All user reviews for the Washburn Dime 333

I bought it from mars music because it had an awsome tone when i tried it out (cuz im a huge fan of dimebag darrel) i Payed $700 for it (but according to the website its a regular $1100)

This guitar is probably he most faithful guitar anyone will ever own. Obviously this idiot (Keith Aufman) doesnt know that he probably bought the worst model cuz hes cheap or know how to treat his guitar considering he dropped it and broke it. it has an awesome look (chicks dig it). very comfortable, when on stage. has the most kick ass sound. and its the dimebag darrel's signature guitar so of course it kicks ass.

honestly, i love this thing

i love the body style. the quality is awesome, not to heavy but has weight so that you know its there. ive had mine for a year and its still in awesome shape (considering i take care of it unlike that jack ass i mentioned earlier).

this is all around the best guitar ive ever own (even though i would like to check out the zakk wylde custom les paul)

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C is a favorite guitar, I do not know where it is manufactured, a 22 round boxes for pickups washburn (2Double) .3 buttons, 1volume for each microphone and tonalité.le handle is round with a white binding.

UTILIZATION

The handle is round and very pleasant, a cream colored binding makes it very beautiful, each access is easy to acute, c is a metalhead guitar! Super heavy but it is so beautiful that c is not really grave.les washburn pickups of base are a little weak people, but I intend to replace them with duncan.

SOUNDS

I play metal so that scratching is done for me, plugged into my marshall vs 100 2 body it provides, the sound is quite degeulasse and nag, which is perfect for moi.et even in the clear (though I m mad! ) it provides.

OVERALL OPINION

I have the last two days and I'm madly in his look is overwhelming, c is my 5th guitar and the best for me, one did the microphones changed the assurer.je gonna have paid 530euros with etui, which n really loves the rien.je it made me a musician filled.

I think she does made in Korea but I'm not sure ... The pickups are Washburn, the handle possde 22 boxes, it ia 2 volume and 1 tone, the handle is round et al

UTILIZATION

To handle is a marvel ... c HALLUCINATIONS! I've never seen it! Important: the strings are trs raprocher the handle (just like I like it a guitar !!!). Good enough heavy, but I do not open men because at least we know we did have in hand! CHAC is an acute to facilitate dconcertante ... Vibrato is meanwhile trs pr it and I 'm more than the sounds c satisphait.Pour not that more versatile but hey you do not ask him to jazz ...

SOUNDS

Ia not good then the picture is made for metal! (The form says a lot ...). Anyway we can draw some clear sounds quite enjoyable! I play with a randall rg 200 and frankly I'm really satisphait the sounds of the guitar with this amp, it is hard to have a bad sound with this guitar ... but the microphones in dire need of nivau out (I will soon i trs remediation) and The only real drawback is that g has found that scratching!

OVERALL OPINION

I have been using a semaine.Ce I prfre scratches on the handle these without hesitation, but the rest is really impressing qualitla violin ... beautiful!) Too! I must say that I essailler many MODEL (Epiphone Zakk Wylde signature, gibson faded sg, kramer Vangard, Cort X-Custom ...) but I think the overall level of this guitar is well above that I will quote (well the X-custom is really good trs ossi, but again the Washburn won!) I pay 500 euro every round OCCAZ (for info I did produced MODEL and 96 more since the color is not the one with the clear, green color is sunburst (but not chui ressamblant trs c)) and so the value for money is really good! Yes I do it again choice but is not required for c ia a guitar that keeps a life! A jewel ...

Set neck.

UTILIZATION

- The handle is nice white binding with the most beautiful effect,
- Access is easy to acute
- Sitting, we are not super comfortable. The general equilibrium tends to fall head first, to stroll with the beast without hitting better to have corridors of 3 meters wide at home.
- Pure aesthetics it leaves no one indifferent.
- The guitar delivers the natural sounds very good .... But amplified by microphones home is another story. So I quickly invested in the bridge EMG 81 and 85 for the handle and there it was better. Otherwise the rest is a guitar that turns out to be more versatile than it looks at first.

SOUNDS

Good sound, perfect for metal.

