Author Topic: New 2008 7's and 8's? (Read 3262 times)

bobthemerciful · « **Reply #15 on:** January 31, 2008, 12:47:00 AM »

Regarding 7's,I love em!! Have a Stagemaster 7 with a Warpig in t' bridge. Play it most of the time, though it's still not the easiest thing to play. Thanks to Tim it does sound good tho.
With 8's, the only ones I have tried are Doug's* prototype 8, and the prototype 884 and the finshed F8. Simply stunning, great tone and playability. Nobody (me included) really needs an 8, but its huge fun!!! Closest analogy I can think of is it's like a Golf VR6. Nobody needs that much grunt in something that small but god is it fun!!! that low F# is good for scaring small children and animals also............
8) :D

*Blackmachine 8)

silentrage · « **Reply #16 on:** January 31, 2008, 06:32:18 AM »

What do you guys think about rusty cooley's dean sig 7?

Prawnik · « **Reply #17 on:** January 31, 2008, 10:42:51 AM »

Also, seven string acoustics are common in Russia for folk/bard music.

I have a hella time trying to convince Russian people that a true classical/Spanish guitar does not typically have seven strings.

PoshCollins · « **Reply #18 on:** January 31, 2008, 03:53:23 PM »

Quote from: silentrage

What do you guys think about rusty cooley's dean sig 7?

Rather Rubbish, that guy makes Michael Angelo look tasteful. (The guitarist that is!)

silentrage · « **Reply #19 on:** February 01, 2008, 07:08:48 AM »

Quote from: PoshCollins

Quote from: silentrage
What do you guys think about rusty cooley's dean sig 7?

Rather Rubbish, that guy makes Michael Angelo look tasteful. (The guitarist that is!)

but does that translate to his guitar is what I wanna know. :)

jibidy · « **Reply #20 on:** February 01, 2008, 09:16:49 AM »

I think it could be very nice if it wasnt for all the graphics and inlays. Reminded me a lil' of the Giger RG. i think Dean are probably amongs the best for 7's if only they made more. the vendetta 1.7 or something. why dont they make a good one?

Alex · « **Reply #21 on:** February 04, 2008, 11:22:39 PM »

I wanted a 7-string because I am not a fan of detuning a normal 6-string to abyssal lows... looses the feeling, sound, just not what it was made for.

But the 7-string did not fit my hand, the string spacing is too close. I discovered, that scale length matters less to my hands than the amount of strings, lol, so instead I got a baritone guitar and I am very happy with it. It goes "boom" when i hit the strings and just works great on those low notes.