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Fender Jim Root Telecaster

TLC-Shaped Guitar from Fender belonging to the Jim Root series

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Published on 06/28/08 at 14:42
Manufacturing mexico
- Mahogany body
- Maple neck profile "C"
- Ebony fingerboard 22 frets
- Jumbo frets (Dunlop 6100)
- 1-ply Pickguard Black
- Electronic active EMG: a double micro EMG60 (handle) + 1 humbucker EMG 81 (bridge)
- 3 position selector
- An overall volume
- Bridge 6 string bridges traversing
- Fender Deluxe Locking Tuners
- Matt black hardware

mine is white!
for value for money I'll put 8, some small imperfections on the mechanical (micro paint chips, a trigger guard screw is not working)

Factory setting in rotten rotten!

UTILIZATION

The neck is super nice and remember happily handle a gibson 50.
A very good grip. well rounded and not too broad, comfortable what!

The ebony fingerboard is very smooth and easy movement.
The handle is maple, but the varnish at the beginning a little glue, I think after pluqieurs uses and cleanings, this sticky will disappear.

after several hours of games, the tacky side of the shaft has completely disappeared, giving way to a more pleasant senstion, silky handle a wish! and very pleasant ...

Good scratch not too heavy, certainly lighter than my gibson!
Well balanced.

we get a good sound!
let us agree the emg are still super type, 81 of metal in metal bin and 60 the rest!

After going SI ben c yet another guitar it assumes perfectly this tuning

SOUNDS

Me my style very angry and powerful ... let's say metal! and yes it works well hahaha!
I play more black engl ritchie, MXR KFK 10 band and it's all bad! If a speaker has engl v30.

I also played on a marshall vintage modern combo bin and it was not disgusting! so if I swear!
Ben gives big sound with very sharp 81 and a more mellow and warm with 60 (I love this micro grrrrrrr)

I love all of this sonnorités scratch, I find his point of view it sounds better than that ibanez cousin in the MTM1.
in terms of sound, need to review regulation of the height of the microphone ... Indeed, the microphones are set to tear it off!
For me, I raised the bridge pickup on the side of the grave and lowered the treble side.
it gives me a well-balanced and very heavy. I made ​​this adjustment because the TV is a TV and the TV still sounds like TV! ie with the sharp tip of screaming and high-medium ... but now it's done! Acute less garish and more present bass sound enormeeeeeeeeeeee !!!!!!

OVERALL OPINION

it's been a week since I played non-stop scratching it became my second favorite, after my eternal Gibson Custom Zakk Wylde.

it is sober, and it sounds easier it is to play!
I like the least ben lack of rigor in the fender (see small defects above).

Ben I did not try many models, apart from my own guitars.
If I try a ltd viper 500 and yuck! we say a skyscraper in plastok!
I could compare it to the Ibanez MTM1, gibson lp standard and custom Supreme Zakk Wylde, John 5 tele fender and ben in the category of metal scraper to bin it is number 2. the first being the Zakk Wylde, the third of MTM1 and the 4th Gibson lp supreme.

The value for money is okay for a scratch like that, 899 euros while the MTM1 is about 1600 euros.

Yeah I do it again this choice I'll even do it again for the sis in black and ebony fingerboard!
c very good scratch! You just spend time on it to settle because the factory is catastrophic (high-action super, super dug round ...)

after more than a month of play on this skyscraper I love it even more! I could know more, better paid and shit fucking kills (especially for the price!)
but hey still not dethroned my Zakk Wylde ...