N(8-S)GD, something unusual in these parts !
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:24 am
Hi everyone !
I thought I'd make a NGD thread about my last acquisition (well, Christmas present, but..).
Some time ago an old acquaintance of mine, a very good guitar player but more interested in metal/shred and what have you got into 8-strings. He bought an Harley Benton, liked it, and later bought an higher-end Agile 8-string for his band.
I asked him and he agreed to sell me the Harley Benton, upgraded with the Agile's original pickups (which he replaced with EMG -metal guy, remember-).
I wanted to try an 8-string for a long time. I'm not interested at all in most kinds of metal, but I like weird guitars so I had to get that thing. The looks are really not my cup of tea, as my main guitar is still my trusty old Jazzmaster, and I think most people here will agree with me on the aesthetics qualities (and lack thereof) of this guitar.
Enough talk, here are the pics :
And side by side with my FakePaul for scale :
Some quick words about the sounds, since it's supposed to be a musical instrument :
The pickups (Agile Cepheus, as it seems) are set really low and I like it that ways, as the output is more coherent with my other, single-coil equipped guitars. I can't tell about the distorted sounds, as I only ran it for now in my Vox AC4TV, not really a metal amp. It's quite balanced from one string to another (in standard tuning, with low B and F#), i like the metallic sounds of the lower strings, reminds me of the bass sounds of Young Marble Giants, which I've been playing recently, or some Shellac reminiscences.
That's a wrap for now, I'm a proud owner for now, but I might have to do something to make it look less metal, one day !
I thought I'd make a NGD thread about my last acquisition (well, Christmas present, but..).
Some time ago an old acquaintance of mine, a very good guitar player but more interested in metal/shred and what have you got into 8-strings. He bought an Harley Benton, liked it, and later bought an higher-end Agile 8-string for his band.
I asked him and he agreed to sell me the Harley Benton, upgraded with the Agile's original pickups (which he replaced with EMG -metal guy, remember-).
I wanted to try an 8-string for a long time. I'm not interested at all in most kinds of metal, but I like weird guitars so I had to get that thing. The looks are really not my cup of tea, as my main guitar is still my trusty old Jazzmaster, and I think most people here will agree with me on the aesthetics qualities (and lack thereof) of this guitar.
Enough talk, here are the pics :
And side by side with my FakePaul for scale :
Some quick words about the sounds, since it's supposed to be a musical instrument :
The pickups (Agile Cepheus, as it seems) are set really low and I like it that ways, as the output is more coherent with my other, single-coil equipped guitars. I can't tell about the distorted sounds, as I only ran it for now in my Vox AC4TV, not really a metal amp. It's quite balanced from one string to another (in standard tuning, with low B and F#), i like the metallic sounds of the lower strings, reminds me of the bass sounds of Young Marble Giants, which I've been playing recently, or some Shellac reminiscences.
That's a wrap for now, I'm a proud owner for now, but I might have to do something to make it look less metal, one day !