The pickups are like that because Steph think it looks cool. He doesn't give a fuck about things guitarist care about , he literally likes things because it looks cool.

@KaiserBruh

Жыл бұрын

thats what i love about him. apparently he saw it on someone elses guitar, went "that's cool", and used it on all his guitars. he never uses the middle, in fact if you look at his playthroughs, its clear that he also sunk the middle pick up so its not in the way. love that dude and his taste in guitars

@metalheadblues

Жыл бұрын

@@KaiserBruh yeah , probably why he sounds so unique cuz he's not going by ear but going by the visuals

Sounds great and diamond eyes hell yes!

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3 жыл бұрын

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@oscarcarson6215

3 жыл бұрын

@Alfonso Caspian Instablaster :)

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3 жыл бұрын

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@alfonsocaspian7354

3 жыл бұрын

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@oscarcarson6215

3 жыл бұрын

@Alfonso Caspian Glad I could help :D

Just when I thought the plain black one was already an almost perfect metal tele. Damn, man I want one.

The middle pickup is the pickup that sounds proper for cleans. Thats why its placed there. On cleans, the bridge is too twangy, and neck pickup (if it would be there) sounds too bassy and watery for cleans. The middle pickup is ideal for cleans if you can play it a certain way.

@swishsplash

3 жыл бұрын

stephen said himself; "the pickup placement is just for cosmetic reasons, when you look good you feel good, ya' know?"

got the red sparkle 8 string model. very keen to get this for the collection too. sounds great, love the way you have moded it since you did the demo it here. sounds great!

Ever since seeing Northlane, I always wanted to try one of these as an affordable alternative to a baritone 7 string tele, but your review confirmed what I thought about that middle pickup. The demo of just the middle would make a cool effect though in the middle of a song. Definitely would say to try the Tosin's because the 3 different voices are something else; definitely see your point in this review though. Thanks for posting!

I ordered the first one I could get my hands on in the US delivered to my native England. Spent about 50% on fees and shipping...so worth it!

>not a backbreaker Fit For A King starts to play..... BAAAACKBREAAAKERRRRRR Sever all the ties, sever all the lies BAAAACKBREAAAKERRRRRR Reach inside and see if I'm living 😹😹😹 I have a 608b and it’s heavy😿 Green sparkle- fucken glorious. Changing the pickguard- damn, my thoughts before you said that. Fishman fluence- active/passive on distorted not any difference, I think the feeling different, correct me if I’m wrong; passive on clean better. Overall tone- one of the best I’ve ever heard, buuut it’s more kemper5150 and horizon devices indian mansoor I think lol. If you’ve seen latest live’s of Emmure, you’ve noticed how Josh’s 7string esp cuts through a mix way better than 9string (fuck ninestring! 7 and 8 rulez!), so the guitar choice for fans of that genre is obvious.

Someone's selling one of these locally for $700, should I give him a call?

@BaenaCarcosa

5 жыл бұрын

Definitely. That's a killer deal

@Alof83

5 жыл бұрын

$700 is about right. Could probably get it for $600 or $650 if you're patient enough.

@mitchmartinico3013

5 жыл бұрын

Really..?

@swulf4915

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah dude that's what I paid. They weren't released in the UK when I bought mine but are retailing for around £1200//$1600 now

@jakestampfl2667

5 жыл бұрын

@Dylan Gruenloh my brother works at guitar center. im getting one for $540 + tax

It would be pretty bad ass if Stef still did the single coil slash neck pick up on this model like he has on the SC-500.

If Willie Adler made a 7 string pickup, I’d definitely recommend them because in 6 version they are awesome.

The purple satin one with 1 pickup already is gnarly the satin neck too is perfect

I have tried it at the hellfest festival, along with the "sir headly" sh7 on a mesaboogie and a hugues & kettner , to my ears the Stephen Carpenter Fishman pickups were globally less precise (batterie ?)versus the fishman modern on the sh7 that were loud , precise and killer. But maybe with an good overdrive or a good amp tones like here it compensates that weakness. the guitar itself feel heavy but not too much ,very comfortable to play except the middle pickup position.

