So I bit the bullet and ordered an 8 string....

[Ancient Astronaught]

Almost sig worthy... Almost.....

[Ancient Astronaught]

I be the necromancer bringin this thread back from the dead..... because.... IT FINALLY CAME IN! 23 days in shipping... ridiculous.... but anyways set it up for DADGCFAD and plugged her in and wow.... it sounds and plays fantastic!! i will try and have some sound samples on monday for all ye who be interested.... onto the pic....


IMG_20111126_130342 by Ancient Guitarist, on Flickr

[WeHuntKings]

oh. oh lord. do tell.

[delaydecay]

damn nice 8 string. im torn between getting agile 8 string or a schecter hellcat vi. might just have to get both.

[Bassus Sanguinis]

Good catch, congrats, I like how it looks... nice. As if it wasn't about to drop a ton of low end riffage. Then, BAM!
CHUNKACHUNKACHUNKA-WHEEEEEEEEEEEE-CHUNKACHUNKA-CHUNK-CHUNK...

[Ancient Astronaught]

oh. oh lord. do tell.

What would ya like to know good sir?

Good catch, congrats, I like how it looks... nice. As if it wasn't about to drop a ton of low end riffage. Then, BAM!
CHUNKACHUNKACHUNKA-WHEEEEEEEEEEEE-CHUNKACHUNKA-CHUNK-CHUNK...

Thank you sir! I love how it looks too, i'm all about natural wood grain with all my gear, makes me think i should have gone with wooden pedal boards instead of pedaltrains! I'm not sure how much chunkin and wheeing will be coming out out this thing, i'm not a DJENTer or what ever you call those meshuggah copy cats.... I'm more taking the stephen o'malley approach with stacked fuzz/distortion with some long swelling delay and reverb..... just without the robes, but maybe include the fog especially if we can find THC infused fog

[Ryan]

Totally awesome, I love it!

[Ancient Astronaught]

Totally awesome, I love it!

Thanks Ryan!

[Bassboar]

Dude, no word of a lie, that is the sexiest guitar I've ever seen. I mean it, it just is. You know, it reminds me alot of Ron's TRP Bass in Bongripper, before he switched to the RD.

[Achtane]

That's pretty sweet. I really like the simple controls.

[foomanfat]

I think I'm too dumb to play one, but that jank looks pretty legit.

[Bassus Sanguinis]

That's pretty sweet. I really like the simple controls.

Yeah, that too. Just turn the volume up and You're ready to go. I like that philosophy always wanted one like that.

But whenever I buy a new bass it's more likely I end up in the opposite philosophy for controls configuration: volume and three way EQ tone, some knobs stacked or with push-pull feature so they'd fit in, a switch for bypassing the EQ, another for splitting coils and one for reverse phase, perhaps even a stutter knob and a remote for the backstage fridge and telly ...

[Adoom]

You'll be able to cop some sweet Blink 182 tone with that AA.

No, but seriously. Point your rig at a mountain. Turn everything up. Look grimly at floor. Play. Observe mountain. Still there?

Turn everything up. Look grimly at floor. Play.

Repeat until mountain is dust.

[Ancient Astronaught]

Thanks guys for all the compliments i'm loving it, i got to play it through the real rig tonight at volume and was able to come up with some wicked tones, super heavy mountain destroying tones. I was using my board that was setup for my 6 strings so it's not exactly what it will ultimately sound like but i will post the 40 minute improv drone/noise jam we did today on tuesday night. I'm going to ultimately try for a minimal board with this guitar, with what i have so far its looking like pedaltrain mini, voodoo labs iso5, with supercollider->the black plague->TU-2->Blueprint delay (i am really contemplating selling it and upgrading to an El Capistan delay though for numerous reasons, like tape echo w/ reverb, tap tempo and stereo outs). I'm really thinking the super collider into the black plague (lm308n rat style distortion) will get me the super heavy make Sunn 0))) envious tone i'm going for with this project. We shall see.

[Adoom]

super heavy mountain destroying tones.

Kilimanjaro must fear you.

Mountainking Electronics?

I've never heard of the Black Plague (pedalwise), but if you can turn every powerchord into an extinction event, you know you're on the right track.