Guitar is SSH, 26.5 neck, two octave ebony neck and floyd rosewood bridge. When I use distortion, I want the strat sound to come through, think Scott
Henderson or Wayne Krantz.
The only choice for the singles is the SSL-1 7.
Bridge choices. I want alnico 5, split sound that is balanced with the single coils, good splitting is important...
Pegasus - I have one in another 7-string, (it replaced a JB). It sounds great and splits well. So I want something different...
Custom 5 - I feel like its the best fit, eq graph is closest to single coils (more scooped than Pegasus) but...
Full shred - looks like custom 5 with very tight bass. Which would work better?
Guitar review. I wanted a 7-string 'super strat' with a Floyd Rose. I'd had good experience withSchecter guitars and this looked interesting (activess, longer scale, 2 octave, etc).
pluses : neck feel is fantastic as is the access to the high frets, it plays great. I'm using 10-60 and have no trouble bending on the 26.5 neck except near the nut
floyd works as advertised, its funny to have a guitar that you don't need to tune for days even using the wammy bar
looks great and is absolutely noise free
minuses : I still don't like ebony fingerboard (my bad)
not sure floyd and 7 string are the right combination (dive bombs wind up with a 'klank' as the low B gets sucked into the pickup)
pickups: single coils are EMG mavericks w/alnico 5, extremely bright and clear, but they lack the 'gooey' vocal quality I want in a strat
bridge is the hot 70 with ceramic magnet, very super distortion sort of sound, great with distortion, but its too 'different' sounding than the other positions
2 and 4 positions are unconvincing. My theory is that its a problem with actives not doing what passive circuits do, the luthier I go to thinks its a combination of the
geometry for the neck+middle, and the bridge not having a coil cut.
If I were to start from scratch, I'd probably get the JacksonX SERIES SOLOIST™ SL4X... and swap the hot rails for something more vintage (my original plan before I saw the SChecter). Or clean up my just get my junk strat copy, set it up with a floyd rose and redo the electroncs (it has an old cool rail set where the string gets caught).
Henderson or Wayne Krantz.
The only choice for the singles is the SSL-1 7.
Bridge choices. I want alnico 5, split sound that is balanced with the single coils, good splitting is important...
Pegasus - I have one in another 7-string, (it replaced a JB). It sounds great and splits well. So I want something different...
Custom 5 - I feel like its the best fit, eq graph is closest to single coils (more scooped than Pegasus) but...
Full shred - looks like custom 5 with very tight bass. Which would work better?
Guitar review. I wanted a 7-string 'super strat' with a Floyd Rose. I'd had good experience withSchecter guitars and this looked interesting (activess, longer scale, 2 octave, etc).
pluses : neck feel is fantastic as is the access to the high frets, it plays great. I'm using 10-60 and have no trouble bending on the 26.5 neck except near the nut
floyd works as advertised, its funny to have a guitar that you don't need to tune for days even using the wammy bar
looks great and is absolutely noise free
minuses : I still don't like ebony fingerboard (my bad)
not sure floyd and 7 string are the right combination (dive bombs wind up with a 'klank' as the low B gets sucked into the pickup)
pickups: single coils are EMG mavericks w/alnico 5, extremely bright and clear, but they lack the 'gooey' vocal quality I want in a strat
bridge is the hot 70 with ceramic magnet, very super distortion sort of sound, great with distortion, but its too 'different' sounding than the other positions
2 and 4 positions are unconvincing. My theory is that its a problem with actives not doing what passive circuits do, the luthier I go to thinks its a combination of the
geometry for the neck+middle, and the bridge not having a coil cut.
If I were to start from scratch, I'd probably get the JacksonX SERIES SOLOIST™ SL4X... and swap the hot rails for something more vintage (my original plan before I saw the SChecter). Or clean up my just get my junk strat copy, set it up with a floyd rose and redo the electroncs (it has an old cool rail set where the string gets caught).
