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Is a Baritone Guitar a Good Fit for My Case?

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Hey all, I hope you are having a great day!

So, I am looking for some baritone guitar advice, please.

Let me give you my case:

I have an EVH Wolfgang and I love that guitar to hell and back. However, I've been playing quite a lot with open tunings (mostly Open B - B F# B F# B D#) and though it does sounds REALLY good with those pick ups, I can tell the whole Floyd Rose / Thicker strings is maybe tortuning the instrument a bit too much as I do have to correct tuning, rod adjustements and intonation way more frequently now. It does work, it does sounds excellent, it does plays well... it's just... it has become a handful to play it less and maintain it more.

So much so I am on the market for a second guitar, so I can revert the Wolf to Standard tuning and 0.09 strings the way nature intended :D On this process I am looking for specific things like it has to have a fixed bridge, hot pickup etc but most importantly, it needs to be build in a way it gives me less hassle to care & feed these tunings and thicker strings.

One of the options I am looking with more attention is a baritone guitar, but then it comes the point where I am just uninformed and probably wrong at a few assumptions and this is where I'd like your help:

  • Will a baritone guitar automatically give me a tonally different, lower range just because "it is a baritone" on the same open B tuning in comparison to Open B at a regular guitar or essentially, I am just tunning to the same pitch, but at a guitar with a longer scale?

  • If the pitch I am obtaining is the same, then are there any real advantages to consider a baritone other than just do it with more tension at the strings / Ability to drop tune?

My point being - I am trying to evaluate if a baritone would give me any advantage for the Open B tuning or any aptly lenght scale regular guitar would give the same result?

Also, 7+ Strings are a no go for me right now. I had one in the past and as much as I liked the tone and got myself around the extra string, it was only when I switched to Open B with the 6 string that the whole thing "clicked" to me and I wish to stay on that space.

Thanks, appreciate it!

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