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Published on 07/15/11 at 01:16Manufacturing: Made in France
Bridge: Vibrato on ball bearings
Tuners: Schaller wraps stamped Vigier
Channel:
- Flamed maple-carbon 90/10, screwed
- Profile D
- 300mm radius
- 650mm pitch
- Nut width 12-fret wide-thick-thick nut 12 fret: 42-57,7-19,5-23 mm
Frets: 24 medium frets + zero fret
Body: Alder
Micros home: 2 humbuckers DiMarzio DP194 PAF Classic Neck / Bridge DP195
Microphones mounted on mine: Bill Lawrence L-500R-Wilde neck / L-500XL bridge
Settings:
- 1 volume
- 1 tone
- 1 Schaller Megaswitch E/105S 5 positions with autosplittage
UTILIZATION
The handle is undoubtedly the best race I have ever try: I'm in love!
The ergonomics are very good:
- The form of a superstrate is more comfortable
- Chamfers are perfectly placed
- The guitar is light and balanced
Access to acute, despite the handle screwed heel is very easy: it reached 24 without forcing the box.
The guitar sounds very natural vacuum, and there is no difficulty in obtaining a "good sound" (see below)
Small downside: the textured finish is difficult to maintain, and aging badly if we do not take care ...
SOUNDS
For this section, keep in mind that I never had the original pickups, and I use Bill Lawrence Wilde-L-500R neck / L-500XL bridge.
From what I understand, the DiMarzio PAF Classic pickups are original to moderate output levels, giving versatility to the Excalibur Indus. I think I ended up changing them if I had.
With my Bill Lawrence Wilde-L-500R/XL B & B, it is clearly oriented high-gain, with harmonics that fart in all directions, but with the Schaller Megaswitch E/105S, I take splitted sounds that emulate many more single wound pickups though ^ ^.
Knowing that I'm pretty in the registry hard-rock-metal and whatnot higain, this guitar is perfect for my style of music.
The guitar is alder with a maple neck bolted, and Bill Lawrence Wilde-B & B rather high in acute ... we obtain unsurprisingly sounds rather "crystalline", snapping, aggressive.
The knobs are well made of CTS, it is easy to move from a slightly crunchy clean sound, with distortion though wild, just by turning the volume knob.
Similarly, lowering the tone, you come to get jazzy sounds not unpleasant.
Amps used:
- Preamp ENGL E530 Modern Rock, Poweramp Integrated 2 x 1.5 W
- AMT preamp plugged into a P1 Poweramp EHX 22 Caliber
- Damage Control demonize preamp
- Vox amp Pocket Metal Amplug
Effects used: the classics ... Wah, chorus, flanger, reverb ...
I like the sounds on this guitar is obviously the big distos higain, although dense, although dense, I get with Bill Lawrence L-500, Wilde!
The sounds I like least about this guitar are the "clean" the bridge pickup, which are never dry and clean (it's always a little crunch, at least lower the volume knob).
OVERALL OPINION
It'll soon be three years since I use my Excalibur Indus (purchase in September 2008), and it remains my guitar "number one"!
I have other guitars: Teisco Spectrocaster, Fender American Standard Telecaster, Ibanez 540PII.
Seriously and I tried other guitars: Cort M200, Z-42, X-5, X-6, Ibanez SA120, RG321, Lag Rockline Metal Master, LTD F-50, EC-1000, Peavey Raptor, Yamaha AES620 , Pacifica 112J ...
The features of the Excalibur Indus I like most:
- Arguably the handle exceptional
- The quality of his violin that achieves beautiful sounds
- Vibrato bearing Vigier 2010/2011, which does not go out of tune, even in floating mode
- Mounted on the pickguard sheet, which can quickly change the plate seamless
What I like least:
- Textured finish difficult to maintain
- Lack of color choices
- Not the heel profile
- The PRICE!
So, a question that upset ... the quality / price?
- Nine at € 1600-1800, is a price / quality ratio fairly average, which could be attributed to the aspect of "technology" of violin making
- By occasion, Vigier décotent very quickly, and 800-900 € price seems a perfectly fine
I would do this choice?
A € 670, including microphones, rather exceptional for a guitar, my answer is YES!
