I for myself never played one, so I can´t comment on playing feel, sound, technique... The only thing I can say is that the idea of ANOTHER string is simply cool. On the other hand, most of the stuff can be played on a 6-string. It seems to me that 8-strings are used for specific styles only, and I fully ignore which!
Cheers!

I think that it would absolutely rock for playing fingerstyle, Tuck Andress style or Ben Lacey. Ibanez and Conklin...

Charlie Hunter anyone?

Hey, no bass player?

The question belies, where are those extra strings going, above the high E or below the low E, or a combination of the two. Charlie Hunter's 8 string guitar has 5 guitar strings and 3 bass strings, so you can figure out how it's played. Heck, when I play my 7 string guitar, when I'm riffing on the low B string, I have to make sure I'm not getting in the way of the bass player. When Charlie Hunter plays his 8 string guitar, he is the bass player.

I have never personally played an 8.

Pro: 1 more string

Con:The fretboard has got to be the width of a highway.
You also get in the way of the bass player.(as stated before).

Possible con:finding an amp to handle the low end.


my opinion on anything more than 6 strings is ... well vai, satriani, and petrucci do some pretty nice stuff on it, but otherwise i hate 7's, and 8's are even worse. if you want that much low end, why not just play bass? Any modern Metal guitarist with a 7 or 8 string sounds horrible to me. They need ot lean how to play 6, before they can play 7 or 8 most of the time. However there are always exceptions. If you can really play an 8 to its full potential, then go for it. I would personally love to hear someone actually use it, instead of playing some god awful riffs.

Isnt it too more strings? Or were you talking in a 7 string perspective? Hehe...

I think you'd have to be clever. If you had a bassist, you'd almost need to work out cunterpoint lines with him/her. If you had no bassist, you'd need to play like a bassist and guitarist simultaneously.It'd be cool if you could separate the output of the strings....

It might be possible to use some sort of crossover system and bi-amp it, between a standard guitar amp and perhaps a bass amp with a little bit of hair to it...


then again, maybe I'm just crazy.