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Published on 08/20/04 at 15:00Local Shop, Amsterdam - Holland for 390
The nicest feature of this guitar is the direct-out switch to send the signal of the bridge humbucker straight into the amp, passing by the volume and tone settings. This gives a very nice bright tone. But: I think every guitar should sound that good without a direct-out switch. A guitar that sounds good, also when you use your volume and tone controls!
And I like the 5 way switch which gives you the options of coil splitting the humbuckers. Without that options you woulnd't get to many different sounds out of this guitar.
I allready owned a Yamaha RGX121 which I like a lot, especially because of the playability of the neck. So I thought I'd buy almost the same guitar with a Floyd Rose tremelo. It has the same neck radius and rosewood fingerboard. But: although the Yamaha catalog suggest these guitars are almost the same, they are NOT! The RGX420s has a wider neck and jumbo frets. Making it close to my Ibanez RG2570, which is not what I was looking for. I didn't want a cheap copy of my expensive Prestige line Ibanez, I wanted a slim and fast Yamaha neck! Besides this I think the tone of the pickups miss distinction and personality, but I must admitt they are very powerfull and ideal for shredders and metal heads. It's even hard to get a clean tone from this guitar. The tremelo takes some work on it, make sure you tighten the arm well or it's useless. You can adjust swinging movement with the nut which you can reach from the back of the body. But all'n all this tremelo doesn't garantee the guitar stays in tune.
Construction's fine. Absolutely no comment there. Quality of body and neck are good. Hardware is good enough for this price range.
After a few hours of setup work a good guitar started to appear. The neck reacted well to truss rod changes, I adjusted pick-up height and polepieces, and did some work on the vibrato arm. This guitar should have been a Yamaha (and it sounds like one which is not bad) but it feels like an Ibanez with this neck. If that's what you are looking for (but maybe you can't afford an 850 Ibanez) this is a cheaper alternative. After some setup work it plays well and it sounds realy heavy! (but I wouldn't buy it a second time, I like guitars with a bit more personality)
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
The nicest feature of this guitar is the direct-out switch to send the signal of the bridge humbucker straight into the amp, passing by the volume and tone settings. This gives a very nice bright tone. But: I think every guitar should sound that good without a direct-out switch. A guitar that sounds good, also when you use your volume and tone controls!
And I like the 5 way switch which gives you the options of coil splitting the humbuckers. Without that options you woulnd't get to many different sounds out of this guitar.
I allready owned a Yamaha RGX121 which I like a lot, especially because of the playability of the neck. So I thought I'd buy almost the same guitar with a Floyd Rose tremelo. It has the same neck radius and rosewood fingerboard. But: although the Yamaha catalog suggest these guitars are almost the same, they are NOT! The RGX420s has a wider neck and jumbo frets. Making it close to my Ibanez RG2570, which is not what I was looking for. I didn't want a cheap copy of my expensive Prestige line Ibanez, I wanted a slim and fast Yamaha neck! Besides this I think the tone of the pickups miss distinction and personality, but I must admitt they are very powerfull and ideal for shredders and metal heads. It's even hard to get a clean tone from this guitar. The tremelo takes some work on it, make sure you tighten the arm well or it's useless. You can adjust swinging movement with the nut which you can reach from the back of the body. But all'n all this tremelo doesn't garantee the guitar stays in tune.
Construction's fine. Absolutely no comment there. Quality of body and neck are good. Hardware is good enough for this price range.
After a few hours of setup work a good guitar started to appear. The neck reacted well to truss rod changes, I adjusted pick-up height and polepieces, and did some work on the vibrato arm. This guitar should have been a Yamaha (and it sounds like one which is not bad) but it feels like an Ibanez with this neck. If that's what you are looking for (but maybe you can't afford an 850 Ibanez) this is a cheaper alternative. After some setup work it plays well and it sounds realy heavy! (but I wouldn't buy it a second time, I like guitars with a bit more personality)
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com