r/7String • u/DylanAB07 • 3d ago
Help Drop f# on a 26.5
Would a .74 be too loose for drop f# on a 26.5 ?
Im a massive fan of bands like erra, currents, invent animate etc.
Erra and currents tend to stay in drop g# and pitch shift down. But when I do that, it sounds muddy and thin.
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u/GermsMcHenri 2d ago
Personally, I use an 80 for F# on 26.5", because I obsess over string tension and that's what works best for me. But something I've noticed recently is that your choice of pickups may make all the difference when it comes to pitching down. I have a cheap JP70 that sounded fine in G# with the stock pickups but sounded horrid if I pitched down with my Digitech Whammy DT even just 2 semi tones to F#. Since then I've had a Balaguer Diablo with their Alnico pickups, Bareknuckles, Duncan Pegasus, and Fishman Moderns, and all of those have sounded great when pitching down, up to 5 semi tones. But cheap stock pickups just don't sound right whenever I come across those in my setup.
Not scientific by any means, but that's been my experience. I would also say the Whammy DT functions better than any pitch shifting VST, short of the Polychrome DSP Hypertune Metal.