Drooling over guitars. For a while. And then I saw this:





Les Paul.
 
Black.

7 strings. 

Should be mine.

Sweet!  (One too many strings for me though...  I prefer a baritone with six and a guitar with six - what a wimp, eh?)

I've actually never played a 7. But I'm looking forward to trying one and hopefully buying one. 

But since I have very traditional tastes for guitars, most of the 7 strings I've seen didn't really interest me. I know it's silly, but, that's how it is. Even my old strat doesn't really get much used anymore.

Anyway, I think a 7 strings could be useful for the stuff I'm working on these days. And if it's a LP, and black, I have all the excuses I need. ;)

sweet guitar!

 We are never done until we get just one more guitar lol. It looks like a gem of an axe.

Love the transparent black.  I 've noticed a few Gibby LP in transparent black, as of late, also.  Don't think I would want to deal with the 7th string, though....it would just mess me up.  I don't even have to  think about chording the guitar anymore and that would make me have to think about what I am doing again.

Do you think a 7 string guitar would be harder to mix and more prone to muddiness? 

sharke


Do you think a 7 string guitar would be harder to mix and more prone to muddiness? 

If it was being played by the typical kid who thinks he needs to have a 7-string guitar, then yes.  If played by someone who actually knows what they're doing?  Nah.  You just need to give the bass player a 5-string bass with the extra string being a low-B. 

One more is never enough. 

sharke


Do you think a 7 string guitar would be harder to mix and more prone to muddiness? 

Interesting question. I would think that it would at least sound cleaner than a 6 strings tuned down - but that's an uneducated guess, based solely on the fact the fact that you have access to a bigger string to handle those lower notes, instead of just reducing the tension on a regular E string. I could be totally wrong, though.

The guys in Meshuggah play 8 strings and they sound darn tight as far as I'm concerned. The bass player must hate them, though. ;)  


That's also admitting that you also have the right cab. Those guys playing 7 strings seem to like oversize cabs - from what I understand it helps pushing the ugly resonance lower so that it contributes to the massive low end instead of just muddying the low mids.