All user reviews for the Gibson BluesHawk

All this does very well résumé by unknown555!
The varnish is very good. Attention however clean guitar after each use for the paint tends "accorcher" the salets. With a basic product and a cloth, it remains impeccable.

USE

Handle very pleasant, trslgre guitar, it does not get tired playing with standing.
Easy access to acute, nothing more.
By mcaniques against average, it is not subject champion agree!
Electronics single-use, varitone brings a little more, but honestly, if you have a programmable crankset, it's easier to get his way by changing the equalizer on prampli / amp.
Severe Acute position and the position of the microphones has the same volume, for against the intermediary position has 3 db more!

SONORITS

I bought this guitar 1000 euros, budget dominated by Japanese guitars and even corennes .. But there is nothing, the amricain sound, Gibson is surcrot ingalable. That is why, despite a few flaws (mcaniques), this guitar satisfies me.
In jazz, neck pickup, it keeps the biting, blues is the dream, and rock, rhythm Keith Richards, no worries, I played this guitar with a Fender Blues Junior, and c is beautiful. Today I have a VOX crankset, and I often saves me a Jazz or Blues, BUT also with pltot sounds HARD, no worries either, no feedback with a crankset. After all microphones are BIG single coils, and number of scratch HARD play with a Strat so ... Well OK this is not a BC Rich either, but if your style is more rock VINTAGE is a good deal (because even if a Strat is versatile, it remains sound JAZZ GIBSON) .... In short for the price, it's all good.

NOTICE GLOBAL

I have this guitar for 4 years.
I tried a lot of models between 800 and 1000 euros at the time, and this price, it is mostly Asian, whose finish perhaps more "catchy", so do not be fooled shape, and try the !!!
What I like the most is the lightness and of course sound, versatile enough actually.
The price quality ratio is very good for a Gibson. Gibson least chre the era c'tait a model "faded" without varnish, blah ...
I rachterais this guitar without hsiter, but now, 4 years later, I have not the models of competition head.

Against US
22 frets, neck collbr /> 2 micros simple P90 (or similar)
Volume, Tone slecteur 3 positions, Varitone, a push / pull

UTILIZATION

Handle typical Gibson, but not too big
Access in acute easy, but it is not a SG
Ergonomics, lgre, balance
The holding of the agreement is not perfect, if teachers without being organized.

SOUNDS

Plutt versatile guitar, especially a small APRS wiring modification, allowing the series connection of two microphones thanks to push / pull. In dpart it sounds like Melody Maker, with Varitone one approaches the genre telecaster, with two pickups in series it borders on the SG, but all without losing the particular grain of its own.
In short a guitar to sound varies in its clean and crunch.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 3 years, I like the original's vague concept:
semi-hollow but for show
refined look easy but its trash
QualitPrix: a Gibson for less than 1000 of OCCAZ, if it is available.
In short it's not the guitar that pleases everybody, but who can please those who are not exclusive tele / strat / lp / sg.

Made in USA.Manche body type and Nighthawk of the same brand.
Special feature: the body is carved with two vents in the most beautiful effect f style 335 that open onto two small rooms résonnance.Mais the guitar is a solid-body still only half a body.
Very simple but perfect finish.
Two single coil pickups like Blues 90, edition of the famous P90
A three position selector style Strat.Un knob volume, one tone knob.
THE BONUS: A microphone hidden in the box "hum Canceling dummy coil" avoids the typical single coils hum and the selector "Varitone" dear to BB King can, but yes, 18 different sounds!
We just wish the original mechanical Gibson Deluxe, vintage of course, but averages required to issue agreement.

UTILIZATION

This guitar is incredibly fun to play, largely thanks to its low weight, a very good balance and a very nice run though the back veneer, what one can not appreciate.

