Arnold, I will give you all the credit in the world for getting me into Aristides. Your reviews got me to order an 070r a year ago, and right now I have an 060r in the works. Fantastic instruments. I don’t see myself wanting to play anything else.
You sound great arnold. Its a blessing to hear you speak whenever we get content, been watching for years n years, hope u feel better, aloha from oahu hawaii
Really glad to see an H/09 make it to your channel. I ordered mine 4 months ago and it should be ready to ship in a couple months. I got it in bright red with a set of Lundgren M9s and an arcade kill switch. This video helped to hold me over for just a bit longer. There are only a handful of videos out there on UA-cam of people showing their capabilities.
Damien platinum 9 has a slightly longer scale at 30 inches rather than like 29.4 or something this is i think. Which means you can get lower which means it's cooler
Thanks for this great and informative review! Im planning to order the same model soon and was hoping you'd consider demonstarting the clean sound of these pups. Thanks and keep up the awesome reviews. Oh, the frog bit was hilarious!
Saw you at NAMM with Trucker Shawn. Glad you did this review I really want one for Trucking since the environment and temperatures always changing. So I might actually invest in one. Plus the headless will help keep it out of the way in my truck😊
Fucking beautiful in so many ways. Fuck a tone knob. 1 vol is plenty. Single coil neck looks amazing with so much body room between pickups (but you still HAVE a neck p-up). My main question: after 30" 9-strings... Is 29" long enough for the 9th (low C# / B)?
I'm stalking a Strandberg 8 to purchase in February. Beside the Aristides advantage of man-made materials, do you have an opinion on playability over long hours of practicing with the Strandberg 8 vs this H/09? I like to practice standing 75% of the time. Thanks, and Happy New Year.
Strandberg is a brand i recommend everyone to steer away from, and im a Swede. They charge european-made (or USA-made) prices for products made in Indonesia. I've had two Strandbergs and they were not bad guitars, but far from the top dogs in the market. On one of my Strandbergs the fretboard broke (ebony) and I didnt get any support from Strandberg at all, except buy their big service-package to replace the whole neck (around 500 euro). This guitar hang on the wall beside my Gibson Custom Shop and Schecter SLS Elite which both also have ebony fretboards, and they've never showed any problems. I have two humudifiers in my studio room and a set humidity on 50% : ) The support at Strandberg was horrendous and very unproffessional, and since that I always recommend people to look for other options!
@@mindpyre1189 I understand your frustration with poor support and craftmanship. I am pursuing the Strandberg for the light weight, the fan frets and the Enduraneck. I have a nerve injury and my fretting hand becomes numb and tingly with a heavy guitar pulling on the strap, pressing on the brachial plexus. My Parker Fly gets me through practice with no problems, but the Fly has no customer support or many spare parts left on the market. My Ibanez Iron Label ARZIR27 is a wonderful, heavy guitar that gets me 20 minutes before my hand buzzes. I would ask Arnold to weigh these guitars on a scale so we could get an objective number. One man's heavy is another man's ideal. When I say AGILE, LEGATOR or KLAAS, people say bad quality control. When I say KIESEL, people say look at a STRANDBERG for the same price. Purchasing an eight string without playing it is very problematic. My only red line is Made in China. I will only buy second hand Chinese. I don't want my dollars funding the CCP if I can help it, which is very difficult.
@@hotchow8766 well GOC is better and cheaper than Strandberg. But i suggest Aviator, Aristides or Mayones. In my world Aviator is above everything else. Check the unboxing of a Nighthawk on my youtube channel :) lighter than a Strandberg
@@neoconnor4395 sorry for the late reply, but you can only find it in the guitar builder right now. If you go to the model section, you select aries (bolt-on) then go to the string count and you should see it
@@neoconnor4395 go on to the kiesel guitars UA-cam channel and find the video from 11 months ago. It has the 9 string guitar in the thumbnail. Then click on the link in the description of the video and you should find it.
Great review, I've got an Aristides 7 string and 6 string, now I'll never need an 8 or 9, but it's still great to see this video, I've only ever had a problem with the hantug bridge, since it just clamps down the strings and those strings flew out on me multiple times. Wish you'd put the strings in the back then pull through so as to not clip off the ball end.. Awesome fucking sound! Hit me up with some suggestions of videos from your channel to get better tones for my recordings if you have em :)
@@mattz1686 The laws of nature do not care if it doesn't make sense to you or me . 9 strings sound fine, my 8 string sounds great at drop D with a 76 @ 28" 🤷.
Is the input jack placement in the way for the classical position like you hold it? Seems a little unfortunate that it is in that location there to me.
