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@Johno Dunn ... we may be fickle, but we couldn't ask for better company. This thread has some of the coolest people I have spoken to in a while ( yourself included). I have learned a bunch and I now realize what crushed dreams I now have
So I have an "unused" Sb that I may be posting soon in hopes of getting an apex or fuzz. "unused" means I opened the white box, took it out of the sleeve, but never put anything in either one of the jacks. Posting will be this evening when I can take pics.....
Yup. I had my Geddy Lee jazz set up this way for about a year. It worked just fine, but I was surprised by how much I missed the high G string so eventually I bought a 5 string for that band and put the Ged back to standard tuning.
This is an esox... esox masquinongy to be precise... or muskellunge (muskie, musky, etc...). Not to be confused with esox lucious (pike).
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Holy hell. That's a sea monster! Were you hunting it or was it hunting you?
Yep, back in the long long ago, I played with a 7 string guitar player, and only had 4 strings at the time.
Strung up a Fender P and a Rickenbacker with the bottom 4 strings of 5 string sets.
Had to do a little bridge saddle and nut grinding to get them to sit just right, and intonation wasn't perfect on a couple of them, even after nearly dropping that saddle off the rails, but it was workable.
They would even handle drop A tuning, but the low string was pretty floppy at that point.
If you aren’t playing chords and don’t need the extra low notes all the time, why not use an octave pedal and play a bit higher up with the dry rolled off? I hear Josh has made a few octave pedals.
Any problems with the nut? assuming someone went back to standard?
Yes, a good group of folks. Never a discussion of picks versus fingers, how many strings that Jaco guy needed, or what Bro Toan is best for medal! Breakfast food and meeses on occasion. I spend the majority of my TB time here, the compressor thread, and the Sushi Box thread. Oh and the FX Classifieds searching for Bro Toanes and Toobes!
Nope. I had the nut on my Geddy filed for larger strings a decade ago (by a local pro) and it’s been back in standard tuning for years now with no issues with the modified nut.
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