8 String guitar in Drop D sounds mean | Ibanez RGMS8 

Too low ?? it's never too low Sounds great

That's an amazing sound, I love my 8 strings in drop d

So melodic and heavy at the same time. Awesome!

This sounds amazing! I'm surprised D sounds so good on this guitar's scale length. Also those Pinch Harmonics were 🔥

That's what mick Gordon used to write the doom soundtrack

You playing and tone in this video has made me want to buy an 8 String

Sick tunes my dude!

Thanks for posting this, I was planning on getting this guitar solely for this tuning! Very cool track btw, I've listened to it a few times!

Awesome stuff! 🤘🏻

Well done, thinking of getting one of these guitars. Sounds like it records well

Brutal f'n riff!!! Would love to hear more.

Your channel is underrated. Instant subscribe. I'm glad I found you. Great tunes.

Awesome tone 🔥🔥🔥

absolutely lovely

This is nasty! I'm subbing hoping for some more shit like this. Keep it coming.

Wow dude this is sick! 🤟🤟🤟

That solo reminded me of mid 00's Exodus so much! Been listening to this for a while now, so glad I got recommended your channel :D

Love the tone 🤘

killer vibrato there !!

Great job!

I like ti! Sounds dope!

So cool man

This isn't even starting to approach 'too low'. This is basically still in tune. lol

sounds killer \M/

Slick riffage!❤❤❤❤❤

This is a great song. I think with vocals and a little more post production elements this could be sick as fuck, gonna peep more of your content now :)

Love the octaves bro and how U break into the mad early solo ....djent poly nailed ..evil chords. dime bag demon screams lad 💯 big fn BOM BOMS 8sring drop d fan fretys must make it feel nuclear..I give you 10 out of 10 out of ten

Holy shit that sound really fkn badass

Great Vid man! The tune is killer. I found your page looking for demos for this guitar as I've been thinking of getting one or something similar. How well does it stay in tune/intonation etc?

So cool man. 🤟🤟🤟

that sounds insane

This was a fucking awesome aural experience. Cheers for a killer instrumental. Would love to hear something with vocals ala Anthony from After The Burial mixed with Ihsahn style cleans.

Epic stuff, really like the sound. I am thinking about tuning my 8-string to drop-D. What are those things on your guitar headstock, and in the first fret?

I love this tone, you are killing it. Do you use Overdrive 1 or 2 of Archetype Nolly? Would you cut bass freq before the amp? I'm fine with amp 3 of Archetype Nolly for this distorted sound, but having a hard time getting crunchy tight sound on amp2. The lows seemed to flying everywhere if I don't make a eq cut before amp.

catchy riffs

Sick. What did u use for tone?

Nice tone, what do you use? Been trying to get that Doom guitar tone.

What gauge strings do you have? Also you tone is great ! Would you be able to get the same tone with just an amp and a distortion pedal and Maybe a noise gate?

Nice ❤

What a great fucking track!!!!! Loving the drop D!!!!!!

Sounds soo Doom ❤

awesome

Loving the sound, what gauge is the set of strings? I’m thinking of getting this guitar, coming from a Harley Benton baritone 7. Is it still all factory specs or did you make any changes?

Hey, I’m getting this guitar in the mail today. Any suggestions on gauge strings? I hear the ones shipped with it aren’t really that great. I did order .10-.85 from Stringjoy hoping that will be sufficient.

Criminally underrated.

for a little more money you can get the rg80f with fishmans, would you think fishmans could handle low tuning better?

man! nice riffs and tunning. but how did you got the proper strings to it? i only found the regular 8 strings from ibanez for sale, do you use some bass strings or something? because if i drop it a whole tone then a D, strings get too loosen...tips? thanks

I mean as long as you write for it, any tuning is fair game imo

I have same guitar... what is the gauge of strings to escape muddiness at low end in this tuning level?

Hi again! One more question :) Is it comfortable to play the multi-scale guitar? (I mean the scary fan-frets, is it hard to point with fingers to right position on the fretboard?) I can't decide what to choose: the RG8 or RGMS8 🤷 :) Because I never played multi-scale, and my town is too small to go in the music store and try it myself (the only one music store has no 8 string guitar at all , and the 7 string guitar too :) ) Btw. if we dive into physics the multi-scale guitars are much closer to physics of sound (normal strings tension distribution etc. ) than guitars with standard fretboard. This fact is confusing me too - physics-friendly guitar but absolutely unknown and brand-new (of course for me :) ) VS standard guitar like RG8 but with potential issues with strings tension/gauge due to their standard fretboard 🤷 Btw never played both guitars ☝️ Sorry for my English :) Thanks again for the perfect performance 👍👍👍 love tone of double Drop D

I was once with a mindset of tuning my guitar lowest possible thinking it was the key to heaviness. 15 years ago, had my Ibanez gio and would ask for bass player friends when they change their string to give me the ones I could fit into my guitar tuning nuts. But I learned that the bass guitar has it's place in the mix for a reason, and keeping my guitars in drop A and B, they give me what I need. I could go even lower then this since I have digitech drop pedal (a whole octave) but it losses on the heaviness. Guitar is to cut, grind, rip, scratch while the bass to fill in all the empty parts with heaviness in the lower spectrum. One of those bass tones I see as the pinnacle is on the static-x album regeneration (especially on accelerate song). This is my opinion but I tried both aspects and that is the conclusion.