OVERALL OPINION

- Used from 1999 to 2001
- The most: the look of wild!
- The least: the black version of this guitar is unattractive compared to models blue / or green thunder
- Value for money: medium
- If it all over again I would not have bought the Dime 333 remains a good guitar, however,

Guitar made in Japan (well I think!).
2 humbucker, Washburn 621 (round) and Washburn 623 (bridge).
Washburn Bridge Floyd Rose Original Floyd Rose but changed under license.
2 volumes for each tone and pickups over a 3-position selector.
Set neck and 22 frets with a slightly curved white finish on the sides.
I put 9 for microphones that lacks punch!
Micros changed for Seymour Duncan 59 Model 'and Dimebucker SH-13.

UTILIZATION

The neck is incredible! Comfortable notes out all alone and access to acute is easy.
Poor balance: the guitar when I loose it a tendency to pitch down, sitting no problem. I put 8 in the form certe beautiful but its not standard but there is nothing, and no standard that says big words Difficulty for covers or other fly box! Otherwise the weight is not so high.
I do not advice to small size because the scratch is huge, and in every way!

SOUNDS

It is suitable for the Heavy, Thrash Metal ... , But if you tell a skyscraper located in the versatile go your way!
Micros changed for Seymour Duncan Model 59 '(neck) and SH Dimebucker-13 (bridge)
mics of origin rather pourave and dirty by the Duncan RAPORT ^ ^ In Distortion she not move! against its clear by its saturation, less than a lower gain maximum.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 2 months and I have bought used. No problem with making microphones original rotten. I love its shape!
I do it again this choixdes thousand times!
RIP Dime ...

Short story: dimebag played exclusively on trstt Dean ML (shuffled original Flying V and Explorer), he loved all particulirement. It n'tait however hypnotize by Dean and made a infidlit brand by going to Washburn in what was, between 1996 and 2004. A model was born before signing Dimebag eventually comes back at Dean with a new MODEL (the Razorback) it drew itself, but had scarcely time to dvoiler because it was killer the eve of his prsentattion (but that's another story ...)
This Washburn Dime 333 MODEL silent on economic (but well made all the same) of the Dime 3 high-end built in the United States.

- Made in Korea
- Mahogany body and neck, table Saddle Flamm (for mine)
- Rosewood 22 frets
- Pitch 629 mm, 400 mm radius
- Washburn HH pickups original 621 and 623
- Floyd Rose type tremolo Washburn
- Grover mcaniques
- Potentiomtre customiss the "Dimebag", 2 volumes, 1 tonalitbr /> - tui book? I do not know!

I bought mine used, with flight case, mics SH-13 (Dimebucker) and SH-6, etvibrato chang for a Floyd Rose licensed.
Construction is honnte the MODEL finished well, do not suffer the comparison with Dean Signature MODELS. Everything is in line with its price range.

UTILIZATION

Channel shredder, trs enjoyable. Access in acute ais (one would have suspected.
Good balance of all (non thundering?). Guitar not too heavy.
22 boxes: some rclameront their two octaves, but hey, Dimebag is dbroullait with ... then I should have plenty enough (I'm far from being at the matre!).
In short good ergonomics though.
Only default due form quite invasive: the horns of the head and body tend banging everywhere. But is this a default? Plutt a consquence exentric of the MODEL.

SOUNDS

The microphones are dcris origins by all. I do not know them but they seemed not agree with the direction of the MODEL home (the Dime 3, team, if I remember correctly a Bill Lawrence XL500 and an SH-59).
With the pair HS-13 HS-6: no worries. The beautiful fulfills its function: machine riffs and solos very heavy and aggressive. I also possde a Dime Dean from Hell (Bill Lawrence XL500 and Dean Zebra) and a Dean Razorback (DiMarzio and X2N SuperDistorsion). The sounds are of the same quality but diffrent.
A real guitar-hairy scalp.
The Floyd did his job without dsaccord, even during extreme maneuvers of the "Dimebag".

OVERALL OPINION

Once the microphones chang (each with its recipe, gnralement in Seymour Duncan), is your exact height-references "signatures" of at Dean. A good alternative, available only used, and rare. But can it really attract a different audience than the fans of Dimebag, dj possdant a Dean?

<p class="bbcode-offtopic"> Off topic: <span>I hate to re-register an opinion on an instrument. Especially when I have not been advised of the removal of my old opinions and causes surrounding the moderation of the article. Thus I re-write, but the quality of the latter will be a rush, I warn you.</span>

Objective approach:

Alder guitar with flamed maple top, fitted with microphones and flanked by a washburn floyd rose.