I just bought a custom 9 string... I always look around at what people are doing with 9 strings and sadly, it's always just the same sounding metal where when played low I can't even tell what's being played. I know this is a review, and this is not me taking a shot at you, it's not... but, is it possible for people who have access to 8 strings and 9 strings to step back and play something we can actually hear? I bought my 9 string because I tap a lot with both hands at the same time, I'd say it have never really seen it done how I do, but that does not make how I play good. Yes I have seen people tap with both hands but honestly it often sounds like a side interest. Now I'm not asking for Chord tapping, nor am I claiming to be great or better than anyone else at playing guitar... What I am asking for is someone to do a review playing CLEAN guitar... maybe some reverb, a light distortion that hardly breaks up, maybe even delay or just weird as pedals. I don't feel like strait unintelligible metal helps me and many others. I'd actually like to see the guitar with 8/9 strings in action... but DUHDUHDUHDUDUHDUHDUHDUHDUHDUHD does not help. I literally could not audibly distinguish almost anything you played on the 8th to 9th string. Just some thoughts.
Two tracks of Mesa Triple Rec with a Pepers' Dirty Tree to the hard left and right, and two tracks of Dover with a Pepers' Wendigo slightly left and slightly right and at about -3 db in the mix
Glad you did this! I play every guitar I buy unplugged to check its volume and projection for its resonance. Great video brother! Miss chilling and hanging out man. Have fun at NAMM if you’re there, I unfortunately can’t be present this time. 🤘
does anyone make a 7/8/9-string where it's designed to have the lightest string being tuned higher than E? I could actually use an 8-string that I could tune ADGCFADG with the last G being a minor third above standard tuning.
Beautiful, but so much money, holy shit. How can one justify spending that much on an instrument? I think you can get a guitar 90% as good for half the price.
You can, but there's a lot of variables that go into the building of an instrument. I feel like what I am paying for is those variables to be under complete control to guarantee that what I receive it something exceptional. You can get a $250 Squier that'll be your dream guitar from day one on...but can you imagine how lucky you'd have to be to find that one needle-in-a-haystack Squier that ticks all the boxes for quality and tone?
@@ArnoldPlaysGuitar Right, but I can probably get a Schecter that gets close to that. I think there's a sweet spot of QC to price ratio that's around half the price of this instrument.
It's refreshing to see a 9 string being used for death metal for once
As long as it has some nice death metal chugs, it'll sound like a beast.
Right? All those damn singer-songwriters whipping these about
I've mostly heard death metal using a 6 string guitar tuned to Eb or D standard tuning.
Arnold, I will give you all the credit in the world for getting me into Aristides. Your reviews got me to order an 070r a year ago, and right now I have an 060r in the works. Fantastic instruments. I don’t see myself wanting to play anything else.
I like that you showed the unplugged sound. Something often overlooked
7lb is actually slightly less than that 7 string weight relief matt heafy les paul I got, so for a 9 string that's insane
Looks sick as fuck. One of the best looking headless guitar designs I've ever seen.
You sound great arnold. Its a blessing to hear you speak whenever we get content, been watching for years n years, hope u feel better, aloha from oahu hawaii
Hope you get well soon from your sickness. I loved that Kermit cameo which made me laugh.
Really glad to see an H/09 make it to your channel. I ordered mine 4 months ago and it should be ready to ship in a couple months. I got it in bright red with a set of Lundgren M9s and an arcade kill switch. This video helped to hold me over for just a bit longer. There are only a handful of videos out there on UA-cam of people showing their capabilities.
You should totally do a demo with it! Just ordered mine
Bro this video is SICK! Love the tone you got!!!!!
This is cooler than the Damien Platinum 9 I bought off you a few years ago.
I love my Schecter DP9. I have this guitar as well and a couple other 8-9 strings. But both are heavy as fugg!
Damien platinum 9 has a slightly longer scale at 30 inches rather than like 29.4 or something this is i think. Which means you can get lower which means it's cooler
Aristides will always be better then any Schecter I’ve had ‘‘em all including Schecter USA Aristides make the best guitars just bar none
The first video I ever watched from you was for another Aristides a long time ago. I still want one, maybe one day.
Thanks for this great and informative review! Im planning to order the same model soon and was hoping you'd consider demonstarting the clean sound of these pups. Thanks and keep up the awesome reviews. Oh, the frog bit was hilarious!
Saw you at NAMM with Trucker Shawn.
Glad you did this review I really want one for Trucking since the environment and temperatures always changing. So I might actually invest in one. Plus the headless will help keep it out of the way in my truck😊
I've been wanting to order this exact H/09 in orange with some slight modifications. Beautiful instrument!
Absolutely great review man, from the way you played the guitar to the mixing of it just sounds phenomenal! Appreciate all your hard work!
