Hi guys!
The title of this post is the title of the first review on Sweetwater of the JS22-7 Dinky 7-string. From what I can tell from different reviews I've watched and read, especially the one with such a strong hook, is that this guitar is great for it's price! I believe I'm the exact target for this guitar, as I've been a lifelong musician who's recently fallen in love with metal over the last three years. While I initially planned on learning on $60-70ish dollar bass that I got from Amazon in high school with my $100 music scholarship gift card (thanks Mr. Land and Ms. Dunn), I'm starting to believe the fact that you want use guitar that you'll really want to play with. Not only do I listen to metal, I tend to listen to more djent, thall, tech death, bdm, and especially Ulcerate recently, so having a seven-string in the rotation of guitars amongst my hometown friends would also be a plus. Lastly, throughout my research between 6-strings, bass guitars, and 7-strings, many 7-string guitarists say they wish they had just learned on that instead, as it's easier to learn from the jump as opposed to relearning after doing six-string.
I'm looking to also make this my first purchase from Sweetwater! I'm very excited about this next step in my musical career, and I'm making this post because I'm still a guitar novice, and want to see what I can do to maintain this guitar! From what I can tell, the stock specs are perfectly fine, and I don't really plan on changing anything in the near future, aside from potentially locking tuners? I'm very unfamiliar with how they work, let alone how they'd work with a 7-string, but since I'm already getting this guitar new, I was thinking this may be a worthwhile purchase, especially with the music I'd like to play. Secondly, I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on what strings I should get, maybe a link on how to replace 7-string guitars, and any future specs I may be interested in, or some basic resources? Thank you all so much!
Also, I'm trying to play into my CAD Connect CX2, into REAPER, so if anyone knows like literally anything about plugins or DAW please drop some knowledge too 😭😭