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Published on 03/27/07 at 09:48Hagstrom is a Swedish brand legendary, revered by guitarists class, acclaimed Patrick Eudeline ... I saw a picture on the Internet, a commercial brand with Frank Zappa who presented a model of a 12-string Hagstrom. The production is stopped for a long time, and now new models reappear, whose manufacture is spread over several countries, I understand. And let's face it, they have to face.
This is a solid-body electric guitar, Les Paul type shape, 22 frets. Two humbuckers, stop tailpiece type bar Epiphone, a flight and a micro tone, a three-position switch for the pickups and a three position selector for dial tone. Schaller.
UTILIZATION
This guitar is very heavy, thick, very thick set neck, as opposed to the guitars for smaller players such Strat. You must have strong shoulders. Access to acute is not easy. Néamoins, the grip is good. And hey, it's not a scratch to the metal ...
Its level, attention: NO SOUND "modern". The pickups have a very hot, very serious and mediums is limited drooling. The gain is pretty huge, and we obtain easily a blues sound (micro severe), type Meters funk / Funkadelik (micro acute) or Jazz (both sets). Personally, I find the sound overwhelming, difficult to master, but really interesting compared to what is currently (Ibanez, Squier, PRS, and I do not know what yet).
SOUNDS
As I said before, it suits me perfectly. I played with the rhythm in my funk band Wild for a while (before finding another scratch, which allowed me to concentrate on singing and jumping around) and it was fine. In a funk-jazz group, it was perfect, a bit dirty to taste the other guitarist (a Strateu), but I did not need to turn up the volume to go solo, so the dynamics of this guitar is impressive. And to the blues, then there ...
I played it with transistor amps (Marshall, Peavey). I try it on a tube amp when I have one on hand. Effects? Distal end.
Of course, the sounds are quite typed "low end". But we must know what you want. The sound is always rich, and the tone pots are very effective. The dial tone an active low-pass filter. Basically, the middle: his nrmal, down: the filthy, up: the ultra filthy. The happy in a pure state with a crunch or distortion. The sustain is good (set neck), and the lifts are very accurate. We take pleasure to agree, is to say!
For cons, the highs are a bit nasal, and the bass tend to saturate quickly, squarely at the scratch. But I paid my mics anyhow. We'll have to fix it.
OVERALL OPINION
I've had six months.
Assets:
+ Class
+ The look (god she is beautiful!)
+ A guitar man
+ Sound
+ Mechanics
+ Price
Cons:
+ Not very versatile
+ Finishing details that traissent its origins "Asian" (cutting plate over evil, a little sore nut molded plastic, etc.).
+ Is it really a reprint of an original? Or a new copy of LP?
Never mind. What matters is for a rocker look, and sound (and potatoes, but that goes with it). That's what defines it. This guitar suits me, it was class, not a toy, I was stupid to hesitate. Maybe one day I will find better, but given the horrors that are present (thank you to the metalheads for their bad taste), I was delighted to see such beauty in my music shop. € 600 with gig bag. I have done a better deal? Maybe. Time will tell.
Update 08/2010: I will sell this guitar. Although it has a very good, very good sustain, look terrible, etc., I do not play it for almost two years because it is too heavy, the sound is too distinctive, and I prefer the simple microphone, finally . In my group, I am the man in the single coil. This is the other that uses the scratch doubles. And it has a gibson 73. I have an American Deluxe Telecaster for a short time, which raised my standards.
In use, when I realized that even the plate is in a really low-end materials (mug full of scratches it while I used very little), the hardware is chrome metal doubtful (s oxide very quickly and very much visible), and the sound of microphones was strangely unbalanced (the microphone gets serious to be much stronger than the micro acute). It does not make a bad guitar, but it seems to me € 600 price now. A 400-500 € I said yes. Finally, I would say it's honest. This is the price of a Fender Mex and even if the quality is a little worse, it was REALLY a guitar hanging weight and is not made wooden crate.
