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Extended Range Guitar Effects Pedals

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awintershowl
awintershowl|123

Does anyone have any suggestions or know what pedals/pedal brands work best with a 7 string guitar?? I have been searching for pedals as well as pedal brands that will work best with or are made specifically for extended range guitars(mainly 7 string). I haven't had any luck besides finding Protone Pedals which is the only brand I have found so far that is close to what I'm looking for. I'm unsure if you can just use any pedal and it doesn't matter how many strings you have or if it is actually best to have a pedal designed for 7 strings. I am mainly looking for overdrive/distortion effects preferably overdrive, modulation effects like reverb and delay, and a noise gate. The guitar I have is a Ernie Ball Music Man Majesty Artisan 7 string, a Hughes & Kettner Tubemeister 18 head, a Hughes & Kettner 1X12 cab, and a Fulltone OCD Drive. If any one can help me with this that would be great, thank you!

jakenunez
jakenunez|795

Any effects pedals should workwith 7-strings. There are no effects specific for 7+ strings I know of. If anything, look through the equipboard pages of known 7-string users (Steve Vai, Stephen Carpenter, Misha Mansoor, KoRn, etc.) and see what they use

boom762
boom762|12239 MODERATOR
In reply to awintershowl:

http://equipboard.com/items/analog-man-king-of-tone-overdrive-guitar-effect-pedal

blake_vogl
blake_vogl|1406

any guitar pedal will work... its not a low frequenct like a bass

jimmarchi1
jimmarchi1|41029 MODERATOR
GEAR:
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  • Gibson SG Standard
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define 'work with' in this context... seems to be an aesthetic question you're asking

GEAR:
  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp
awintershowl
awintershowl|123
In reply to jimmarchi1:

What I mean by that is. Are there pedals that sound better with 7 string guitars or extended range in general or does it not matter at all? I found a Protone Pedal called The Deadhorse Overdrive MK 3(which I can't seem to find for sale on their website any more). It had a button you can press where you can control the bass for the 7th string which made it sound better for those who played on a 7 string and was designed with 7 strings in mind. That's what sent me on this journey to find pedals either designed for 7 strings or designed with 7 strings in mind. I don't worry about aesthetics all that much it has to do with the sound for me.

Here's the link for the Protone Pedal I was talking about: https://protonepedals.com/tag/dead-horse-mkiii/

jimmarchi1
jimmarchi1|41029 MODERATOR
GEAR:
  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp
In reply to awintershowl:

that's going to be controlled by the size of the capacitor at the input which forms a crude high pass filter... there are other spots that ihght have RC filtering, but msot of the bass extension is controlled by that cap I mentioned. This is every pedal, every amp, its a simple coupling cap. If you look at Z-Vex pedals ge is big on tsi trick calling it 'subs' -- turn up the subs to 2 or 3 and you get progrsssively bigger caps allowing more deep bass into the circuit but also changing its voicing a bit.

You cna fien tune ANY effect to allow more low end. In the case of a 7s tring or abtitone you are looking at letting in more of the fundamental on the low string and elss of the harmonics.... any of that make sense?

GEAR:
  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp
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