G&L TRIBUTE S500 user reviews ( 10/10) - 7 user reviews

• 08/09/11

  James...'s review "Beats the pants of the other strat copies"

  Characteristics

  I went in a mom and pop store looking for a strat to use in my studio. They happened to carry G&L instead of Fender. Personally I'm not a big fan of what Fender has been doing lately. I feel like the quality isn't quite up to the price in most cases. Unfortunaly most of the G&L's they had were out of my price range. I wasn't looking to drop a ton on a studio guitar. However the staff turned me on to the tribute line. The first thing I thought when I picked up this guitar was "Indonesia?" It feels like an American made instrument all around. I was really surprised when I learned they used the same pickups as the California made line.

  Utilization

  The tuners on these are great. The vibe is strat through and through. I think these feel more like a strat than a real strat if that's even possibly. The neck is by far my favorite thing about this guitar. So smooth and the shape is perfect. The switch has no noise and the pots seem solid. The feel is really that of a $1000 plus guitar. Finish is really nice too. I was never a fan of how strats felt until I got my hands on this one. It just has a very familiar touch in your hands. Maybe it's just me. Oh, and the bridge is great too. Actually I'm a big fan of their design over the normal trems you see on these. Much more solid.

  Sounds

  In my studio I play this through a variety of amps. Axe-fx ultra, Orange AD30, Vox AC30, Mesa amps, JCM800, Fender Super Reverb, Tophat Supreme 16, Splawn....the list goes on. I have a lot of amps and this guitar sounds great through most of them. It's not your typical strat sound though. It kind of has its own thing going on. A little more hifi than vintage sounding I think. I don't mind this because in the mix everything sounds hifi anyway so this is a great studio guitar for me. I use it mostly on ballads and slower stuff like that. I don't think I'll ever change the pickups. They fit this axe well.

  Overall Opinion

  I got this thing for something like $450 out the door which I thought was a steal. I think these are worth twice that probably. If you want a classic strat then you might look elsewhere because the sound of these is more modern I think. The feel is spot on though. Very old friend-like. I call it my fender killer. Honestly it would rival and American strat out there. Just a sick piece of guitar.
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• 12/29/10

  oldwolf's review ( translated ) Improve this translation " blessed with a G & L Tribute S500"

  Characteristics

  Channel has the typical 'LEO FENDER', it was well in hand, happiness. Indonesian manufacturing. hooping nickel, watch the jumbo frets are pretty, ie large. 22 frets, key palissandre.Petite precision, the nut seems always to bone (ah Leo!). The superb mechanical, precise, flexible.
  
  the vibrato is on 2 axes, metal blocks so important sonoritéesmmmmmmmmmmmm !!!!!:) Attention on the side of the tremolo block is a small screw clamp tight it takes to burn the vibrato of 2 for deep grooves that he falls over, but especially after having done so, put a cover (Scotch or otherwise) to the input of said small screws or you'll both perdre.Une the two grooves made on the vibrato, it no longer falls Thus the screw can not remained tight.

  Utilization

  Access to the treble is still difficult when you have used a PRS Allender (ie 24 cases) fitted with microphones Wolftone 'DRvintage', but my fender strato usa (also mounted microphones Wolftone) is the same . the handle is very pleasant, but remember that the fender is pretty hardy so 'must go', as said Jeff Beck, a stratum, or b. you did ... or she will b ... :)
  
  I have to practice this guitar used:
  
  Blackstar pedal has a dual lamp (thus suitable for console output) (console Phonic)
  
  1 rack preamp Mesa Boogie V twin (2 lamps) (on Phonic)
  
  A distortion pedal on Vox Bulldog different amp (peavey, marshall, fender)
  
  Marshall has a 100w lamps

  Sounds

  the sonoritées? you love her when the blade was hendrix? you feel like the depth of your blues? and you have nothing against country music, hard to see Deep Purple? you'll be happy:) (heu!! you have nothing against funk, soul, and bossa:))
  
  Precision: there are 3 potentiometers
  
  1 volume
  
  2 bass / treble that more and push activates the 2 microphones opposed (bass / treble)
  
  March 1 booster low / medium, very effective clean when you want to improvise without saturating ^ ^
  
  The pickups are outstanding power, the size of the blocks must be for many.
  
  vibrato, a real treat that works even without disturbing the new guitar.

