These days, the adventurous player looking for an extended-range instrument to take their riffs down into a lower register has no shortage of options, different models, different specs at a range of price points.
The extended-range guitar went mainstream long ago. Okay, it took a while to catch fire, for Korn to use Steve Vai’s Ibanez Universe seven-string guitars, for others to follow suit, then Meshuggah’s bruising low-end apocalyptic rhythm machine came along and took metal guitar rampaging into the bass guitar's frequencies with eight-string guitars. And it officially became thing.
