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Jackson USA Select Soloist SL2H

STC-Shaped Guitar from Jackson belonging to the USA Select series

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Published on 09/18/06 at 16:32
Guitar Jackson SL-2H manufactured in 2001, so pre-Fender era, which means:

Body-Poplar
-Neck-maple, ebony fingerboard 24 frets, pearl inlay.
-2 Duncan TB4 humbuckers and SH-1 with 3-position selector.
Pink Floyd-original black, like the rest of the hardware.

Mine has the finish very rare "Eerie Swril dess", in the light is beautiful.

UTILIZATION

The handle is relatively flat, it's a highway. The fact that it facilitates access to driver treble.
In terms of ergonomics and weight, I've never seen better is the comfort.

SOUNDS

A blank guitar sound has a rather dark, less bright than the SL-1 2005 that I had before. So we feel that the sound is more compressed, less acute.
In his clear, the impression is confirmed: the sounds are okay. The lack of simple things like the SL-1 and split in doubles gives a range of possibilities reduced, is obtained either crystalline or sounds real personality.
Distortion in full, then there is the most monstrous slap I received from my life as a musician. Nothing to do with my SL-1: Although it had a precise and very good attack, but this one crosses an additional remedy. We keep the same clean attack, the same clean, but with its less showy and more dense. It is clear that my Mesa Boogie rack is for something, but Duncan TB-4 usually fairly drooling on my MusicMan Silhouette, and correct the SL-1 is transformed: it's hard and properly.
I put 9, even if the distortion is phenomenal: the clean sounds are less convincing, and versatility of the pickups is not what has been done better on this kind of high-end guitar. I think a change of pickups and adding a split to this guitar could be worth full marks.

OVERALL OPINION

The only complaints to make to this guitar sounds so clear concern (although it is not designed for that), versatility questionable, and a handle a bit too flat.
The rest is the ultimate scratching the metal, yet between Lag, Gibson, Vigier Excalibur, Jackson SL-1, ESP, Musicman and others I've tested scratch and as you see that shit .
The SL-2 emerged victorious without a doubt, both the sound of the look (my God, my God). A € 1300 for this quality and finish so rare, a great OCCAZ '.
If I loose € 10 000 for me to buy it I think I let go but if not no way, this guitar is a killer that confirms my feeling that the old US are much better than the new post 2002, since the purchase by Fender .

After some will moan that poplar wood is a "crate of supermarket". No matter, whether newbies or luthiers, they can say what they want, this guitar is just terrible.