  Overall Opinion

  I've had it one month and I admit I fell in love (especially at this price:))
  
  I need to look
  
  A fender strato usa (neck Anniversary 90 'fender body 80', micro Wolftone 'flashback)
  
  1 PRS Allender
  
  is very simple I made a mistake !!!!! I immediately bought another G & L, Carvin telecaster special (micro soapbar)
  
  
  
  honestly and sincerely, you want to feel the sound of a 'serial', have a true George Fullerton / Leo Fender in your hands is that the
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• 12/04/10

  MrLecleaner's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

  Characteristics

  Mine is made Indonésie.Pas reproach on the finish, intonation is set at the factory. The handle had to undergo a slight adjustment of alignment, nothing bad with age and I'm getting picky!
  
  Hence the interest to buy in the store: the small problems are resolved quickly between humans.
  
  Brief description of the beast: ash body, maple neck with 22 frets maple key reported, vibrato to 2 pivot points (with action in both directions), 3 single-coil pickups, mechanical oil bath, 3 potentiometers adjusting volume, treble 1 filter, 1 filter + 1 serious push-pull to put together bridge + neck pickup (his telecaster typed) or all 3 pickups together, and finally a selector 5 positions.L all is well finished and homogeneous , the only downside plastic nut that I will personally replace it with a model roller (it has a negative impact on sound and limit the use of good vibrato, the strings slipping badly in their throats)

  Utilization

  The neck suits me parfaitement.Sa satin finish does absolutely no hand brake, unlike some vernis.Ce is not a guitar that I would call light but its weight is quite raisonnable.L ergonomics is excellent, only the thickness of the heel a little surprised at first (but we made it very quickly). The frets are not super thin but it guarantees a good intonation bends notes and accurate! We find obviously a strong resemblance with a Start sound (in G & L L is for Leo Fender) but a little dirtier and less crystalline personally what I love.
  
  It is intuitively "the" sound.

  Sounds

  I play on a small tube amp (Laney VC-15) in a register blues / rock.Comme said before the sounds are more "dirty" with a Start, but they are to die for! ! Anything goes: arpeggios, funky pots, and even hard rock (Type 70's to Led Zep or Deep Purple). The pickups have a high output level and a good définition.Je advise all those interested in this model of try on a amp lampes.On feels all the organic side of the instrument and you can really play the attack on the strings.

  Overall Opinion

  I have this guitar for a month (before it jai have different models and various strat Japan, Rockline Lag, Lag Roxane). It summarizes what I wanted: a Start but with microphones with a high output and vibrato 2 points.Le U.S. model is great for me but off budget. This series Tribute weigh a relative price and quality.
  
  The only changes I will bring to this guitar is a change of saddle and possibly the replacement by mechanical locking Sperzel (with that tuning is perfect).
  
  Buy with your eyes closed (but open ears!), It's all good. Case
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• 02/11/09

  dalcl's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

  Characteristics

  Unlike anything I've read, there is on mine says "Made in Indonesia", but hey, as with any guitar relocated, the country does not change much.
  
  22 frets.
  
  Floyd.
  
  3 G & L pickups simple that seem to me good.
  
  One tone, one volume, a kind of bass contour by stooping low and enlèbe gain at the low blow by making the sound + sec. And a push-pull for the two missing combinations: neck pickup + bridge, and three microphones simultaneously. (Very nice to have a style Shellac).
  
  The neck is very flat, and as everyone has said, and tell, the handle is the most enjoyable that I was seen test data.

  Utilization

  Access to acute worthy of a Start.
  
