singlecutarmy
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First impressions:
Came out of the box with high action and rough fret tops. I taped the fretboard and took steel wool to all the frets, then tightened the truss rod and dropped the bridge a smidge. Might need a little more relief, got some buzzing.
Otherwise, it feels solid, fret ends are not sharp, the edges are a bit rolled, tuning is fairly stable except the high B and E when I did a lot of bending, but could just be stretching the new strings. Some people complained the necks can be rough but to me it's quite a smooth satin, I have delicate hands and wouldn't complain about it.
It's my first tele so tone wise I'm still adjusting. It's very weak for what I'm used to considering I typically play fishmans and high output passives, the lowest I go is usually P90s. I'm also used to 24.75" scale length so some of the runs in the last sample I struggled with the 3-5-7 stretch because I'm used to everything being closer. When people say Teles make you an honest player this is no exception, if I'm not dead on the fret there's no saving the note unlike with my strandberg.
It's on the hefty side, but not as heavy as my epiphone les paul customs.
The neck carve resembles something you might find on a Charvel. It's thin but rounded, not flat.
The fretboard is a really nice color but I suspect it's dyed as my fingers are now stained.
Overall for the $250 price tag, I'd say it's a slam dunk and would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone that has steel wool and basic knowledge of setup.
Here's some sound clips, go easy on me, I play maybe a couple hours a week because of work, and usually I practice a single passage of a song for a month and suck at everything else. I'm pretty much a metal player and have a library of like 3 clean licks all of which I suck at.
Played through Marshall DSL1.
Cleans, bridge and neck ( I think you can tell which is which) recorded direct into cellphone mic
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Dirty: SD-1 into Friedman BE-OD into DSL1 clean recorded with cellphone mic
Cleans recorded into zoom h1n room mic
Dirty recorded into zoom h1n room mic. SD-1 then a $35 Amazon distortion pedal.
Came out of the box with high action and rough fret tops. I taped the fretboard and took steel wool to all the frets, then tightened the truss rod and dropped the bridge a smidge. Might need a little more relief, got some buzzing.
Otherwise, it feels solid, fret ends are not sharp, the edges are a bit rolled, tuning is fairly stable except the high B and E when I did a lot of bending, but could just be stretching the new strings. Some people complained the necks can be rough but to me it's quite a smooth satin, I have delicate hands and wouldn't complain about it.
It's my first tele so tone wise I'm still adjusting. It's very weak for what I'm used to considering I typically play fishmans and high output passives, the lowest I go is usually P90s. I'm also used to 24.75" scale length so some of the runs in the last sample I struggled with the 3-5-7 stretch because I'm used to everything being closer. When people say Teles make you an honest player this is no exception, if I'm not dead on the fret there's no saving the note unlike with my strandberg.
It's on the hefty side, but not as heavy as my epiphone les paul customs.
The neck carve resembles something you might find on a Charvel. It's thin but rounded, not flat.
The fretboard is a really nice color but I suspect it's dyed as my fingers are now stained.
Overall for the $250 price tag, I'd say it's a slam dunk and would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone that has steel wool and basic knowledge of setup.
Here's some sound clips, go easy on me, I play maybe a couple hours a week because of work, and usually I practice a single passage of a song for a month and suck at everything else. I'm pretty much a metal player and have a library of like 3 clean licks all of which I suck at.
Played through Marshall DSL1.
Cleans, bridge and neck ( I think you can tell which is which) recorded direct into cellphone mic
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Dirty: SD-1 into Friedman BE-OD into DSL1 clean recorded with cellphone mic
Cleans recorded into zoom h1n room mic
Dirty recorded into zoom h1n room mic. SD-1 then a $35 Amazon distortion pedal.
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