So, 9 string guitars?

[glassjaw7]

Holy shit balls. 9 strings. Part bass, and part guitar. Low E and A bass strings and 7 string guitar tuned B-E-A-D-G-B-E

I think it's cool if someone uses it creatively and gets some new sounds and chords going. But I'm sure guys will just use the lowest strings for chugga, chug, djent, brootz whatever the fuck they call it-core.

I gotta get a 7 though before I get into 8 or 9 strings.

 

[Spaceboy]

The 9th string is an added high A, not a low one... I thought.

 

[Spaceboy]

I want an 8-string. I've only seen one non-chugga band use them, but it's death metal. So far, them and Meshuggah are the only 8-stringers out there I can get into, but there seems to be some potential for my style of playing.

 

[Code001]

I want an 8-string. I've only seen one non-chugga band use them, but it's death metal.

What band?

 

[glpg80]

id need a road map to play the damn thing

 

[Code001]

id need a road map to play the damn thing

It's one of the reasons why I like my Horus guitars. The extended fretboard makes it similar to having a 7 string with 22 frets. I still love my 7 string guitars though. I'd really like to try to get an 8, but I think the low F# would be too low for most of my amps. 9 is a bit too much.

 

[glpg80]

id need a road map to play the damn thing

It's one of the reasons why I like my Horus guitars. The extended fretboard makes it similar to having a 7 string with 22 frets. I still love my 7 string guitars though. I'd really like to try to get an 8, but I think the low F# would be too low for most of my amps. 9 is a bit too much.

you would need to build an amplifier catered to extreme design measures; emphasizing the lower register notes as the now-standard-measure and also cater to low-end stability at the same time - but also offering a balance of high end control simillar to what you see in today's amplifiers so that the rhythm's are not the only thing that the circuit is tuned to.

the only person i know that has done this is mike fortin - from scratch and to today's standards. all of the others i dont think (at least to my ears) have taken the extra registers into consideration.

to be honest i cant play 7 strings or 8 strings - i literally get lost. give me a 6 string, and im at home again. i can play the 7's and 8's but when it comes to key changes in the middle of the fretboard - i literally just loose track of where im at

ill take baritones anyday

 

[Spaceboy]

I want an 8-string. I've only seen one non-chugga band use them, but it's death metal.

What band?

Good, but not spectacular Irish brutal/gore band called Putrefy. I've just come across them really recently.

I really dig the groove/slam part towards the end though.

 

[Badronald]

I'm still trying to write a good song with a 6 string in standard tuning.

 

[gbsmusic]

Jesus 9? An 8 string sounds like your farting! I guess a 9 and you'll just shit yourself hugh

 

[Gsxrbusa]

I can barely play 3 out of 6 so......no thanks. Could be lethal in the right hands.

 

[glpg80]

Jesus 9? An 8 string sounds like your farting! I guess a 9 and you'll just shit yourself hugh

you never got that memo? the whole point is to find the brown note

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/1 ... rown-noise

 

[jcj]

id need a road map to play the damn thing

Amen brotha

 

[rottingcorpse]

id need a road map to play the damn thing

It's one of the reasons why I like my Horus guitars. The extended fretboard makes it similar to having a 7 string with 22 frets. I still love my 7 string guitars though. I'd really like to try to get an 8, but I think the low F# would be too low for most of my amps. 9 is a bit too much.

you would need to build an amplifier catered to extreme design measures; emphasizing the lower register notes as the now-standard-measure and also cater to low-end stability at the same time - but also offering a balance of high end control simillar to what you see in today's amplifiers so that the rhythm's are not the only thing that the circuit is tuned to.

the only person i know that has done this is mike fortin - from scratch and to today's standards. all of the others i dont think (at least to my ears) have taken the extra registers into consideration.

to be honest i cant play 7 strings or 8 strings - i literally get lost. give me a 6 string, and im at home again. i can play the 7's and 8's but when it comes to key changes in the middle of the fretboard - i literally just loose track of where im at

ill take baritones anyday

isp guitar sub. deftones guitarist uses them with his 8 string guitars. they make any amp deal with sub-tunings.

 

[glpg80]

id need a road map to play the damn thing

It's one of the reasons why I like my Horus guitars. The extended fretboard makes it similar to having a 7 string with 22 frets. I still love my 7 string guitars though. I'd really like to try to get an 8, but I think the low F# would be too low for most of my amps. 9 is a bit too much.

you would need to build an amplifier catered to extreme design measures; emphasizing the lower register notes as the now-standard-measure and also cater to low-end stability at the same time - but also offering a balance of high end control simillar to what you see in today's amplifiers so that the rhythm's are not the only thing that the circuit is tuned to.

the only person i know that has done this is mike fortin - from scratch and to today's standards. all of the others i dont think (at least to my ears) have taken the extra registers into consideration.

to be honest i cant play 7 strings or 8 strings - i literally get lost. give me a 6 string, and im at home again. i can play the 7's and 8's but when it comes to key changes in the middle of the fretboard - i literally just loose track of where im at

ill take baritones anyday

isp guitar sub. deftones guitarist uses them with his 8 string guitars. they make any amp deal with sub-tunings.

although that works, thats not what i was talking about. that is just an extension for the speaker efficiency of the lower notes, not the amplifier itself being tuned. one is easy, the latter is much much much more complicated to do but if it is done correctly - you will get much better results. it is more like a balancing act than anything else tuning these analog circuits because tube parameters change, drift, and are different and never stay constant. makes it hard on the low-frequency tuning for high frequency stability, oscillations, humming, blocking distortion, and countless other parameters if you tune to the edge of whatever circuit you build.

 

[zee1usa]

Its a Boat Paddle! " Dem aint Oars , Dems my Seesters! "

 

[ttosh]

Jesus 9? An 8 string sounds like your farting! I guess a 9 and you'll just shit yourself hugh

I just shit myself reading this.

 

[racer_j]

Taylor is making some 8 and 9 string acoustics.

But they are more like partial 12 stringers.

Jason

 

[glassjaw7]

The 9th string is an added high A, not a low one... I thought.

On this particular Agile model, it's a low E and A (74 and 90 guage). It's a bass/guitar hybrid.

 

[Spaceboy]

That's just... dumb.