D'Addario Pro-Arte EJ43 Light Tension Classical Guitar Strings Review - Taylor Academy 12e-N 

excellent video- you appear to be the only person making videos- I was very pleased to see that you have reviewed the normal tension and light tension variants of these pro-arté strings. I have always preferred lighter gauge strings on all of my guitars, electric and acoustic. But for the first time I find myself replacing the strings on my brazillian guitar, which I've never done before as I've hardly ever played it. But, a potential looming audition that would involve this guitar has brought me to finally changing the strings, and I've been a bit overwhelmed at the world of classical guitar strings! Obviously the gauge I use on electric guitar means nothing in the classical world. I found that the pro-arté series appear to be widely accepted as a gold standard, but there are so many variants within the series (bronze wound, steel wound, nylon, black nylon, carbon multifillament, and more!) and I've been awfully tempted by all of these different fancy sets of strings, I had no idea there were so many to chose from! It's hard enough for me to settle on what tension I'm going to buy! But like I said I've usually been accustomed to lighter strings, but of course classical guitar strings tend to feel lighter than say folk guitar strings so I've been very hesitent about whether to stick to the normal tension, or take a bet and go for the light tension ones. Thanks to both of your reviews on the light and normal pro arté strings, I think I'm going to settle for the light ones, given you said they aren't *that much* lighter than the normal tension ones, which is exactly what I was hoping for. I don't want to end up with the normal ones and discover that my soft-touch hands aren't accustomed to them, nor get the light ones and discover that they're like playing horse hair, but it seems like the light ones are exactly what I might be looking for! Blimey that was a long comment, well thanks for your videos anyway, very pleased to have come across them! ...I think I may order both a pack of both normal and light, juuuust to be on the safe side.... I would hate to string my wonderful brazilian guitar and play it for the first time in ages only to be put off by too much/too little tension! Thanks again mate!

love your video, I have zero knowledge about guitar strings because I just start to learn playing guitar all by myself. your video is super helpful for me.

Thank you very much for your review sir. Greetings from switzerland ;)

Thanks for the review. Very useful. I just bought these for my Cordoba C5

I still think your review is important and well done. Usually changing strings on a guitar is like a water melon like, hard to pick the set that suit a guitar and your review helps a lot thank you for that.

This are the strings i want! Low tension, super warm, awesome basses and not crazy expensive, the only downside is that G string... Thanks for the sound test!

I'm glad somebody is talking about nylon strings. I used to go hard tension all the time when I was like 17-24 years old. Gauge 11 and 12 for electric. Then I mangled my hand(I'm fine now). Now I play lighter strings 9 standard and 10 whole step down. On classical however I play normal tension which is easy enough to play. I was thinking about light tension but from what I remember, they were too soft and too difficult on the right hand so I'm kinda hesitant. Thank you for the great content.

Great review and I am going to try them on my acoustic as I am more of Shawn Lane, Frank Gamble, shred guitarist and I run the Ernie Ball Zippy Slinky 7-36 on my electrics. Thinking about trying the carbon strings too, and again great post! Thank you

Awesome, one of the sounds you played sounds like "algo contigo" by Andrés calamaro

Thanks💫

Hello Alan, I dont know much about classical guitar strings, I mainly play electric and acoustic with metal strings. I have a question, what kind of strings do I need to tune higher than E standard? Is it low tension strings? What do uou recommend?

For several years i have had 13 set steel strings on my minitaylor and it really needs some force, but on my classical guitars i some reason like light tension much more. I just bought new classical Taylor and might change to these strings right away. On my main guitar D'Angelico i use 11 or 12 flatwounds and cant even play rpundwounds any more.

Awesome playing. 🎸. Do they have ball ends?

Please help me ! I' am a flamenco style fan I play something like falsetas bulerias solea entre dos aguas pharaon So i most learn lot of flamenco technique like alzapua rasguado golpe tremolo and the hardest one for me is picado Im playing in a bad guitar without a amplificateur Which tension i must use for 2 conditions : 1- learn picado and make it fast and easy 2- get a sound that you can listen to if there another guitar playing the backing track i hope you understand my bad english And thank you

What about EJ51 Semi Flatwounds?

My experience with these strings was not good. They sounded very good for 12 days and then started to get dull. By the 15th day they were dead and unpleasant sounding. Just my 2 cents.

Can i put them on a classical guitar?

You are a great player, and you have a quality guitar , but those string make your guitar sound like a two bob guitar... I don't like those strings at all.