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swarfrat
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So I stopped by the local house of Stairway to Dover (Guitar Center) on the way home today. They had one of the midrange Schecter seven strings, so I played it a little bit. I've heard the necks described as 'chunky'. It's certainly no fatback, but it at least feels like it's not going to snap if you look at it too hard. It's probably more like an ESP fullish normal. A couple observations:
I don't need the range.
The concept of repeating symmetric patterns is interesting, but the neck is wide enough that I tend to localize my brain anyway.
If anything it made me realize I might not even miss my sixth string.
Did I mention that low B just sounds whacked on a guitar?
So I gets to wonnering how it'd be strung up as I've suggested. And I realize, I can do the exact same thing with my 25.5" neck. So I grabbed a set of 10's, took em home, tuned em F# B E A D G (yeah, tuning a 10 to G is just as scary as it was tuning a 12 to F). Wow. Zing. Crisp. Clear. No duh. But it worked a lot better voicing wise than I expected. I typically play with a throaty mid tone with a solid thunk, just shy of beefy. I also like to play with diad voicings that make heavy use of the major third. This is actually what got me onto this diad voicings - it can get cluttered when the third is present. This really makes that voicing open up. All the growliness without the clutter.
Pinch harmonics are nice too. I know stub talked about an all wound set. It's really got me thinking about starting with however high you can tune the smallest wound string available, and go down in fourths from there. And just stop at the first one after E2.
Anyway - if you want a thick necked seven, it's not a bad guitar at all. It's just not me.
I don't need the range.
The concept of repeating symmetric patterns is interesting, but the neck is wide enough that I tend to localize my brain anyway.
If anything it made me realize I might not even miss my sixth string.
Did I mention that low B just sounds whacked on a guitar?
So I gets to wonnering how it'd be strung up as I've suggested. And I realize, I can do the exact same thing with my 25.5" neck. So I grabbed a set of 10's, took em home, tuned em F# B E A D G (yeah, tuning a 10 to G is just as scary as it was tuning a 12 to F). Wow. Zing. Crisp. Clear. No duh. But it worked a lot better voicing wise than I expected. I typically play with a throaty mid tone with a solid thunk, just shy of beefy. I also like to play with diad voicings that make heavy use of the major third. This is actually what got me onto this diad voicings - it can get cluttered when the third is present. This really makes that voicing open up. All the growliness without the clutter.
Pinch harmonics are nice too. I know stub talked about an all wound set. It's really got me thinking about starting with however high you can tune the smallest wound string available, and go down in fourths from there. And just stop at the first one after E2.
Anyway - if you want a thick necked seven, it's not a bad guitar at all. It's just not me.