  The guitar is light, which is really not displease me.
  
  The sound is quite distinctive, a Fender + dirty to me (perhaps my Blackstar that does this too), but very pleasant, with lots of mids, but very beautiful mediums. And with all the settings, it was a very very wide range.

  Sounds

  I have it next to a guitar with 2 humbuckers, and it is ideal as a complement. You can really do what you will, the very clean to very dirty, but not be accurate (unless desired ...).
  
  I play on a Blackstar HT-5 (which, by the way is really a beautiful animal, despite its 5 watts. He has, to my surprise, held out in front again on drums).
  
  As already mentioned, we can go on the lens we wanted a Fender, a fairly bold thing (again, the Blackstar is not for nothing I think).
  
  I probably everything about this guitar, I even rediscovered the joys of micro central. And opportunities to make adjustments that do not get tired.

  Overall Opinion

  It sounds exaggerated, but knowing that I got + on sale for € 400 new, I really have no complaints really. Even at full price elsewhere, I would not say anything. I was a little rétissent the act of buying a Start, but I was always intrigued by G & L, I bought on a whim, and since everything is much better ... The pleasure of the guitar is reviendu. Thank you Leo ...
  
  I would do this choice no doubt.
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• 06/28/06

  LaGuibole's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

  Characteristics

  Cf opinion prcedents
  
  
  
  the pickups are real and the United States mcaniques ...
  
  
  
  The handle is indeed fabulous.

  Utilization

  Sitting as upright, no problem, the proportions of the beautiful are idalie. Once again the handle is trs trs enjoyable travel. is a strat between Mexican and US, at the cost of Cort ... c'st therefore a very good deal.

  Sounds

  The sounds are OK ts soon. We are in the pure single coil: blue, rock, Funck, pop. For the big rock and a hard will be a little short.
  
  
  
  I use it for rhythm funcky (cocote) for chorus and blue, it's terrible.
  
  
  
  injected into Amplitube or Guitar Rig, via a compressor FAT-1, and it's wonderful oprationnel as is (no editing for hours ...)
  
  
  
  the agreement is less convaiquants powers, but not for.

  Overall Opinion

  I've had a year and a half and I will keep for a long time, I pay 495 euros and this price there is not much comparable on the market. The concern is to find out VPC is a little galre.
  
  Having said that one who seeks to use a strat "stratien" can control the eyes closed.
  
  
  
  Mine is blue night with the wood grain that suggest: more beautiful she is.
  
  I plan to buy Tribute L2000 bass of the same brand, which is a auusi trsbon ratio Q / P
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• 05/10/06

  theluke's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

  Characteristics

  Guitar made in Korea, hardware and pickups in the U.S..
  
  22 frets, 3 single G & L US
  
  vibrato full dual G & L
  
  1 volume, 2 tone, 5 position switch more mini toggle for engaging the neck and bridge pickups together.
  
  handle mapple

  Utilization

  The handle is simply fabulous. I had a bunch of good guitars (strats, Les Paul and others) and that it is largely the comparison. The frets are perfectly fit and comfort is total.
  
  No problem with Access in acute correct weight balance and good standing as sitting.

  Sounds

  The sound is crystal clear to the crunch slammin like SRV. on the other hand, no place for aggressive saturation. It is truly right in the single coil.
  
  So, to blues and rock, stratiennes uses.
  
  the neck pickup is warm and idalie slamming and lights with an amp, it was quick to take to Steve Ray and Jimmy. Taking only APRS, hey, there's fingers ...
  
  So a typical instrument for which the flexibility is not the word-matre. But, hey, it's a choice. I also possde Lag Roxanne Bedarieux made in this pair and allows me to scan large.
  
  10, therefore, despite the versatility, but must also have a guitar of characters, and you strive to do everything, many are in that medium.
  
