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Published on 10/16/13 at 11:44Mine the date of 67, made in America ... The bridge looks strong enough to those found on the gibson, two side screws used to adjust the height of the bridge, on which are six individually adjustable saddles.
The neck has 21 frets extremely comfortable C profile (similar to the handle of a strat L series), so with a relatively small radius, giving a rounded side to the handle that fits snugly in the hand!
In terms of electronics, we have 2 microphones single coils relatively unknown brand DeArmond, two volume controls and two tone. A switch toggles the joystick / intermediate positions / bridge ...
UTILIZATION
As I stated above, the handle is excellent! The neck of my Strat RI62-leg is broken off ... The guitar is extremely lightweight (2.7 kg for mine), which provides hours of comfortable concert! access to acute is correct except for the last frets, of course, but it did not occur to me to get the idea of the 21th fret on what kind of guitar ...
In terms of sound, of course, quality is at the rendezvous that the sounds are quite special ...
SOUNDS
This guitar suits mainly in blues, jazz, rock n roll Chuck Berry or Elvis Presley style ...
With the neck pickup, the sound is very round and fat, which is perfect for jazz. The box gives some ventilation in the sound, which ensures a smooth sound without aggression!
The bridge pickup gives a typical sound to John Lee Hooker and Jonny Rivers, that is to say the time relatively warm and twangy (having nothing to do with the pickup of a Strat) ...
Finally the intermediate position gives the sound a bit through a telecaster (since it is also the macnhe-bridge position) but always with this warm and mild grain: Perfect for the country, for example ...
But the sound of the pickup is lower than the neck pickup (probably a miscalculation height ...). But there is no adjustment screws to play on the height of the microphones ... Thereby to adjust the microphones, you have to play on the terminal screws, which is not necessarily obvious to adjust ...
In terms of tone, I do not think it is the highlight of this guitar ...
Tone easel zero slightly cut the high frequencies, giving her a little good but usable medium. The round tone unlike many filter frequencies, so that at zero, the sound is cut with only relatively deep bass. The result is a fairly muffled sound that is not truly amazing ...
Regarding amp / effects, guitar resents distortion pedals but a slight saturation of the amp gives a good seed ...
OVERALL OPINION
With the last 8 months, I would say this is a quality guitar despite minor flaws listed above. The violin is very good, and the guitar has been played a lot, the body responds very well to certain frequencies such as the ground or (probably the former owner loved these tones!). The pickups have a relatively low level of output, but the grain of the time there!
Originally this guitar was a competitive response to the face Fender Gibson ES-330 but not having its characteristics, this was one where a relatively low current demand but with the quality of the commercial failure time => (needless to think 3 years darken)!. This guitar is definitely worth a try because it benefits from the 60's quality (at least for older as production stopped in 71 ...), at a higher price just a strat U.S. just incredible ...
See for yourself: simply known current guitars, pretty average quality or investing in a vintage guitar little known high quality ...
The neck has 21 frets extremely comfortable C profile (similar to the handle of a strat L series), so with a relatively small radius, giving a rounded side to the handle that fits snugly in the hand!
In terms of electronics, we have 2 microphones single coils relatively unknown brand DeArmond, two volume controls and two tone. A switch toggles the joystick / intermediate positions / bridge ...
UTILIZATION
As I stated above, the handle is excellent! The neck of my Strat RI62-leg is broken off ... The guitar is extremely lightweight (2.7 kg for mine), which provides hours of comfortable concert! access to acute is correct except for the last frets, of course, but it did not occur to me to get the idea of the 21th fret on what kind of guitar ...
In terms of sound, of course, quality is at the rendezvous that the sounds are quite special ...
SOUNDS
This guitar suits mainly in blues, jazz, rock n roll Chuck Berry or Elvis Presley style ...
With the neck pickup, the sound is very round and fat, which is perfect for jazz. The box gives some ventilation in the sound, which ensures a smooth sound without aggression!
The bridge pickup gives a typical sound to John Lee Hooker and Jonny Rivers, that is to say the time relatively warm and twangy (having nothing to do with the pickup of a Strat) ...
Finally the intermediate position gives the sound a bit through a telecaster (since it is also the macnhe-bridge position) but always with this warm and mild grain: Perfect for the country, for example ...
But the sound of the pickup is lower than the neck pickup (probably a miscalculation height ...). But there is no adjustment screws to play on the height of the microphones ... Thereby to adjust the microphones, you have to play on the terminal screws, which is not necessarily obvious to adjust ...
In terms of tone, I do not think it is the highlight of this guitar ...
Tone easel zero slightly cut the high frequencies, giving her a little good but usable medium. The round tone unlike many filter frequencies, so that at zero, the sound is cut with only relatively deep bass. The result is a fairly muffled sound that is not truly amazing ...
Regarding amp / effects, guitar resents distortion pedals but a slight saturation of the amp gives a good seed ...
OVERALL OPINION
With the last 8 months, I would say this is a quality guitar despite minor flaws listed above. The violin is very good, and the guitar has been played a lot, the body responds very well to certain frequencies such as the ground or (probably the former owner loved these tones!). The pickups have a relatively low level of output, but the grain of the time there!
Originally this guitar was a competitive response to the face Fender Gibson ES-330 but not having its characteristics, this was one where a relatively low current demand but with the quality of the commercial failure time => (needless to think 3 years darken)!. This guitar is definitely worth a try because it benefits from the 60's quality (at least for older as production stopped in 71 ...), at a higher price just a strat U.S. just incredible ...
See for yourself: simply known current guitars, pretty average quality or investing in a vintage guitar little known high quality ...