Fucking beautiful in so many ways. Fuck a tone knob. 1 vol is plenty. Single coil neck looks amazing with so much body room between pickups (but you still HAVE a neck p-up). My main question: after 30" 9-strings... Is 29" long enough for the 9th (low C# / B)?
Oh damn been waiting for this one ever since I posted it in the Facebook group lol
Ser'ring,sarating,biting,❤🎉❤
I'm stalking a Strandberg 8 to purchase in February. Beside the Aristides advantage of man-made materials, do you have an opinion on playability over long hours of practicing with the Strandberg 8 vs this H/09? I like to practice standing 75% of the time. Thanks, and Happy New Year.
Strandberg is a brand i recommend everyone to steer away from, and im a Swede. They charge european-made (or USA-made) prices for products made in Indonesia. I've had two Strandbergs and they were not bad guitars, but far from the top dogs in the market. On one of my Strandbergs the fretboard broke (ebony) and I didnt get any support from Strandberg at all, except buy their big service-package to replace the whole neck (around 500 euro). This guitar hang on the wall beside my Gibson Custom Shop and Schecter SLS Elite which both also have ebony fretboards, and they've never showed any problems. I have two humudifiers in my studio room and a set humidity on 50% : )
The support at Strandberg was horrendous and very unproffessional, and since that I always recommend people to look for other options!
@@mindpyre1189 I understand your frustration with poor support and craftmanship. I am pursuing the Strandberg for the light weight, the fan frets and the Enduraneck. I have a nerve injury and my fretting hand becomes numb and tingly with a heavy guitar pulling on the strap, pressing on the brachial plexus. My Parker Fly gets me through practice with no problems, but the Fly has no customer support or many spare parts left on the market. My Ibanez Iron Label ARZIR27 is a wonderful, heavy guitar that gets me 20 minutes before my hand buzzes. I would ask Arnold to weigh these guitars on a scale so we could get an objective number. One man's heavy is another man's ideal. When I say AGILE, LEGATOR or KLAAS, people say bad quality control. When I say KIESEL, people say look at a STRANDBERG for the same price. Purchasing an eight string without playing it is very problematic. My only red line is Made in China. I will only buy second hand Chinese. I don't want my dollars funding the CCP if I can help it, which is very difficult.
@@hotchow8766 well GOC is better and cheaper than Strandberg. But i suggest Aviator, Aristides or Mayones. In my world Aviator is above everything else. Check the unboxing of a Nighthawk on my youtube channel :) lighter than a Strandberg
Definitely jealous, would love to try an Aristides some day. I'd also really love to try a Kiesel 9 string however
@@neoconnor4395 Kiesel 9s? They sure do, started building them somewhat recently in partner with Josh Travis
@@neoconnor4395 they only do 9 strings for the Aries (bolt-on) model right now.
@@neoconnor4395 sorry for the late reply, but you can only find it in the guitar builder right now.
If you go to the model section, you select aries (bolt-on)
then go to the string count and you should see it
@@neoconnor4395 go on to the kiesel guitars UA-cam channel and find the video from 11 months ago. It has the 9 string guitar in the thumbnail.
Then click on the link in the description of the video and you should find it.
Great review, I've got an Aristides 7 string and 6 string, now I'll never need an 8 or 9, but it's still great to see this video, I've only ever had a problem with the hantug bridge, since it just clamps down the strings and those strings flew out on me multiple times. Wish you'd put the strings in the back then pull through so as to not clip off the ball end..
Awesome fucking sound! Hit me up with some suggestions of videos from your channel to get better tones for my recordings if you have em :)
9 strings just seem pointless for 99.99999999999999% of guitar players. The low end always sounds so unclear and flappy
So get an 8 string 😁👍
That's because they don't know how to dial it in😉
@@SirLongBongFatRipps nah the physics doesn’t make sense unless it’s a fan fret going from 25.5 inches to like 30
@@mattz1686 The laws of nature do not care if it doesn't make sense to you or me . 9 strings sound fine, my 8 string sounds great at drop D with a 76 @ 28" 🤷.
Do you still have that PRS Dustie Waring CE24?
I cant wait to get one
Have you played or even reviewed a Legator LM9?
Incredible instrument. Don't know if I will ever have the skills to master it.
Nice review. 🤘🏿
Is the input jack placement in the way for the classical position like you hold it? Seems a little unfortunate that it is in that location there to me.
nah...doesn't bother me at all
They have two output jacks. One in the normal spot and one higher up. I play classical position and use the lower one.
Nice guitar dude.What do your knuckles say?
Don't Fret
I just bought a custom 9 string... I always look around at what people are doing with 9 strings and sadly, it's always just the same sounding metal where when played low I can't even tell what's being played.