  
  
  Last day of 15/05/2005:
  
  
  
  I changed the micro acute for a Di Marzio Malmsteen (on the advice of a fellow owner of a music store), and frankly, it gives the guitar the only small thing that, according to my needs, he lacked : saturation in finer grain and a little more harmonic. Dnaturer all without the appearance of the beautiful.
  
  
  
  Even happier then, but .... that the output level of the microphones of origin is lev! A ct Di Marzio seems almost loan. I'm really laying APRS glimpse of the new microphone.
  
  
  
  I now have a pannel sounds really broad, and always the comfort of playing I can not let go, to my NWPD Lag I find now "rigid", while I swore more by it.

  Overall Opinion

  Despite (prjug origin Coren, the violin is really beautiful. Frne The body in the marshes, with a translucent varnish sunburst leaving the most beautiful effect apparatre wood grain and the handle and Saddle in the key are REALLY beautiful.
  
  
  
  I had several strats (USD), a Japanese Squier, jou some Mexican, and the report of this qualitprix Tribute S500 is simply stunning. For ceusses who seek a stratum and that would not be obsessed with the Fender logo on their scratching, I can only recommend the test store. And I would be tonn they arrtent their choice on the stratum, had gard the quality of this guitar considering its price.
  
  
  
  In my opinion, an extraordinary affair. Besides, I can not imagine what the US versions may have more, so the quality is great.
  
  
  
  I would do without hsitation the same choice. And the worshipers of Lo, MR Start, they wonder what is meant by the initials G & L.
  
  
  
  Last update 11/05/06:
  
  
  
  few frisouilles Aiges appears on the strings to box 15. I do not know if this is a questionable aging wood or just a matter of rglage. That said, my Lag, older, has not moved one iota in the same conditions of use.
  
  In addition, I glimpse much later (shame) that troisime knob is not a tone, but can play the output gain. At bottom, big win, ideal for cruncher, the lower its more lightweight. Good, because prcisment the rduction gain by lowering the volume knob was causing a big loss of treble, making the sound too dull. When you are c.., It is c.. At the same time, I never quite understood what was the use of the Tone knobs on a skyscraper. Must be my ct Cro Magnon.
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• 01/30/05

  xavren's review ( translated ) Improve this translation

  Characteristics

  See previous opinion.

  Utilization

  The handle is a real treat. I do not know if we can do much better with the quality of play is both well designed so that it slips over the handle, but also to be well in hand. Agreements and transitions between them are a real pleasure. The note for note, hmmmmm! Mine is handled mapple (I never really tried before except on a musicman II sword of a friend is far beyond my expectations after a few weeks of use. The only small point of detail c ' is at the top of the handle (near the body) I find that fixing the handle is a bit too big but you get used quickly and now it is no longer a worry. What if we remain in the high no problem .
  
  
  
  In terms of usability, I find the guitar very light and very pleasant. The weight is evenly distributed. No surprise it is a stratum.
  
  
  
  'A blank' the guitar sounds great (it's always a sign), plugged in, it can not be disappointed. I have not noticed any noise, but the sound comes out ... I come here.

  Sounds

  As mentioned earlier, is a stratum with three simple: it's clean to crunch its field. But saturation level is not bad but it is not made for that. And that's what I like, a guitar fairly typical. "Stratiennes uses" is exactly that! And it does it perfectly.
  
  Again I will repeat myself but theluke is absolutely right, I reached 100% of its opinion.

  Overall Opinion

  I use it for several weeks now. I did not achieve this level of quality with this guitar. Nothing but good, the violin, the varnish (mine is a shade of dark blue !!!!!! beautiful!) Vibrato with which one can play in two senses, lifts (to let you know I just retuned yet it is not due to play on it, pull the vibrato and carry!). The pickups are quite up to par.
  
  At this price it's a real case is amazing that g & l is not better known! Scratch that I know has played a lease that barely knew and did not know that Leo Fender was originally (with George Fullerton). This level of quality, such a price, there's no doubt, go for it!
  
  (The problem is that you have a big stroke of luck to fall on ...)
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