SOUNDS

Obviously this is by no means, as its name implies, a metal guitar.
on the other hand, if we remain in its register, it's only bonheur.Et well beyond the blues ...
What is surprising at first is the power and balance in acoustique.C is already warm, full, full, précis.On finds himself without work hours so that the plug is sufficient unto itself.
So in a good all-tube ...
Thanks to Varitone, sounds cover a range from 335 to warm crunchy type specific type slamming Telecaster with all the intermediate stages (and Start sounds!). A very versatile guitar, therefore, an excellent complement to a LP by example.

OVERALL OPINION

I dreamed for a long time to supplement my Nighthawk ST3.Je have found used 600 euros in new condition with original case and I jumped on it.
Imagine what can happen if there Fender.Vous Gibson manufactured a guitar etes.Une unique, crisp, with a great look, sound and really different "guitaristic".
This is not a model on the cheap, far from it.
Try to adopt it.
By the way, have a look on http://www.blueshawk.info.
It's a Bible in English unfortunately.

Manufactures in the United States. (Like all Gibson)
- Body: Maple top / Poplar back.
- Neck: Mahogany / Narrow with lgre form of v.
- Fingerboard: Rosewood, inlaid mother of pearl diamond shape.
- Scale: 25.5 inches / 648mm - 22 frets.
- Cordier with individually adjustable saddles.
- Tuners - Gibson / Kluson Deluxe.
- Two P90 pickups "Blues" + passive micro eliminate the hum.
- Knobs: Volume + Ring.
- A 3 position selector (type strata).
- A rotary "Varitone" six positions put up with the push-pull knob of the Tone. (18 "possibility" in total)
- Weight: about 3 pounds.
Beautifully made, superior all "made in" Japan or Mexico ...

UTILIZATION

- Channel enjoyable, trs Access in good treble.
- Weight nice (to play long standing, for example) and good balance.
- VERY enjoyable to use. The unusual shape dplaire (like mini lespaul with Oues), but once the industry's premium on the form!
- The Blues P90 pickups are amazing! I do not know what a Fender that contributes to the characters of this guitar, like poplar and Saddle used in violin making.

SOUNDS

Sounds a shovel, a spade as a stratum or a telecaster, a meowing like a SG and snores like a Les Paul, what the weather!
Blues yes, but it's not just in the belly of this guitar ...
But be careful, do not push too hard in the beautiful distortion and overdrive other extreme, under penalty of feedback.
In a LED, the range of her is so broad that nothing scares him.

OVERALL OPINION

Buy new (thousand euros) to assist my Lespaul, a year ago.
I was looking for another palette of sounds, I do not have the t!
Tuning forks, shape, sound and out of the standard Gibson matrial, and gives his characters.
Even if it plays in the yard "Fender" is a real Gibson. Quality and finish confirms.
A small wonder at the cost of a Fender mxicaine.
-> Production shall adopt in 2006.

Made in USA
handle collbr /> 22 frets, 2 knobs, one volume, the other with a Tone
push / pull to enable or disable the famous Varitone stationmaster 6 positions of internal piezo.
slecteur a microphone to carefully choose one of the P90 that adorns the small machine

UTILIZATION

The small blueshawk has a nice finish, good balance is lgre
and trying to adopt it (it makes you feel comfortable direct the hussy!)
Its handle is between forms "C and D" between Gibson and Fender with a very traditional p'tit "v" in the center
it is smooth finely crafted well finished with inlaid mother of pearl diamond shaped along the length, the handle is part of one of the reasons that made me eyeing this guitar;
Fenders convinced, I have trouble with the "Paul" is another round Gibson tradition, is a down and back with ease on 22 frets easily ACCS

SOUNDS

For his one enters a sensitive area
despite a reputable says on P90 in the field of blues
rock and I read it that del blueshawk is a versatile guitar
I will say one thing: "and your on? is versatile? lol"
I'm all done with a REPEAT country, I cried my whole tlcaster sional!
t I do a little night "j'vous do a little while 'j' shut the picks for three hours I should have taken the stratum!
I bought this guitar in the studio to record songs that were in need of potatoes, grain, rock, blues, and my aeux, even the guys arms of isp, a ibanez
Seymour of one and other again they finished their CD with blueshawk! in its register, has naked on a Fender Deluxe amp with a lamp just jack it is monstrous
did not ask for too much is not a strato;
is a small guitar with a sound EEEEnorme!

