Strobe
Well-Known Member
I just bought this lightly used off a local guy (was $300 for those curious, I believe they sell for about $400 new), and I am very happy with it. The scale length on this guy is 28 5/8"! My fingers definitely feel the stretch, but it has a really great deep sounds and feels much better in low tunings than my other guitars (C standard feels absolutely natural like E standard would on a 25.5"). It was not really set up very well when I bought it, but it was a quick fix.
The quality on these is quite good. NO sharpness on the frets, no dead notes. As you can see from the pictures, it's a very pretty guitar. It's made in South Korea - I had expected it was made in China, I guess I was not real knowledgeable on the model. The pickups are maybe the weakest link, but they are still pretty good. They are a bit EMG ish. The bridge is a bit EMG 81 ish, but more even (less upper mid hump). I would not be surprised if the neck was the exact same pickup. I think it works better in the bridge than the neck. I have heard bad things about the middle single on these. I think the tone of it is actually pretty decent, but it is much quieter than the humbucker sized pickups. I can raise it to increase the output a bit, but it starts getting in the way of my pick attack if I do. Long story short, I may end up changing out the pickups at some point, but they do the job well enough because the guitar as a whole sounds great.
Here are the specs listed on the website:
The quality on these is quite good. NO sharpness on the frets, no dead notes. As you can see from the pictures, it's a very pretty guitar. It's made in South Korea - I had expected it was made in China, I guess I was not real knowledgeable on the model. The pickups are maybe the weakest link, but they are still pretty good. They are a bit EMG ish. The bridge is a bit EMG 81 ish, but more even (less upper mid hump). I would not be surprised if the neck was the exact same pickup. I think it works better in the bridge than the neck. I have heard bad things about the middle single on these. I think the tone of it is actually pretty decent, but it is much quieter than the humbucker sized pickups. I can raise it to increase the output a bit, but it starts getting in the way of my pick attack if I do. Long story short, I may end up changing out the pickups at some point, but they do the job well enough because the guitar as a whole sounds great.
Here are the specs listed on the website:
- Double cutaway, light weight, alder, arch top body
- Genuine Canadian maple quilted top
- 28 5/8" scale 1 piece set neck
- Ebony fretboard with dot markers
- 24 jumbo 2.9 mm frets and a 13.7" (350 mm) radius neck for fast play
- Grover die cast tuners
- Cepheus Active Pickups
- Cepheus TOM wide throw bridge with graphite saddles allows for a variety of tunings
- String through body for improved sustain and staggered string-through holes for improved intonation.
