8 strings: maybe a new trend?
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Emdprodukt
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I remember when Meshuggah got their Ibanez custom 8-string guitars a few years ago. Back then I though it was something special. I'm not sure if they started this trend.
Wonder what kind of pickups are used. 81´+85 "8-string-edition"?
I'm still learning to master 6 strings, nothing for me.
Wonder what kind of pickups are used. 81´+85 "8-string-edition"?
I'm still learning to master 6 strings, nothing for me.
yeh its because steph carpenter and devin townsend are obsessed with meshuggah.
so you have combined requests of meshuggah fans deftones fans (steph has been using a 8 string recently) people who like strapping young lad etc. plus the few that just want to be ridiculously low and heavy.
so you have combined requests of meshuggah fans deftones fans (steph has been using a 8 string recently) people who like strapping young lad etc. plus the few that just want to be ridiculously low and heavy.
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lol... same here, i really only need the top 4 strings... i could never play a 7 string with ease, let alone a 8 string!
i have cravings for the blackmachine 8 string with fanned frets! def. the instrument highest on my gas-list
lepersmeesa
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The typical 8-string pickups are custom-winds from here and there, EMG 808s (which are... you guessed it, 707s with one more string), and Lundgrens.
I don't know what you mean by 'trend', but extended-range guitars aren't going anywhere and there are more than a few people - myself included - who are just waiting for affordable 8s to come out. There's a lot you can do with more notes... if you don't need them, don't get them (I'm looking at you, nu-metal), and hopefully I won't have to strangle someone for saying that everyone who doesn't play a 60s Strat with 50s strings into a vintage Super Reverb sucks and should just stop playing.
Oh, and while rumors abound of DT with an 8, I'm sure people like Dino Cazares are going to be more of a driving force... not only does Devin already have all but one note of a 8-string with his 7-string Open C/G tuning, Dino rips the fuck out of his on a much more regular basis.
Jeff
I don't know what you mean by 'trend', but extended-range guitars aren't going anywhere and there are more than a few people - myself included - who are just waiting for affordable 8s to come out. There's a lot you can do with more notes... if you don't need them, don't get them (I'm looking at you, nu-metal), and hopefully I won't have to strangle someone for saying that everyone who doesn't play a 60s Strat with 50s strings into a vintage Super Reverb sucks and should just stop playing.
Oh, and while rumors abound of DT with an 8, I'm sure people like Dino Cazares are going to be more of a driving force... not only does Devin already have all but one note of a 8-string with his 7-string Open C/G tuning, Dino rips the fuck out of his on a much more regular basis.
Jeff
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Have you heard Bleed The Fifth? Fucker shreds... and he pulls it off cleanly live, too. He's one of the first people who will say that if you don't need seven or eight strings then you should just tune down, and he makes good use of every note he gets.
Jeff
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I dunno, any time you add a string in a standard tuning you are gaining FIVE notes... not worth it to me... I'd rather tune down a 6 string and lose my highest 5 notes. And any 7 or 8 string arpeggio can be played on a 6 string tuned down, it's just much much much much harder, hahaha... Gives some incentive to practice! Some of the heaviest albums I've heard were in Eb anyways!
Yeah... much, much, much harder, bordering on impossible for some classical work and some serious extended-range nuts. However, it is no harder to play 6-string material on an ERG unless you have wimpy hands. Plus, on top of gaining five notes overall you're gaining several notes per position, which is infinitely more useful and which you can't get on a downtuned 6 - can't get a three-octave 3NPS scale with less than two frets of position change on a sixer, much as I love them, and don't even get me started on 4NPS... I didn't think I'd really get much out of a 7 until I got mine, and I have since changed my mind completely. If you can use them, there's really no good reason to limit yourself...
Jeff
Jeff
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It's good that you came in when you did, no discussion involving guitar players and the phrase 'too much' is complete without Malmsteen coming in somewhere...
Jeff
Jeff
Kazrog
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I'm very happy with my 7 string but the LTD 8 string has me interested mildly. I'm more likely to pick up that new Ninja 6 string with the Floyd and 24 frets though.
Overall I think 2005 was ESP's best year of guitars, though. Downhill since then it seems.
Overall I think 2005 was ESP's best year of guitars, though. Downhill since then it seems.
