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G&L Tribute S-500 Standard

STC-Shaped Guitar from G&L belonging to the Tribute series

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Published on 12/01/13 at 04:06
Level features I will not dwell, everything has been said earlier.

UTILIZATION

The handle is very nice. This is not a highway but it is still thinner than Fender sleeves and a slightly larger (modern). Varnish that is satin was a perfect glide. The frets are wide enough, all notes sound good.

Access to acute is pretty good as a strat what!

However ergonomics level, one thing bothers me a bit. The body is not the same size as the fender. Indeed, it has a wide biggest corp / big / and whose contours are less rounded. It loses a little femininity What this Fender with these rounded pretty even this is not too obvious pus.

Without plugging his level, the guitar is amazing: I may be lucky but the guitar sounds wonderful vacuum with a powerful sound and a bump in the magnificent mediums, it promises.

SOUNDS

Not playing metal it is suitable for all styles I play. I play on an alpha AER on which I plug a 21 amp simulator Tech Blonde and a Xotic bb + and ELH memory boy delay. I have a great sound m ^ me if configue seems atypical.

To return to the guitar plugged obtained immediately the sound we want a stratum: slamming and dented in the medium with excellent precision bass strings. But that the S500 is better than the strat is that there was this knob all the way down which adds grain. It's amazing, we find ourselves in the bottom pussant to have a round of Gibson Lespaul, bold, hot and very powerful. It can even jazz without lowering the tone knob.

The pickups have a high level of output, powerful is saturated very quickly on a tube amp.
I said that every position of microphones is very interesting and playable. In comparison I have a Fender with EMG DG plate 20 and handle well the only middle and bridge positions are interesting.

We can have the vintage sound by lowering the button "fat" until almost Gibson by keeping background.

Note that the sound is still less than vintage Fender.

OVERALL OPINION

In summary we have:

+ A raport quality / price monstrous
+ Good violin
+ Pickups a very high range
+ I have not spoken but the vibrato is excellent (ca holds extremely well agreement)

- The form that is not exactly the same as Fender and I find much less comfortable to wear and see.
- I really have no more to say except that this guitar and amazing given the price.