OVERALL OPINION

I must have about a dozen guitars lurking in every trnent and spices, and classic electro strats 2 1 tl 2 ibanez, cort and a blueshawk. I have this guitar for three years it does not go a week without even j'la branch alone down the volume to make me sound a p'tit softphone and if I go out the effects Mamam I send a Parisienne Walkways Gary Moore and even the neighbors have jy are the poor ....
I was very lucky, I'm falling on this guitar just before it disappears
and I grabbed the bowl of Bordeaux with the guitars and now we come from china lacquer acept with a character similar to the color blueshawk screams, cries,
singing with a big master difficult character I love that pole, I will take a blueshawk eyes closed just for the yell ... kisses to the neighbors ...

Made in the USA.
- Body: Maple top / Poplar back.
- Neck: Mahogany
- Fingerboard: Rosewood, inlaid mother of pearl diamond shape.
- Scale: 25.5 inches / 648mm - 22 frets.
- Cordier with individually adjustable saddles.
- Tuners - Gibson / Kluson Deluxe.
- Two P90 pickups "Blues" + passive micro eliminate the hum.
- Knobs: Volume + Ring.
- A 3 position selector (type strata).
- A rotary "Varitone" six positions put up with the push-pull knob of the Tone. (18 "possibility" in total)
- Weight: about 3 pounds.
Finishing almost irrprochable.

UTILIZATION

THE FIRST thing you notice when I Reue is its size: this guitar is tiny! to get an IDE, his case falls into that of a Fully stratocaster! This will Confre comfort grip because it is thin and lightweight (Videy helps the body).
The handle, the image of the body is too late. the playability is excellent, even a small hand can use it.
Access in acute and ais and the sustain is good plutt even in acute.

SOUNDS

The two microphones blueshawk possde blues90 SPECIFICATIONS.
In fact, as the name suggests, the blues is the area of ​​prdilection blueshawk. The neck pickup provides a serious and enjoyable round trs (the bends sound perfectly) the microphone offers a sharp spice that is suitable for blues but can be fblard out of this straitjacket. An effect of overdrive can compensate this lack of natural power (what I do when I have to provide a rock).
Finally the sound mixed race / trs bridge is successful and will appeal to country fans.

The Varitone now: Originally Submitted by lucille on Gibson, it is a potentiomtre six positions that cuts frequency drives in the microphones.
They must therefore immediately be said that the use of the spectrum Varitone impoverishment microphones, especially with the micro acute. However, it allows for sounds interresting trs: we can with the first two positions of Varitone imitate a fender type sound (I think notament position low / medium of a layer) for rhythmic funk example. There are actually a more mtallique fender.
The following positions are more or less suggests a whah intermdiaire position (but without the addition of sometimes excruciating acute li this type of pedals).

In short, the Varitone can do more thinking a gadget, but it can be used rvler useful.
Note that the tonality of potentiomtre also serves as a switch for the Varitone.

To conclude on the sound, as a guitarist blues / rock it s'avre perfect sound level. I use it on a Vox Valvetronix amp mode AC30 with an overdrive, delay and whah.

OVERALL OPINION

It's been two years since I have this little gem hybrid Gibson and I am not at all. This guitar does not leave indiffrent. It is "simply beautiful" with its blue, its Oues dor and his easel.
It makes scne course, it looks like a Les paul be without one.
I use two electric guitars: fender highway one stratocaster HSS (humbucker treble) and a Gretsch Electromatic 2005. The blueshawk has upgraded directly, whether in the comfort of game sounds.
For a price of 1150 euros, and its finish is irrprochable qualitprix the report is
excellent for me.
Are one big default is for me ... not to be produced since April 2006 (one month APRS have bought!)

If c'tait again, would have no hsitation.