In addition, I considered changing the pickups, and I realized by removing (to see how they were damn) that the cover is welded to the base of the microphone. So no way to remove it: bad point.
I cut a little note of my time. But, I repeat, this is not a bad guitar.
This is a solid-body electric guitar, Les Paul type shape, 22 frets. Two humbuckers, stop tailpiece type bar Epiphone, a flight and a micro tone, a three-position switch for the pickups and a three position selector for dial tone. Schaller.
UTILIZATION
This guitar is very heavy, thick, very thick set neck, as opposed to the guitars for smaller players such Strat. You must have strong shoulders. Access to acute is not easy. Néamoins, the grip is good. And hey, it's not a scratch to the metal ...
Its level, attention: NO SOUND "modern". The pickups have a very hot, very serious and mediums is limited drooling. The gain is pretty huge, and we obtain easily a blues sound (micro severe), type Meters funk / Funkadelik (micro acute) or Jazz (both sets). Personally, I find the sound overwhelming, difficult to master, but really interesting compared to what is currently (Ibanez, Squier, PRS, and I do not know what yet).
SOUNDS
As I said before, it suits me perfectly. I played with the rhythm in my funk band Wild for a while (before finding another scratch, which allowed me to concentrate on singing and jumping around) and it was fine. In a funk-jazz group, it was perfect, a bit dirty to taste the other guitarist (a Strateu), but I did not need to turn up the volume to go solo, so the dynamics of this guitar is impressive. And to the blues, then there ...
I played it with transistor amps (Marshall, Peavey). I try it on a tube amp when I have one on hand. Effects? Distal end.
Of course, the sounds are quite typed "low end". But we must know what you want. The sound is always rich, and the tone pots are very effective. The dial tone an active low-pass filter. Basically, the middle: his nrmal, down: the filthy, up: the ultra filthy. The happy in a pure state with a crunch or distortion. The sustain is good (set neck), and the lifts are very accurate. We take pleasure to agree, is to say!
For cons, the highs are a bit nasal, and the bass tend to saturate quickly, squarely at the scratch. But I paid my mics anyhow. We'll have to fix it.
OVERALL OPINION
I've had six months.
Assets:
+ Class
+ The look (god she is beautiful!)
+ A guitar man
+ Sound
+ Mechanics
+ Price
Cons:
+ Not very versatile
+ Finishing details that traissent its origins "Asian" (cutting plate over evil, a little sore nut molded plastic, etc.).
+ Is it really a reprint of an original? Or a new copy of LP?
Never mind. What matters is for a rocker look, and sound (and potatoes, but that goes with it). That's what defines it. This guitar suits me, it was class, not a toy, I was stupid to hesitate. Maybe one day I will find better, but given the horrors that are present (thank you to the metalheads for their bad taste), I was delighted to see such beauty in my music shop. € 600 with gig bag. I have done a better deal? Maybe. Time will tell.
Update 08/2010: I will sell this guitar. Although it has a very good, very good sustain, look terrible, etc., I do not play it for almost two years because it is too heavy, the sound is too distinctive, and I prefer the simple microphone, finally . In my group, I am the man in the single coil. This is the other that uses the scratch doubles. And it has a gibson 73. I have an American Deluxe Telecaster for a short time, which raised my standards.
In use, when I realized that even the plate is in a really low-end materials (mug full of scratches it while I used very little), the hardware is chrome metal doubtful (s oxide very quickly and very much visible), and the sound of microphones was strangely unbalanced (the microphone gets serious to be much stronger than the micro acute). It does not make a bad guitar, but it seems to me € 600 price now. A 400-500 € I said yes. Finally, I would say it's honest. This is the price of a Fender Mex and even if the quality is a little worse, it was REALLY a guitar hanging weight and is not made wooden crate.
In addition, I considered changing the pickups, and I realized by removing (to see how they were damn) that the cover is welded to the base of the microphone. So no way to remove it: bad point.
I cut a little note of my time. But, I repeat, this is not a bad guitar.