With its carbon fibre reinforcement, the maple neck feels good and solid, and allied to the fairly flat 16” rosewood fingerboard, complete with 24 extra-jumbo frets, it makes for one very shreddable 8-string.
The balance and the weight feels bang-on. The factory setup ships the Omen-8 with a set of Ernie Ball strings running 010-.074, with that heavy low eighth string offering a nice balance between the approachable 26.5” scale length and the string tension needed to hold up under heavy riffing. This would make an excellent debut 8-string. The Omen-8 has been around for what seems like forever and yet it remains a favorite for its wallet-friendly price point, solid build and excellent feel. The middle position with both fully engaged adds awesome texture to your riffs. There’s a searing bite to that bridge humbucker, while it mellows out some of that high-end sizzle in the neck. Tone-wise the Soloist takes no prisoners, with a pair of active EMG 909 humbuckers in bridge and neck positions. For 8-string neophytes, it is a most welcoming proposition, and the multi-scale fretboard might confuse the eye at first but it’ll make sense under your fingertips, with that low F. The nut width is a generous 53.85mm, so the laurel fretboard doesn’t feel crammed, and with a 12"-16" compound radius it is gently curved low down where you’re typically fretting chords and flattens out up top for lead playing. With a scarf joint and two graphite rods, that neck feels it’s not going anywhere. Here we’ve got the reassuringly familiar Soloist body shape, with none-more-solid neck-through construction as good a guarantee of sustain as you’ll get. Given that the Jackson Soloist is one of the archetypical hot-rodded S-styles, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it should wear the extended range format so well. We’ve put together our list of what we reckon to be the best choices on the market for all budgets, and included some buying advice further down the page to help you get the most for your money. Whether you’re into jazz, math rock, ambient or anything else that lies outside the realm of ‘ordinary’ music, one of the best 8-string guitars could be the thing that helps push your creativity. There’s no denying that you’ll often see 8-string guitars in the hands of metal players – after all, they’re perfect for super down-tuned riffs and chugging, but that’s not all they’re good for we’re hearing more and more players get some seriously unique and non-traditional sounds from their guitars, and 8-strings can help you do just that.
So, if you’re playing in a situation without a bassist, then an 8-string can come in handy to ensure that the whole frequency range we’re used to hearing in modern music is there.
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An 8-string guitar is typically tuned F#, B, E, A, D, G, B, E, though if you figure that you might as well go the full octave lower, you can drop your bottom F# to an E.
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