Head: The thickness and the fatness of the sound combined with the wide range of notes available.
          You can write fatter grooves with a 7-string. The 7-string guitar is what Korn is about.

          Dino: One of the things that interested me in the 7-string was that it had the low end that I wanted.
          Secondly, we've always tuned our guitars down to B. With a 6-string guitar, the tension was always
          too loose and the guitar would always go out of tune. The 7-string definitely helped that out a lot.
          The third thing is that 7-string definitely gives me more sustain. It feels and sounds thicker because
          there is more wood in the neck.

          Wes: When I first checked out a 7-string I thought that this was so killer because of the tuning
          possibilities. I played around with all kinds of different tunings. I tried the guitar with a low B, a low
          B on the top string and a low B on the bottom string, and all different types of tunings and
          contortions. Now I have settled on two different tunings. Both use a higher string, not a lower string.

          Plugged In: How do you tune your RG7620 guitars?

          Head: Down to low A.

          Dino: We've experimented with tuning down to A and even to G. But to make things less
          complicated when we play live, we tune down to the standard B.

          Wes: For my main tunings, the low string is tuned to C# and the high string is tuned to either C# or
          F#.

          Plugged In: What are the advantages of playing a 7-string guitar?

          Head: The wider range. You can get more adventurous with the instrument. I think it also makes
          your hand stronger because of the thickness of the neck.

          Dino: The other advantage to the 7-string is that the extra string gives you more room to be creative.

          Wes: You can do a lot more stuff on a 7-string. I'm a big noise freak, I play a lot of high melody
          stuff. I like to play stuff that's kind of eerie sounding, like horror movie sounds and high psycho notes
          with delay. I could do that on a 6-string but you I couldn't get to the octaves with the way I tune. I
          would need a fifth finger to get as high as I could go on the 7-string.

          Plugged In: Could you go back to using a 6-string as your primary instrument now that you are
          mainly using a 7-string?

          Head: No way. We wouldn't sound like Korn without the 7-string.

          Dino: No, I can't imagine it anymore. Before we were using the 7-string guitars, most of our stuff
          was played on the top four strings. Now, with the new stuff that Fear Factory is writing, we are using
          all 7 strings. Like I said, it gives me more room to be creative, and it adds different tone possibilities
          for Fear Factory which is something that we need. With my 6-strings, I always felt limited.

          Wes: I'd only use a 6-string for some studio stuff. All of our heavy stuff has to be done on the
          7-string. Picking up a 6-string for me now is like picking up a toy.