Tosin Abasi 8 string
- Thread starter Dusty Chalk
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jfb
Plank Owner
Cool stuff. Nice to see PRS getting on the 8 string action. I asked for a quote on one years ago, but it never moved.
ViperDoc
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I'd like to know, too. Likely Seymour Duncan Pegasus/Sentient.
Dusty Chalk
alberngruppenführer
Yeah, but I can dream that they wound some 8 string 85/15s, can't I?
ViperDoc
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Dream away, my good man. Dream away!
littleredguitars2
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Since he has been working on a Sig model with ibanez i doubt he's switching sides. But maybe this will convince him in the near future. He's a beast
I wonder if he's leaving Ibanez? I'd love to see Gibson try something like this.
I'd buy an - string just to learn that lick. Sounds very African(Ivory Coast?).
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ViperDoc
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No way. Abasi is a devoted Ibanez artist, but that doesn't mean he doesn't play other guitars. His new Ibanez signature 8 looks like a fan fret spaceship-axe from Venus. Pretty bitchin. This PRS 8-McCarty, though... Just sick beyond words.
mezzio
The Force is weak in ^^
Saw his post about getting the guitar, then immediately after saw a post he's gonna be in Madison on the Generation Axe tour with Vai, Wylde, Malmstein and a couple others and got really excited... Then got sad when all the good tickets were sold out almost as fast as they were put on sale.
Dusty Chalk
alberngruppenführer
More chordal possibilities and wider range. I honestly don't know what a standard tuning for an 8 string is, I can barely handle 7, which is usually just one lower string, like a baritone. I think a lot of 8s are one string down and one up, so the middle 6 are tuned like a standard guitar.
ViperDoc
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8 string standard tuning is TWO lower strings: a low B and a low F#.
...and my brain is hurting just from the baritone tuning of my 277!
HarrySound
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I also wonder what pickups they out in there.
I guess they would go for a jazz voicing but what if PRS are working on an active pickup :/
I guess they would go for a jazz voicing but what if PRS are working on an active pickup :/
Dusty Chalk
alberngruppenführer
Thanks for catching me on that -- I was speaking too short hand, and totally left out something entirely important. I meant to add something to the effect that I suspect two lower strings is the standard tuning, and the one up one down is probably the second most popular way of stringing an 8, but less by a significant margin. Most tunings go lower.
And I just realized elsewhere -- I don't play any chords with all 7 strings, I use that lowest string more for scales and riffs.
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ViperDoc
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This is where Abasi's technique has essentially validated the 8-string. His funk slap and two-handed tapping techniques fully utilize the 8-string capacity unlike any other players to date, to my knowledge. His new Ibanez signature is a multi scale design, which idealizes scale length physics just like a piano or harp. If you haven't checked out his music, listen to it. Then cue him up on YouTube an watch how he played it, and you'll scratch your head!
Dusty Chalk
alberngruppenführer
Oh yeah, I love him, he's my idol. <3
But I'm a long way off from getting anywhere near as good as him. I don't scratch my head -- I know what he's doing -- but there's a difference between knowing what he's doing and being able to do it.
See also Josh Martin/"Glitch tapping".
But I'm a long way off from getting anywhere near as good as him. I don't scratch my head -- I know what he's doing -- but there's a difference between knowing what he's doing and being able to do it.
See also Josh Martin/"Glitch tapping".
jfb
Plank Owner
Yep, but Tosin tunes the F# down a whole step to E. Imagine a 6 string with a low B and low E. All your patterns still work since you don't have to adjust for an oddly tuned string.