Ive got the sc608b in red sparkle and I absolutely love it!

@tattooedtruth4141

4 жыл бұрын

Have you heard of any place selling a replacement pickguard that only has a spot for the bridge pickup? I own the 7 and 8 but am bothered by the neck pickup in the way

Spiders sounds alot better in drop F. Hell yeah

Excellent song choice for the demo...love that whole album

Diamond Eyes, my favorite Deftones songs.

I actually really love that this thing has a middle pickup and no neck pickup instead of the generic “bridge pickup only cuz muh metal”

Just a quick note…I dunno if you still have this guitar, but there’s enough clear coat in the neck to rough it up and feel like satin without going through the color. I had mine done that way. 🙂

One of my dream guitars. Just so expensive

@isaaclopez2135

2 жыл бұрын

Keep an eye on guitar center’s used stuff man I just got mine in mint condition for 850!!!

The pickup placement looks cool but I can see it being very annoying.

@DareToBeatbox

5 жыл бұрын

Aaron Morgan it’s extremely annoying. I actually returned mine because it just felt uncomfortable. Everything else about the guitar is awesome though.

@mooferoo

5 жыл бұрын

Was just coming to say that. Looks like it'd get in the way of picking.

@RlotttHD

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah... It is, I have a sc207 and I did the same thing, just push down the pickup the most possible

@AaronMorgan666

5 жыл бұрын

If I was to remove my neck pickups in my guitars how woupd you go about doing that, and what materials would you use? Whatever the body is made of?

@mooferoo

5 жыл бұрын

Aaron - you have to unsolder the pickup wire from the controls in the control cavity (or if you're lucky and the pickup has quick connects, just unclip it), then just unscrew the pickup from the guitar and gently pull the cable through from the control cavity. If you want the hole filled in as well, you'd have to take it to a skilled luthier.

This is a PHENOMENAL guitar! The pickups sound fantastic,.. the fit and finish is pretty impeccable and it honestly plays like a dream (even with 10's and dropped down a whole step). The weight is mostly a non issue for those of us who love Les Paul and Tele style guitars as well.

@Alex.Geurink

11 күн бұрын

How’s the fretwork though? I’ve had cheaper ltds that cracked on me and the edges were horrible

@jamesrouse3466

4 күн бұрын

@@Alex.Geurink IMPECCABLE fretwork on this model. I would say it rivals my early 2000's Gibson SG Special's fretwork and easily holds it's own against many core PRS Custom 24's I have tried. The frets are highly polished with the fret ends polished to a near mirror sheen, and there is no friction to speak of when bending notes anywhere on the fretboard. I have had great luck with the fretwork on all of the Ltd's I have owned and this one if by far the most detailed, comfortable and polished of the lot. But I would reasonably expect such quality from an instrument in this price range.

@Alex.Geurink

3 күн бұрын

@@jamesrouse3466 that’s really great to hear! Thanks for responding

@jamesrouse3466

2 күн бұрын

@@Alex.Geurink Not a problem. Hopefully it makes it easier to make a confident purchasing decision, regardless of what you end up getting. Have a good one.

Bought this guitar right after it came out and I love it. Haha spiders nice.

@rainbowslushy223

10 ай бұрын

Proof that every 7/8/9string player just wants to be a bassist but can’t admit it

If you change the pickups/pickgaurd pleaseee post a video lol, im about to possibly pull the trigger on one and that’s exactly what i wanna do

I have the older black model with the EMG 707s and love it. I will say that I love the middle pickup for cleans. It took a long time to get used it while picking, but it's worth it for the cleans!

When yoy say you ignore the tone knob. Do yoy leave it off or just turn it all the way open and never adjust it?

After listening a few times, I think you could make a MASSIVE tone with the pickups on active, less distortion and more low and low mid range.

Great review. Nice tones but the 'middle' pup would drive me crazy for sure!

