brainphreak
New Member
I just joined here to help on the topic of Midi pickups in a 7 string. I have been using the GR-20 with my S7420 Ibanez 7 string for a couple years now. It works pretty awesome if you ask me, I have no real tracking issues, on occassion there is a small issue, but this doesnt make much difference in the live setting, if you tweak the sensitivity settings on the pedal, you can get it to the point that nobody knows the diff. I am my bands 7 string guitarist and I play the keyboards/synth/piano at the same time. In fact I can do dual parts without much effort by fading the piano in and out during riffs. This allows the guitar to play a normal riff, but for example the piano only accents the end of the riff when I hit the pedal momentarily. Takes a little practice, but well worth it. Even leaving a light atmospheric synth on during an entire song works well as it is often drowned out by distorted heavy guitar but gives it a slight bit of atmosphere, then when I switch to clean channel, the synth becomes more prominant and it sounds like it just came in and took focus, but it has been there all along. Tons of little tricks, and I love going into a video game 8 bit midi sound and playing chromatics like a computer (like buckethead) then instantly can go into smooth guitar...
Now I plan to add one to my 8 string too.. I have wondered about a way of using 2 6 string piclups to track all 8 strings, not sure if transposing is possible etc. though, so Ill be looking into that next.
Regardless I want to buy another 7 string and pickup just so I have a backup guitar because its a very signature sound now, and with a normal guitar we lose all synth and it sounds much less experimental and more rockin'.
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Now I plan to add one to my 8 string too.. I have wondered about a way of using 2 6 string piclups to track all 8 strings, not sure if transposing is possible etc. though, so Ill be looking into that next.
Regardless I want to buy another 7 string and pickup just so I have a backup guitar because its a very signature sound now, and with a normal guitar we lose all synth and it sounds much less experimental and more rockin'.
S T R A N G L I N G M A R I L Y N - O f f i c i a l H o m e p a g e