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Fender (Mexican) Cyclone Price: $549 Year (Purchased): 2004 Specs:
Due to the pickup configuration (1 slanted single coil in the neck position, one humbucker at the bridge), a wide variety of sounds are possible. The Tex-Mex single coil at the neck is excellent for a jangly clean tone, and the Atomic humbucker is also available for a more smooth, mellow tone. Through distortion, this guitar sounds great for Rock or Blues, but don't think you're going to get a hardcore/metal/whatever sound from it without pickup replacement (I replaced the Atomic HB in mine with a Seymour-Duncan Detonator, and get a much more saturated distortion now). Tone control is available through one Tone Knob and one Volume knob. Both are quite sensitive (especially the tone knob, which actually *controls* the tone, instead of just being an on/off switch like some guitars seem to have). Instrument Quality: 5/5 The neck is smooth, and playable. The guitar is just absolutely gorgeous. Imagine a Jazz Bass converted into a guitar; this is the exact body style of this instrument, even down to the volume/tone/input jack being on an off-shot metal strip. The tuning heads this guitar comes with are adequate, though you may want to consider an upgrade to locking heads, if that's your thing. The tremelo is useable, in that it doesn't wildly knock the guitar out of tune after only the smallest ammount of use. The weight of this guitar is medium. I've heald lighter guitars, and my Fender Deluxe Fat Strat is heavier; regardless, shoulder strain is minimal. This guitar comes in a variety of colors (mine being red), and comes with a pearloid 3-layer pickguard, as opposed to standard white. Playbility:4/5 The neck is smooth, straight, and very playable. My guitar came fully intonated, so that was never a problem. No string buzz, but there is some string "slap" when using the single coil, but then again, I use semi-light guage strings. Higher guaged strings would result in less string slack, and eliminate this problem. I can find no real fault with the playability of this guitar, but I have played guitars that have a better "feel", for lack of a better term. Overall Value: 4/5 I'd buy this guitar as a stepping stone between your Squier Strat/Epiphone Les Paul and a higher priced model. This guitar has better stock pickups than most similarly priced guitars, and the playability, look, and feel are excellent. I highly reccomend it. Occupy Japan fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Feb 5, 2005 |
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