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Starting off, he tries an all-black Ibanez RGD Prestige 7-string, equipped with a set of Fishman Fluence humbuckers because they have fast become industry-standard across the djent set.

We might even recognise some of ourselves in there, in that urge – even when using 7-string guitars, or eight or nine – to keep tuning down until the bass guitar is crowded out the mix and there’s a demarcation dispute with the musician’s union.īernth knows this all too well. Still Shreds is a cautionary tale of what happens when you take an extended range guitar and take it all the way down. But does he get at a deeper truth here – that, yes, tuning down ad infinitum is an aesthetic choice that does not come free.