callahan09's Reviews
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96
You get what you pay for
The neck feels great and this is a very light-weight guitar so it's great for long sessions as it won't break your back. But it is a relatively cheap guitar and so it has its fair share of major flaws too. Doesn't hold a tune worth a damn (after a painstaking setup process, it holds a tune for about 3 songs if I don't use the trem bar, or 1 song with trem use), poor fretwork across the board, and mine came with a locking nut that had a really sharp edge that would destroy my high E string, I had to file it a little bit to dull it out. Pickups sound decent in both cleans and high gains, hard to beat for this price, but they really don't hold a candle to a nice DiMarzio (I prefer Air Norton and Tone Zone) for instance It's really the trem system that holds this back, as it just doesn't stay in tune.
96
Great guitar with a little modification
This guitar comes set up in CGCFAD and the fretboard is phenomenal for this drop C tuning. It's only flaw is that it doesn't hold a tune well out of the box. I upgraded to some Gotoh locking tuners and a Black Tusq nut and it holds a tune much better now. The guitar is quite heavy so it's a bit backbreaking for me personally during long sessions, but the pickups, sound quality, neck feel are all stellar.
96
Almost amazing
The neck feels fantastic, it holds a tune really well, the pickups sound fantastic, so it's almost a homerun except I was shocked at how poorly fretted it was out of the box. For this kind of money I expected nice level frets across the fretboard, but this thing is wildly uneven and produces a lot of fret noise. The pickups sound great at very high gain and so the fret buzz is livable when playing really distorted metal riffing. But I'm going to need to get this thing a fret level job sooner or later if I want to open it up to its full potential.