Thomas Van Beeck from Belgium | Purchase date: 15 September 2009 id: 930

If you're looking for your first seven string guitar or if you are mainly a six string player that wants something else this is definately a guitar worth the investment, atleast when you replace the stock pickups. Sound: I've been testing the guitar first with the stock pickups. It sounded muddy and there was too much bass. Overall when you play with distortion the stock pickups are really not my cup of tea. I've been trying to get a nice distortion sound through a marshall tsl and mesa roadster but things turned out pretty bad. Also the use of a tubescreamer didn't help. On the clean channels it sounded alright though. Atleast when you turned down your bass on your amps equalizer. I installed new pickups pretty soon and now the sound kicks ass. I have a seymour duncan SSH 8B invader in the bridge and a dimarzio evolution 7 in the neck. Both have enough gain to my taste and soundwise are what I was looking for, but that's a matter of taste. Keep in mind that when you buy this guitar the stock pickups are smaller so new pickups won't fit in the drillholes of this guitar! The best thing to do is buy mounting rings with the pickups and use those. Playing: The neck is really nice, I'm not used of playing seven string guitars but I barely noticed a difference between this neck and a six string guitar's neck. It simply plays very good. You can get your harmonics pretty well out of it too. The guitar can go a little out of tune but not specifically more or less than most guitars. Overall: + neck + harmonics + overall playability + sound (with new pickups!) - bad stock pickups - cheap look and feel