If you've thought about boiling your bass strings in hot water to make them pliable and more playable (cooking it till it's al dente!), then you're probably no stranger to rust. Maybe it brings a lot of benefits to playing like getting that new set to have that broken-in feel, but give it about two weeks of heavy everyday playing down the line and rust and grime starts accumulating, stealthily killing your tone and your instrument's playability. Bass players also know for a fact how expensive a good set of strings are, so if they can keep them in shape for long they would be doing their best. With a new set from the Slinky Series about to be introduced at this summer's NAMM, the Ernie Ball Coated Slinky Bass Strings will ensure that you don't try cooking your bass strings ever again.

The Coated Slinky Bass Strings feel and sound very much like your usual uncoated Slinky strings. They have that broken-in sound that has great warmth and character. Unlike your "al dente" home-brewed strings, these coated strings last up to 5 times longer thanks to a micro-thin proprietary enamel coating that prevents decay and corrosion.

Worried that there might be that feel of plastic or resin in them? The Coated Slinky Bass Strings feel exactly like your usual uncoated strings and sound strikingly similar. Once you have your hands on these, you'll never need to "borrow" your next-door neighbor's cookware to cook up a steaming heap of "spaghetti" for your "girlfriend".