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«  Good at all! »

Published on 07/27/13 at 17:52
Value For Money : Excellent
This is a Korean maple, short scale, 2 DeArmond pickups in 2000, 22 frets anecdotal, rosewood fingerboard and bridge, aluminum nut (I am not) Corrected for the octave, Bigsby B60, the radius is fairly flat, thick neck, a volume microphones, a master, a tone, a 3-position switch ...

UTILIZATION

It is not for this shredder is clear! but the handle is still very playable for an archtop. You can "glue" the string to the handle, it borders not ...
It is very easy to adjust, I sometimes pass a high action low action on stage time a joke.
The pickups and electronics are very good and allow many sounds with adjustable pads and pots reagents.
In fact everything is good except access to acute. If you're not an octopus oversights that guitar more than 12 frets ...

SOUNDS

It is very versatile, a little fat still, demand for good and patient settings microphones p ***** but it sounds!
However, you may be disappointed on a transistor amp, it is made for lamps ...
Anyway, a transistor amp is not really an amp, no?

OVERALL OPINION

Its versatility and limitations have made a second eternal but first come and go, as we all know ... ;)
I do not divide them!
Musician and son of a musician (I made you grace my complete CV ...), so I played on many instruments, it is objectively a very good scratch and I almost wish I would have preferred that the only guitar that I'm all for 10 years an indestructible solid body that I could throw in a cover of folk with his two younger sisters, but unfortunately for my life showman, the sound is there!
And do not be fooled by the Argus, it is much more than that ...