I think it sounds pretty good. I play in DGDGCFAD on my 8 string so I'm familiar with this. I'm curious what you do for bass. Is it a real bass that you're using or a VST? I do a thing where I have my regular 4 string bass tuned to DGDG, the same octave as the guitars, but then duplicate it and drop the second track down an octave. The regular bass track is just a high passed distorted thing, while the low track is a very low passed clean track. The high track is meant to be heard while the low track is meant to be felt, since the notes are pretty much nonexistent at that frequency. I think it works really well and fills in the low end nicely. I wish I had a good example to share, but the album I'm working on hasn't dropped yet. I did also duplicate the guitars and put them through different amp sims, one for a more mid focused tone for body, and a more trebly tone for note clarity. And for strings, since I see you were using a regular 9-80 set and they were a bit floppy on the low strings, I use regular D'Addario 9-42 strings and then a 68 and 95 from String Joy. I'm not sure what the shipping to Scotland is like, but it's a solid option. 👍

Yo what gauge strings are you using? Just got back into an 8 string and want to make sure I got the best gauge for some solid twang.

Hell yes.

That's how I tune my 8 string most of the time, however it is due to Obscure Sphinx's influence which is a drastically different genre.

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Chunky chugs. Me like How are you liking the RGMS8? I'm considering upgrading to an 8-string myself but I have no idea what guitar to go for. My local guitar store never has any 8-strings in stock and thus I never get the chance to try one out. I have tiny hands and are wondering how much of a problem that is lol. I own a 7-string Schecter Hellraiser and I'm quite happy with it, but I think maybe the neck of an 8-string would be too thick for me. Also, I see your guitar has fanned frets, does that make playing any easier (or perhaps more difficult)? I'm sorry for all the questions. Great playing by the way, although that should go without saying!❤

Just got a custom made 8 headless with a 28-26.5 scale length. Would you say the 80’s are good or would you go to 85 for D1? AMAZING tone/grooves none the less.

What gauge your strings are and how long is the scale?

How would you play the bass in this song? Would you even need one?

How do you monitor your audio out when recording? (how do you deal with latency?) thanks!

Do you have stock pickups? How did you make this shit sounds that good?

This sounds really good, but I know of one band that got to A0 on an 8 string without pitch shifting: Fractalize

Damm! What string gauge are you using?

What is the thickness of the strings?

This is dope. Are you in a band or anything?

Cool. Whats the gauge of the lowest string and what plugin dou you use

Nice! Can i have the tabs for that so i could learn it someday.

Drop D on an 8 string? Can you explain to me because I'm confused. I would think it was Drop E on an 8 string because the lowest string would be an F#. I'm new to drop tunings

Is that an octave down from regular drop d?

What string gauge do you use to obtain this awesome tuning?

that's the heaviest mix I've ever heard

🐻phat tone ❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

Whats your string gauges ?

Sounds similar to Doom Eternal. Send this to ID Software, maybe they'll let u compose the next Doom game. Awesome sound and skill. Keep on rockin🤘

This tuning just sounds like the armies of hell have emerged from the depths of tartarus

ten56 pitch shift to double drop D and its disgustingly heavy

Infelizmente no meu país, essas guitarras chegam com preços altíssimos. Enquanto a média salarial é 2.000 reais, o preço da guitarra é 7.000 á 10.000 reais.

String gauge dude?

Nice, I always am annoyed by how much low cutting I have to do in lower tunings like this, otherwise it sounds like doom metal, which nobody wants

you ever wanna collab on mixes let me know! ^.^

Is he using garage band ?

Too low?? Never! No rules, only Theory.

Not to low at all,my go to tuning on my 8 string is daeadgbe

I am in Drop A0 right now and that indeed can be too low for lots of people. I like the sound but other guitarists have said they do not. I don't care🤣

It’s ok normal bands do this like Wake In Providence and Black Tongue

8 string guitar in drop d. Bro, get a bass 😂😂😂 but really that 8 sounds sick af

try open A

sounds badass until you realize you can also go to double drop c

When you throw a blind kid at the ball and it catches him

One word: THALL

Pov Mick Gordon :

Not too low at all, and good song, but there is aloooooooot of open D string 😂

Lots of black tongue vibes

I think it sounds better if you just use a pitch shifter and a 7 string in drop A. This is way too flubby

Well I think it's gonna stop in 8 strings in the future. To play lower would sound like intestinal sounds or smth. Maybe that could be an artistic choice, but certainly not suitable for EVERYTHING, always, anywhere... Idk. Metal guitars are getting lower and melodic singers wanna go higher.

dude this sounds sick. Every time you bend though it reminds me of a freaking shyguy with how they sound🤣ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Uh7oR1XRHlY.html

Now put the bass down an octave 😂

За таким столиком нихуя работать не удобно. Купи себе новый большой стол.

I have that same Ibanez and tune it to double D. Such a beast. Def change those pickups dude!