dukeuke's Reviews

Absolutely brilliant 7 string for the price!

This guitar cost around £300GBP, which to be honest, for a guitar, doesn't seem like much; you'd expect £300 maybe to get you an instrument, with quality at the very bottom of the middle price scale, or near the top of the budget, probably not to be deemed a high quality object, yet this doesn't seem to be the case with this.

Flawless bolt on construction, allows for uninterrupted fret access, to the higher notes on what is a ridiculously comfortable neck; The hardware is sturdy, and keeping tuning is as good as it gets, for a non-locking hardtail guitar; two crystal clear humbuckers, master vol, and tone, and a five way selector provide a variety of flavours, from a full on powerful bridge humbucker, to a stratty coil tapped neck single, all the way to a once again fairly stratty bridge (Though with the tone knob you can go more into tele territory) single tone. All this tonal versatility means that whatever I want to with the seventh string, be it slap, or djent, I can do it, but also that it can function as a regular guitar, when the seventh string is not being utilised.

In terms of issues there are very little: slight issues on the fretwork, that are practically unnoticeable, and the neck is only a one piece, and feels a little bare, though that's probably because I'm used to my glossy jazzmaster one.

Aesthetically it's perfectly as expected, a lovely finished mahogany top. In the future I might swap the pickups, for some dimarzios (Probably Ionizers) but other than that its fine, and the setup when I received it was great, with low action, and decent strings.

Overall excellent value for money, and a beautiful machine, with a clear versatile sound, and of course that extra string for all manner of fun fun fun...

Solid, but minorly faulted

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: At the time of this first review I've only owned this for three days, and in that I've still, unlike most music hardware I've used to date, only scratched the surface. This is a combination of two things: One, the sr16 is packed to the rim with features, and settings, and buttons that it can take a while to learn how to use, or even uncover, and Two, this is one of the most ridiculously un-user friendly devices I've ever used, though considering these are from originally, and mine is dated to also, 1990, they are decent. I think that if a product has been in production for the last 26 years non stop, pretty much, it is probably okay.

Pretty Good

This pedal does it all in terms of pitch shifting; a tonne of combinations made from combinations, and selections of the comparably large amount of available intervals, over the three modes (Up, Down, and Dual, which can be a combination, such as octaves, or a harmonisation). The blend knob adds usability, if that's a word. On top of that you have an expression pedal output, which to be honest I haven't really explored, but has potential to either set glissando rates for momentary mode, or use as a whammy, style pitch pedal. In terms of sound quality, my only complaint would be that it's a little to synth like for my tastes. Its not quite just a clean shifter, it has that EHX slightly robotic touch, that's a bit hard to describe in less you can hear it in person. Not too much of a problem, however, considering it cost £89, and there's absolutely jackshit else that can doing anything this good, bar the Eventide pitchfactor, that is priced about £400 higher. So overall a usable, and highly specced pedal, which with improved SQ, and the addition of MIDI could be truly 5 stars.

Bog Standard Klone

Bought this from Andertons - The UK Dealer - earlier this year, as I needed a replacement for my shitty behringer OD. Tbh its absoloutley nothing special, its a fairly regular, cheap klone pedal, if not a little too blanketty/fluffy if that means anything. Also the LED died after about a month, so I'm sending it back, and getting a replacement. Wouldn't really recommend, its just a bit of a shoddy klon at the end of the day

Underrated delay unit, with very handy features

Simple. It allows you to have three delays at a touch, with tap tempo. Delays come from a selection of high quality standard delays, with four slots for downloadable delays. Also the dam thing got me hooked on looping with the high quality built in looper. Wish it had, stacking but that's availiable on the next model up, wish it had trails, but that's not essential, and I wish it had more glitch, off piste crazy delay models. All in all 4/5

One of the best multi fx out there

Straight off the mark: £60! For that price the ridiculous amount you get, is crazy. This is VFM incarnate. Thrown into this is pretty much every sort of effect you can think of, from modulations, to drives, to filters, to fairly detailed amp modelling w/cab modelling, to craziness. You also get a slightly dodgy looper, and a pretty good drum rhythm machine. The drives are as you would expect digitally, and for £60: Not amazing, but satisfactory, Modulations, and filters are not to be sniffed at, as are the delays, and reverbs, and pitch effects, along with most of the stuff in this box. The looper is really fricking weird, in a sense where you have to play for a preset period of time meaning its essentially useless, and the rhythm thing is okay (Bear in mind its just not a drum machine, its just a single pattern, no tap tempo generator) and supplies its need. I'd definitely advise, it was my first pedal, and it was a brilliant introduction, and it'd be a great first pedal for anybody looking to get into the scene, and learn about fx. That said I still use it on my board today for compression, equalisation, the add bit of modulation, filtering, and reverb. 4/5

A decent free DAW

Its good considering its free, but its essentially garbage for music production, but then its not necessarily built for that sort of purpose. If you want to tweak with a song, or make samples this is good, but tbh after you've got used to ableton or Cubase theres no going back really.

Heard it was good, but mine broke

I've heard it given glowing reviews, and I know millions use it, including people I know, but unfortunately mine broke, and I had not the patience to get it fixed, so I sent it back. Still got some nice free stuff with it, so it can have two stars.

Amazing tone, but with obvious age related flaws

This box has genuinely one of the most crisp, and genuine analog delay tones I've ever heard. It may be basic, and noisy, but those are all part of the fact that it was made fifty years ago. The footswitch also adds a practical element.

SQUIER VM JAZZMASTER SPECIAL BUTTERSCOTCH

This guitar is a tonal ak47 for the price you pay. 250 quid gets you a smooth warm neck pickup perfect claptonny stuff, and a killer bridge pickup with a bite like suarez on steroids. Also it looks absoloutley beautiful and plays like a dream

i can't recommend it more