Chrizzik « Copy The Honourable Paul »
Published on 10/26/13 at 07:53Features common to a copy of Les Paul:
2 humbuckers, a aigu/les2/manche selector, 1 volume and 1 tone micro
22 frets
Bolt-4 screws, accessible by setting the head
Bridge Type Tune-O-Matic
UTILIZATION
Rebelote: characteristics are common to copies of Gibson
I do not know what kind of wood it is made, but it weighs its weight.
Ergonomics is could not be more classic, a cutaway for access to acute, and it passes.
The electronics are reliable: never worry, very reasonable snoring sounds and typed.
I changed the jack, which really loosened too often, and whose contacts were a bit dodgy, but that's all.
SOUNDS
Played on a Hughes & Kettner hybrid (preamp tube amp transistor), I found some sounds for my taste:
* Clean channel in bridge pickup with a chorus and reverb, great for arpeggios
* Clean channel for funky rhythm with two microphones, a compression
* Clean with the neck pickup for rhythm or phrases
* Crunch the same microphone for blues revivals
* Acute microphone lead for good solos
I have less hooked on the other sounds (microphone + serious distortion for example), but I think it's all related to the guitar amp and the taste of the performer).
I was not too successful to hang jazz sounds playing on the pitch, he needs acute if not I think it does not sound too.
OVERALL OPINION
It was my first electric guitar, cheap.
I kept it because of the look, because it is well agreed that it is always ready to throw an idea on a magneto in passing, with electronics that do not snore.
There are small pieces of hardware that would give way after 20 years: Also the jack, I lose occasionally handle inlays of mother of pearl, and I also changed the selector button (not the selector right the plastic part that is activated), the screws plastic frames around the microphones rust, as well as the pickgard, but I do not do sleep outside in the rain, and the white stripe around the body, neck and head, is now cream / yellow, with some cracks.
But it's lived, not the relic ...
Yes I would do this choice, it is not necessarily a versatile guitar, but it stands on a lot of styles. I keep it, and I even still playing.
I put notes 8/10 because in this price range, this is fine. After that, it is not to be compared with a successful original (with real microphones, neat and upscale fittings violin).
2 humbuckers, a aigu/les2/manche selector, 1 volume and 1 tone micro
22 frets
Bolt-4 screws, accessible by setting the head
Bridge Type Tune-O-Matic
UTILIZATION
Rebelote: characteristics are common to copies of Gibson
I do not know what kind of wood it is made, but it weighs its weight.
Ergonomics is could not be more classic, a cutaway for access to acute, and it passes.
The electronics are reliable: never worry, very reasonable snoring sounds and typed.
I changed the jack, which really loosened too often, and whose contacts were a bit dodgy, but that's all.
SOUNDS
Played on a Hughes & Kettner hybrid (preamp tube amp transistor), I found some sounds for my taste:
* Clean channel in bridge pickup with a chorus and reverb, great for arpeggios
* Clean channel for funky rhythm with two microphones, a compression
* Clean with the neck pickup for rhythm or phrases
* Crunch the same microphone for blues revivals
* Acute microphone lead for good solos
I have less hooked on the other sounds (microphone + serious distortion for example), but I think it's all related to the guitar amp and the taste of the performer).
I was not too successful to hang jazz sounds playing on the pitch, he needs acute if not I think it does not sound too.
OVERALL OPINION
It was my first electric guitar, cheap.
I kept it because of the look, because it is well agreed that it is always ready to throw an idea on a magneto in passing, with electronics that do not snore.
There are small pieces of hardware that would give way after 20 years: Also the jack, I lose occasionally handle inlays of mother of pearl, and I also changed the selector button (not the selector right the plastic part that is activated), the screws plastic frames around the microphones rust, as well as the pickgard, but I do not do sleep outside in the rain, and the white stripe around the body, neck and head, is now cream / yellow, with some cracks.
But it's lived, not the relic ...
Yes I would do this choice, it is not necessarily a versatile guitar, but it stands on a lot of styles. I keep it, and I even still playing.
I put notes 8/10 because in this price range, this is fine. After that, it is not to be compared with a successful original (with real microphones, neat and upscale fittings violin).