Im looking to buy a 7 string in the very near future, and i really like the look and sounds of Devs 7 string ESP, does anyone know what the model is or is it a custom shop model?



Cheers Ewan x

Devin used the Stephen Carpenter ESP signatures for Alien and Synchestra:

http://www.espguitars.com/guitars_stef.html

And got himself custom tailored one.

Word, minus the EMG's that is one damn fine guitar right there too!
-Brent

The emgs just make it look so slick, though.

I wonder why they're so close together though.

EMG 707's sound great, the 6 string versions dont though.

The only emgs that sound good to me are the single emg Jacksons. Other than that I'll take friggin humbuckers any day.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of that pickup configuration (or the pickups for that matter).
I swapped out the bridge EMG for a blackout in my sc607b and will route a hole to put another pickup in the next position.

and as an aside, the sc607b comes with 81-7s as stock, not 707. no idea what dev has in his custom ESP though.

The emgs just make it look so slick, though.

I wonder why they're so close together though.

There's three pickup slots, mate, on any guitar... Bridge/Middle/Neck. He doesn't have a neck pickup in there; instead, has a middle pickup.

The only emgs that sound good to me are the single emg Jacksons. Other than that I'll take friggin humbuckers any day.

Uh... what?
EMG 81/85/60/89/91 are all Humbucking active pickups.

EMG 707/81-7 (not sure if the 85 and 60 have 7 string versions) are all Humbucking active pickups for 7 string guitars.

EMG S/SA/SV/SAV are all single coil active pickups.

List goes on, through their whole product range.

You mean passive pickups, not "humbuckers." EMGs are in fact more effective as "humbuckers" than most passive humbuckers are; however, they do so at the cost of the roundness passive pickups generally have, giving a much higher output, and (in my personal opinion) shriller and "sharper" tone.
But there's still humbuckers and single coil pickups in both passive and active formats - Seymour Duncan even has some active pickups. So it's not just EMG territory.

Well said Grimview Emgs rock

Yeah, i like EMGs as well. 81/85/60s work for me.

I would question grimview's assertion that

There's three pickup slots, mate, on any guitar...

.

awful lot of Les Pauls, SGs, Teles, Vs, Explorers yadda yadda that only have two.

I know. I'm a pedant. I'll piss off now.

They have 2 pickups in them, yes, but that doesnt mean you couldnt fit a third in between them.

Thanks for clearing that up, grimview.

It does seem strange to have identical pickups that close to each other. I wouldn't think their sound would differ much, especially with a long neck like that. All of the SC models seem to have the same configuration, though.

I've also been thinking about getting a 7-string, and the SC-607 is definitely one option. Another choice I've been looking at is the Schecter C-7 Blackjack ATX, which has Seymour Duncans, and a properly placed neck pickup

Yeah, i like EMGs as well. 81/85/60s work for me.

I would question grimview's assertion that

There's three pickup slots, mate, on any guitar...

.

awful lot of Les Pauls, SGs, Teles, Vs, Explorers yadda yadda that only have two.

I know. I'm a pedant. I'll piss off now.

Because they choose not to place the third there. There's still models of all those guitars that have the third pickup in the middle. There's versions of all guitars with 1, 2, or 3 pickups in varying configurations. Doesn't mean there isn't the room to have 3 on all of them.

It does seem strange to have identical pickups that close to each other. I wouldn't think their sound would differ much, especially with a long neck like that. All of the SC models seem to have the same configuration, though.

You'd be surprised. A pickup that sounds incredible in the bridge of a mahogany guitar may sound very thin, or too muddy, or a variety of other things, if put in any of the other positions on the guitar's body; pickup placement is just as important as guitar wood and pickup choice in determining the tone of a guitar on its own, before plugging in, or changing hands between players.