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Washburn WI64

Other Shape Guitar from Washburn belonging to the Idol series

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«  between an SG and a Telecaster »

Published on 03/02/12 at 04:00
Value For Money : Excellent
Made in Indonesia, very good finish, scratches on the body and giving a acastillage old relic having been used extensively. it has the mouth!
Tune-o-matic like a Gibson, the mechanical tuning that really want, not need to spend 2 minutes to retune every time they take.
The neck is not thick but a little wider than a Telecaster neck, and he is stuck there a trussrod but I have not touched.
The pickups are humbucker Washburn from home, it's very honest. Especially they are splitables (VDC system), we can go from a simple micro microwave double. Finally the true rendering it looks like a rising gain. So there are two volume knobs and two for the VCC, one for each microphone, and so is the difference.

UTILIZATION

The handle is nice although I was used to finer on my Tele.
Ergonomics: The body resembles an SG, it is very thick, controls, etc. the bridge, with an addition, the head does not have this annoying tendency to fall when you release the handle. It is very light, you can fuck with :)
The access to the treble is great.

SOUNDS

The sound is not like a Gibson, there's a little something that makes it can sound a little vintage with just a little "twang" that reminds one of the Telecaster. But in clear or distortion sound is still "fairly" clean. With a little chorus and volume a little too hard, it sends the wood!
I plugged into a Marshall 30w with a pedalboard Korg G3, and here there is everything you need. Without pedals, the Marshall does not make great, I have not tried it long but I thought the sound lacked scale, as in plain distortion.
I also branch micro cube, and there is the splay! it fits like a glove, it's different but not worse, I would have his head on a big cube with Roland.

OVERALL OPINION

I have since November 2011 so I have not made the rounds of the beast.
I have after playing on Epiphone SG, Epiphone Sheraton II, Squier Telecaster.
Most of this guitar are
- The ease of playing, as on an Epiphone but lighter;
- The light smack on the ropes like a Telecaster;
- Microphones and split-;
- The mouth with the appearance relic.
For less than € 500 new, I think this guitar plays the game well, it's a good price / quality ratio.