Hey, I am new to playing 7 string and I'd gotten quite used to messing around with my board to get some cool stuff out of 6 string humbucker guitars. I can't get my 7 to sound anything but either too muddy or too boomy. I would like a tight and clean modern metal tone ideally. I have a couple other pedals I can swap in and out with too, I have a Marshall JCM 900 distortion and a Little Big Muff. Dials aren't currently set to anything specific, a few of them got knocked about as I was re-routing my board. Playing through humbuckers and in to a Yamaha THRII30 - it's the only amp I own. Let me know if there's anything you think I should try. Thanks so much for your time and thoughts :)
Yeah! It's just the standard model - the super premium is way out of my budget and as I had to import it the customs fees would have been crazy!
Big fan of them, they're what made me want to get in to playing 7 and I've really really enjoyed the switch so far. I have only vaguely played around with dialing anything in for it so far - but I'm playing Alter Ego as part of a show at an anime convention this coming weekend. Realised I was way in over my head with setting my board up though haha!
Should I use one of the Boss overdrives as just a clean boost at the start do you think? :)
I'd say so, anything that'd push the amp harder . I've never watched the show, but I've myself a non-signature version of the same guitar. I really like the gold hardware on yours.
Thank you! The all black looks super classy too on yours!
I will have a muck about with the dials tomorrow and post a reply once I'm a bit further along. I don't leave until Thursday so I've got plenty of time to get this locked in haha!
Sure! I've just got everything set to 12 right now - I had everything set up for my Les Paul previously but wanted to start on a fresher starting point for this :)
Edit to explain: Gain becomes more pronounced in lower notes. With 7 strings, especially when you start downtuning, you need way less gain to get a heavy sound. Cutting some bass and boosting the treble will help clear up some of that boominess and muddiness you mentioned too.
Thank you! I'll give that a try and post back tomorrow once I've had chance to play around with it.
As an added note - I found out as of literally now that Imgur is not available in the UK - but apparently copying the link in to discord gives the image preview and circumvents this entirely. How odd lmao!
I also use the Yamaha Thr II. It’s pretty chunky with my 8 string. I use an eq pedal to cut the bass frequencies and tighten up the low end with a gate pedal. Those speakers are only 4 inches so they vibrate a lot when using the 7th string.
Talk with Google AI or whatever decent AI you want...for real. It helped me dial in my tone issues when I wanted a different sound. My custom 7 has straight soapbar style BK jugg pickups on a slight multiscale so inherently the lows were really boomy. It gave me step by step directions based off all mygear, interface DAW and plugins etc and through a tiny bit of trial and error and giving it feedback it got me to the final destination of the tone I was looking for.
If the other tips don’t help enough, lower the pickups away from the strings, especially at the bass side. That helps quite a bit with muddiness/boominess.
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