Bands You'd like to see move up to 7 strings

[Anthony_Jacob]

all of them

 

[Bones43x]

Fall Out Boy























jk

 

[MikeH]

The Black Dahlia Murder
Between The Buried And Me
Protest The Hero
Conducting From the Grave
Despised Icon
The Faceless
The Red Chord

 

[gunshow86de]

I'd like to see how the guys from Cynic would use the added range of a seven.

 

[-mouse-]

i'm with everybody on the fact that Protest should use 7's... they could keep their half step down tuning, but with an added A# for sickness

I'd also love to see what chevelle could do with it...

 

[liamh]

Allan Holdswoth, The Faceless, Veil Of Maya, Red Sea's Fire, Guthrie Govan?

 

[canuck brian]

Metallica - hopefully they'd write something heavy and not shitty.

I'm really really hoping Opeth doesn't go to 7's.

 

[-mouse-]

I'm really really hoping Opeth doesn't go to 7's.

I'm not sure I agree... But let's hear your reasoning

 

[espman]

Protest the Hero, The Human Abstract, Lamb of God, black dahlia murder

 

[Hypothermia]

Cult of luna.

 

[dexmix]

not sure why you would want karnivool going to sevens.

they already do drop B, with the 3 high strings in standard. so its not like they would really gain any range or change their sound.

 

[Scar Symmetry]

Of course they would gain range they'd have an extra string!

 

[lucasreis]

Of course they would gain range they'd have an extra string!

Yeah, they sure would gain range, after all, a seven is an extended range instrument.

What I think he was trying to say is that a band that already tunes lower doesn't benefit from it in the same in that a band that only uses E standard or drop D would. I guess...

 

[Arteriorrhexis]

Anata!

 

[jaredowty]

Opeth, Obscura, Anata, and Cynic would all sound great with sevens I'd think.

 

[Bren]

black label society with an extra string might be interesting!

 

[xmetalhead69]

The Black Dahlia Murder
Between The Buried And Me
Protest The Hero
Conducting From the Grave
Despised Icon
The Faceless
The Red Chord

 

[synrgy]

Yeah, they sure would gain range, after all, a seven is an extended range instrument.

What I think he was trying to say is that a band that already tunes lower doesn't benefit from it in the same in that a band that only uses E standard or drop D would. I guess...

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So, they wouldn't have more notes in the upper register than they did on a 6 string? I'm confused.

*edit* and I forgot -- I came in here to say I'd love to see Haunted Shores make the jump.

 

[lucasreis]

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So, they wouldn't have more notes in the upper register than they did on a 6 string? I'm confused.

*edit* and I forgot -- I came in here to say I'd love to see Haunted Shores make the jump.

No, let me explain, this is what I understood:

- Scenario 1: a band plays in standard tuning and moves to a seven-string guitar. The different is noticeable right away, the tuning gets lower and you can hear it.

- Scenario 2: a band plays in B, drop B, Drop A, Drop Bb, whatever and switchs to a seven-string guitar. Unless they tune even lower, the difference in the overall sound is smaller. You get an extra high string that is not going to be used in every riff, opposed to the guys getting the benefit from the lower register they didn't use before.

The truth is that a seven always means more range, but if a band already tunes lower the WTF factor when listening to a new song isn't so big, sometimes not even noticeable. Cappice now?

 

[dexmix]

The high highs are still there with Karnivool's normal tuning on the top 3 strings. Karnivool doesn't do sweeps.

They can hit the lowest B, and the highest note a 7 string can. All the same notes are on the fretboard. just maybe not as close as they would be on a 7 string.