Bridge: Vibrato on ball bearings
Tuners: Schaller wraps stamped Vigier
Channel:
- Flamed maple-carbon 90/10, screwed
- Profile D
- 300mm radius
- 650mm pitch
- Nut width 12-fret wide-thick-thick nut 12 fret: 42-57,7-19,5-23 mm
Frets: 24 medium frets + zero fret
Body: Alder
Micros home: 2 humbuckers DiMarzio DP194 PAF Classic Neck / Bridge DP195
Microphones mounted on mine: Bill Lawrence L-500R-Wilde neck / L-500XL bridge
Settings:
- 1 volume
- 1 tone
- 1 Schaller Megaswitch E/105S 5 positions with autosplittage
UTILIZATION
The handle is undoubtedly the best race I have ever try: I'm in love!
The ergonomics are very good:
- The form of a superstrate is more comfortable
- Chamfers are perfectly placed
- The guitar is light and balanced
Access to acute, despite the handle screwed heel is very easy: it reached 24 without forcing the box.
The guitar sounds very natural vacuum, and there is no difficulty in obtaining a "good sound" (see below)
Small downside: the textured finish is difficult to maintain, and aging badly if we do not take care ...
SOUNDS
For this section, keep in mind that I never had the original pickups, and I use Bill Lawrence Wilde-L-500R neck / L-500XL bridge.
From what I understand, the DiMarzio PAF Classic pickups are original to moderate output levels, giving versatility to the Excalibur Indus. I think I ended up changing them if I had.
With my Bill Lawrence Wilde-L-500R/XL B & B, it is clearly oriented high-gain, with harmonics that fart in all directions, but with the Schaller Megaswitch E/105S, I take splitted sounds that emulate many more single wound pickups though ^ ^.
Knowing that I'm pretty in the registry hard-rock-metal and whatnot higain, this guitar is perfect for my style of music.
The guitar is alder with a maple neck bolted, and Bill Lawrence Wilde-B & B rather high in acute ... we obtain unsurprisingly sounds rather "crystalline", snapping, aggressive.
The knobs are well made of CTS, it is easy to move from a slightly crunchy clean sound, with distortion though wild, just by turning the volume knob.
Similarly, lowering the tone, you come to get jazzy sounds not unpleasant.
Amps used:
- Preamp ENGL E530 Modern Rock, Poweramp Integrated 2 x 1.5 W
- AMT preamp plugged into a P1 Poweramp EHX 22 Caliber
- Damage Control demonize preamp
- Vox amp Pocket Metal Amplug
Effects used: the classics ... Wah, chorus, flanger, reverb ...
I like the sounds on this guitar is obviously the big distos higain, although dense, although dense, I get with Bill Lawrence L-500, Wilde!
The sounds I like least about this guitar are the "clean" the bridge pickup, which are never dry and clean (it's always a little crunch, at least lower the volume knob).
OVERALL OPINION
It'll soon be three years since I use my Excalibur Indus (purchase in September 2008), and it remains my guitar "number one"!
I have other guitars: Teisco Spectrocaster, Fender American Standard Telecaster, Ibanez 540PII.
Seriously and I tried other guitars: Cort M200, Z-42, X-5, X-6, Ibanez SA120, RG321, Lag Rockline Metal Master, LTD F-50, EC-1000, Peavey Raptor, Yamaha AES620 , Pacifica 112J ...
The features of the Excalibur Indus I like most:
- Arguably the handle exceptional
- The quality of his violin that achieves beautiful sounds
- Vibrato bearing Vigier 2010/2011, which does not go out of tune, even in floating mode
- Mounted on the pickguard sheet, which can quickly change the plate seamless
What I like least:
- Textured finish difficult to maintain
- Lack of color choices
- Not the heel profile
- The PRICE!
So, a question that upset ... the quality / price?
- Nine at € 1600-1800, is a price / quality ratio fairly average, which could be attributed to the aspect of "technology" of violin making
- By occasion, Vigier décotent very quickly, and 800-900 € price seems a perfectly fine
I would do this choice?
A € 670, including microphones, rather exceptional for a guitar, my answer is YES!
