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About sixish months ago I was watching youtube and a review came up for a guitar I had never heard of, the guy didn't like it. So I watched another review, he also didn't like it. I watched another, well low and behold he didn't like it, that was after his first video saying that he loved it.
Any how I bought one.
It's a Koloss X6. I like the guitar but I can see how many others would not.
It is an aluminium two piece body, 25.5 scale, 24 fret guitar.
O.k in the videos the bridge was an issue, you can't dive bomb with the tremolo, true you can't however in my opinion that is a a non issue because anyone with any guitar or mechanical experience should be able to figure that out by looking at it or a decent picture of it, it is decent enough at mild oscillation adjustments. However, the bridge could be designed better and is on the cheap end. It's their own brand called aviator.
The whammy bar is held into the whammy hole by a set screw, I have chosen to not use the whammy hole.
The neck in the videos was the "carbon fiber " neck so I won't speak to that. This version has a roasted Canadian maple neck. I rub it on my pancakes. The neck is a bolt on with rod adjustment at the pickup end with a wheel that has holes to stick a lever into for rotating. It feels great. It came finished very well that includes the fret finishing. The face markers glow in the dark, whatever, the sides don't.
The nut is adjustable and brass, it is fine.
The tuners are 18:1 I guess, they are fine.
The pick ups are weak, it takes some knob fiddling to get some oomph. I haven't yet played loud enough to give them the true test but they'll probably squeal and sound not so good.
There is a volume, tone, 3 way switch and another toggle to coil split. It all works fine. I do find the volume knob is a little close to the strings for my liking as I hit it while playing on occasion. I don't use my tone knob just volume so I took the tone knob out of the circuit and switched the positions.
The jack is on the back and if you use a straight cable you will not like it, I have found when back jacking an angled tip is much more comfortable. You can still feel the cable on your leg but to me it's not noticeable.
Anyhow, that's the Koloss X6. I like it, I like aluminium guitars. It came set up well and it works for me, but it is not without issues. I can over look those things some can't.
Any how I bought one.
It's a Koloss X6. I like the guitar but I can see how many others would not.
It is an aluminium two piece body, 25.5 scale, 24 fret guitar.
O.k in the videos the bridge was an issue, you can't dive bomb with the tremolo, true you can't however in my opinion that is a a non issue because anyone with any guitar or mechanical experience should be able to figure that out by looking at it or a decent picture of it, it is decent enough at mild oscillation adjustments. However, the bridge could be designed better and is on the cheap end. It's their own brand called aviator.
The whammy bar is held into the whammy hole by a set screw, I have chosen to not use the whammy hole.
The neck in the videos was the "carbon fiber " neck so I won't speak to that. This version has a roasted Canadian maple neck. I rub it on my pancakes. The neck is a bolt on with rod adjustment at the pickup end with a wheel that has holes to stick a lever into for rotating. It feels great. It came finished very well that includes the fret finishing. The face markers glow in the dark, whatever, the sides don't.
The nut is adjustable and brass, it is fine.
The tuners are 18:1 I guess, they are fine.
The pick ups are weak, it takes some knob fiddling to get some oomph. I haven't yet played loud enough to give them the true test but they'll probably squeal and sound not so good.
There is a volume, tone, 3 way switch and another toggle to coil split. It all works fine. I do find the volume knob is a little close to the strings for my liking as I hit it while playing on occasion. I don't use my tone knob just volume so I took the tone knob out of the circuit and switched the positions.
The jack is on the back and if you use a straight cable you will not like it, I have found when back jacking an angled tip is much more comfortable. You can still feel the cable on your leg but to me it's not noticeable.
Anyhow, that's the Koloss X6. I like it, I like aluminium guitars. It came set up well and it works for me, but it is not without issues. I can over look those things some can't.
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