7 Slingers... Come on in!

[unsane]

Oh yeah... I need to ask this.

For those of you with the 25.5 inch scale for 7s, how do you find your low B? Is it floppy? What guage do you use?

Thing is, from my limited experience with 7s, I found the low B too floppy on the standard Ibanez guage (9 - 52s?) and generally unstable. Even with 10 - 60, I thought it was quite unwieldy in terms of tunning stability and so on. Baritone 7s like Jim Soloway's Swans or the RG2077XL seem the way to go to counter this issue.

i use a 65 for my low A (down one step, ADGCFAD) and i still find it too floppy,feel-wise and sound wise as well. it doesnt sound tight enough for fast riffage. extended scale (27") is definately the way to go.

i find with the .65 and .68 strings i use i start to lose definition on the low A as well, but i'll live with that over a floppy string..

as for pickups, the EMG 707 requires body routing to fit, a pretty irreversible change. i'll wait for the EMG 81-7s (supposedly standard sized) to become more widely available before i switch from my Tone Zone 7...

 

[pooo]

Why don't you order 81-7s online?

http://www.instrumentpro.com/P-EMG817.html

I ordered the 707s from here. It's a little steep though, after shipping, taxes and stuff.

 

[ShredCow]

Unsane, I'll prob take your tonezone 7. How's that?

You guys should check out Jim Soloway's Swan guitars. Extended range 7 string hollowbodies, great for jazz, pop, blues, rock.

Or

LGM Leviathian. :twisted: Custom 7 string (or 8) axes... those are EVIL stuff.

 

[666999]

Ola

I love my rg2077xl!!

 

[666999]

to SHREDCOW

eh shredcow u from irc #guitar rite...ur sister is hannah rite?

 

[ShredCow]

i have not been on #guitar for years... and yeah, I have a sister named Hannah.

 

[Ized]

thread diggers!!

 

[ShredCow]

I miss the 7621 I had.

 

[Whitestrat]

Also, any tips to share when approaching the 7?

Spoken like a typical Softie...:mrgreen:

25.5" scale 7? LOSER!!!!!!!!!!!:twisted:

 

[Whitestrat]

I love my rg2077xl!!

Ah... one surfaces... I wondered where all the baritone 7s went to.:mrgreen: I know where mine went to, just wondered where the rest are.

 

[Whitestrat]

The extended scale length didn't really take that much getting used to, actually I couldn't really tell the difference.

I couldn't take it anymore... What used to make me more articulate and with better dexterity eventually because a crippling factor when I got more and more used to my EBMMs. I had not choice but to sell the RG Baritone... It's rotting away from inaction. Might as well let someone else use it more than I would.

 

[Whitestrat]

WTF??? This is an OLD thread???? ARRGGGHHH!!!!!

 

[ShredCow]

Dude... you... suck.

 

[edder]

hahahhaa.... damn i was reading this from the first post and went thinking... wah shredcow going one full circle ahh... 7 string and DIMARZIO pickups... OMGWTFBBQ!!!! and then i saw the posting dates. bleaaahhhh....

 

[ShredCow]

Hey! I like Dimarzio's stacked singles!

 

[lightice]

Whitestrat, its quite normal. Sometimes soft for some weird reason pushes up old posts TTT.

I got trapped by it once =s

 

[Ized]

stop spamming la whitestrat. 4 posts in a row why?!?! don let James catch and ban you....hur hur hur:lol: :lol::lol:

 

[666999]

i have not been on #guitar for years... and yeah, I have a sister named Hannah.

HAHA...basket u forget me already issit...haiyooo!!!

 

[ShredCow]

hmmm... can't recall. Got a real life name? Heh.

 

[Whitestrat]

stop spamming la whitestrat. 4 posts in a row why?!?! don let James catch and ban you....hur hur hur :lol:

eh... it's replies to 4 different posts...:???: