baritone guitars

baritone guitars

  • cool

    Votes: 60 66.7%

  • what

    Votes: 12 13.3%

  • what's a baritone?

    Votes: 5 5.6%

  • your mom's pole option

    Votes: 13 14.4%
  • Total voters
    90
Re: baritone guitars

If I had a baritone guitar, I'd tune it up to C and play the hell out of some Dream Theater tunes until I broke all the strings. Then I'd string it up with a much lighter set and play standard throughout its life. I would kinda like to have a bigger space in between the highest frets.

Gibson is making a baritone les paul studio right now. Instead of the traditional 27" scale, they're using a 28" scale with 24 frets!! Woohoo, a 24 fret les paul!!! I've always wanted one of those.

Now if they just did that to an Explorer....:drool:
 
Re: baritone guitars

Yeah, the Baritone LP comes in Blue Mist, a hot color indeed. Soul Embraced uses ESP Baritones and they have an awesome sound. You don't have to sound bad because you're low.
 
Re: baritone guitars

I've had people recommend that I try a baritone guitar, since I tend to use guitar-like techniques on the bass (arpeggios, double-stops, palm-muting, etc.), and I play some guitar as well. But to me, the baritone guitar seems like a little bit of both but not enough of either. It doesn't go low enough for a real bassline, and playing it like a standard guitar just doesn't feel right. So I think I'll just stick to regular guitars and basses, and leave the baritone guitar (which technically should be called a bass guitar, as the electric bass is really a contrabass) to those who find it more to their liking.
 
Re: baritone guitars

I'd like a six-string baritone and a seven-string baritone. I've already got a couple of regular six-string and seven-string guitars, so time for something different I think ;)
 
Re: baritone guitars

I had an Ibanez 7-string Baritone, which I sold.

Now I´m waiting for myself to have enough cash for a Jackson Custom Shop 7 string baritone King Kelly in a blood drip graphic :D:D:D:D:D
 
Re: baritone guitars

Definitely cool. I've got one of those Fender Bass VI reissues that I converted to a Bari (Warmoth, I think, is the one that has the parts to biuld one), and depending upon how you string it, it either sounds like a big Strat or almost a sort of piccolo 6 string bass. With a set of Fender .010,s (starting with the B string - 2 Sperzel locking tuners for the high F# and B strings), and either just a high C or G string from a set of 6 string bass strings, or even both for the 5th and 6th strings. At that full bass guitar scale length, the tension doesn't feel that much different from a Strat.
Sounds great with a bit of FatBoost (or just at edge of breakup), a touch of compression, chorus, delay, and reverb. Big, fat tone, bridge p/u and you can play chords all night and get "atmosphere." If you can solo with your fingers, the sound is pretty funky and has a sort of deep Knopfler-esque tone that also dips into a bass kind of thing lower down.

I'm still searching for the right pickups for the "in between-ness" of the string set. Right now, the stock pickups tend to howl uncontrolably when you really crank things. I'm thinking maybe a set of "____Rails," which ones, I don't know yet.

Brett
 
Re: baritone guitars

Zerberus said:
Now I´m waiting for myself to have enough cash for a Jackson Custom Shop 7 string baritone King Kelly in a blood drip graphic :D:D:D:D:D
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Too many adjectives!!! :laugh2:
 
Re: baritone guitars

I'm building one now out of Warmoth parts, and, at Seymour's recommendation, had the Custom Shop wind me a humbucker for the bridge. That, plus Vintage Strat SSL-1s in the neck and middle and a funky wiring scheme. I'm going for twang and mild overdrive though, no heavily distorted nu-metal stuff. Should be done in a couple of weeks.
 
Re: baritone guitars

I'd put it in the same category as guitar subwoofers. You might be able to do some cool stuff with 'em but it's too likely to stomp on the bass player's part of the frequency spectrum.
 
Re: baritone guitars

the_Chris said:
I think they're really awesome. I wish there were ones out there designed for more than just metal or hardcore music.

I think it would be badass to have a drop tuned killer rock/blues/jazz guitar. I'm content with playing in standard, but I think having a quality guitar that gets lower registers would be a blast.
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Fender has that Tele-style baritone.
 
Re: baritone guitars

the_Chris said:
I think they're really awesome. I wish there were ones out there designed for more than just metal or hardcore music.

I think it would be badass to have a drop tuned killer rock/blues/jazz guitar. I'm content with playing in standard, but I think having a quality guitar that gets lower registers would be a blast.
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Jerry Jones makes a couple of nice ones as well. If you have access to Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road" album, there's some great baritone on that.
 
Brmc

Brmc

Listen To "awake" by BRMC on their debut, eponymous album. Fantabulous song, guitar tuned to open c - and yet its a normal Gibson 335, only with VERY heavy strings. I think the strings go some way to defining their sound... I do remember the guitarist saying that he wanted to play songs with open Cs, D, As, etc etc, and strats/teles just seemed too flimsy, whereas the big 335 could handle heavy strings.

So, baritones aren't only the preserve of nu metal - but do you really need an extra string when you can look THIS cool? :)
 
Re: baritone guitars

Cool, but I'd like to tune one to standard and use the longer scale length to get a different timbre.
 
Re: baritone guitars

MattPete said:
Cool, but I'd like to tune one to standard and use the longer scale length to get a different timbre.
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I imagine if you tuned a long scale guitar to standard, the strings would snap like rubber bands.
 
Re: baritone guitars

MikeRocker said:
I imagine if you tuned a long scale guitar to standard, the strings would snap like rubber bands.
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There's a small builder, Soloway guitars, that builds guitars that are in between a baritone and Fender scale. His guitars are 27 inches and scale and designed to be tuned to standard pitch.


http://www.jimsoloway.com/
 
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