Baritone, 7 string or 7 string baritone?

ragingplatypi said:
Maybe you just need, like a Danelectro, man
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I had one once - a girl in high school sold it to me for $80, and I flipped it immediately on eBay for like $300 and bought an ugly BC Rich lmao
 
I've been trying to like 7-strings for years, but 15 minutes into playing one, I want to go back to a 6-string and feel instantly more comfortable when I do, so I would personally go with a baritone.
 
paisleywookiee said:
I think this is the perfect answer for some jazzdjentcore music.

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Love the finish! Might be surprising good for heavies despite the looks! I have a normal scaled 6 string in mind with EMGs that comes almost setup where I need it to be. It's probably going to be my next "step" on this slow a$$ "journey"
 
maddnotez said:
Just another suggestion. I tune to B with 11-49 on a 25.5" 6 string with no problems whatsoever.
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I used to use skinny top heavy bottom strings on a 25.5 Washburn V. Among other guitars as well in C# standard/drop B. I was trying to be a little more "correct" this go round. I found an Ibby in drop C that is currently rocking 10-52 (which is the gauge I use on my guitars in E standard as well). I'd probably like to keep the high strings on the skinny side but am fine with 52 (or 54 even) on the lower strings.
 
JiveTurkey said:
I used to use skinny top heavy bottom strings on a 25.5 Washburn V. Among other guitars as well in C# standard/drop B. I was trying to be a little more "correct" this go round. I found an Ibby in drop C that is currently rocking 10-52 (which is the gauge I use on my guitars in E standard as well). I'd probably like to keep the high strings on the skinny side but am fine with 52 (or 54 even) on the lower strings.
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I'm pretty sure my tension is more loose than most other guitar players but that's just how I like it. I know it is not "correct" tension but it sounds perfectly fine to me.

I would always suggest you whatever feels right to you personally. But now you've got me half tempted to try some fat ass strings one day just to compare because it's been a very long time since I've used anything else.
 
I’ve had aTrivium set on my RG7620 for the last month or so, it’s 10-63 and apparently meant for downtuning. I wasn’t sure if Heafy used a 24.75” 7-string or not, but I wanted to tune to A-standard and the 10-59 sets weren’t cutting it. The tension is really perfect, it doesn’t feel all that different from the 10-59 set in standard.

I’m not sure how I feel about the tuning, I need to figure out how to get it as tight as I generally prefer with using as little gating as possible, unless it’s for a Fear Factory-type riff where that’s applicable.
 
Made my audition video for JT's wrestle-metal band-



I'm still babying the low A more than I want to, that thing would be flopping all over live. At this point I think it's the combination of a floating trem + string tension. It's a .63 on the bottom and I definitely have no interest in going heavier than that. This pretty much confirms that for anything lower than B-standard I'll want a longer scale.

*I hadn't played that song since probably 1999 or 2000, I played it once before that to remember the parts but I had to crack up in my head with the whammy bar dive because I used to do that shit everywhere I could and my high school band members would give me shit "Every song doesn't have to sound like Steve fucking Vai or Pantera" :rofl
 
DrewJD82 said:
Made my audition video for JT's wrestle-metal band-



I'm still babying the low A more than I want to, that thing would be flopping all over live. At this point I think it's the combination of a floating trem + string tension. It's a .63 on the bottom and I definitely have no interest in going heavier than that. This pretty much confirms that for anything lower than B-standard I'll want a longer scale.

*I hadn't played that song since probably 1999 or 2000, I played it once before that to remember the parts but I had to crack up in my head with the whammy bar dive because I used to do that shit everywhere I could and my high school band members would give me shit "Every song doesn't have to sound like Steve fucking Vai or Pantera" :rofl
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You've got the job. I'm moving to bass!
 
So whether or not the associated musical project ever actually comes to fruition; I still have been trying to find different ways to "solve" this problem. Virtual Capo is great for basic riffage but trying to play the faster sections of Wait and Bleed using a pitch shifter is latency city. Ugh. I've had an Ibanez on my mind. I played it before at a Chicago area GC and dug the heck out of it. It is a sig for a Christian (gross) metalcore band? Neither here nor there and I will obviously blaspheme it with Limp Bizkit riffs.

Scuffed up a bit so got a solid deal on it. It ships in drop C so we are going to see if we can go ahead and nudge that down to drop B :satan
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