View other reviews for this product:
MGR/vinnerboy « Washburn WI66V »
Published on 12/06/03 at 15:00I bought this guitar from Musician's Friend ($299 clearance) as an addition to my modest collection of mid-ranged instruments. I am a High School Band Director, guitar hobbyist, and freelance musician. I bought this guitar to fill my line-up of style specific electric guitars such as my Fender Standard Strat (Blues/rock guitar) and my Epiphone Joe Pass model (Jazz/blues guitar). Now I have the Idol as the guitar that I can play all these styles with along with some metal now due to the hot high output pick ups.
I pretty much like everything about this guitar. It has a great playing neck, great pick ups clean and distorted, it is very well constructed, and has a great wine red finish. It sounds as good as it looks! I'm not exactly sure the VCC and Buzz features work "technically" but I is different from all the rest. It doesn't have the mid-range bark that Les Pauls have but you can acquire that sound if you set the tone knobs the right way. It has a very full, well balanced tone by default (with all the knobs at 10) which is a great slate to start from.
I have to be very picky with the things I don't like but if I have to decide, it would be the following: there is no recessed cut for the right arm like on a strat and I wish the toggle switch was where it is on a Les Paul for easier access.
The construction of this guitar is great! The finish is exceptional, the mahogany body and neck sound great, the quilted maple is enhanced very well, and the hardware is perfect.
If you need a well rounded, practical instrument that can crank out a dynamic extreme of tone and applications, this is the guitar to get. At its price for being a discontinued model it is a very amazing buy. Even at its original price of $539, it would have been a steal. It has great clean and distorted tone that is very easy to build on if you choose to.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
I pretty much like everything about this guitar. It has a great playing neck, great pick ups clean and distorted, it is very well constructed, and has a great wine red finish. It sounds as good as it looks! I'm not exactly sure the VCC and Buzz features work "technically" but I is different from all the rest. It doesn't have the mid-range bark that Les Pauls have but you can acquire that sound if you set the tone knobs the right way. It has a very full, well balanced tone by default (with all the knobs at 10) which is a great slate to start from.
I have to be very picky with the things I don't like but if I have to decide, it would be the following: there is no recessed cut for the right arm like on a strat and I wish the toggle switch was where it is on a Les Paul for easier access.
The construction of this guitar is great! The finish is exceptional, the mahogany body and neck sound great, the quilted maple is enhanced very well, and the hardware is perfect.
If you need a well rounded, practical instrument that can crank out a dynamic extreme of tone and applications, this is the guitar to get. At its price for being a discontinued model it is a very amazing buy. Even at its original price of $539, it would have been a steal. It has great clean and distorted tone that is very easy to build on if you choose to.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com