Vox Virage DC

First of all: I tried it in a store, but not bought because it was too expensive (2000 €) for my budget.


This guitar is a Japanese-type ES-335. The neck is glued, the heel is an odd shape to improve access to acute. There are 22 frets.

Micro level, it is quite original. The guitar has two "triple coils". This is actually a double and a single in the same little box.

A switch selects the bridge pickup, serious or both in parallel. In addition, each microphone has a switch to select if used as a humbucker, single coil, humbucker or as simple micro AND (parallel). It is therefore possible, somehow, to play with 4 microphones in parallel: two doubles and two singles.

There is one volume and one tone, everything from classic.

UTILIZATION

The guitar is very very light.

Access to Acute seems perfect, but I play on a Telecaster usual, I'm not very difficult. The junction body handle is actually a kind of heel reversed: instead of having an outgrowth of the body under the handle, there is a hollow in the body in the junction body / neck, which can comfortably play to the end the handle.

(But at this stage, the boxes are too small for my clumsy fingers: D)

I found the handle very nice. I got quickly felt comfortable. It is rather thin, with a touch rather flat, and I like that.

I exaggerated a little on the bends to test the holding of agreement, and it moves a little. But the strings looked old, and this may be due to that.

SOUNDS

This guitar sounds really great. The one I tried was a character, rather homogeneous, with sounds pretty sweet and rich.

Level settings, the many combinations of microphones (see above) have seemed a bit superfluous. The selection of microphones does not change that much the character of the guitar. on the other hand, the couple volume-tone works very well, and we keep a well present even lowering the tone. Turning down the volume, we gain considerably in dynamic (is lost in compression). I found this particularly appropriate shovel that game

The sound is clear soft and full. This is pretty much the opposite of a Telecaster bridge pickup. This is a guitar that forgiving. I tried with great satisfaction to get nice clean sounds jazzy, funk, rock. In this distortion is a treat.

To be brief, I would say this guitar has its own character, which is generally warm and soft, and we must more or less able to do everything except the shrill sounds great (for that, there is the Telecaster bridge pickup and its ). The issue of metal, I do not know. I do not often I play metal, and I have not tried Hi-Gain.

OVERALL OPINION

I tried it a while, but I have not (yet) own, budget issue.

It seemed like a beautiful guitar, I do not really play all the instruments on days like this! She really impressed me. I think the price (about € 2000) is largely justified.

This guitar is a 10/10 for classic sounds in jazz, rock, hard rock, blues, reggae, ...

The +
- Ergonomics and super good handle
- Very beautiful sound
- Electronics relatively simple and very efficient settings.

The -
- The holding of agreement not perfect (but maybe due to old guitar strings in test).
- Caches pickups and knobs have a look rather ugly when you look closely (marbled plastic).