Custom 24

Optiweb coating feels closer to uncoated than Nanoweb — great on detail-oriented guitars.

D'Addario's newest coated electric — thinner coating than Elixir, closer to uncoated feel.

XT pairs with PRS premium build quality — coated string for premium guitar.

Coil-split mode shines; full humbucker mode stays articulate.

D'Addario NYXL 10-46 on the PRS Custom 24 is Mark Tremonti's lifetime D'Addario commitment — the Creed/Alter Bridge/Tremonti guitarist played PRS Custom 24 lineage models before getting his own PRS Tremonti signature, and across all his PRS guitars he runs D'Addario hybrid sets (top three from a 10-set, bottom three from an 11-set — "light top heavy bottom"). MusicRadar documented the spec: "Mark Tremonti uses D'Addario strings, with gauges from the bottom three strings coming from a standard set of 11s and the top three from a standard set of 10s." His specific Tremonti hybrid set is sold as a D'Addario signature pack.

Conventional wisdom: every PRS Custom 24 thread defaults to Ernie Ball Slinky 10-46 or Cobalt 10-46 — the universal nickel anchors. Mismatch logic: NYXL 10-46 (the closest off-the-shelf D'Addario electric set in StringTune's catalog) gives the Tremonti-style D'Addario consistency — bend articulation for the chord-melody passages on Alter Bridge's 'Wonderful Life' / 'Watch Over You' acoustic-electric-hybrid territory plus bottom-end weight for Creed-era riffs.

Best for PRS Custom 24 owners who play hard-rock/post-grunge in the Tremonti vein; skip if you want pure 10-46 simplicity (no hybrid logic) or play tonal-variety jazz where matched-set might serve better.