If you like it low you will like that!

[StefTD]

You can buy it here for example:
http://www.thomann.de/de/ibanez_rg2228_gk.htm

New Ibanez 8 String is out now, not a guitar for me, I am not a friend of ultra low tunings, everything lower than A is too low for me (to play, not to listen when it's played ).
What do you think of this release?
Is there a need for a guitar tuned down to F that is avaibale for everybody?
I like Meshuggah, and I like Fear Factory and so on but the most songs could be played on a baritone 6 string I believe, there are only a few bands I know that use those low tunings and use all strings, Strapping Young Lad for example (only in a few songs, I know ).

 

[chadsxe]

1. Ekkkk its an Ibanez
2. To low for my taste - there is this amazing thing called a bass if people have forgotten.
3. Ekkkk its an Ibanez

 

[StefTD]

haha, but yeah, you're right, I own a 5 string bass and that's low enough
the most stuff I write isn't lower than D

 

[WeeFace]

Y'know, I've always thought of seven strings more as a way to play higher. I mean... if I want to play low notes, which I often do, I just tune a guitar down. I just put one into B this afternoon actually. It's then way easier than a 7 or 8 string for low notes. What I lose by tuning down, is 5, or in this case 10 notes at the TOP of my guitar. I guess it's just a different perspective really, coming from a rhythm player. Dunno why I wrote this anyway, not like it matters to anyone else

 

[Sinister Mephisto]

I think I know what you mean. You have much more options soloing and such when you use a seven string than when you use a six string tuned to B. 8 string sounds like fun to fuck around with, but if I actually used one I can only imagine using the eighth string in a couple crazy sections of songs. Never a whole song, much less a whole project. It's cool that they're available though. Maybe you could string it so that it's a seven string with an A string on top so you could go higher?

 

[WeeFace]

I think Vai tried that with the first recent (ie non-jazz) 7 strings but they kept breaking. Probably had to me a 6 gauge or something...

 

[Where She Wept]

gotta be a bitch to play bar chords Not to be an ass but it is a very small minority of people who would do justice to this kind of axe.

 

[Torsis]

I'm thinking it was supposed to be a 7-string, but Ibanez Quality Control being what it is ....

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

My reaction uke:

 

[Gnash]

I dig it! I hated 7 strings when eveyone started using them. Now I think like Weeface said, You got your original 6 strings that aren't fucked with( normal 6 instead of all tuned down and fatter gauged) so you can rip leads pretty comfortable, and have the other world of the B and lower. I get it now! FUCK!!

 

[Curran]

I already own three of these and the are great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! of course i tune then to an open "G" banjo tuning and also put a sitar buzz block under the bridge to get that extra FLAVA FLAV YO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mega poly-rythmic silly riffs!!!! HAHA

Love Curran

P.S. I can bearly get six and seven strings to work for me like I need an extra fucking string in my way

 

[J the TyranT]

Sure thing Curran. I didnt realize who you were for a minute. I saw you on the DHIADW tour, so... you know yer way around those guitars.