You and your seven - Page 3

trajectory fish · #31 09-18-2003, 05:29 PM

wow...

Anyway, I started playing 7 strings after playing guitar for only 2&1/2 years. 6 months after starting guitar, I was in the Jazz band in high school. The bass player had a 5 string bass guitar, and that introduced me to the idea of having a low B string. Then, I saw a picture of the Korn guitarists holding 7 string guitars, and I knew I had to have one (for the low B, not because I wanted to be like Korn :P ). It took me 2 years to find one. 5 years later, I'm still using the 7 string, but I'm playing very different music from the Korn folk.
http://www.radford.edu/~bchaney/girl...laying%20m.mp3

I've started playing out with other Jazz musicians in the area, and I'm working on getting a weekly gig in a restaurant where I'm working as a dishwasher. I'm very happy with 7 strings, and I don't think I need any more or less.

CrossingStar · #32 09-19-2003, 12:53 AM

I got my first, a UV777GR in 1993. I now have a UV777BK and an RG7620. Also had an RG7421 at one point. Looking at dumping the 7620 for a 1527.

Volvox · #33 09-21-2003, 12:17 AM

Well, I got my first 7 string last month.
It's a Dean Avalanche and I simply love it!!!
It's a fixed brigde, 24 fret, 2 humbucker axe with a GIANT neck, and I have small hands, but it feels comfortable and smooth for me.
I'll change the pickups for an Air Norton and Evo next month, and it will be my mais axe (after my Ibanez JPM

)
I've started to do some practice sessions with it and despite the slight confusion the 7th string still brings me, I think I'm getting more and more into it.
It's a cool thing to have that extra string. But I'll never lose my love for those "traditional" 6 string babies...

ns9 · #34 09-21-2003, 05:42 PM

Hi! '91, UV777GR. Sold it a year later, and bought another a year after that. Stayed mostly 6's 'til about '95, and have been at a point where a nice 6 string feels like a Corvette with a 4-cylinder since then. Don't always need the extra power, but once it's experienced, nice to know it is there

Take away my 7's and I would be seriously depressed...

Since my initial learning on guitar was based off of diatonic theory, it "makes sense" and translates more intuitively on a 7 for me. Expanding beyond diatonic theory has been easier as well. Nikki

Ancestor · #35 10-06-2003, 02:25 AM

I had a UV7bk in like 95 or 96 and I couldn't get used to it. I bought a Schecter A-7 in 98. It was smooth sailing from there.

EnigmaUV7 · #36 11-09-2003, 10:26 AM

UV7BK here.

Bought it in '95 after hearing Dream Theater Awake. I was fascinated by UVs from the beginning, but they were too pricey when brand new.

Took a while to get used to it, but I finally settled on .010-.046 Elixirs + .056 on the bottom with 3 springs, plays great. Still tougher to play than a 6-string obviously, but great tone and feel. I especially love the neck position lead tone. For the bridge, I adjusted the pole-pieces closest to the trem to emphasize the treble more and love it's sound now. Many of my best recordings are with the UV7.

For those that can't play the UVs well, I tell them maybe their hands are just too small/weak, it's not a girl's guitar. :P

Akhenaten · #37 11-10-2003, 02:42 AM

My girlfriend would differ with you...she liked my white one, so she plays it mostly now. She loved the Passion and Warfare pic inside the CD, where Steve is sitting with the white universe. So when I got one, I hardly got to play with it. She still plays it...

SuperJemBoy · #38 11-10-2003, 01:59 PM

I played an RG7321 once (never played a floyd

) and the 7th string really threw me off. I kept playing my riffs all over the place :/
That was only for 20 mins though, since getting more and more advanced at guitar and listening to Vai more often (I bought P&W and didn't get into it because I wasn't great at playing guitar) I've been wanting to try one.

Joe

P.S I know about the floyd thing, but after all the nightmare stories about Liscensed Floyds (shattering, flatening the strings etc) I haven't been the most motivated to try one. Yet again, Vai + Satch have recently made me wanna try one so methinks my next guitar could be.... AN RG570! (they look so cool!)

sam669 · #39 11-10-2003, 03:09 PM

a flat grey 2570 instead, they are so focking nice!

The_Grindfiend · #40 11-10-2003, 04:07 PM

RG 570s SLAY, trust me.

sam669 · #41 11-10-2003, 05:40 PM

I know how good they are but the 2570 I played was so great that I could play comfortably on the super wizard neck, which was total smooth, omg, i still feel it!

Maggot · #42 11-11-2003, 01:00 PM

I had a RG7420 that I traded for a Gibson Gothic V which I traded for a Gibson LP Classic which I'm looking to trade for a good 7 string or 6 string.

Slacker · #43 11-18-2003, 05:44 AM

I have a DeArmond s-67 named Stella, which I've had for a few months now. She sounds great but iis real neck-heavy and the top strap pin is really wierdly located.

I'm still getting used to the 7th string, and I can't say she's my main ax but I do love her and I look forward to getting better.

Drew · #44 11-19-2003, 09:51 PM

Got my 7620 the summer after my sophomore year at college... probably june-ish 01, then.

For a while, the symmetry of a 7-string had been appealing to me. i liked the idea of having three strings arranged on either side of a central string in the middle of the neck- for some reason, it made more sense like that at first to me. i resisted for a while, until I was tabbing out a Strangers With Candy (now the band formerly known as Lifer- twohands? a little help?) riff, realized it was played on a guitar tuned below standard, and twisted the tuning beg on my strat until i was in unison with the track. Then checked it ad realized I was in B, and it was probably a 7-stirng riff. Retuned to match, then played a E-shaped chord, sounding at B, through the clean channel of my amp, and got this stupid grin on my face- sounded heavier than God.

Even then, I probably would have resisted, had it not been for my #1 reason for buying gear- I got dicked over by a girl again. It's like I've got a "break my heart" sign taped to my back that everyone else but me can see, lol. (actually, I've just sworn off the whole emotional attachment thing- problem solved). So, what better way to console oneself than by dropping $700 on a new guitar?

I'm never going back. these things are too much fun. Besides, I swore off falling for girls, and there goes my main impetus.

-D

Two hands31 · #45 11-19-2003, 11:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drew

...Strangers With Candy (now the band formerly known as Lifer- twohands? a little help?)

Yep, progression goes:

Strangers With Candy (great name btw)
Lifer (as they were seen on the Scorpion King soundtrack)
and now:
myDownfall (unless they've changed again, I haven't checked in a few months

)

And I just checked their site (still at http://www.liferonline.com) and the singer, Nick, has left to join ex-filter guitarist Geno Lenardo and drummer Steve Gillis in a band tentatively called "Widescreen".