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Review by
a visitor on 27.5.2008
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I donnullt actually own one of these guitars - But a week ago I got to spend a good long time with my friends one - he bought it for about 700GBP from a local music shop in Widness, England with a hardcase included.
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Features |
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This guitar is without a doubt the best guitar Inullve ever had the fortune to play! It features a Floyd Rose Tremelo, a Seymour Duncan blade pickup (bridge) and a Dimebucker neck pickup, which are controlled by a three way switch. It has two volume knobs which control the pickups individually - these have small lumps on them which allow you to grip them and turn them very precisley on the fly, which is handy if younullve got sweaty hands from a hard night of playing. The third knob is a tone knob.
The guitar itself is of a set neck construction and thus is a very solid instrument, the neck is relativley short and extremley comfortable, facilitating some of the best shredding possible. Being 22 frets, it may put some guitarists off (which is where the Razorback V 255 comes in, a 24 fret variant with EMG pickups) At the top of the neck stands that huge Dimebag designed headstock, which is certainly an eye catcher (almost literally as a drunk who wandered to close nearly lost his eye to it...) and adds a certain feel that is felt only by the Dean guitars line. The body is of a medium weight and is solid as a rock, with a beautiful paintjob (my friends is white with black bevels), and the hardware such as the tremelo is black. |
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Playability |
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5 stars just do not justify how well this guitar plays, it is THE best guitar I have ever played.
Before I even start on actual playing, I must explicitly stress how amazing this beast sounds - I plugged it into a Marshall stack amp through a Zoom G9 pedal and hammered out the intro to Raining Blood by Slayer. I was absoloutley astounded, It was studio quality sound coming through a midrange amp. This was using the bridge pickup, and although the Dimebucker did provide nice smooth tones, you will buy this guitar for the sheer cleanliness, the piercing sharpness of the tone that you get from the Duncan Blade pickup.
Onto actually playing it, You can play this thing for hours and not feel your hand aching, because the neck is just so comfortable. Inullve noticed that the fretboard is slightly wider than other guitars Inullve played, but this is definatly an improvement, as it allows such a great degree of precision. The strap buttons seem very solid, leaving little risk of the guitar falling off (I was using a strap Inulld previously used on a Jackson, which had stretched the holes to a considerable degree due to its enormous strap buttons and encountered no problem).
Also as I mentioned in the durability, the tremelo just will not send you out of tune, which leaves you squealing and diving all night - my friend had this guitar since December, and hadnnullt changed the strings (Dimebag signature) in over 5 months (not recomended with poor quality strings) and had only had to retune it four times in this period. |
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Quality |
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Sound quality - astounding.
Finish quality - astounding
Overally quality - astounding
Inullm yet to play a more finley crafted instrument - even the neck through vintige Ibanez I own or the top end Jackson models have nothing on this. |
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Durability |
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One thing I found about this thing is that it just did not go out of tune, period. Unlike on cheaper guitars (such as my Jackson X series) with Floyd Rose tremelos, no matter how far or repeatedly I dived it, it simply refused to budge even a semitone out of tune back in its normal position, a definite bonus for all you Kerry Kings out there (I played the raining blood solo with this thing on stage xD).
The guitar does not appear to be too sturdy on the wingtips and at the tip of the headstock - many people selling these guitars second hand show pictures of these parts being severley chipped or bent due to impacts - but if you are going to pay upwards of 800GPB for a guitar, you definatly should know how to take care of it!
The pickups seem completley fine, and a reason why you should opt for passive pickups over active ones is you never need to worry about the batteries dying on you. |
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Overall |
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If younullve got the money, I would definatly reccomend buying this guitar if you are a metal or hard rock player. Inulld opt for this over the Razorback because I just prefer Vnulls, and also the Razorbacks body can stick into your chest a little when younullre sitting down with it. When I have the money, Inullm going to buy the Black model with Red Bevels, and opt for the Blade pickup rather than the active EMGS.
What can I say? Buy this guitar!
- Sudders |
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