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QuentinR « As the iron bar she can do anything »
Published on 08/09/12 at 08:40For 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!
- 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!