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Published on 01/03/04 at 15:00This was my first electric guitar i got it from musiciansfriend for 180 bucks after having played guitar for about a year.
The black finish is very nice. its pretty good and doesnt chip except for on the headstock. The guitar sounds good both clean and dirty and in all three pickup combinations. its simple, 2 humbuckers, 1 volume, 1 tone and a 3 way switch. nothing scary. the neck is fairly nice, the action is good, strings are bendable and the guitar is overall decent. in my opinion, it isnt as good looking as higher end les pauls, it is still kind of cool looking in its own way.
the tone knob, when turned all the way up makes a HORRIBLE crackling sound and then the guitar goes silent. there is also crackling when switching pickups. ive had this guitar for about a year, and the tone that it is giving it is still pretty good, but i have had to turn up my marshall slowly but surely over time. guess the humbuckers are losing their edge. the tuning gears! ugh. they were once alright but now only 1 or to still work well. most of them are not holding a tune great. the guitar will last a couple of songs before needing complete retuning, not just a touch up. another thing, gibson replacement parts DONT FIT THIS GUITAR! i found this out when i tried to put the modern nickel machine heads on it. very stupid of me eh?
made in china. good? uh not really. its not horrible. its not good. its in that beautiful place inbetween. ive taken it apart and tried to make any improvments on it that i could. looooots of saw dust was found in...pretty much everything. the input jack comes loose all the time. and one time the wires that connect the pickups to the input jack broke and i had to melt them back together. the pickup switch is sort of loose and wobbly. i actually found all of these to just be minor things except the wires breaking. its not that bad. pretty okay.
well, the thing is pretty dang cheap, and sounds pretty good. over all its decent. you dont got that much dough to blow, or you need a backup guitar or wahtever you real musicians do, then go for it. its obviously meant to start out on and i will probably be stepping up soon as soon as i get....money.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
The black finish is very nice. its pretty good and doesnt chip except for on the headstock. The guitar sounds good both clean and dirty and in all three pickup combinations. its simple, 2 humbuckers, 1 volume, 1 tone and a 3 way switch. nothing scary. the neck is fairly nice, the action is good, strings are bendable and the guitar is overall decent. in my opinion, it isnt as good looking as higher end les pauls, it is still kind of cool looking in its own way.
the tone knob, when turned all the way up makes a HORRIBLE crackling sound and then the guitar goes silent. there is also crackling when switching pickups. ive had this guitar for about a year, and the tone that it is giving it is still pretty good, but i have had to turn up my marshall slowly but surely over time. guess the humbuckers are losing their edge. the tuning gears! ugh. they were once alright but now only 1 or to still work well. most of them are not holding a tune great. the guitar will last a couple of songs before needing complete retuning, not just a touch up. another thing, gibson replacement parts DONT FIT THIS GUITAR! i found this out when i tried to put the modern nickel machine heads on it. very stupid of me eh?
made in china. good? uh not really. its not horrible. its not good. its in that beautiful place inbetween. ive taken it apart and tried to make any improvments on it that i could. looooots of saw dust was found in...pretty much everything. the input jack comes loose all the time. and one time the wires that connect the pickups to the input jack broke and i had to melt them back together. the pickup switch is sort of loose and wobbly. i actually found all of these to just be minor things except the wires breaking. its not that bad. pretty okay.
well, the thing is pretty dang cheap, and sounds pretty good. over all its decent. you dont got that much dough to blow, or you need a backup guitar or wahtever you real musicians do, then go for it. its obviously meant to start out on and i will probably be stepping up soon as soon as i get....money.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com