Andrew, please, tune that MF to drop a and do a Nile cover

I feel like the SC active voice sou ds pretty Scandanavian Death/Black, and the active more like tital fucking dj0nt time to start a Brutal Slamming BlackCore band :D

PLEASE COVER DEFTONES

I'm curious....Have you ever found a replacement pickguard for this guitar that only has the Bridge pickup??? Or a place that will sell one? I love this guitar but hate the neck pickup in my way

@KEVBOYMUSIC

4 жыл бұрын

I can't think of their names off the top of of my head, but there are pickguard makers where you can trace, or send in your pickguard, and they will make a copy with any material you want, or in your case, could make one with the middle pickup filled in. Just search on google.

I just ordered one of these. So excited!

dope guitar, and nice to see you repping Spiritbox!

Been looking at the EC-1007 Eclipse-7 EverTune good you mentioned the Evertune weight I actually had a bit of a tuff time finding it as non of the big stores were advertising that information. 11.5lbs for those interested thats right up there with my dads early 70s recording les paul which is 11lbs

I just got one of these and my god it’s HUGE lol. I’m a super strat guy and was not prepared for how massive and thick this body is. It’s moving my picking arm shoulder into an unnatural position and it is causing insane tension in my shoulder which is really limiting my playing. Any tips on how to get more comfortable with such a massive guitar?

@the_trash_mane5875

2 жыл бұрын

Is it your first 7 string or just first big chonker guitar? If you're not used to it, I'd say try different sitting posture, maybe sit with a strap on too, that or try have it sit higher up on your leg. I ran into a similar problem with an acoustic but I eventually got used to it too

Passive sounded a bit better to me. Active was very shrill. Not bad, but the passive was more my thing

did you ever modify this guitar and if so is there a video on this? also, are you still really liking this model and still playing it often?

I bought this guitar and I think Fluence SRC is the best that you can try with this guitar, mostly when you're wanna get Deftones sound

Are they still making the black one with emg? I can’t seem to find it on internet

@deathmetal0914

3 жыл бұрын

I got one a few years ago for less than $600. But it was used. Not too sure if they make em new anymore. But used can be found if you look.

Are you using the 7th string .074 taper 30" from Ernie Ball?

Tape off the parts of the neck at the heel and neck and sand with light sand paper itll get a satin finish

Some green and black Sperzel Trimlock's would look SICK on that guitar.

Nice review. Very much, well thought out, and, to the point. Great job.

Why does no one use the tone knob? Like, I usually have it all the way up or all the way down because my guitar is shit and doesn't make much of a difference but I'm curious as to whether there's an actual reason for that.

@BaenaCarcosa

5 жыл бұрын

It's just typically unnecessary, at least for the type of music that I play. I can't think of a single time I would ever want to roll my tone knob down at all. If anything I would rather change the sound of my guitar on my modeller, not on the guitar itself.

@purpleholsterz

5 жыл бұрын

I totally agree dude. Like I get that for metal you don’t really need a tone knob, but when I’m buying a guitar I want something that’s versatile. I like having a volume knob for each pickup and a tone knob.

@alyusdickey9561

5 жыл бұрын

It just seems to make the guitar sound muddy. Which is not my thang

@oldskoolnoma

5 жыл бұрын

King_JT_призрак13 I never used the tone knob for a long time, but Ive recently started playing around with other styles so it is becoming a lot more useful for stuff like jazz.

@rainbowslushy223

10 ай бұрын

I like tone knobs when they do something but i removed it on my squire jazzmaster baritone since it did nothing at all and then meant i could move the pick up selector switch to where the tone knob was because someone thought it was a good idea to put it where your picking hand goes

Would it be possible to put a hardtail/hipshot on there and re route a pickup cavity closer to the neck for space and new pickgaurd set it up properly and move on with life🤷??

@KyleFox007

5 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I want too...

@Colin.W

5 жыл бұрын

E-ii model easier to modify for this?

spiders. I'm happy with my LTD V407B also 27inch

That guitar is amazing

HEY ANDREW!! Fuckin loved it man.

Wow thks for the track choice, opener of a fantastic album...well, i LOVE this guitar but how much it cost???