Subjective approach:

Nice guitar with a nice finish.

(8) it looks pretty good.

UTILIZATION

The handle is bland, tasteless, even if it is simple. The frets are well applied, the Floyd Rose equipped guitar this is crap and no tune-ever, impossible to lock the strings properly for a long time. The knobs are not very progressive, the microphones have a flat sound. Get a good sound is difficult. Access to treble is good.

(3) yeah, not great but just okay.

SOUNDS

It will be a fan. I found a flat with nothing really special. A vacuum, however, the guitar is not bad. There's a fever present, but with something wrapped in motivating to play. Once plugged into the clean tape slightly, the sixth string buzz and distortion the sound is a little mess. The use of the floyd tune still together.

(3) if I compare to other guitars in this segment is not famous, if I compare all the competing possible, it's downright pathetic.

OVERALL OPINION

As mentioned above. Used a few weeks and then sold to a guy who finds it very well. I think we need to be a fan, but for me it was a very average guitar.

(1) you not fuck with it.

<p class="bbcode-offtopic"> Off topic: <span>My first opinion was much more fleshed out, but I do not live for AF, so you will be satisfied</span>

Guitar Dime, a patient, it achte no accident.
22 frets, the pickups if I have virtual home for the BL-500XL and United States L SD 59 ', config classic Dime.
The upgrade is mandatory for micro sound good in a group, otherwise it's anonymous trs.

UTILIZATION

Channel trs flat and broad, love, Access in acute impeccable.
A bit heavy even when, but in order to be beautiful must suffer
Its good yes, but with good microphones.

SOUNDS

Jazz need to look elsewhere, dej just for the look.
Although the 59 'sounds terribly well in the clear.
For distortion, with the Bill Lawrence is the top, cutting mchant amazing.
Larsen, harmonics, the agressvit sweat everywhere.
The game is not dirty so far, the BL goes well with the scraper.

OVERALL OPINION

Good scratch, weakness: the floyd, the microphones of origin.
Strengths: the look, the handle, the sound projection.

We are in a Pantera record, his typical mchant 90's,

Manufacturing Corenne
22 frtes, microwave active EMG 81 and 85 (not original)
licensed floyd rose bridge
two volumes, one tone
long handle, dish large enough, great tune (good for very low tunings)
table Saddle flame mahogany body (well tration
Color dime slime
: Mechanical groove
saddle block chords
handle al

UTILIZATION

The neck is super pleasant (diverged from my les paul h h
CASC to treble without problem
the form: aa mouth
relatively lgre despite the size, but the size makes it easy for it to take shots

We need even when I say that its form is a handicap for itches quiet on the sofa in front of tl (another reason why I bought another guitar over "small") or there is place for the guitar, either for the girlfriend but not both (should I change the sofa may be), it is better to play the amp standing back and looking into the mirror, but suddenly the girl because "she screams it no longer hear the beautiful life ... tl

SOUNDS

I want the sound "mtal" and I sound metal, clean, efficient and sharp, there is not much bass, it seems that changing the pulling I get more, but the sound is super efficient, anyway I like. I played with a fender twin reverb of the 70s with a mxr dimedistortion, juicy and software 77 (freware on this site), just happiness.

I am using only very rarely or never sound so clear I can not describe them too you

I play in a group of "leectro mtal", with a dual mes correct its kind, was fine with me. To hear what gave you can hear it here:
http://www.myspace.com/davebagdarrellfr

OVERALL OPINION

I've had two years is a skyscraper "collector" ... actually I find it beautiful, I feel it, I have the sound I want. Buy an old 300 in sales dpt gnraliste, rusty strings, vibrato stung mics rust, super evil rule. I restored and I fell in love after so many intimate relationships.

Then compare it to others ... I can not really say whether it is better or worse, would have a new j'achte vibrato and make rgler for the action is as low as possible. It's better than the low end worse than the very high end (it seems), but I f @ # *, I love it gav death!

Exprience with this choice you do again? bin since I took a les paul custum home piphone but c'tait for a more gibsonnien that of course I never had with the Dime. Before I had a copy of strat Cort in low range, a lag roxanne vintage ibanez rg an ... and I've tried tons of any other type of range.

This guitar has charisma and trunk (even after the change of microphones) and I was good enough for me, and has no price!

