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MGR/Casey Murphy « B.C. Rich Bronze Series Warlock »
Published on 02/20/02 at 15:00I bought this guitar from my local Guitar Center for $150. The main reason I chose this over the higher-end Warlocks was that I hate Floyd-Rose tremolos. Not to mention this one was considerably cheaper.
Basically, I purchased this as a project guitar. I only wanted the body, so it now has all new hardware and pickups. But for all intensive purposes, I'll stick to reviewing the stock configuration. The neck was solid, fast playing, and had good uniform frets, unlike many guitars in this price range. The humbuckers were okay, great for beginners. The tuners are surprisingly well-built, and stay in tune rather well, unless you try and bend the 3rd string more than a step. Generally, this guitar plays really well.
Since I never expected to keep any of the original hardware in the first place, I can't really give an unbiased assement on what I don't like, except that the volume knob has no real middle ground to clean the signal up with. And I would like to say that the pickups were the first thing I replaced.
This is a very well-built guitar, especially considering that it's an import and it's price. the neck is bolted on very tight, the strap buttons never came loose (impressive considering I had to replace them on all my other guitars), the neck never warped under many changes of string gauges and alternate tunings, and it stayed in tune rather well.
Everything considered, this is a very decent beginner/novice guitar, especially for metal-heads like myself. It is also good for a basis for a custom guitar, because it is cheap, has a wicked body, and is available in several colors (red, blue, and black).
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
Basically, I purchased this as a project guitar. I only wanted the body, so it now has all new hardware and pickups. But for all intensive purposes, I'll stick to reviewing the stock configuration. The neck was solid, fast playing, and had good uniform frets, unlike many guitars in this price range. The humbuckers were okay, great for beginners. The tuners are surprisingly well-built, and stay in tune rather well, unless you try and bend the 3rd string more than a step. Generally, this guitar plays really well.
Since I never expected to keep any of the original hardware in the first place, I can't really give an unbiased assement on what I don't like, except that the volume knob has no real middle ground to clean the signal up with. And I would like to say that the pickups were the first thing I replaced.
This is a very well-built guitar, especially considering that it's an import and it's price. the neck is bolted on very tight, the strap buttons never came loose (impressive considering I had to replace them on all my other guitars), the neck never warped under many changes of string gauges and alternate tunings, and it stayed in tune rather well.
Everything considered, this is a very decent beginner/novice guitar, especially for metal-heads like myself. It is also good for a basis for a custom guitar, because it is cheap, has a wicked body, and is available in several colors (red, blue, and black).
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com