How do you feel about the new Poplar Burl Solar? Lime Green one looks fucking insane

@BaenaCarcosa

5 жыл бұрын

They look great!

Pretty sick looking guitar man!

About the neck finishes. I prefer the finish of my necks to be the same as on the back of the body, especially on neck through guitars, because the transition is weird and on Deans, Jacksons and ESPs the transition looks very cheap

Kemper user here. Not sure if you're still on kemper since this was years ago but do you know what profile you were using for this during the demo? Tone sounds crazy good.

Steven?

Did ypu end up keeping this guitar?

The reason Stephen has a bridge and middle pickup is because it is how he's always played guitars growing up.

@charliepayne9248

5 жыл бұрын

Ryan Merica plus he was heavily influenced by an 80/90's rock band, when he first saw this particular band, the guitarist only had a mid & bridge pickups, the name of the band escapes me, but, it was around the EVH era?

@AuroraDorealus

5 жыл бұрын

@@charliepayne9248 He claims the inspiration for the pickup config from Vivian Cambell of Whitesnake, before he joined Dio, he had a purple or blue ish horizon with only a bridge and middle pickup, Stef loved that design, so he implemented it on his later sigs ever since.

Sick!

beautiful guitar

Thank you for your comment for the fluence because I am from Greece and it is very difficult to find nad especialy to hear them. The feeling that take from every body who is reviewing them is something like "god made them ... unique etc." and I was feeling that I was stupid for spending my money to butique expencive handwound custom pickups. I have also a set of EMG's and I thought that I did a huge mistake. you comfort me a lot...

I want one of these but I hate the color tbh

Do you think you will ever want tocget your hands on a Music Man? I know that they are incredibly nice and they do have a few JPs out there that are a green sparkle. I’d love to see you review one

I absolutely LOVE everything about this guitar. After owning it, do you recommend it? I really enjoy Steph Carpenter’s sound and I’m considering pulling the trigger on this one, like hard lol. Can’t get the look and sound of this guitar out of my head. I’d be using it for similar sounding stuff to Deftones, Muse, Korn (maybe) - real dirty almost funk or groove metal sounding stuff. I need something with good tonal and tuning range to mess around with and experiment.

@BaenaCarcosa

5 жыл бұрын

I still love everything about it minus the pickups. I actually finally just ordered a replacement pickup and will be converting it to a single humbucker guitar

@AquarianRevolution

5 жыл бұрын

Andrew Baena pups are just not for you? In your review they sound awesome. What don’t you like about them?

@dreammachine86

2 жыл бұрын

Funk/groove metal stuff sounds really cool. Do you play in a band or just come up with stuff for your own purposes? Personally my main instrument is drums and that's what I play in my band atm but I do like to come up with loads of riffs...usually metal inspired but sometimes more rock & funk leaning. Most of my riffs I save for later and just record a rough demo until I am in a position to produce my own instrumental songs...but before I can do that I need to learn more about DAWs/recording, drum & bass guitar programming, mixing etc. and most importantly, get my playing cleaner first, only been playing guitar for about a year, and a lot of the ideas I have are just on the limit or a bit over my ability. Sometimes the guitarist in my band will use one of my riffs if it fits our style (rock/prog stuff) but he usually likes to change it up and put his own twist on it. Regarding the LTD in the video, I think it looks absolutely bad-ass! Green isn't my first choice of colour for a guitar but looks great in that sparkle finish. And there is something about the way it sounds...it's just mean. I've watched quite a lot of Andrew's videos and anytime he uses a 7 string (which is quite a lot!) the LTD always seems to sound the best. He's got a new pickup in it for the more recent videos (I think the Seymour Duncan Blackout mentioned in this video) and it sounds great with that as well. The guitar itself just inherently sounds chunky!

Watched the solar review of yours as well as kiesel. I currently have a kiesel Vader 7 27" scale but I bought it second hand so it's not exactly what I'd build. I've owned an sc607b back when they were first released but I've never tried a solar. Out of the kiesel, ltd and solar which do you prefer and why? By the way, I tune in drop F and drop E so I'd be interested in the 8 string versions.

