DR Black Beauty Strings // Bass Strings Review 

Btw your reviews are amazing

You should contact DR...they have great customer service and stand behind their products

You may have put it on improperly. DR has instructions which must be followed to get the best performance with the string. If you contact DR, they will do something about your problem. They replaced a string set for me in the past.

Ethan, it's just a defective part, it happens Just let them know and they'll take good care of you

Products always have a chance of malfunctioning. It's the companies response that really makes the difference. Bought a grille for my bronco years and years ago, they sent me one for a Durango, and wouldn't replace it. Never bought anything else from there again. Had a ridgid brand impact driver up on a pergola screwing in corrugated steel on the top, my buddy Abel (we called him Abuela cause he was old for the construction business) thought it would be funny to throw my drill down, it hit concrete, and broke in a few places, and the batteries wouldn't click in. Called em up, and they replaced it no questions asked. MASSIVE difference. It's worth paying extra for good customer service.

T.J. Meechan yeah bro! I like them but do not love them. They take power away. Great to hear from ya man.

T.J. Meechan Yeah I agree with you 100%.

THAT is cool!!!

Good to know. Been 2yrs for mine so far. I was thinking I should change them but they still sound great. I think I'll wait. Lol

I have my Dr Neon multi color for almost 3 yrs now. Still sounds great but thinking of replacing it with new ones.

Are you gonna do neon again when you change them?@@neilcarlonolasco1813

oh.... you one of those....

sabin97 thanks and God bless you!

Boxnbanjo thank you!!

dbanton83 God bless you bro! Thanks for the kind words! 👊🏻

I have got the strings . They feel, look and sound great

Strat_ 5198 thanks bro!!

Not a serial killer Not a dealer sweet!

shardnz always great to here from you my friend. Thank you for the encouragement. If you try DR’s bass strings, I recommend checking out the neon strings, or, for a more regular feel, the Pure Blues strings.

SkinCareProve thank you!

petertribby thank you for this very nice comment!!

Chris Davis very nice upgrades bro!!! I was never blown away by the stock pickups. That said, I’ve never heard the stock pickups with anything other than black beauties on them, which done exactly make a bass shine.

Rumblin Man Well, the reason I’m inclined to keep the stock pickups in there is every time I play it at church, I get compliments on its sound. I’ve had some higher end basses before & some of my bandmates say the Squier sounds just as good. These guys aren’t tone deaf either. 😄 It’s probably like a lot of other things: personal preference.

Chris Davis nice, man!! I’ve had the same experience with higher end Squiers. They sound just as good.

Rumblin Man I’m enjoying the gear reviews & discussion!

Gotthilf Bigamiluschvatokovtschvili I never have tried them! I’d like to though!!

DreidMusicalX thank you bro!! God bless and enjoy the gear. 😃

Dane Wallace meh. Depends on genre I guess.

I bought the same 2 months ago. I got the all black cort b4. I am thinking on what string i am going to get.

Try using the neon ones like yellow or neon green. Those would pop out on your bass

@@neilcarlonolasco1813 Thanks for your thoughts and input.

I have a same black bass, black body and neck and all with chrome logo print. I am also thinking of what to put either Dr Neon yellow strings or try the R. Cocco gold strings. Can't find any reviews on YT on that string

christopher luman Awesome! That’s an acoustic bass right?

An acoustic electric. It sounds great for Sunday morning church service.

christopher luman NICE, bro!! I love the Kingman basses!

crypticdon I absolutely AGREE 100%.

Same opinion here. Did you find a nice coated strings for the bass. (Mine is Squier Classic Vibe 50s precision bass) Thanks in advance

@@alejandrotrama9072 Rotosound Nexus are pretty awesome

Elixir.

@@RumblinMan thanks for your reply!

You might like them!

T.J. Meechan I’ll have to check that out bro!! Thanks.

KingBollock hey man. Thanks for sharing. Maybe you need something brighter on the W bass?? Honestly, I hate the Black Beauties at this point. They just don’t sound lively to me and don’t play that great. Have you tried MJC Ironworks strings??? Their stainless steels are pretty sweet.

