Mustaine left Dean and went to Gibson/Epiphone/Kramer

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Only yelling. Followed by bad guitar tone. Followed by yelling out random hearsay.

insert jokes about bassists, drum sampling, and guitar modeling (from companies that don't send him free shit)

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Yeah, no shocker... my Sweetwater rep still continues to suck. There's more than 25 stores listing the "limited" RIP Kramer, including Kramer direct. Now I'm regretting paying full pop, especially when I saw some initial ones went on Reverb for ~$800 (thanks for the heads-up, @complex-barb.0t ).

Who is your Sweetwater Rep?

 

[budda]

And why are you using one you dont like

 

[Riverview]

Someone got one like 2 days after they were announced and said the QC was junk on the Kramer. But that’s also an opinion from a youtube video .

 

[complex-barb.0t]

 

[complex-barb.0t]

I got mine in. Here is a detail shot of the finish. The low file size limit can’t do it justice, but wanted to show it was not flat green.

Initial inspection I didn’t see any immediate flaws. Might have got lucky this time with the QC lottery.

Everything seems in order and the case is a lot better than the one they were selling with the recent Korina Epis.

 

[manu80]

Good ! Well at least it's not translucent like the silver finish on the gibson !

 

[Zado]

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I got mine in. Here is a detail shot of the finish. The low file size limit can’t do it justice, but wanted to show it was not flat green.

Initial inspection I didn’t see any immediate flaws. Might have got lucky this time with the QC lottery.

Everything seems in order and the case is a lot better than the one they were selling with the recent Korina Epis.

Ok with the details, but I want to see the whole babe.

 

[complex-barb.0t]

Ok with the details, but I want to see the whole babe.

 

[complex-barb.0t]

I know these are not the best pics, but I don't feel like putting too much effort into detailed shots because they will still exceed the file size limit.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

God I haaaate that logo. Shoulda stuck with the classic logo.

 

[MFB]

God I haaaate that logo. Shoulda stuck with the classic logo.

I like the logo itself, I just hate that the angle doesn't follow the headstock's

 

[complex-barb.0t]

I like the logo itself, I just hate that the angle doesn't follow the headstock's

Yeah I think the logo typeface at least makes it unique. My theory is the alignment of the logo is so it's more horizontally aligned when in playing position. If the logo followed the headstock it would look wonky when playing. Damned either way I guess because the compromise looks a bit off sitting on a stand or playing. The Kramer logo can't look as glorious as Jackson does .

 

[USMarine75]

I posted my pics already in another thread… so I don’t want to keep spamming… but mine is almost flawless. Just a tiny chip in the finish by the rear control cavity. And I’m shocked at how much I like the pickups. I usually think most pickups sound alike and when they don’t a slight turn of an EQ knob balances them out. But these are legit cool pickups. I didn’t want to put it down but it was dinner time lol.

 

[USMarine75]

Someone got one like 2 days after they were announced and said the QC was junk on the Kramer. But that’s also an opinion from a youtube video .

I think I saw that vid. Was it the guy who’s wife bought one for him?

 

[USMarine75]

Dave Mustaine thinks everyone has been using the whammy bar wrong – with two exceptions

“Whatever you do on the guitar with the whammy bar you should be able to emulate with your fingers,” says the Megadeth icon

www.guitarworld.com

“Then going through the other lines with Epiphone and Kramer, it wasn't really that difficult to make these lines all of a sudden have serious metal credibility. Because somebody said to me when I first went to Gibson they said, ‘Gibson isn’t a metal guitar company.’ I said, ‘It is now.’”

 

[complex-barb.0t]

I posted my pics already in another thread… so I don’t want to keep spamming… but mine is almost flawless. Just a tiny chip in the finish by the rear control cavity. And I’m shocked at how much I like the pickups. I usually think most pickups sound alike and when they don’t a slight turn of an EQ knob balances them out. But these are legit cool pickups. I didn’t want to put it down but it was dinner time lol.

Yeah this pickup sounds significantly different than my other JB pick up guitars. Much brighter and cutting. So it's certainly not just a JB with a different cover.

 

[USMarine75]

Yeah this pickup sounds significantly different than my other JB pick up guitars. Much brighter and cutting. So it's certainly not just a JB with a different cover.

Yeah not sure if it’s just the sum of the parts but I have a lot of guitars with 59/JB and they don’t sound like this. The first couple times through are the neck pickup.

 

[manu80]

It looks more than a Jackson KV than the dean and ESP for sure , but the tailpiece is bigger than the dean's, really not a fan of it.

 

[Riverview]

I think I saw that vid. Was it the guy who’s wife bought one for him?

Yup . I wish I had a wife that bought me guitars !