
That way it helps me stay within certain parameters and get an authentic sound. Second reason is when trying to compose / produce music with a certain feel I prefer to use the type of instruments that the band / genre tends to use.

I don't want the added confusion of having say an 8 string but ignoring 2 strings as I will end up using the extra strings by accident and if I then decide to go with a physical 6 string lead I dont want to have accidently composed something the guitar can't do. So I want to give my self a range of instruments in regard to lead / bass and string count then when I settle on one or two that I prefer I will buy the physical instruments and learn to play. Genre wise I am looking at metal, rock, blues, country, funk and quite a few others. I haven't decided yet exactly what I would like to play. I would much rather compose my own songs in Ableton then learn to play my own songs after. However I do want to learn to play well, and up until now I had been rote learning famous songs. What I can do in the DAW outstrips my actual playing ability by a reasonable margin and I don't want my physical playing ability to bottleneck me. With learning theory, how to produce, actually being able to play, learning to use the DAW etc.īut now I have been focusing on DAW / virtual instruments I am able to focus more on music theory and am managing to compose my own songs. Something that has frustrated me with playing real guitar, composing etc is that I just haven't had time to learn enough to be able to make my own pieces of music of a high standard.

I am very new to DAWs / vitual instruments but have really started getting into it. If it is only worth getting a single 6 string and single 7 string which would you recommend and why? I believe there are recorded clean so presumably one can sound pretty much like the other. Any reason to have all 3? I assume what you can do with one you can do with the other. Is there any real point in owning multiple shreddage instruments with the same number of strings? So for instance there are three 7 string leads. That leaves the 6 string and 7 string lead. I don't think there is a 4 string bass so that's easy as well.

There is only 1 6 string bass, the abyss so that's easy. There is only one 5 string bass, the precision, so that's easy. I would like a 6 string, 7 string and 8 string lead as well as a 4 string, 5 string and 6 string bass.Īs far as I can tell there is only one shreddage 8 string, the hydra, so that's easy.

So I am considering padding out my library with some decent guitars and I am interested in shreddage.
