Ive got a RG2127x seven string that I have an X2N bridge paired with a AN neck. The X2N sounds good for brutal stuff
but my tastes have changed a bit and would like something more subtle. The X2N also overpowers the AN and I cannot get a good balance out of it, nor can I get a good clean.
I had an evo in it before but it did not sound alive to me, a bit dead or muffled/muddy. My bandmates SD-JB sounds very organic and 3d in his LP even through a TS and JC120, where my guitar through a JC800 4x12 sounds two dimensional.
I liked what I heard out of the Black Dog and the Crawler sound clips.
The Crawler sound clips had a very rich clean tone I thought whereas the Black Dogs Classic Rock tone was better to my
ears, also they did modern metal quite well.
I would like to get a singing, thick Joe Bonamassa tone with an occasional LOG, Mastodon tone. If possible Im thinking of splitting the coils of the neck pu to get a strat sound ( Frusciante, Nile Rogers ). Not sure which one of those would suit an mahogany, bolt on, seven string.
Which ever I get Im still wondering about covered or open coils? Tygers? Zebra? mmmmm
