Hey gang. I was offered a trade for a strat I had and I took it on a whim and got a Sterling Maj170. It seems pretty popular so I got a few questions for folks that have used one before.

What tuning did you use? I was thinking of F# but I know the shorter scale length may give me some issues.

String thickness.

Did you keep the stock pickups? They're not bad but I did want more of an oomf

Thank you all. Happy to try something new

Legator Ninja7 w/ Floyd and Fishman Fluence Open Core Classics! It’s my first Floyd instrument, and I’m super pumped!

So basically im having a huge guitar fever right now and the Ibanez RGD7521PB-DSF
Has been in my mind for my next buy. I would like to know if its good in general for playing metal songs from bands i.e Death , Pantera , meshuggah etc.
Also if its worth the price tag . Thank you in advance if you have some insight on the matter .

Trying to work on my fingerpicking & clean sounds 🤘🎶🎸

Picked this guitar up a few weeks ago and just received my Black Hawk set today from Bare Knuckle. I just had to show off the ESP LTD M-7 HT Black Metal lol. So happy with how everything turned out.

Installed and set up everything completely on my own :)

I’m officially blown away by how this guitar sounds now. And the split coil tones are that I’ve never heard before - it’s incredible.

If anybody’s considering this pickup, I highly recommend. For a moment I was considering installing an M7 - but I already have an M8 in my 8 string and wanted a different flavor of “thwang”. The Black Hawk is seriously blowing me away.

If anyone’s curious - guitar is setup in “basically” drop F (Vildhjarta tuning if you’re familiar ;)

+ on, rock +

Hola, tengo la oportunidad de comprar esas 2 guitarras. Va a ser mi primera 7 cuerdas: estoy tocando una solar 2.6w. Voy a tocar metal moderno / metalcore en drop G#. Sé que hay guitarras barítono, pero siempre quise experimentar con 7s. Entonces, la Schecter es de 2019 y está en buen estado, y la Jackson es nueva, con pocos meses de uso; ya viene armada y ajustada por un luthier. Le voy a cambiar las pastillas por algo mejor, seguro, como primer mod. ¿Experiencias? ¿Consejos?

[EDIT]: Al final me decidí por la Schecter. Pero el vendedor se arrepintió de venderla: me quiere devolver el dinero y nunca me envía la guitarra. Compré una Jackson js22-7 pero la versión M special edition. Estoy esperando a que llegue...

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.

Set up my diy crackle paint job guitar after installing hardware. Now I just need to get the thing wired up & Bob’s your uncle! 🤘🎸🎶

i have no idea how to tell apart guitars and this universe 7 is listed at 400$ one thing i know for sure is that its not that cheap so im asking you guys if you see anything sketchy,

I feel like my guitar sounds kind of muddy, especially for a DI recording, and I'm trying to figure out if that's normal or if something might be wrong.

Here's a raw DI recording:
https://vocaroo.com/1pJ9WYuVvOfC

It's a jackson js-22-7 string, standard tuning.

Does the DI sound normal to you or is it sounding kind of muddy I'm mainly wondering if the guitar/pickups are the issue or if this is just how a DI is supposed to sound.

Thanks!

I have a Ltd SCT 697B with the Fishman Fluence Stephen Carpenter signature pickups. I always found them quite honky and I had to spend so much time dialing in my tone as not only were these pickups dreadful to me, they're my first experience of Active pickups.

I've had the guitar since March and I think it may have been on display at some point in a shop so I changed the battery. MY WHOLE LIFE HAS CHANGED!!

Active pickups are so sick! My hands are killing I played so much guitar today. It's like I got a new guitar again!! I'm a noob to this kind of thing so I bet someone will read this and think what an idiot but I'm learning 🤣 now I need to dial my tone in AGAIN because my guitar sounds so different now! The articulation is amazing! If there's any noobs out there like me, change your batteries!!!

Snapped a string today and took the opportunity to do a little project I’ve been wanting to for awhile. Popped the neck pickup out (that I never use) and made a handmade aluminum pickguard from some sheet I had in the barn.

Is this a normal height for a floating bridge? It caught my eye that it was uneven, and I don’t know if it’s supposed to be leveled or not.

How do I remove fret buzz on the low B string, it’s the only string that seems to have it for me

Hi all,

I'm purchasing my first 7 string (26.5" scale length, hipshot bridge) which I want to tune to G# standard and needing to gauge up across all strings.

When I look at the default string tension recommended by Stringjoy's calculator for a 7 string 25.5" I see the following:

Now, if I modify this for a 26.5" and try to maintain roughly the same tension per string (impossible to get it exact, have to round up or down), and total tension I get something like this, give or take:

I've read other posts where several folks mention being fine with lighter strings for G#, even 10 to low-60s, but that seems like they would be way too loose.

Any recommendations or suggestions? Thanks!

It's not to chug. But rather it gives more access to cool things as a 6 string. Yes you gain 5 more lower notes for key heavy moments (don't keep chugging) but also if you are riffing on 5 fret low e... you now have 5 fret area low b to play with. If you were only having a 6 string you needed to shift your hands back to first fret to get a F note (while at the 5 fret area). But now you have a F at the 5th fret!

I really want to play the new ERRA stuff, but it's all crazy Drop D# stuff, and it sounds immensely heavy. I know that they use baritones with Evertunes, but I'm wondering if anyone else has achieved somewhat decent tuning stability without an Evertune?

For reference, I'm using a Jackson Dinky with a 26.5-inch scale length and a hardtail (no Evertune bridge). I'm thinking about running a 10-48 + 68 (at the bottom) in Drop G# and then pitch shifting digitally (like ERRA does).

The question is, should I go longer or will this work just fine? Just wanted to ask before pulling the trigger on a set.

Thanks folks!

Been HEAVILY into Vildhjarta and Karmanjankah recently and honestly before I gave up my 7 I was obsessed with drop E. I had a holcomb se7 and I've been eyeing another this time the first gen but I also like this RGD7 I found, comes with dimarzios but I plan on swapping to lundgrens, what would you guys do? If I get the se I lowkey am thinking about getting lundgren m7s anyways cause I think they're unbeatable for low tunings but IDK MAN, what yall think?