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Published on 11/07/03 at 15:00I purchased this gutiar barely used for $175 off a friend of mine because i was looking for a good guitar to play a wide range of styles with.
I like the ease of use. It has a pretty fast neck, decent powersound stock pickups with pretty good, high output. The neck pickup gets a nice warm tome clean and is great for soloing, bridge pickup is good for pinch harmonics and a bright, full tone. I like the looks of the guitar too, mine is transparent red. I've never had any problems with the guitar so far, and I have had it for around a year or so. One of my favorite things about this guitar is that it has volume and tone knobs for both pickups, that way you can turn the volume all the way down on one pickup and switch to that one when the volume of your amp is at 10 to prevent any unwanted noise when you're not playing. The guitar also usually stays in tune pretty well.
I don't like the fact that this guitar is not equipped with a tremolo, and has a tune-o-matic bridge making it harder to install a tremolo. I also do not like the fact that it is only a 22-fret neck. I dont like both of those things because i like to play Joe Satriani style stuff with alot of highs and crazy sounds with the tremolo.
This guitar has good quality for a first or second guitar, not quite professional material, but a great guitar to learn on. The body and neck have a nice shape to them that allow easy access to all points on the fretboard, and easy playing on all strings.
Pretty good guitar for the price, could probably use a pickup change to get a little bit nicer sound out of it, but overall, the guitar is nice ans easy to play.
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I like the ease of use. It has a pretty fast neck, decent powersound stock pickups with pretty good, high output. The neck pickup gets a nice warm tome clean and is great for soloing, bridge pickup is good for pinch harmonics and a bright, full tone. I like the looks of the guitar too, mine is transparent red. I've never had any problems with the guitar so far, and I have had it for around a year or so. One of my favorite things about this guitar is that it has volume and tone knobs for both pickups, that way you can turn the volume all the way down on one pickup and switch to that one when the volume of your amp is at 10 to prevent any unwanted noise when you're not playing. The guitar also usually stays in tune pretty well.
I don't like the fact that this guitar is not equipped with a tremolo, and has a tune-o-matic bridge making it harder to install a tremolo. I also do not like the fact that it is only a 22-fret neck. I dont like both of those things because i like to play Joe Satriani style stuff with alot of highs and crazy sounds with the tremolo.
This guitar has good quality for a first or second guitar, not quite professional material, but a great guitar to learn on. The body and neck have a nice shape to them that allow easy access to all points on the fretboard, and easy playing on all strings.
Pretty good guitar for the price, could probably use a pickup change to get a little bit nicer sound out of it, but overall, the guitar is nice ans easy to play.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com