Best 8-string guitars: embrace the low-end with our djent-friendly electrics for all budgets

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When the gut-thumping low end of a 7-string simply isn’t enough, you’ll instead want to turn your attention to the best 8-string guitars out there. One of these can unlock a whole new landscape for guitar playing, giving you access to frequencies previously impossible to reach.

An 8-string guitar is typically tuned F#, B, E, A, D, G, B, E, though if you figure that you might as well go the full octave lower, you can drop your bottom F# to an E. Here, you’re really in bass territory. So, if you’re playing in a situation without a bassist, then an 8-string can come in handy to ensure that the whole frequency range we’re used to hearing in modern music is there.

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