Gravy Train
SS.org Regular
Hello everyone, I picked up an RGA8 this past Tuesday and I love it (pickups are ass, but more on that later)!
This is my 5th 8 string. I know, it's crazy! This is also currently my only electric guitar. I previously had 2 Ibanez Iron Label 7 strings and they were nice guitars, but left me uninspired as of late.
With that said, I have been itching for an 8 string recently and the local Sam Ash had this guy used and discounted. It had been there for almost 2 years and I paid it no attention whenever I went there.
I thought I just couldn't jive with 8's anymore, but upon getting this, I don't know what I was thinking! This plays so much nicer than any of the 3 RG8's and the Schecter Hellraiser Hybrid 8 I previously had.
The neck is a joy to play (continues to cement my love for Ibanez) and the body is insanely comfortable. I have also heard bad things on this forum about the fixed Edge iii 8, but I have had no problems whatsoever and neither did the tech that worked on it while it was at the store all those years. Not to mention, it is the smoothest and most comfortable bridge I have ever laid my hand on!
Now to the pickups, I can reconfirm what everyone else has said. They are indeed the ....tiest of the
. But as I was buying the guitar, I also placed an order for a set of Seymour Duncan Retribution Dino Cazares sig pickups for it. I will post regarding those when the installation is all set and done. I do a lot of of fast picking and stutter-stop riffs, and from what I have heard, these will fit the bill nicely. Plus they won't leave any nasty gaps on the side of the pickups (not a fan of passives in active mount mounts).
I've played more these past few days with this guitar than I have in the past couple of weeks with the 2 S Iron Labels. It feels good to be back with an 8, I am loving it and it feels like coming back home.
Any good 8 string bands I can learn songs from? The ones I currently know of are: Carnifex, Butcher Babies, Monuments, After The Burial, Ektomorf, Scar The Martyr and Deftones. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
If you have any questions, ask away.
Enough of the words, here is a potato picture!
This is my 5th 8 string. I know, it's crazy! This is also currently my only electric guitar. I previously had 2 Ibanez Iron Label 7 strings and they were nice guitars, but left me uninspired as of late.
With that said, I have been itching for an 8 string recently and the local Sam Ash had this guy used and discounted. It had been there for almost 2 years and I paid it no attention whenever I went there.
I thought I just couldn't jive with 8's anymore, but upon getting this, I don't know what I was thinking! This plays so much nicer than any of the 3 RG8's and the Schecter Hellraiser Hybrid 8 I previously had.
The neck is a joy to play (continues to cement my love for Ibanez) and the body is insanely comfortable. I have also heard bad things on this forum about the fixed Edge iii 8, but I have had no problems whatsoever and neither did the tech that worked on it while it was at the store all those years. Not to mention, it is the smoothest and most comfortable bridge I have ever laid my hand on!
Now to the pickups, I can reconfirm what everyone else has said. They are indeed the ....tiest of the
. But as I was buying the guitar, I also placed an order for a set of Seymour Duncan Retribution Dino Cazares sig pickups for it. I will post regarding those when the installation is all set and done. I do a lot of of fast picking and stutter-stop riffs, and from what I have heard, these will fit the bill nicely. Plus they won't leave any nasty gaps on the side of the pickups (not a fan of passives in active mount mounts).I've played more these past few days with this guitar than I have in the past couple of weeks with the 2 S Iron Labels. It feels good to be back with an 8, I am loving it and it feels like coming back home.
Any good 8 string bands I can learn songs from? The ones I currently know of are: Carnifex, Butcher Babies, Monuments, After The Burial, Ektomorf, Scar The Martyr and Deftones. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
If you have any questions, ask away.
Enough of the words, here is a potato picture!