Did you have to do lining on the nut to fit thicker strings? I'm assuming you are using at least a .70 gauge on the bottom string for F tuning

Sounds cool !!

What are you using for the tone?

What is the exact tuning for this? I just bought mine and that tuning sounds great

I know this is a 4 year old video. But can someone tell me what the cavity is like behind the pickguard? I want the guitar, but want to move the neck pup to the traditional neck location.

That thing is badass

Been eyeing this guitar for a little bit now. Love the tele look. Would you recommend the baritone scale or is going multiscale worth it?

@swishsplash

3 жыл бұрын

baritone all the way

Tunning Please

Did you have any problems with the pick ups having intermediate harmonic interference? with palm muting on the lower strings?

We’re you olaying a gulch song?

what gauges were you using on this for drop f#?

Just ordered one. Can the stock strings handle drop F# with the 27” scale?

Great video, I just described. Can you tell me where you had the pickguard made? I have the same guitar and I’m looking at doing the same

fuck i want one so bad, but only green is available at the moment anywhere :( not too ugly tho, but black would be a bit more badass

Hey Andrew. I am looking at the purple one of his that has the same damn pickup configuration and thats kind of a deal breaker for me. I just ordered a custome omega granophyre and am thinkiing about just going with a aristides 070r. Keep up the badass thicc videos

@jakemartin5569

2 жыл бұрын

Just snag one of the single pickup models off of Reverb…hell, I’ll sell you mine if you want it lol.

So um, what's that Ibanez mussugah 8 string in the back doing there? I wonder what that is for ;)

Dude SOAD!? YEEEEES I'M SEEING THEM ON THE 16TH! FUCKIN PUMPED... THIS REVIEW WAS HEAVY AF. I NEED TO TUNE MY H-307 TO F NOW HAHA

All I want is this guitar with a hipshot fixed bridge :(

Dude, Andrew! Would you be able to get a joyo zombie(Mesa boogie-ish) and a joyo vivo (5150) mini heads? I have the zombie and love it but I cant find any good demos, I highly value your opinion and would like to see you use the joyo vivo with your justin Lowe 8 string and your custom 9 string. If you can can you use the precision drive with it as well?

@BaenaCarcosa

5 жыл бұрын

Hey man! I am not really in a position where I can afford to buy gear for demos/reviews anymore since I am now self-employed haha. So it would really have to come down to the company sending me one, which is not necessarily in my control. Sorry man!

This is my favorite deftones song

I'd have the new pickguard made with a neck pickup slot and move that mid pickup down

@d.patrickbaker1096

5 жыл бұрын

Did you have to cut the guitar? Or was there already space for the neck pick?

Thanks, subscribed to show my appreciation, have been wanting a 7 string tele, and other than the Michael Kelly models this is the only other that I know of. You made the review I was looking for, musicians friend did a demo, but they did not seem to know what it was made for! Also I have that chair! Mines red, I didn't put the arms on, guitar kinda sits on the side bolsters

i couldn find : are there there nickle frets ?

Nice vid 👍

why so much fret buzz with SOAD???

I know you ended up modding yours by removing the middle pickup & got a custom pick guard. How difficult was it to get one made?

@tylerjones8145

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly if you live by any machine shops or individuals with a plasma cutter or something similar you could probably get one pretty easily

Hey my dude. What amp or amp sim are you running through for this video?

What did you use to get that sick sound? What amp?

What are your string gauges on this beauty man?

dat spiritbox shirt doe!!!

String Gauge used in this video please???

What song was that on the demo??

Thanks for this man. Ive been consideering this guitar for my first eight string, whats your opinion about that?would it be too much?

@cian9479

Жыл бұрын

Hey ik it's been a little bit but i'm afraid this is a 7 string jordan mayer

Bottom string sounds too loose, yo can hear ir touching the frets as it vibrates... Other than that, nice guitar and review!

I never got the fishman hype Heres voice one : chug chug Heres voice two chug chug exactly the same sound as voice one Everyone: :0 Me: =|

What tuning is it shipped in?