BananaDemocracy
8 String Impaler
My entry and familiarity with 7 strings/,ERG in general, has greatly improved since joining, and my eye has been set on the JP XI 7 since the latest videos from some fine members....and I took the flood of JP/Majesty threads as a sign to go hunt one down and try it...
Big mistake!
I am now in the process of working out a payment plan for a majesty 7 in artic dream mystic purple(?), the chameleon one
I can’t say it’s BETTER than the XI. To me the XI is as JP says in one of his interviews about the guitar and series, its supposed to feel and play like a “Race car” or like an “exotic bmw” or whatever it was. It’s a beauty but also a monster of a beast, a workhorse capable of everything with its features.....
But after you try a Majesty, you start to wonder, did EBMM outdo themselves completely? Like they set the bar so high, I feel like company hasn’t started so much passive aggressive shit-competition with the other companies without saying a word.... anyone ever hear of Ned Steinberger? Someone on another board compared the majesty to that, and I totally get it now!
I can’t beleive the design actually lends itself into the aesthetics and the practical. The horn isnt just a beautiful phallic symbol jutting out from under my arm, its done so i can play up on the 20th frets without any access issues....
The arm layout is similar to the control layout of the XI that i played, and all JPs i imagine have that feel to the controls, but hopefully not to be redundant but JP and me are very similar in size (hand/arms/fingers) so his length/dimensions just work perfectly for me and Majesty is even more comparable than the XI
The only thing that i saw that was maybe cooler on the XI 7 was the double output....you could have mono/piezo going at one output and the other output just the guitar signal... but the majesty streamlined into one cable output and there is actually software onboard, and i dont know what its fore lol, i think it actually does something to the tone, but man oh man
THIS GUITAR IS THE MOST GORGEOUS THING IVE EVER SEEN (besides a beautiful landscape and a naked woman)....I dont know if it was the look or the feel or the sounds together that made me so intoxicated that I’m taking this plunge, but the XI can wait...in fact, I’m going to get a used XI as advised by a member here not just a few posts/minutes ago [so thank you for that kind sir]
ONLY thing is the sound - the pickups are theilluminators? Is that right? IDK man, they sound like the same Dimarzios that he always uses, and that i think is the only thing that hasn’t evolved.. The pups in the majesty arent noteworthy, but the piezo tone is wonderful, probably the best i heard so far
Is it true it was just $2800 on sale? Like the 7 string version? If so that makes it so hard to buy new, because i cant see one for under 3k....but if my payment plan goes through and my credit isnt pushed to the limit, i think well have a NGD soon
What do you guys think? Meaning about the majesty’s pickups illimnator set? Or anything else you might want to dissuade from my purchase!! Lol
PEACEOUT
Big mistake!
I am now in the process of working out a payment plan for a majesty 7 in artic dream mystic purple(?), the chameleon one
I can’t say it’s BETTER than the XI. To me the XI is as JP says in one of his interviews about the guitar and series, its supposed to feel and play like a “Race car” or like an “exotic bmw” or whatever it was. It’s a beauty but also a monster of a beast, a workhorse capable of everything with its features.....
But after you try a Majesty, you start to wonder, did EBMM outdo themselves completely? Like they set the bar so high, I feel like company hasn’t started so much passive aggressive shit-competition with the other companies without saying a word.... anyone ever hear of Ned Steinberger? Someone on another board compared the majesty to that, and I totally get it now!
I can’t beleive the design actually lends itself into the aesthetics and the practical. The horn isnt just a beautiful phallic symbol jutting out from under my arm, its done so i can play up on the 20th frets without any access issues....
The arm layout is similar to the control layout of the XI that i played, and all JPs i imagine have that feel to the controls, but hopefully not to be redundant but JP and me are very similar in size (hand/arms/fingers) so his length/dimensions just work perfectly for me and Majesty is even more comparable than the XI
The only thing that i saw that was maybe cooler on the XI 7 was the double output....you could have mono/piezo going at one output and the other output just the guitar signal... but the majesty streamlined into one cable output and there is actually software onboard, and i dont know what its fore lol, i think it actually does something to the tone, but man oh man
THIS GUITAR IS THE MOST GORGEOUS THING IVE EVER SEEN (besides a beautiful landscape and a naked woman)....I dont know if it was the look or the feel or the sounds together that made me so intoxicated that I’m taking this plunge, but the XI can wait...in fact, I’m going to get a used XI as advised by a member here not just a few posts/minutes ago [so thank you for that kind sir]
ONLY thing is the sound - the pickups are theilluminators? Is that right? IDK man, they sound like the same Dimarzios that he always uses, and that i think is the only thing that hasn’t evolved.. The pups in the majesty arent noteworthy, but the piezo tone is wonderful, probably the best i heard so far
Is it true it was just $2800 on sale? Like the 7 string version? If so that makes it so hard to buy new, because i cant see one for under 3k....but if my payment plan goes through and my credit isnt pushed to the limit, i think well have a NGD soon
What do you guys think? Meaning about the majesty’s pickups illimnator set? Or anything else you might want to dissuade from my purchase!! Lol
PEACEOUT