Lâg Imperator Standard I1000ST

For technical specifications (including wood which I know nothing), I guess anything can be found on the site. From a practical point of view that can be learned:
- 2 Seymour Duncan humbuckers, and split-volume knobs separately with dedicated push-pull knob and a tone. A 3-position selector
- A touch of beauty ebony, 22 frets
- Locks the straps-integrated

I think it's a guitar up in Korea, but the finish is superb with a varnish of very good quality (very resistant). The black version is prettier because the deck fittings are chrome (gold sounds a bit too blingbling)

UTILIZATION

I use it with a strap standing up: it's very light and very well balanced (if you release the handle remains in a quasi-perfect). I use little but sit still comfortable (though is perhaps best positioned to play "classical" placed on the left thigh).

The handle is nice and allows easy setup of the agreements. The access to acute rest easy because there is a good single-cut and that the bulge of the base of the neck is quite flat.

For sound: ben "toutafon", this guitar is good coffee it either humbuckers or splitted. The position of the selector makes it easy to quickly change the microphone. However, three remarks:
- The tone is weird, it seems that there are two positions, on / off and that's all
- The switch is upside down (it's weird the first time): neck pickup and bridge bottom to top.
- If the dream of the guitarist is to the "violin" is easy with the neck pickup and the knob that goes with it, but the bridge pickup with the volume pot is really low which makes the exercise hot

SOUNDS

We must try first without this guitar amp to realize the quality of the violin: it is stunning, with a big sound developed a very long sustain.

I think this guitar is suitable for a lot of styles I play rock with a group (rather hairy stoner-rock genre) and frankly it really sends the wood. I play a Laney LC30. But I also used to make progressive rock in computer music (need a lot of different sounds) and it does really well.
In the clear: the micro serious round but is well defined, and the mixture of two microphones adds the attack. Against by the bridge pickup alone is a fiddle.
In its distortion and crunch: the rhythms are very sharp without being crairde with the bridge pickup and the mix of the two microphones. And 3 positions are compatible with the solos.
The splittage mics can really do different things (for against sound is more like a telecaster than a stratovolcanoes I think). But a person who would like a single coil sound buy a single coil guitar (but I never had the opportunity to compare the Imperator with a guitar in this price range single-coil)

OVERALL OPINION

I have this guitar for 3 years and I must say that I am using more than this one (I have a Godin LG, a Lag Roxane (the model for € 400 I think), an Ibanez RG (400 I believe ), a Fernandes Ravelle Deluxe and it surpasses them all at any point).

Frankly € 1200 for an instrument of this quality is pretty amazing. Anyway, I do it again this choice 1000 times!

Made in Korea
Channel end reinforced by two graphite rods
2 humbuckers splitables
2 volume controls (one for each pickup)
Each volume knob can be pulled to the corresponding microphone splitter
1 tone control
A 3-position pickup selector.
Fretes 22.

UTILIZATION

Channel Highway, accessibility of acute perfect, very good balance, the sonic possibilities are immense because of the split pickups independently.

SOUNDS

It may sound like Fender Gibson.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had 18 months. I bought it after a trial in Damico and I was captivated from the first seconds. I had an excellent memory of a Lag Bédarieux of 1984 (Collection M1, very rare) that I sold 5 years ago and I regretted ...

I use little but more and more these days. I love everything about this guitar and yet I have a few (Gibson (s), Fender (s), Gretsch) ... It is just a concentrate of all in one guitar.

The value for money is really excellent. No hesitation possible.

• Design Imperator head, maple with quilted maple natural net
• Gotoh Tuners High accuracy
• Nut Graphite
Rod adjustment • Two-way + 2 titanium rods stability
• Channel 3 piece mahogany set neck, with ergonomic junction
• Button with Ebony Ebony net
• 22 Frets, Nickel Silver, Medium
Background • Mother-of-pearl
• body with quilted maple top maple net natural mahogany body (Book-matched)
Microphones • 2 double-coil Seymour Duncan (SH11 bridge + neck SHPG1)
• High Bridge Gotoh precision
Electronics • 2 independent volumes with Push-Pull (Split), 1 master tone, 3 position pickups selector (toggle)
Marine hardware • Nickel
• High gloss finish
• Elixir Strings
Deluxe Case • Imperator Croco