Rumblin Man Almost immediately after posting this I found a video of someone who did a side-by-side comparison of Elixirs and Black Beauties. I thought they sounded really good, surprisingly bright and growly considering some of the reviews I have read (by people that both like and dislike that characteristic). However, one thing that most of them seem to agree on is that they feel rough. The thing I like the most about Elixir Nanowebs is how smooth they feel (and, to me, they sound awesome). Rough strings would be a deal breaker for me, no matter how cool they might look, and the look of the Black Beauties is the only reason they turned my head in the first place. I haven’t tried Ironworks strings, I shall give them a look but, at this point, I am thinking of sticking with Elixirs. There was a time I would never have considered spending £40-£50+ on a set of bass strings, I begrudged spending £15. But I once filled in a questionnaire for Elixir and they sent me a free 5 string set. It worked, they hooked me right in! So, thanks for the reply, you have probably saved me a lot (relatively speaking) of money and hassle. I might have still given them a go if I had another, lesser used bass that I could move them onto, but the only other four string that I have has Chromes flatwounds on it and they sound lovely and will probably outlive me.

KingBollock yeah Chromes rock. And I would agree that Elixir has excellent customer service!! You might wanna try DR Strings Pure Blues bass strings. I think you’d like them. They sound bright and they’re smooth to the touch. I had them on a bass for many months and really loved playing on them.

Billy Tscherne thanks very much for the kind words! I appreciate it. I personally would choose steel over nickel, but a great alternative is nickel-plated steel.

the bass conisseur I always recommend light gauge.

@@RumblinMan Ok thanks

You could, but it wouldn’t sound great.

Great observations.

I actually use the 5 string set on a four tuned to standard as the beauties are extremely low tension my strings are E 120 A 100 D 80 G 60 With any other strings it's not doable but I find it works really well and they last as long as you run them down with iso

StrangerDanger in my opinion, you would like these. To me, that’s exactly where they shine.

@@RumblinMan Thanks, I have heard about noise because of the coating. Any issues with hum?

StrangerDanger interesting. No, I haven’t experienced any noise from the strings. In fact, I think they deaden the sound a bit. Just my experience. The K3 coating is a lot different than the other types of coating out there like NYXL and Elixir.

Rumblin Man what I mean is electronic hum not string noise. Sorry

StrangerDanger I get electric hum from a lot of basses, but it usually doesn’t have much to do with the strings.

Worth a try! I’ve decided I don’t like these strings though.

Yeah the black coating definitely wears off.

@@RumblinMan I was fine with them wearing off, I just didn’t like how it felt like razor blades, which I’ve never felt with strings before. Thought it was a bad batch until I got them again a second and third time. Couldn’t deal with it anymore, especially when playing shows and dealing with it throughout a set.

@@danielschmaderer yeah. There’s nothing worse than when a piece of gear slows you down on stage.

I feel ya. I heard a friend use a set of these live, on a really good bass… but they took all the power out of the sound. They’re some of the worst strings anyone can use.

@@RumblinMan That probably took the wind of him, itsO.K. trying new strings, or trying a new pedal at home or rehearsal, but has to take the enthusiasm out of you playing live in front of people knowing something feels wrong or sounds wrong. It happens, that's why I try new things at practice.

@@frankperricone2065 yeah man. I feel ya on that.

Vetoed Impersonator thank you sir!

Yeah I feel ya. I probably won’t get Black Beauties again just for some of the reasons I mentioned in this video. I do however really like the DR Pure Blues strings.

Slippery.

@@RumblinMan how many month Before the coating disappear

@@jayronsacor1227 I think the coating could last at least a year.

ericzinc 111 just made it up!

Rumblin Man nice 👍

My go-to’s are the DR Strings Dragon Skin rounds, the Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Flats, and the Dunlop flats. I still feel like the Black Beauties weaken your tone, and I’ve heard them absolutely fail in live scenarios. But, some people like them.

T Conger nice!

Ye I have a black ibanez, it currently has Neon strings on it but when those die I'm gonna try the Black Beauty strings

@@shaggymotionless4269 very nice!

Awesome!! Congrats.

Christopher Vaphiadis standard tuners

Chip Hargis depending on the style of music you’re playing, I think these could sound really great on a Sire.

Rumblin Man Funk and Jazz?

Chip Hargis great for that

Jason C. Hey bro! Thank you. Yeah - honestly, I haven’t tried the NYXL bass strings because everyone I talk to disses them! 😭

@@RumblinMan you should give them a try if you get a chance.

Jason C. I’d like to!!

Funkbass Corsario thank you my brother in the Lord!