Hey, thanks for the tip, mate... I'll give it a go this weekend and see how it works out.

Me and Val are sending our 7s for set-up in the 3rd week of May. Just hope I can scrounge enough cash for pups by then so I can have 'em installed one shot, but I seriously doubt it...

JS Music can probably get me a good price on the X2N-7s but their next shipment is only in June or so...

Oh yeah, and I finally figured out why the EMG7s can't fit into the 1527 pickup cavity- the bloody things are housed in bass pickup casings so they take up more space than regular 7-string pups. Guess I really have no choice but to get passive pups this time 'round...


Hey, Beatmasta, you're rig sounds quite brutal... you'll be using it for your gig? ...and you still haven't told us what songs you're gonna play!

Ok, cool, mate... Just make sure you take some vids of the gig for the benefit of us Sanctuarites who can't make it for your gig...

Gee, I realized that we're on the 7th page of the Sanctuary already. Up the 7 FTW!

Next LYN Gathering, we all better turn out in force... and with Beatmasta and his ub3r-low tunings, guess we won't be needing a bassist for the low-end... hehe...

EQ, teach me some RC riffs lar... then during the Gathering we can whack the riffs and Val can prance around with his K-7 and pretend he's Munky Cooley... nu-classical shred mou..

Nah, I'm just rusty... ...and you can be John PetrEQ...

Anyway, we're sending it Tham. Yeah, I forgot about the springs part... I better ask him if he can get one extra for me...

Yeah, it's not a world tour... it's a CRUSADE!

And you're right, it's time for EQ to stop hiding... show us the SHRED!

soo..... when are you gonna show us your sweep-double-tap arpeggios?

Yeah, let's join Beatmasta's Crusade across the South China Sea... we can be his cannon fodder as he blasts the audience to smithereens with his subsonic riffing!

Yup, EQ is the master of the STRUM:

Super Tasty Roxxors Uber Metal

Good luck to you man!

Anyway, for us, it was pretty difficult and not that hard at the same time.

It was pretty difficult because we got one day's notice for the gig..... but not that hard because we've been practising the set for a few months already... ...and yet still slop like mad...

In the immortal words of Valkyrie:

DAMN SLOPPY WEI!!

And this was said very very loudly on stage where everyone else could hear... lolz...

Well, well... It can't be, it can't be!

What are you doing here in our Sanctuary? We all got low B here... you wanna join, you gotta get an extra bass drum, bro!

Err, I thought he's the Malmsteen of PJ?

eh... I thought Tham's and one of King Shah's were bought from SLC together for like RM1800 each?

I think the overseas one was Ritz's (or the Kamikaze that King Shah let him use)... it was mentioned in a Guitar Dan Bass interview I think...

But seriously, Calvin, try asking him to show you his "Jason Becker" thesis... Me and Teko haven't seen it but it's supposed to be damn brutal...

I think something very much influenced by Jason Becker. Sure must got lotsa melodic sweep arpeggios!

And I really don't think our 1527s are in serial, since mine is 2007... the year of the 7 FTW!

Yes, and the TRUTH lies in the low B string....

And to bring things back on topic... IIRC Metalasia are using 7-strings now. Not sure what model though, Universe most likely....

Haven't heard of them doing any gigs recently... Would love see some 7-string harmonized metal shredding... their pix from their Korean gig looked damn cool...

...Silantra, bertanya si puteri... ke manakah, perginya...

Yeah, well... can't say I really enjoyed the Silantra album though. The production was quite crappy and I didn't really like their melodies. If they wanna put Malay influence, masuklah melody macam rock kapak 80-an! ...ok, ok... those 80s rock kapak melodies were probably ripped off 80s J-rock and proto-Eurometal. I mean, I was listening to Helloween's "The Dark Ride" (2000) the other day and I swear the intro guitar melody could have been from an 80s Search song played by Hilary!

But I think they'd be an awesome band to see live... the drumming sounds quite power... wonder when they're gonna release a new album, though. I read somewhere that King Shah is now hosting some racer reality show on NTV7 or something... what the...

...and good luck trying to get Tham to show you his chops, he can be very very reluctant... we think he's a devout follower of Uncle Ben's maxim: "With great power comes great responsibility"

It's all Vbs' fault, he started it!

Ok, ok... let's talk 7-string stuff now... like... err... ...mmm... 7-STRINGS ROXXORZ FTW!!!!

...but seriously... erm, dunno if I've posted this before, but for lack of any other 7-string discussion material: EMGs don't fit into RG7s because those basket EMG techs actually house the pups in bass pickup casings... so some woodwork is required to make it fit... ...err, this sounds damn familiar, I probably posted it in the pickups thread... lolz...

ok, here's another shot... val's looking for a whammy-bar for his K-7. According to Jemsite, his bridge is a "LoPro "Double Edge" 7 with U-bar". Ok, I know that EdgePro7 and Edge7 Low Pro use the same whammy-bar- see http://www.jemsite.com/jem/trems.htm.

Anyone know if the "LoPro "Double Edge" 7 with U-bar" uses the same whammy-bar? And more importantly... where to get???

Now hopefully blacktrix won't shut us down!

aiyaa... no need make so obvious I double post lar... I only trying to steer the topic back to 7 string so Mr Blacktrix won't shut us down! shhh shhh!!!

and get from Bentley? sure they won't rip us off? maybe say U-bar got to special order from US, wait until October maybe, pay RM300 shipping charge?

Yeah, if the guy is willing to sell it. The guitar has been up for like dunno how many months... I asked him in March and he said it's not available. Think he was reserving it for a friend or something (who obviously FFK him since he's posted it up again!).

The 7321 is definitely a better bet if you don't require a floating bridge. Even if you do want a 7 with a floating bridge, try aiming for a 2nd hand 7620 or save up for the 1527... The LowTRS7 is supposed to be a POS compared to the LoPro Edge7 (RG7620) and the EdgePro7 (RG1527)...


How about "1337 isn't spelled with a 6"?

Yeah, but seriously RM1.6k for a 7420 is a bit steep... and it's a 2000 model IIRC, so it's about 7 years old already.

RM1.8k for a 7321 from Bents really sounds like a better deal. And if the guy is an "aspiring" guitarist, better for him not to go through the hassle of changing strings on a floating bridge (7 strings to fine-tune can be a major pain!)...

Oh, and about the whammy-bar from Bents... I called them up on Sunday and they said, nope, they don't sell the whammy-bar or U-bar separately... lolz... guy probably didn't even know what I was talking about and took the safe route: "No, we don't sell that."

no lah... he said he can only do it around 14-18 May...

Dunno if I should change my strings before then, or just tahan until I can send it to Tham... decisions decisions...


Okay, this next item isn't really about 7-strings but I just couldn't help myself...

Former Iced Earth vocalist Matt Barlow:


Now he's a cop singing in some police band...




This post has been edited by RustReaver4D1: Apr 23 2007, 03:42 PM

Hehe, sorry, what I meant was to actually get the strings in tune. Floating bridge can be very daunting to tune... and 7-strings to balance out the tuning=

A fixed bridge is a lot easier to maintain also... all in all, your friend is better off going for the 7321...

Eh? Audition? Mana? Bila?

Woi! We wanna see EQ's 7-string chopzorrz FTW!!!