John Petrucci BFR Baritone

[Hendog]

What is a Baritone electric?

Is it bigger/longer? What is the tuning?

 

[Lou]

Longer scale which allows for lower tuning without strings getting all floppy. Can be tuned like a 7 string (low B).

 

[leftyguitarblue]

27.5 scale length. It's sent from the factory tuned to Bb according to http://music-man.com/instruments/guitars/john-petrucci-bfr-baritone.html

 

[ScoobySteve]

In addition to what others have said.

With the increased scale, you will notice that the fret placement is a bit longer than usual.

And some fatty mcfat-fat string gauges.

 

[Hendog]

So does it have more frets?

 

[Hendog]

^^^ Disregaurd that.

I just checked and it has 24


I still cant wrap my mind around what the difference would be. Just a longer neck?

 

[the24thfret]

Know a bass guitar? Know how it is like a guitar supersized? Much longer neck and the fret sizes are just plain bigger? Think like that, only in between a bass guitar and a normal electric guitar (but much closer to the guitar size).

 

[Roxy]

Think of it as a writing tool. It's a standard guitar tuned down three whole steps. The longer scale and thicker strings provide a proper string tension. If you don't play in that tuning range then you may not need or desire one. JP has one tuned to "A" as well as "B flat." It's not a "go to" guitar for most players. I personally, doubt I'd ever buy one.

 

[Dante]

for players who desire CRUNCH but don't want to step over to 7 strings or sound like ****.

 

[ScoobySteve]

for players who desire CRUNCH but don't want to step over to 7 strings or sound like ****.

I agree, but the fat, warm and dark clean tones you can get out of a bari are absolutely GORGEOUS too.

It's not all about distortion. You gotta love bari cleans.

 

[Dante]

i agree. the tone joe gets out of it makes me sick, so good it is.

 

[the24thfret]

so good it is.

a jedi must you be...

 

[patpark]

baritone guitars have a piano like timbre, the longer scale especially on clean tones sounds wicked.

 

[fsmith]

Listen to "Wither" on the Black Clouds CD. That was recorded with his baritone tuned to B flat.

fred