UTILIZATION

I will not give you a description
rave of the rigorous selection
species, equipment, high
quality, fine inlays or
yet the beauty of the design of the stock,
because at all levels of the good taste
instrument commands admiration. Photographs and
the attached sheet will give you here
detailed information.
Standing, strap on the back, making the guitar
initiative proved a tolerable weight
to play without undue fatigue, a factor
very important because excess weight
is bad for the heart. You have to think
a concert or a show, to achieve
emotion, not done in ten minutes
this requires the investment of any
energy, both mental and physical.
So we need a guitar that saves this
physical energy of the artist. By releasing
Imperator, it does not look to one side
or the other, eliminating fatigue
muscles of the forearm induced when
must keep on good parallel.
Excellent guitars renowned possess
not balance. Such details
Essential is also part of the assets
profound make great guitars,
and such concerns escapes
not Lag. We continue in comfort,
and the second major finding is that
offered by the handle. Ah! God there
good races today, both guitars
fall through our fingers tester
and I am still surprised at the comfort
that attaches to the Imperator: totally
addictive. This sleeve has a rod
internal reinforcement in both directions
stabilized by two titanium rods and
an ebony fingerboard, provides rigidity
which allows adjustment of the action
very low without any loss of resonance.
Length and ringing agreements
notes are full of musicality.
You can play very fast or not, but
That is not the issue is a handle
primarily melodic, which will highlight
fingering the most expressive.

SOUNDS

Seymour Duncan humbuckers, the micro model SH-11 placed
near the handle delivers a warm
for blues, endowed with a wide versatility,
and her beautiful curves in the clear
promote a very good approach to
jazz. Splitter for the double coils,
Lag has two push-pull systems
integrated into the respective volume knobs
each microphone. These two splits
offer, through the combined use
mic selector with three positions,
a multitude of tonal colors more
or less thin and sharp, and perfect
to consider the complete rhythmic
most modern. All these sounds prove
remarkable, you add your
various doses of crunch and distortion.
The Seymour Duncan SH-PG1 generates acute
meanwhile a high level of output
is not found on any guitar,
sound very "hot" which is slightly higher than
that of a vintage microphone. Although thick and
dynamic in the attack, this microphone will
flames of hell's most disturbing
of rock metal.

OVERALL OPINION

A guitar pro and serial
exceptionally high
success for a price
confusing.
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Guitar manufacturing Correena (model developed in France Bédarieux)

Single cut guitar lighter than a LP.

Neck: ebony worked with precision, no sign of neglect, pleasant handle hybrid (half way between the stratum and the les paul), very comfortable is fast enough (it's not a trick that even if the shredder is not bad) 22 frets

Controls: 2 humbuckers SH11 in severe acute SHPG1 in all two splitable via a push-pull on the volume knob for each pickup. Knob treble control common to the two microphones.

Grossomodo: a look at the guitar rock that has great class (the dressing and the assembly of species is a strong point of this guitar)

UTILIZATION

Channel = 100% comfort, easy access to acute, not top top to the Shredder, but still sufficient.

General ergonomics = 100% comfort still: a reasonable weight (I like it when even feel the guitar weigh) the siting of the knobs and selector prevents inadvertent. Ideal for playing like a madman on stage or quiet at home, asked.

The guitar sounds live (normal since the microphones), but even without an amp, I have fun with! It feels quality! The knobs are playing out their role. The treble control works incredibly well.

SOUNDS

Perfect for every style of music (except the speed-core if you're the lead guitarist, and that really is not tip-top to make Alizée or Laurie).

In fact the pickups are very versatile (thanks to the selector 3 positions + 2 microphones splitables or 7 different configurations not to mention you can control the volume of each microphone to adjust the sound and with it control of acute common, it made almost an infinite number of combinations)

For the purists, they have fun for hours to vary the settings, for others, you connect, play, and it sends the block.

Very good for blues, rock, punk, funk, and heavy.

OVERALL OPINION

I have this guitar for 8 or 9 months. I have the impression of having always had so I used it in the meantime.

I tried other models in this price range, the problem is what was much better in almost all aspects than its competitors (better stick to my taste, best finish by far sounds better ...)

The only small downside is the tuning, it is generally good but sometimes I found a disruption of a string more than others. I changed the strings long ago, it made me look better.

Value for money unbeatable

With the experience I would do this choice.

Perfection