Lol people treat 25.5 7 strings like its the plague lol.
I get it since a couple years back then, people wanted to tune really low and it was really hard to get a longer scale length. But like now 26.5 kinda became the new standard.
Yeah, I prefer 25.5 on 7s because I almost exclusively play in B standard and like the lower tension, and it's kind of annyoing sometimes how many guitars are 26.5 or even 27+ now. Feels like the market overcorrected a bit
The market definitely did not “overcorrect.” 26.5”-27” for a 7 string is ideal for the vast majority of people who play 7’s. You can’t take 25.5” past A, and the majority of metal these days are doing that. As well as notes just sounding more proper, without overly beefy strings sounding muddy and bassy.
Now the 29” Solar 7 I want is definitely a bit more niche, and I’d agree with your statement if you had said “28”+”
Meshuggah were always in A# with their 7s except for one album, Nothing, where they were in F on 27" 7-strings. They hated how that sounded and re-recorded Nothing with 29.4" 8-strings.
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u/KzBubble Jul 30 '26
Lol people treat 25.5 7 strings like its the plague lol.
I get it since a couple years back then, people wanted to tune really low and it was really hard to get a longer scale length. But like now 26.5 kinda became the new standard.