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DrGang
Published on 04/28/04 at 02:16
Stratabound Alder body, maple neck screwed, rosewood fingerboard, 22 frets, 25.5-inch pitch, rested three colors: blue, red (slightly translucent) and black (opaque), white pickguard with pearl motifs.
The equipment is the highlight of this guitar:
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Mechanical locking Sperzel string, which is better today, color satin metal that is frosted, you can take on the vibrato, your strings back to their hair cell
Wilkinson VS100 vibrato, again, in my opinion the best. The voltage is always set, the travel is sufficient for the vibrato is of interest, it is comfortable, you can rely on it without playing false and again, the satin finish is the most beautiful effect
1 humbucker (splittable) and 2 microphones with a simple switch 5 positions provide a good range of color to the sound. The magnets are AlNiCo V, this machinery is a shared volume knob and a tone
To give you an idea, these mechanisms are found as standard on some model stratum custom, vibrato is widely regarded as the vibrato that all should be stratabound and for AlNiCo pickups, it's a noble alloy can play everything. I like!
UTILIZATION
I will not comment on comfort, it's a matter of taste, know only the treble are easily accessible, the guitar weighs a weight quite bearable. The button has a radius of 12 inches, standard size, the handle seems very normal, and no end or thicker.
The body is built for comfort but then to say that it makes a difference, I do not know. A first groove is cut at the right elbow on the top (see photo). The second is at the navel (or if you play short sternum) below, developers at Yamaha as you have a prominent chest and a flat stomach and slim I guess ...
I let myself go a bit of subjectivity: it is more comfortable but less than a strat LP for what I've experienced.
SOUNDS
As for sound, again, it depends on your hardware, your tastes.
The humbucker can saturate the well distos if necessary, the possible combinations (seven in all) and the tone controls are obviously a difference in his clear, she gets along very well. In the saturated metal is micro double or nothing in my opinion, the other giving his microphone still very sound.
The combination microphone handle mid + 0 + tone results in a very round sound with a lot of sustain, pretty cool, like on other guitars from the rest.
Note that the AlNiCo, but rather a magnet for blues, I do not play but you crunch the blue, it must be pretty easy.
OVERALL OPINION
Past technical considerations and comfort, we must recognize that the finish is nickel, pickguard is well posed, screwing the handle is clean with no milling for the plate above, same for the cavity-mail, only the plate to the cavity exceeds the vibrato but who cares. The knobs, after 5 years of loyal service crachotent does not work, same for the jack and switch, the points of attachment of the strap did not move, the saddle is where he was the first day . Not a point of rust on the studs, freight or equipment (this is also thanks to me).
Frankly I'm on your ass, this guitar is much better equipped than a strat US, at least as well and costs over one-half to one third of its price.
There's no competition in this price range and quality. Obviously you have not the prestige Fender or Gibson and shape is very classic guitar just to Dad but if you take the plunge, I do not see how one can be disappointed.
I just wish a natural wood finish but it must pay more and take the 812.
The equipment is the highlight of this guitar:
<ul>
Mechanical locking Sperzel string, which is better today, color satin metal that is frosted, you can take on the vibrato, your strings back to their hair cell
Wilkinson VS100 vibrato, again, in my opinion the best. The voltage is always set, the travel is sufficient for the vibrato is of interest, it is comfortable, you can rely on it without playing false and again, the satin finish is the most beautiful effect
1 humbucker (splittable) and 2 microphones with a simple switch 5 positions provide a good range of color to the sound. The magnets are AlNiCo V, this machinery is a shared volume knob and a tone
To give you an idea, these mechanisms are found as standard on some model stratum custom, vibrato is widely regarded as the vibrato that all should be stratabound and for AlNiCo pickups, it's a noble alloy can play everything. I like!
UTILIZATION
I will not comment on comfort, it's a matter of taste, know only the treble are easily accessible, the guitar weighs a weight quite bearable. The button has a radius of 12 inches, standard size, the handle seems very normal, and no end or thicker.
The body is built for comfort but then to say that it makes a difference, I do not know. A first groove is cut at the right elbow on the top (see photo). The second is at the navel (or if you play short sternum) below, developers at Yamaha as you have a prominent chest and a flat stomach and slim I guess ...
I let myself go a bit of subjectivity: it is more comfortable but less than a strat LP for what I've experienced.
SOUNDS
As for sound, again, it depends on your hardware, your tastes.
The humbucker can saturate the well distos if necessary, the possible combinations (seven in all) and the tone controls are obviously a difference in his clear, she gets along very well. In the saturated metal is micro double or nothing in my opinion, the other giving his microphone still very sound.
The combination microphone handle mid + 0 + tone results in a very round sound with a lot of sustain, pretty cool, like on other guitars from the rest.
Note that the AlNiCo, but rather a magnet for blues, I do not play but you crunch the blue, it must be pretty easy.
OVERALL OPINION
Past technical considerations and comfort, we must recognize that the finish is nickel, pickguard is well posed, screwing the handle is clean with no milling for the plate above, same for the cavity-mail, only the plate to the cavity exceeds the vibrato but who cares. The knobs, after 5 years of loyal service crachotent does not work, same for the jack and switch, the points of attachment of the strap did not move, the saddle is where he was the first day . Not a point of rust on the studs, freight or equipment (this is also thanks to me).
Frankly I'm on your ass, this guitar is much better equipped than a strat US, at least as well and costs over one-half to one third of its price.
There's no competition in this price range and quality. Obviously you have not the prestige Fender or Gibson and shape is very classic guitar just to Dad but if you take the plunge, I do not see how one can be disappointed.
I just wish a natural wood finish but it must pay more and take the 812.