I know this is a review, and this is not me taking a shot at you, it's not... but, is it possible for people who have access to 8 strings and 9 strings to step back and play something we can actually hear? I bought my 9 string because I tap a lot with both hands at the same time, I'd say it have never really seen it done how I do, but that does not make how I play good. Yes I have seen people tap with both hands but honestly it often sounds like a side interest.
Now I'm not asking for Chord tapping, nor am I claiming to be great or better than anyone else at playing guitar... What I am asking for is someone to do a review playing CLEAN guitar... maybe some reverb, a light distortion that hardly breaks up, maybe even delay or just weird as pedals. I don't feel like strait unintelligible metal helps me and many others. I'd actually like to see the guitar with 8/9 strings in action... but DUHDUHDUHDUDUHDUHDUHDUHDUHDUHD does not help. I literally could not audibly distinguish almost anything you played on the 8th to 9th string.
Just some thoughts.
Man I traded for a 060s that I absolutely love it'll probably be a never sell/trade guitar.
Beautiful guitar, in my favourite colour. Wish they weren't so expensive.
Beastly guitar!
Hey bud any chance youll try the otto audio plug in with a 9 string? I hear its solid as hell for them.
interesting
How would you compare it to your Strandberg Boden Original 8?
so nice. From 6:28 to 6:40 you played it unplugged and it sounds like a real acoustic guitar.
What amp did you use in this demo? Sounds filthy as fuck :)
Two tracks of Mesa Triple Rec with a Pepers' Dirty Tree to the hard left and right, and two tracks of Dover with a Pepers' Wendigo slightly left and slightly right and at about -3 db in the mix
sounds great cool song!!
Good review
Glad you did this! I play every guitar I buy unplugged to check its volume and projection for its resonance. Great video brother! Miss chilling and hanging out man. Have fun at NAMM if you’re there, I unfortunately can’t be present this time. 🤘
Get will Arnold.......i am still fighting it here.......thing cleared off for 12 hours then just reappeared
feelin rough ........mine may be covid
1:10🔥🤘🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
id love to see that shape/design as a 7 string
H/07..
I would like to try this in a 7 string version
I like watching this knowing I'd never buy it. It's super nice, but all I'd be doing is playing After The Burial songs on it lol
does anyone make a 7/8/9-string where it's designed to have the lightest string being tuned higher than E? I could actually use an 8-string that I could tune ADGCFADG with the last G being a minor third above standard tuning.
Big string go BWOW
3175 grams of awsomenezz..did u. Ever tune It? Stickin on 8 but....wow!🤟
I wish I had the money to buy one and import it.
27" is too much for the treble side, IMO.
What a cool guitar. But id rather have a 5 way on an HS guitar.
8 is as far as I can go. 9s to me just sound really flabby. Nice guitar though, I've been pondering an Aristides order for a while.
Sooooo... how do I relic this?!
looks awesome but the Keisel 9 string is perfect and its half the price.
I was waiting for them to introduce a multiscale option but they haven't yet. So...definitely not perfect yet for me.
@@ArnoldPlaysGuitar yeah multiscale would be nice.
I will gladly pay twice as much to not give Jeff my money
@@danaroobanzai why u a hater?
7 strings cool, 8 strings a bit much but ok, 9 strings screw that!!!
i agree. after 7 strings might as well get a bass. lol
I love 7…about as low as I care to go. But I can have quite a bit of creative fun on an 8. 9 is overkill for me tho haha
7 and 8 strings I'm okay with, but 9 and 10 strings (and probably more than that) are too much for me.
9 strings aren't for the faint of heart!
Beautiful, but so much money, holy shit. How can one justify spending that much on an instrument? I think you can get a guitar 90% as good for half the price.
You can, but there's a lot of variables that go into the building of an instrument. I feel like what I am paying for is those variables to be under complete control to guarantee that what I receive it something exceptional. You can get a $250 Squier that'll be your dream guitar from day one on...but can you imagine how lucky you'd have to be to find that one needle-in-a-haystack Squier that ticks all the boxes for quality and tone?
@@ArnoldPlaysGuitar Right, but I can probably get a Schecter that gets close to that. I think there's a sweet spot of QC to price ratio that's around half the price of this instrument.
Morbid vibes 🤔
no shade intended but just looking at the thumbnail for the video! GET A HARP Already comes to mind! now I am going to watch the video
After watching the video it seems that the instrument is trying to take the place of the Bass Guitar ~ just my 0.02¢
You by far have the most intelligible 9 string tone
3300euros? hahahahahahahahahaha!
Uh,thats really Special.....i think ,i dont Like this model...