Edit 01/06/2010
It's been awhile since I put EMG on this guitar, but I've bought other meantime ntemment goth epiphone G400 Ibanez and DiMarzio Evolution RGT42 climbs ... So, I found that the dime did not sound in comparison with these guitars, which has given me the idea to remove the EMG, I put a fender alnico 5 in bridge and original washburn in run I know seems a strange, but I think the guitar sounds much better, there is much more severe and the mids with EMG. I think that ceramic pickups (EMG) are not suitable for this guitar.

RE-EDIT 15/03/2011

So I replaced the microphone by a fender at DiMarzio evo, though on my ibanez, but the RESULT dcevant dime because not enough bass and relief (because of the guitar), sound silent even when flat. Last hope before selling my dime with his silent fade from my other guitars, j'achte a DiMarzio HS-8 based on advice from the other guitarist in my band. This micro revives this guitar: it compensates for the lack of good bass guitar and this gives him a big grain is like a p90 but double ... I highly recommend this microphone in the neck position for those who find that their dime not a big sound up to its look.

In rsum I tried this guitar:
- X2n DiMarzio
- EMG 81 and 85
- Fender Alnico V humbuckers
- Evo Di Marzio
- Seymour Duncan Invader SH 8

The table highlights the dime Frequencies treble (try without plugging the guitar is impressive), so the microphone that is mounted above must have a big Answers to bass. FYI I Pivoted X2n in the neck (as he is to bridge) and sounds pretty hot.

The Dime 333 is a Korean made model. It's made to be close to the late Dimebag Darrell's specifications, though he used the US made Washburn signature models. The 333 has cheaper, generic pickups (though they don't sound that bad) and a Washburn-licensed Floyd-Rose floating bridge.

Other specs:

Alder body
Set neck
Rosewood fingerboard
Acrylic dot inlays
24 3/4" scale

UTILIZATION

This guitar was set up great and played like butter from day one! Nice feel and easy to get accustomed to.

SOUNDS

This guitar sounds very full and bell-like. Maybe it's the large body or the Alder, but it just rings out, even when not plugged in.
The two Washburn pickups are not bad. They have plenty of output and lots of singing sustain for leads, but they don't really have a unique "voice" or much of a complex quality. A simple pickup change will take the tone from good to great!

I have tried several pickups including a Seymour Duncan JB, a Screamin Demon, several DiMarzios and currently an EMG 81, though I am definitely going back to passives soon.

This guitar plays very smoothly and effortlessly. Even with heavy strings, it still is easy to pull off bends, most likely because of the Floyd rose trem. The drawback is that when doing big full-step bends, the bridge pulls towards the neck, resulting in the strings going flat and making it difficult to bend up to pitch. But that's a common thing with Floyds.

Clean tones ring out beatifully, and have a depth and clarity that rivals any guitar I've played, including my Les Paul.

OVERALL OPINION

This guitar is a great value, even today at used prices. The excessive size and pointy shape may not be everyone's cup of tea, but for the Dime fan or any guitarist that wants a unique sounding guitar with some of the best clean tones I've ever heard, and one that plays like butter, this one's for you.

(Originally written by Pucelle_Dabidjan/translated from Audiofanzine FR)


Objective description:

Alder guitar with flamed maple top, Washburn pickups and Floyd Rose tremolo.





Subjective description:

Nice-looking guitar with a good finish.

(8) It seems ok.

UTILIZATION

The neck is simple but it has no character. The frets are well manufactured, the Floyd Rose tremolo is very bad and it doesn't stay in tune. It's not possible to block the strings for a long period of time. The knobs don't work progressively and the pickups have a lousy sound. It's difficult to get a good sound. Access to the upper frets is good.

(3) Not good, just ok.

SOUNDS

The sound has no character, nothing special. However, unplugged it sounds pretty good. The high-end is very present and it is really inviting to keep on playing. Once you plug the guitar, the clean tone is ok but the 6th string generates noise and the distortion sound is very inaccurate. Don't use the Floyd Rose tremolo if you want the guitar to stay in tune.

(3) Compared with other guitars in this price range the result is very poor. If I were to compare it with all possible competitors it would be pathetic.

OVERALL OPINION

I used it a few weeks and then I sold it to a guy who found it very good. I think you must be a fan to like it but it's just an average guitar to me.