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Published on 08/11/08 at 06:50
Made in the USA custom shop fender (mine is olympic white color, beautifully bright).
Alder body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, wood priori better than the model series artist, and manufacturing quality and custom finishing shop.
22 medium jumbo frets.
3 Dual-Coil pickups Ceramic Noiseless.
1 Control volume and 2 tone controls.
5 position switch.
Floating tremolo with two anchor points, saddle-type strat modern.
Sperzel locking tuners.
Channel C, thinner than on older models signing Jeff Beck.
Metal nut bearing type LSR.
Manufacturing precision remarkable contrast to this model 99% of the frieze strats do not, even with a fairly low string action. Quality paint finishes and impeccable, type high-end guitar maker, rare in the world of strats too. Overall a very high-end Start.
UTILIZATION
The mechanical locking Sperzel allow a very quick and easy mounting of the strings, and contribute to the maintenance of the agreement (no frills tour winding rope is required), quite remarkable in this model. The LSR is also one of the key points of the agreement required to avoid jamming of the strings in the nut when you release the whammy bar. The shot string is also greatly facilitated by the nut-bearing.
Do not forget that Jeff Beck is an expert in mechanical (automobile), and it had to be sensitive to the mechanical aspects of its strategy allows to collect the powerful vibrato he likes, without tune ....
The only slight negative point (resolution) is the vibrato bar that it is difficult at the start of rules to keep it at the position assigned to it, without falling and without either getting stuck at the bottom of thread without being able to push it down. I personally solved the problem by temporarily substituting a vibrato bar type L Series 1964, of which the thread is a bit stronger.
After this, I can stabilize the original bar in the desired position.
The handle is very comfortable to play, a little wider than on other strats but without excess.
SOUNDS
Remarkable sustain, not connected.
microphones mics Dual-Coil Ceramic Noiseless, significantly more levels than vintage single coil pickups.
In his clear, we get wonderful sonorities, especially in the intermediate position micro acute micro middle, but also with the micro serious. The high output makes them closer to the spirit of texas special, a bit more powerful, and allows for clear sound in solos or slightly crunch (SRV) that send and stand out well in a mix. These pickups do not produce absolutely no background noise (tested against the hp of a big tube amp ENGL whose gain was pushed very far ...). So very professional design from the perspective of a potential use in a noisy scene (lighting ,....).
The volume control is effective. A 8, one approaches the sound of vintage single coil pickups, 10 they tend to humbucking, allowing very hard rock sounds with distortion. Guitar therefore very versatile in its use.
I also have a series of L 1964 and I was able to compare sounds in different contexts. I pass the problem of keeping the agreement on my L series like most old strats poor ... For a very demanding ear (like mine), the Jeff Beck has a more modern, with a Just under dynamic heat (wealth of the frequency spectrum) that the L series, but it sends more in some contexts (as Leo forgive me ...): clean sounds / light crunch to severe micro SRV, micro sounds acids Acute type saturated Neil Young ,....). In summary The Jeff Beck is a guiare with exceptional sound quality in many contexts, in fact complementary to my series L.
OVERALL OPINION
Excellent strat upscale and modern in design (keeping the agreement perfect vibrato, high-precision instrument making do not even bordering with low string action, producing no pickups hum) with its signature resolutely stratocaster with the ability to send sound supercharged knob pushing the volume to 10. It is of course expensive but its well worth 2300 euros (new price).
The price mentioned by nine AF seems to be the artist of the model series, not the custom shop model.
Alder body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, wood priori better than the model series artist, and manufacturing quality and custom finishing shop.
22 medium jumbo frets.
3 Dual-Coil pickups Ceramic Noiseless.
1 Control volume and 2 tone controls.
5 position switch.
Floating tremolo with two anchor points, saddle-type strat modern.
Sperzel locking tuners.
Channel C, thinner than on older models signing Jeff Beck.
Metal nut bearing type LSR.
Manufacturing precision remarkable contrast to this model 99% of the frieze strats do not, even with a fairly low string action. Quality paint finishes and impeccable, type high-end guitar maker, rare in the world of strats too. Overall a very high-end Start.
UTILIZATION
The mechanical locking Sperzel allow a very quick and easy mounting of the strings, and contribute to the maintenance of the agreement (no frills tour winding rope is required), quite remarkable in this model. The LSR is also one of the key points of the agreement required to avoid jamming of the strings in the nut when you release the whammy bar. The shot string is also greatly facilitated by the nut-bearing.
Do not forget that Jeff Beck is an expert in mechanical (automobile), and it had to be sensitive to the mechanical aspects of its strategy allows to collect the powerful vibrato he likes, without tune ....
The only slight negative point (resolution) is the vibrato bar that it is difficult at the start of rules to keep it at the position assigned to it, without falling and without either getting stuck at the bottom of thread without being able to push it down. I personally solved the problem by temporarily substituting a vibrato bar type L Series 1964, of which the thread is a bit stronger.
After this, I can stabilize the original bar in the desired position.
The handle is very comfortable to play, a little wider than on other strats but without excess.
SOUNDS
Remarkable sustain, not connected.
microphones mics Dual-Coil Ceramic Noiseless, significantly more levels than vintage single coil pickups.
In his clear, we get wonderful sonorities, especially in the intermediate position micro acute micro middle, but also with the micro serious. The high output makes them closer to the spirit of texas special, a bit more powerful, and allows for clear sound in solos or slightly crunch (SRV) that send and stand out well in a mix. These pickups do not produce absolutely no background noise (tested against the hp of a big tube amp ENGL whose gain was pushed very far ...). So very professional design from the perspective of a potential use in a noisy scene (lighting ,....).
The volume control is effective. A 8, one approaches the sound of vintage single coil pickups, 10 they tend to humbucking, allowing very hard rock sounds with distortion. Guitar therefore very versatile in its use.
I also have a series of L 1964 and I was able to compare sounds in different contexts. I pass the problem of keeping the agreement on my L series like most old strats poor ... For a very demanding ear (like mine), the Jeff Beck has a more modern, with a Just under dynamic heat (wealth of the frequency spectrum) that the L series, but it sends more in some contexts (as Leo forgive me ...): clean sounds / light crunch to severe micro SRV, micro sounds acids Acute type saturated Neil Young ,....). In summary The Jeff Beck is a guiare with exceptional sound quality in many contexts, in fact complementary to my series L.
OVERALL OPINION
Excellent strat upscale and modern in design (keeping the agreement perfect vibrato, high-precision instrument making do not even bordering with low string action, producing no pickups hum) with its signature resolutely stratocaster with the ability to send sound supercharged knob pushing the volume to 10. It is of course expensive but its well worth 2300 euros (new price).
The price mentioned by nine AF seems to be the artist of the model series, not the custom shop model.