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MGR/DeadShredder « Traditions S-1 »
Published on 05/29/06 at 15:00I have been playing for about 4 yrs now, and I am not in a band.
I play thru a Behringer V-Tone GMX 212.
I like to move from classic rock to Heavy Metal.
It would be a normal day for me to play alittle Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Pantera, Ozzy, and the Beatles.
I bought this unit from "Band Aid Music" in Lynnwood Washington.I Jammed on it for a couple of weeks and really came to love the thing.
I paid $675.00 for the Tradition S-1
Apart from the beautiful wood grains, at least AA quality, Rosewood fretboard with "Bird" inlay's it came with a wealth of esentials.
Locking Grover tuning keys.
Roller nut and Bridge, this was the first time I had used these and was AMAZED at how hard and long I could play and still stay in tune.
Body thru stringing.
3 rail humbuckers, great sustain on bends, Awesome chunk, I really cant say enought here.
3 toggles for switching the humbuckers to single coils independantly.
5 way switching for the pick-ups
Truthfuly there is only one thing I dont like about the guitar set up, the placement of the volume control is way too close to the bridge and became a pain in the backside, I found myself hitting the control knob and constantly lowering the volume!!
I took care of this by removing the tone control and relocating the volume control to the now vacated tone control spot.
This took care of everything, more room to work, who needs tone control anyway, and no volume issues.
As I have kind of stated above, the S-1 seems to represent overseas (China) advancements in the past decade in quality and fine workmanship. If you put the "Made in America" stamp on this you would never guess other wise, but the price would double!
The bottom line is this, if you like to play an assortment of different music styles and have high end sound with each style, not some bland we can do anything Wall-Mart crap, then you sould really give this guitar a serious look.
I have owned and played many "High end guitars" and this can easily play with them.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
I play thru a Behringer V-Tone GMX 212.
I like to move from classic rock to Heavy Metal.
It would be a normal day for me to play alittle Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Pantera, Ozzy, and the Beatles.
I bought this unit from "Band Aid Music" in Lynnwood Washington.I Jammed on it for a couple of weeks and really came to love the thing.
I paid $675.00 for the Tradition S-1
Apart from the beautiful wood grains, at least AA quality, Rosewood fretboard with "Bird" inlay's it came with a wealth of esentials.
Locking Grover tuning keys.
Roller nut and Bridge, this was the first time I had used these and was AMAZED at how hard and long I could play and still stay in tune.
Body thru stringing.
3 rail humbuckers, great sustain on bends, Awesome chunk, I really cant say enought here.
3 toggles for switching the humbuckers to single coils independantly.
5 way switching for the pick-ups
Truthfuly there is only one thing I dont like about the guitar set up, the placement of the volume control is way too close to the bridge and became a pain in the backside, I found myself hitting the control knob and constantly lowering the volume!!
I took care of this by removing the tone control and relocating the volume control to the now vacated tone control spot.
This took care of everything, more room to work, who needs tone control anyway, and no volume issues.
As I have kind of stated above, the S-1 seems to represent overseas (China) advancements in the past decade in quality and fine workmanship. If you put the "Made in America" stamp on this you would never guess other wise, but the price would double!
The bottom line is this, if you like to play an assortment of different music styles and have high end sound with each style, not some bland we can do anything Wall-Mart crap, then you sould really give this guitar a serious look.
I have owned and played many "High end guitars" and this can easily play with them.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com