RevDrucifer
Fractal Fanatic
Yeah, I literally checked the headstock twice the night I found it because I couldn’t believe it. I went to Guitar Center to play a Taylor for a 2nd time because I was sure I was going to get it, this caught my eye as I walked past it and I couldn’t believe the top, figured it’s was a higher end model and checked the headstock. Nope! Took it down to play it and immediately checked the headstock again because it was perfect. I‘ve never played a guitar off the shelf that felt like that. If I used 9’s, I wouldn’t have touched the setup at all. Even better, the intonation was dead on when I got it home. It took me all of 15 minutes to string it with 10’s, make some tiny adjustments and it just plays great.Is that an SE? Wow.
How are the pickups?
I’d prefer a toggle as well and the controls are my only complaint about the guitar. I switch pickups a lot when I play, having to reach down, over the volume knob and over the whammy bar I can’t access it nearly as fast as I’d prefer. I‘d take the Ibanez JPM switching setup on every guitar I owned but Strats, if I could.That's lovely. While I'd prefer a toggle, a semi-hollow w/ trem bar has been on my radar for quite a while. Is that an SE?
Indeed. It does have a coil tap on the tone knob and it sounds more like a Strat than my Strat does. Huge range of tones in it stock, but I figured I‘d play with it a bit, since it was just a 3-way switch. I’m a big fan of Mad Hatter’s solderless kits; I hate soldering pickups and they come with tons of options. I put their 4/25 setup in it, It‘s a 5 way switch and I asked for a push/push for the tone knob. Pulling it up was a bit cumbersome, the push/push just lets me smack it and I’m good.There are soooooo many fun things you can do with a lever switch. If this has the pull switch for coil cut on the tone pot, it'd be a cinch to rewire it like the US Custom 24 or a number of other fun setups....
From their website-
When the 4/25 P/P Tone Pot is engaged it not only splits the humbuckers, but it also changes the value of the volume pot from 500k to 250k.
In standard mode (500K) the switch positions will be as follows:
Position 1 - Bridge Pickup Full Humbucker
Position 2 - Bridge & Neck Pickup Single Coils Towards Bridge (hum-cancelling)
Position 3 - Bridge & Neck Pickups Full Humbucker
Position 4 - Bridge & Neck Pickup Single Coils Towards Neck (hum-cancelling)
Position 5 - Neck Pickup Full Humbucker
In Transformed Mode (250K) with the 4/25 P/P Pot engaged the switch positions will be as follows:
Position 1 - Bridge Pickup Split
Position 2 - Bridge & Neck Pickup Single Coils Towards Bridge (hum-cancelling)
Position 3 - Bridge & Neck Pickups Split Inner Coils
Position 4 - Bridge & Neck Pickup Single Coils Towards Neck (hum-cancelling)
Position 5 - Neck Pickup Split
There’s really nothing this thing can’t do and a lot of times where I’d just roll the volume knob down previously, I just hit the coil tap and I’m good to go, usually getting me closer to what I was going for.