WSL Guitars Almond Chocolate

French brand of guitar made in Korea
Mahogany body with flamed maple real table, transparent white finish for the table-and-white "solid" for the rest.
Maple neck stuck typed driver that really works.
Rosewood quality, graduations style "dot". 24 frets
Tailpiece and bridge crossing type Hard Tail.
Micro passive WSL "splitables".
2 volumes, one tone. The two volume knobs are also switches to split the pickups (humbuckers turn into simple for beginners).
The finish is relatively rare, the violin work is amazing for the price. Let's be clear right away, you never have something equivalent to 449 euros retail price! The violin is worthy of a guitar worth almost double. Routers are very clean and all the work of hooping. Electronic clean. The split knobs are very robust and do not take any games for use.

UTILIZATION

The set neck typed driver is a marvel. It is fairly thin and flat in my opinion, it will delight the soloists such as rhythm guitar. Its design promotes sustain than anybody expected. The guitar sounds very long, we hardly believe that this guitar is worth that price.
Access to the acute form is optimal and there is stratabound for many.
The ergonomics are good. Heavier than "active series" WSL home, his weight is still reasonable. The guitar is perfectly balanced. The game is very enjoyable as sitting upright.
Is obtained very easily and quickly a good sound. Whether you are in clean or distortion.

SOUNDS

The Almond Chocolate offers a huge range of sounds thanks to its split.
Very comfortable in the clean and crunch sounds, it is a little less distortion in microphones, but it is more than adequate home for the price but given the fine making a change Micro is a good operation.
The clean and crunch sounds are a treat and it was a lot of possibilities thanks to the split (transfomer humbuckers in the single microphone which is ideal for a better clean sound, warmer)
In a few days I equip Dimarzio DP101 "dual sound" (the sound of "super distortion" but splitables) I think that from that moment there is no more small gaps and it will be very comfortable in all styles and near perfection. At 80 euros the microphone, we remain in a very reasonable budget. However on the original pickups I want to emphasize that we can not find any microphone of this quality for this price range but as a guitarist and demanding confirmed I would change the pickups to optimize the guitar.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it extensively in the studio for several weeks with several different computers and devices that may interfere sound, nothing to report on this side, the guitar is not receiving the parasite is unbeatable value for money again. You should take advantage as the brand is not well known. I think if another brand offers this model would be well above the 650/700 euros. I have had many guitars in this price range and upper range, relatively few had this level of quality.
The experience is so conclusive that I chose only products WSL, guitars, basses. This will be equipped with Dimarzio, I proposed to acquire the "Black Shadow" which is exactly the same but finish transblack to equip the EMG.
It is unfortunate not to find the most expensive brand in our stores. Equipped with good microphones it's all good though I repeat the original pickups are good for the price range.

Manufactured in: Korea
Neck: Maple (key in rosewood), Jumbo frets, 24 frets
Tuners: Grover
Pickups: HH splitables
Bridge: Tune-o-Matic
Settings: 3 knobs (volume and tone) and a 3-position selector

Table wavy, cream-colored transparent white lacquer and wood binding on the rest of the body, black hardware ... It is for decoration and it smells pretty good! It is simple, classic but I like less than the WSL BlueLine ( https://www.guitariste.com/forums/guitare%2Cwsl-users-club-index-post%2C277777.html#5132612 ) .

UTILIZATION

Guitar flagship brand, Chocolate Almond is the big sister of BlueLine: the only difference with it comes the handle (glue, varnish, a little thinner and a little less flat, not binding) and bridge type Tune-o-Matic. It is also slightly less (the average electric guitars).

Split level, operation is simple: it takes one of two knobs, it splits one of the two microphones. So, in principle, one can easily switch between the saturated something more clean even in HH configuration.

The neck is narrow and thin (like an Ibanez neck, in fact). The key is less flat than her little sister the BlueLine and there I give my point of regret. Without lowering the action gaming to the max, it is a treat on the entire sleeve length.

SOUNDS

The Chocolate Almond is a true mahogany table in maple, so it is naturally less modern and less loaded up my Ibanez RG medium. on the other hand, it sounds more like a Les Paul a little more hot and dark. It sounds awfully good, even better than his little sister! I loved that I was already amazed with BlueLine sound almost as good as my Ibanez Prestige to 900 euros.

The fixed bridge coupled to the set neck gives an excellent rendering of sustain.

I especially like playing Rage Against The Machine and it is ideal because it must be placed in both the IWHM crunch / or more saturated clean and rhythmic slamming funk. As long as we do not ask the extremes, it is perfect: do not ask the moon to micro base, it is not the EMG or Di Marzio!

Most of the time, I put the amp selector crunch and the guitar humbuckers in bridge. Then I no longer affects only the volume of the guitar down to break the clean and crunch to donf / sat '!

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 6 months now and I put my Ibz Prestige in its box to prevent it from taking too much dust! Chocolate Almond before, I had the Blue Line ... A good experience that led me to reinvest in another WSL and I do not regret because the quality is there for a low price.

Most:
- A round pleasant
- Binding timber the best effect!
- His pr price / quality / finish
- Quality / price!

The -:
- Just to quibble: the key that is not as flat as the BlueLine. Why !!?!?!!!! :?

All adj t predecessors told my 2 ...
I put the maximum score for the quality of manufacture is not only fabulous compared to the price but fabulous all!
Dfonces of the knobs and contour body, the junction body / neck, translucent varnish, wood ...

UTILIZATION

In addition to ease of play dconcertante! 24 cases used without problem until serious E
excellent balance of instruments quickly very important race, but no significant weight Gnant to play standing up!
Without being connected one feels dj (in standard tuning) sustain, the very good vibration all the power of his ...
Branch shows it worthy of printing dpart ... with more versatility (I must say that I do not know the original pickups on this guitar mountains since I bought Used rises seymour duncan ...)
IT IS WONDERFUL!
While it is disconcerting yet to top the "big" brands because I do not know exactly how they will be able to justify the difference in price

SOUNDS

In addition it folds perfectly my style of play .. and my style of his ...
I love everything in this guitar!

OVERALL OPINION

I've had two days and I had a whole range of guitars (2 godin, 1lag, 1ibanez jem, 1strat amricaine, 1piphone, 1parker, 1yamaha pacifica 1noguera .. and I try a lot ... gibson, fender, etc. ..)
I intend to sell all my guitars "brand" and excepting the piphone lag (indeed if there are people interested ...)
Quality price ratio ... unthinkable! /.