Carup 7-String Electric Guitar

The Carup 7-String Electric Guitar gives progressive metal, djent, and extended-range players a professionally specified instrument at a price that does not require justifying a major purchase to anyone. The additional low B string extends the guitar’s range by a full fifth below standard low E, opening a register of harmonic territory that has become the defining sonic characteristic of modern progressive and djent music — the palm-muted, percussive, syncopated riff work that characterizes artists from Animals as Leaders to Periphery and Meshuggah. Carup constructs the body of this instrument from mahogany with a maple cap — a combination that provides the clarity and note separation in the low register that extended-range playing demands. Under high-gain distortion, the low B string is vulnerable to becoming a muddy, indistinct rumble on instruments without sufficient tonal clarity — the maple cap’s brightness focuses the transient attack of each note, keeping even the most rhythmically dense palm-muted passages articulate and defined. The neck is a multi-piece maple construction — the most stable option for a seven-string neck, which experiences significantly higher combined string tension than a six-string — reinforced by Carup’s dual-action truss rod system that accommodates seasonal climate movement in both directions. The nut width of 52mm provides adequate string spacing across all seven strings for comfortable fretting and accurate palm muting technique. Carup’s dual extended-range humbuckers are wound to cover the full frequency range of all seven strings with consistent output and character, including the low B, which many standard humbucker designs fail to reproduce accurately. Fixed bridge construction eliminates the tuning instability and mechanical complexity that floating tremolos introduce in extended-range instruments.