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MGR/Mike Matthews « Godin SD »
Published on 11/27/01 at 15:00I bought this guitar new from Gigsounds in London, England for £400.00, which included a hard case, a couple of extra packs of ernie balls, and a few tab books. I was actually looking for something just to thrash around on, and maybe use for a back-up guitar. The guy in the shop showed me this baby, and as soon as I plugged in, and had a play around I was sold.
This guitar is made superbly! It is hand-crafted in Canada from the finest quality silver leaf maple (neck & body) and rosewood fingerboard. This guitar just stinks of quality. Now because it has the two single-coil pick ups, plus the humbucker, the range of sounds this instrument can get is phenomenal. It is well balanced and it looks great. Excellent value for money.
The major problem with this guitar is the whammy bar/tremelelo system. The guitar goes out of tune very very easily when using it. For me this is not a problem as it is not something I wanted to use with this guitar anyway, so I removed it and did a bit of tinkering and it is fab. Another very small criticism is the fact that it takes a while to adjust to where the selecter switch is positioned. At first I kept switching positions by accident, but once you get used to it, it's fine.
As mentioned before, the guitar is hand-crafted silver-leaf maple neck & body (transparent, pearlescent blue with cream scratchplate), with a rosewood fingerboard. The style of guitar is almost like a cross between a Les Paul and a Strat. It has two single-coil pick-ups and a humbucker at the bridge position, and it has 24 medium frets. There is a 5 way selecter switch to change between the pick ups. It comes with Godin pick-ups, which are OK, but my advice is to get some Seymour Duncan fitted asap. It comes with Gotoh non-locking tuners which are quite sensitive.
There is little more I can say about this guitar. If you are looking for a high quality guitar at a reasonable price, then I don't think you need to look much further than the Godin SD. They come in a range of colours and it is an exremely versatile guitar. If you are looking for that full Les Paul sound it is not be the ideal choice, but get in a shop and play one - you will be very pleasantly surprised! Iwould like to give it a rating of 5 just for the excellent value, but it would be unfair to rate it as high Gibson and Fender's greatest models.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
This guitar is made superbly! It is hand-crafted in Canada from the finest quality silver leaf maple (neck & body) and rosewood fingerboard. This guitar just stinks of quality. Now because it has the two single-coil pick ups, plus the humbucker, the range of sounds this instrument can get is phenomenal. It is well balanced and it looks great. Excellent value for money.
The major problem with this guitar is the whammy bar/tremelelo system. The guitar goes out of tune very very easily when using it. For me this is not a problem as it is not something I wanted to use with this guitar anyway, so I removed it and did a bit of tinkering and it is fab. Another very small criticism is the fact that it takes a while to adjust to where the selecter switch is positioned. At first I kept switching positions by accident, but once you get used to it, it's fine.
As mentioned before, the guitar is hand-crafted silver-leaf maple neck & body (transparent, pearlescent blue with cream scratchplate), with a rosewood fingerboard. The style of guitar is almost like a cross between a Les Paul and a Strat. It has two single-coil pick-ups and a humbucker at the bridge position, and it has 24 medium frets. There is a 5 way selecter switch to change between the pick ups. It comes with Godin pick-ups, which are OK, but my advice is to get some Seymour Duncan fitted asap. It comes with Gotoh non-locking tuners which are quite sensitive.
There is little more I can say about this guitar. If you are looking for a high quality guitar at a reasonable price, then I don't think you need to look much further than the Godin SD. They come in a range of colours and it is an exremely versatile guitar. If you are looking for that full Les Paul sound it is not be the ideal choice, but get in a shop and play one - you will be very pleasantly surprised! Iwould like to give it a rating of 5 just for the excellent value, but it would be unfair to rate it as high Gibson and Fender's greatest models.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com