Which are the BEST ukulele strings! REVEALED! 🤔 The Battle between Nylgut, Fluorocarbon, and Nylon!

Hi guys! Are you ready for this?? Let's begin the ULTIMATE Battle of the ukulele strings ! This is the battle we all have been waiting for: Nylgut vs Fluorocarbon vs Nylon! In today's video, we are going to go over the different materials, brands, and sounds of these 3 ukulele strings. And which one is the best, in my opinion. At the end of this video, you will have more knowledge to select the perfect one for you.

00:00 Intro
01:44 Strings that we are going to use
02:49 Sound Check - Strings sound Comparison
04:38 Worth Clear Fluorocarbon Specs
05:34 Aquila New Nylgut Specs
06:55 D'Addario Clear Nylon Specs
08:00 Sound Check - Strings sound Comparison
09:19 Conclusion

FREE STUFF:

+ Free Ukulele Fundamentals Course

+ Free Guitar Q&A's Live Community Sessions

+ Free Ukulele Chord Chart

+ Free Baritone Ukulele Chord Chart

+ Free Guitarlele Chord Chart

+ Free Uke Like The Pros Worldwide Forum

+ Free Uke Like The Pros Facebook Group

LOVE UKULELE AND WANT TO KNOW HOW TO GET BETTER? HERE ARE SOME NEXT STEPS!

1) SUBSCRIBE to learn how to improve your ukulele playing!

2) FREE UKULELE FUNDAMENTALS COURSE:

6) LET'S CONNECT!

Thank you for subscribing.

Terry

#ukelikethepros #terrycarterukulele #ukulele

[Jaethan]

I've been a musician for my entire life. Even with Perfect Pitch, it was difficult for me to hear the difference between these strings. Not because they all sounded the same, but because your background music was getting in the way - Big Time.

[Ezio]

The Worth strings are the best IMO. That's what I use on all my Ukes. The other ones sound too "plastic-y."

[patrickhinke]

I have a koa Kanile'a tenor that I have taken to mad scientist level. I wasn't happy with the tone any single set was giving. After mixing and matching, my favorite tone comes from:
Aquila Super Nylgut tenor A and E.
The wrapped C string from a GHS Tenor set.
Aquila Red low G.
Everything comes out balanced and full. Really gets the air moving

[Trymmelym]

0:22 Worth Clear Fluorocarbon
0:27 Aquila New Nylgut
0:32 D'Addario Clear Nylon

[rferrers]

It depends what your uke needs to compensate. I mean, a sweet wood perhaps wants an extraclear strings (fluorocarbon); if your uke has spruce top, so clear, perhaps I'll go to a midrange sounding strings (nylgut)

[BlessYourHeart]

I’m partial to Aquila reds, but it can depends on the uke. I also like Worth browns.

[Dofakind]

If anyone wants to look into certain wood and string combinations too, there's a few pretty good videos if you search for it. Aquila strings have an old characteristic that makes them my choice, but I do find it weird that most ukes ship with them (as they stray away from the classic nylon sounding uke). All a matter of opinion on this one; do you want depth, clarity or projection? or maybe slight combinations of both? Research and look into what you like, it could always just be the wood used.

[bronsolino]

Is one kind of strings more soft and thus hurts less on the fingertips?

[hobbycow]

IMO Aquilas come on so many ukes because they are thicker with higher tension which might mask any defects in the instrument. That said, I like Nylguts on laminated ukes, but I just replaced FL strings on a solid koa with Nylguts to improve intonation. Intonation was much improved, but the Aquilas have this plasticky “tick” to them when you pluck or strum them. It made my solid koa sound like a $50 laminate.  

I have D’Addario FL’s on the way and replacing them back on. The Fl’s had such a warm round tone and made the uke easier to play with softer action. I think the uke had a different brand of FC’s originally, so hoping the D’Addarios don’t have intonation issues. By issues, I mean every fretted note with the FL’s was badly sharp. But even stranger, I would watch a resting string go sharp as measured by my Fender tuner! How does a sitting string go SHARP?!?!

My plan now is to put FL’s on all my solid woods and keep Nylguts on the laminates, with one or two ukes fitted with low G for the songs that need it.

[marcozipagan]

I have my several Kala Ukulele strings. Thanks!

[oops...ididitagain]

What about Ernie Ball strings? Do you think they are good?

[jadenhazelman]

I use clear nylon monofilament as a low g string on my tenor uke in combination with the stock nylgut strings and it has an awesome extra bassy tone and adds more volume in my opinion

[gidget]

I like the Worth and the Aquila, I would be happy with either. What about the Fremont?

[SH]

I recently received a cheap Harley Benton (UK-12 Satin Ash NT) that looks nice, but sounded terrible. Read some customer comments and one customer advised to put real strings on. Had a set D'addario "Super Nylgut" here and put them on.
Whow, what a difference! Didn't expect such a huge difference in Sound quality and sustain.
Got 2 Ortaga Ukes (Solid Acacia and solid Bamboo), they're stock stringed with Aguila Nylgut and I'm content with them.

In Your comparssion I don't hear much difference between the strings, not even with headphones on. There of course is some difference, but according to the sound only, I could not define which I find best. They all sound good. Certainly the difference how they behave in play (tension/"hardness") would be a more important factor to choose.


Btw: what's the melody (chord Progression) You play on 2:50?
Sounds nice, reminds me to Sugar Ray's "Spinning away".

[mikeregan]

D'addario Nyltech are hands down the best sounding ukulele strings out there imo.

[GuitarPRN]

The Worth fluorocarbon strings are double the price of D'addario fluorocarbon strings. Is there a reason?

[necurrence]

As a guitar player I'm biased towards the D'Addario, it's almost like they chime.

However, the Aquila strings sound more faithful to a real Ukulele.

So I still don't know what strings to put on my brother's ukulele, the stock ones get out of tune really quick and they just don't sing to my ears at all.

[dawsonb]

Ok...you sold me on the fluorocarbon worth strings. Thank you!!

[iokarii]

So, if I want to equip my baritone uke with low G string, so how tenor fingering, options are narrower, so I use, what is available localy...😊

[calvinbass]

I thought they said fluorocarbon was going to kill use? Now its ok?