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Published on 09/10/05 at 08:59
Chinese-made but of good quality trs. Impeccable finishes. Play with the guitar lends rglage factory.
Typical configuration for an archtop with 2 humbuckers non-floating.

UTILIZATION

Channel trs comfortable with a good cutaway for easy Access in treble.
Excellent ergonomics, balance.

The guitar factory is just even RULES by changing the strings by largest intonation is perfect (check with a good tuner). the action is nickel (confirmed in a few days to see if the handle does not move under the tension).

SOUNDS

Personally it for use jazz / latin. I plugged into an acoustic amp (roland ac 60) with all the rglages to neutral).

First, we must lay the origins of the bin strings (that is ultralight for a guitar of this type, I do not see why ibanez does not rise the true cords larger, quite on the rpercuter selling price). I put D'Addario chromes 12 -> 52 (net flat), my usual game (on a copy of strata).

The sound is good to rev as if entremme noted other micro lack of personality. They do well out the acoustic guitar but a little too neutral for some. With legalization lgre you can really have a whole palette of sounds hot at your fingertips.

If there is a weak point on this guitar are the microphone. They are not bad (much better than on some epiphone) but a bit too neutral. The price of the guitar you can invest without microphones more typs bp.

Unplug the sound is really up correctly. Trs powerful but not well enough what truly equilibrated to work. In fact I plan to mount even a piezo sensor on the bridge to try to rcuprer the acoustics ... Someone test (I'd be curious to see what happens)?

OVERALL OPINION

2 days only.
Guitar really nice, comfortable trs, trs well finished and good sound branch / unplug.
The only change would be amliorable microphones. I for one am not waiting for me to press and ... plus it's not easy to choose.

I'm curious whether someone tried to put a piezo rcuprer for the acoustics of the guitar ... It might be nice for some styles.

It is found in ff tui € 450 which is a good price. Personally I bought € 310 + € 64 of tui in www.guitarbargains.com (if your not far you can go to the store in belgium rcuprer if you must add € 95 to safe harbor.

I tried other models at the store (af 75 ....). trs are good but a little less acoustically (not the same wood on the table). I also look less but that's personal