[Atomic_gerbil]

Loomis. I was on youtube one day, looking up instructional columns from guitar world, and saw Jeff, and figured I'd check it out. It was about a 30 second video of the intro to "Ambivalent". I was hooked.

Edit: I'm either playing in Bb or GCGCFAD

[Wolfv11]

Vai, then later on Korn and Petrucci, and the final kick in the arse to get one was listening to Satriani's "Searching" and "Mind Storm"

I play in standard (BEADGBE) ive tried Bb and even A, but it just never sounds good for me, dont know why, it sounds good when other guys do it, B is just right for me. I have since found it to be the perfect instrument for expressing myself, although i still play 6's.

[FoxZero]

Haha I've wanted a baritone six since I started playing electric years ago since most of the guys I listened to played in drop B or A with 6s. A few years ago I heard Bulb on soundclick and was like, this is what a seven can do? I was amazed and instantly wanted one. I soon started listening to Thordendal, Loomis, and Dino. I just got one a few months ago, I would have got one sooner but I wanted a BC Rich and the day I got the cash to buy a Platinum Pro Warlock 7 it was discontinued, still one of the lamest days of my life, I think we've all been there...

Edit: I still love B Standard. I don't like A too much (I don't give a shit for any Korn after the amazing Life is Peachy album), but once I got a baritone seven I'll be tuning to A flat

[The Dark Wolf]

For me, no one, specifically. I was downtuning back in the mid 90's, and never had an opportunity to get a 7.

But when I finally did, in early 2001, I jumped on it. But I was tuning down to C, B, and A long before.

[deathmask666]

Well I had decided not buy any seven strings because of the Korn craze...And then i saw an add for 2 Esp seven-strings for $300 so i bought them. And played them for about 4 years and then later on started a band but i went back to 6 stringz just because finding 7 stringers around my area was a bit difficult. But 6 months ago my band switched to 7 strings anyways.

Edit: We play in AEADGBE

[FortePenance]

I just thought 7-strings were cool before cuz Korn played them haha. Now I'm hankering for a 7 for just a huge myriad of reasons.

[progmetaldan]

Actually, Tony MacAlpines work with Planet X also got me really into 7 strings as well, how could I forget about him...

[swedenuck]

For me it was my bass player way back when. He had a Schecter 5 string so I started tuning down to b to meet his b for some serious heaviness. I found my guitars weren't taking too kindly to the tuning so I traded the v I had for my H-207.

[Shawn]

Trey from Morbid initially when I saw Morbid Angel live in 1994, he had a UV7PWH and since then, it has remained to be my favorite 7-string. Also, Korn's earlier stuff too.

[Desecrated]

I found out about mesuggah, went on there forum, found out about sevenstrings and then got me one.
Then I found out about this place.