a heavy_pick_hand. Dave Grohl uses this exact set that's why I use it also. \m/

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3 months ago
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tobias_christ

315

Great

I play them with mit FMT and my Strat in E oder Eb tuning for Indie/Alternative Rock

Really love it because 1. Great crisp sound because of the nickel wound bass strings 2. they don't vibrate at Eb, caused by the strong pull

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over 2 years ago
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