[Naren]

As long as the scale is long enough and the string gauge is big enough, it could be a 2-string guitar and you'd be fine tuning it to F#. Has to do completely with the length and gauge, as I'm sure you know.

Originally Posted by TomAwesome

My 6 is currently tuned to Bb below that

And I'd be shocked if it doesn't sound like complete shit. Even at a 30" scale with a 96 gauge string, A Bb an octave below a seven's low B is going to sound pretty shitty...

(no offense)

[TomAwesome]

Originally Posted by Naren

And I'd be shocked if it doesn't sound like complete shit. Even at a 30" scale with a 96 gauge string, A Bb an octave below a seven's low B is going to sound pretty shitty...

(no offense)

No offense taken, but it doesn't sound half as bad as you'd think. It sounds kind of crappy now, because the strings are several months old, but aside from that my only complaint has been that the lowest string has a little too much of a bass quality (since it is a .080" bass string after all). I had the same gripe when that string was tuned to Eb, though. When I get new strings, maybe a new pickup, and a decent hold over making recordings that don't sound like complete garbage, I'll try to get a clip together.

[Shannon]

Originally Posted by ibznorange

Yeah i was playing around in G/G# and drop F/drop f# a bit on my 7620 when i had it

Thats why im getting a 28.625" neck made for the S7
Send me a pm if youre interested in the whole deal (not to buy mine, but to get one lol)

Michael Dolan built a 28.625" neck for Technomancer's S7. You doing the same thing?

[ohio_eric]

It wasn't for Technomancer's guitar it was for urklvt's.

[auxioluck]

Yeah, Sikth is down in G#...I was messing around with their tuning to learn some of their stuff. It really doesn't sound all that bad.

[MF_Kitten]

i posted this earlier: New song with Agile baritone! (POD X3L, octave E tuning)

it´s a song i made with my 28" baritone, tuned to the Sikth-tuning (the lowest string down to an octave below the string after it, you know the deal), but tuned all the way down to E. this is with a .65 for the low E, and it works pretty well. it´s loose, but useable, i even recorded a whole song in drop E tuning, where all the strings are tuned down as well.

if your guitar is 28" or more, you can go down to E without issues. this thing handles F# and F easy. E would be perfect with thicker strings too

so if your guitar is 27" or more, f# shouldn´t be much of a problem, though i wouldn´t get anything less than 28" myself, but i´m a baritone geek :P

[Naren]

Originally Posted by TomAwesome

No offense taken, but it doesn't sound half as bad as you'd think. It sounds kind of crappy now, because the strings are several months old, but aside from that my only complaint has been that the lowest string has a little too much of a bass quality (since it is a .080" bass string after all). I had the same gripe when that string was tuned to Eb, though. When I get new strings, maybe a new pickup, and a decent hold over making recordings that don't sound like complete garbage, I'll try to get a clip together.

Then, why don't you just tune higher (as in "still lower than an 8 string's lowest string but higher than you're tuning right now")? Maybe the E or Eb below an 8 string's F#? That would be a sure fire way to get a better sound out of it.

[TomAwesome]

Well, I may or may not keep the low Bb. I wanted to base my baritone's tuning off of my more or less default 7 tuning (drop Ab), so that's why the lowest strings are Eb and Bb. I originally tuned the whole guitar down from Eb to Bb just for the novelty and to see how the strings handled it, but I ended up kind of liking it. Next time I get new strings, I'm not entirely sure if I'll be stringing it up for Bb or Eb tuning. I might give it another shot with Elixers since somebody (I think Zimboloth) said their bass strings sound a lot like their guitar strings.

[ibznorange]

Originally Posted by Shannon

Michael Dolan built a 28.625" neck for Technomancer's S7. You doing the same thing?

it was urkvlt or whatever it is

The new IbaRotor S7328.625PWH

Check it out, paying for it today hopefully

[Variant]

Originally Posted by Naren

Then, why don't you just tune higher (as in "still lower than an 8 string's lowest string but higher than you're tuning right now")? Maybe the E or Eb below an 8 string's F#? That would be a sure fire way to get a better sound out of it.

Yeah, the octave jump tuning is pretty intersting since I've started using in on my bari.