What do you think about seven string guitars?

[texisthebest]

Hi guys!!

I've a six string guitar and I am thinking about buy a seven string guitar.

My Guitar is a Ibanez RG321MH (25'5" scale lenght)
I've changed the pickups:
Seymour Duncan Blackouts Metal AHB-2 (Bridge) and EMG 60 (Neck)

My tune is B drop (B F#B E G# C#)
Here's a small shitty test of the music I make (guitar and drums only)

I am thinking about a 7 string 27" scale lenght because I've read they sound tighter. Yeah, I Know that this will not make me play the guitar better but perhaps is better suited to the music I play.

Any opinion of changing from six to seven strings?
Do you recommend me any brand or model?
(similar quality to which I have)

Cheers!

 

[indecizo]

7 strings are for gay
search for any high end schecter or ltd if you don't mind having a guitar everyone else has, but good for the money
or get an esp horizon 7 if money is not that much of an issue

 

[Robert W]

I think 8s or better than 7s.

 

[Rex Rocker]

Mehh. I'd rather play a 6 string tuned to B or lower. Baritone 6 string if you want.

Either way, I like Ibanez necks, so Ibanez is my recommendation.

 

[texisthebest]

7 strings are for gay

search for any high end schecter or ltd if you don't mind having a guitar everyone else has, but good for the money
or get an esp horizon 7 if money is not that much of an issue

Yeah, that ESP is a LOT of money, too much, I'm just under a attack of gas but do not have so much money. I have heard that Schecter are good.

I think 8s or better than 7s.

I find 8 or 9 strings too similar to my bass

Mehh. I'd rather play a 6 string tuned to B or lower. Baritone 6 string if you want.

Either way, I like Ibanez necks, so Ibanez is my recommendation.

I guess my guitar is not baritone?
Agree with Ibanez, I love mine.
I have think about this one: Ibanez GRG7221
But it's only 244 € and I think I'd have to change the pickups.
Good guitars with good pickups already installed are very expensive.

Thanks for your fast answers and recommendations!
More opinions?

 

[He's Dead, Jim]

I got an LTD EC 407 7 about a year ago and I love it. About $800, $900.

 

[Joelegend]

If you are planning on buying this Ibanez GRG7221, and not yet using all 6 six strings you have now, it's pointless getting a 7 string or even an 8 string.

 

[Terminus]

No, a 25.5" scale is most definitely not baritone. Your 25 foot 1/2 inch one is, though.

 

[texisthebest]

I got an LTD EC 407 7 about a year ago and I love it. About $800, $900.

That's a nice guitar

If you are planning on buying this Ibanez GRG7221, and not yet using all 6 six strings you have now, it's pointless getting a 7 string or even an 8 string.

Just thinking about it, and yes... I'm not a guitar pro, this is just a hobbie.
And for sure I can do good metal without buying that guitar.

But I feel that playing with 7 string I can go further(?)
Playing A-E-A-D-G-B-E (Drop A in 7 string)
is more likely to play Drop B in 6 string
(or maybe It's just an attack of gas)

(...) Your 25 foot 1/2 inch one is, though.

I have a very poor English but I guess that is a joke

 

[nezvers]

Well, I love that I have 7 stringed guitar, because I love sound of low A or B. I hated that I couldn't play standard tuning on 6 stringed without retuning all (and that wasn't option, because band I was in, were playing on drop A + that required thicker string gauge).
Now I make songs mostly drop D and if I wan't to have a taste of meat I can use 7th string too. Also that give wider access on fret-board.

 

[xplanet2112]

I have an LTD SC607B and a Schecter ATX C7, very different guitars (scale length, wood, finger board) and i love them both. If you don't mind a thick neck then you can't go wrong with a Schecter, that's if you can put up with their naff fret board inlays. The Schecter does sound better, imo, than the LTD i have but when I pick up the LTD after the Schecter, the increase in quality is palpable, it's just that I think the LTD is a bit bright for my taste.

I jumped from 6 to 7s in the hope that the extra string might inspire some creativity, it did not - but if i pick up a 6 now it feels far too thin for me and i am keeping those bad boys now and I do not regret buying them. I think you have to ask your self why you want 7 strings, it it to tune low? Because you can down tune your 6 if that's the case, set up by your local professional of course.

 

[texisthebest]

I have not been able to resist the gas attack x_DDD
and I have buy a Schecter Hellraiser C7 EMG secondhand on eBay *.*

 

[MatrixClaw]

Love my Agile Septor Pro, and I got it for teh cheapz.

 

[xFkx]

that's what I think about seven string guitars

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I have an Ibby 7 I have $180 in ($99 for the guitar and 80 for a pickup). Thing is I actually like it.

 

[He's Dead, Jim]

A 7 strings gives you 5 more notes. How can it be bad ?

Man...when you put it like that, the amount I paid for my guitar seems kind of stupid.

 

[texisthebest]

Man...when you put it like that, the amount I paid for my guitar seems kind of stupid.

totally agree

 

[Deuteronomy]

7-String guitar has a different philosophy from a 6-string.
That doesn't mean it's better or worst,but it's different.It's a new dimension on chords basically.
Prometheus from Emperor for example,was with a 7-string.
Of course if you want to play on the lower 2/3 strings,it's the same with a 6-string.

 

[B36arin]

I have a 7-string Schecter which I really like and was my main guitar for a few years. But I've gone back to sixes in B standard tuning, I don't really need the extra high string and a six just feels so much better in my hands.

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

One of the things I like about the 7 string is that you have two pair of octave strings, both the B and the E. More options there. Also I like that you have the low B string for heavy prog stuff but also you have the low E string for thrash.