Yamaha RGX1217L

-Made in Taiwan
-22 Frets, HSH pickups configuration origins unmarked.
-Vibrato
-1 Volume, 1 Tone and a 5-way switch (to select the pickups) (easel, easel \ center, center, center \ run, run)
Channel end and fast rosewood fingerboard and pearl markers (indicated as landmarks on the edge of the handle).

I put 6 \ 10 for a cheap guitar with a violin honorable (the body is alder wood and not cajete), no defects are painting, so beautiful shiny black ca stays clean ... how microphones (ca wants not say infamous), and the fittings correct. The four points that are missing the fact that I have a second guitar (fender tele) that has just bitten the show and also because of worries experienced with electronics, but I may be down a wrong number.

UTILIZATION

-The handle is nice finish gives a silky feel on the back of the neck, the fingerboard is rosewood which is nice against by requiring an interview (I have not provided) if after two-three years of use it will show signs of fatigue, these signs are purely cosmetic and insignificant for someone like me, the feeling is still good even after three years ....
I have big hands and against my Telecaster is true that the handle of the Yam may seem too late, however it can also play with great rapidity, is a guitar built for the solo but who exchange requires a well-trained inch to compensate for the finesse of the handle ...
-Access to treble is good, better than a stratocaster or a telecaster I would say ...
-The shape is similar to the Ibanez RG guitar stratocaster a finer, more aggressive to some, the shape allows good access to acute as I said before there is a groove (it's spelled like that ?), which provides good support of the left hand (we are therefore left hand hold the mediator) and a bevel on the back of the guitar which follows easily the belly of the guitar .... I would say that the ergonomics is good, on the other hand I am not hard, I play mostly on a telecaster ...
Question-sound is pretty good in clean (ie without distortion) in the sense that the sound is clean through against the more we will look at the big distos in rhythm and note it starts to bleed severely, so blah blah predict a change after a year or two for a beginner because it still enough to get the ear, or almost immediately after the purchase for someone sharper .... I highly recommend a beginner who wants to buy it to keep the microphones of origin until it is on the sound he wants, if he wants to go to the blues, to jazz to rock to hard rock etc. .... It is useless to invest in microphones to 200 € the pair to play it and because they make nice on the guitar. I make several changes in microphones, I first changed by PAF humbuckers (GFS home in the "clearance" not the big investment) and ca sounded immediately more bluesy then I replaced by a micro center GFS lil killer who has given over fishing and recently I finally removed all and just put a GFS crunchy PAF handle (I'm disappointed, it has no potatoes less than that of before I think) and a GFS crunchy rails at the bridge that allows me to play a decent Muse (Plug in baby goes alone ...)

I put 8 because the violin is (I'm trying to say for the price but no, she is simply ...) and can get results by changing the pickups, so it's a guitar that has the potential, Yamaha has just made the economy of the pickups ... The guitar is nice ... what more? Can be a choice in colors for left-handed? That's why we left at 8 ....

SOUNDS

-Basically, the guitar can play all styles, when I start with this guitar I played mostly nirvana, I loved the grunge and some metal (Metallica and co ...), j ' also loved playing arpeggios which is very educational with this guitar as being the handle end surface was quick to hit the wrong chords ... Then I rose and guns'and oriented towards small blues, then PAF arrived and gave a lot more feeling and personality to the guitar, and this is the default of the small yamaha I believe it is this lack of personality, versatility is significant at the beginning and then the quest is to step in and SOUND enchaine changes microphones. But the beginner who has to buy it either will happen to play everything with ... Never forget that the guitar and the pickups give only the sound and the music is the guitar player who makes it.
"I played this guitar with my Yamaha DG60 fx and all is still fine ...
-The sound is clean clean, but lacks a little depth to play the blues or even take the guts arpeggios sense (cf. nothing else matter Metallica). Sound in disto can play solos without worry but we want to do the rhythmic muscular ca gets too rough (thus changing the pickups and everything will be fine).

I put 5 because the pickups are not up to the violin, which is a shame because it can do everything with a small change in microphone, a guitar that is really the potential, with a few microphones I see better put 7 8 ...

OVERALL OPINION

-I use it for 3 or 4 years.
-Shape, she's really sexy, the electronics, I'm really falling on the wrong number (the cables plugged into the socket of the jack will not stop unsoldering)
-I tried it in right then I ordered it for the first guitar I think it's enough.
The price-quality ratio is great for the price (a mere 300 € new) was often nothing in the other brands or infamous dung ... Anyway a good guitar at a good price is all .. ..
-I do not regret it and I still play with is a good basis for learning to play and then to bricoller electronics and pickups to end up with a guitar very correct, it remains for me a second guitar Honourable , by the way if I saw one in a garage sale cheap I'll take ...
I put 8 so subjective, it is the general note that I put for 3-4 years of service ....