NVOXD, Incoming – Have Wanted One of These for a Long Time
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ItsaBass
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This thing finally showed up, over two months later. It's intact.
It sounds incredible...but I immediately noticed that the mode switch for the bridge pickup affected the tone even when the pickup selector switch was in the neck position. I listened closer and realized that the neck and middle positions on the switch seemed to be identical.
Opened it up today, and yup. Big solder blob connecting the neck and middle lugs on the switch. Hopefully I can just file through the blob to separate the lugs, to make quick work of it without having to go to my studio to use my soldering iron.
Other than that...great frigging guitar.
It sounds incredible...but I immediately noticed that the mode switch for the bridge pickup affected the tone even when the pickup selector switch was in the neck position. I listened closer and realized that the neck and middle positions on the switch seemed to be identical.
Opened it up today, and yup. Big solder blob connecting the neck and middle lugs on the switch. Hopefully I can just file through the blob to separate the lugs, to make quick work of it without having to go to my studio to use my soldering iron.
Other than that...great frigging guitar.
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ItsaBass
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The pickups sound great...or, should I say, the bridge one does. Haven't separated the neck one from the solder blob yet. Only way I can hear it is in combination with the bridge pickup.
I do know I like them, though. I played them before, on my friend's gold SDC-33. So I'm not worried about whether or not I'll like it.
The great thing about the 55 is that each pickup has its own mode switch. The 33 only has a master mode switch.
The humbucker settings are a little thick for me with my low wattage amps, but they'd sound good through an amp with a lot of headroom. The center coil and outer coil settings sound great.
It's not just a simple split/split/series switch. There are caps and resistors on the switch as well. I think part of their purpose might be volume equalization, because there isn't a ton of volume difference between series and either split setting.
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eclecticsynergy
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Glad it arrived safe & sound. Shipping well-padded but without a box might actually be a good strategy: less likely to wind up at the bottom of a big stack, the way they would load a box.
ItsaBass
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Not neck heavy. Plus the strap button is right on the horn, via their proprietary weird looking strap button spacer.
A lot of the elements of this guitar were engineered just for Voxes. The pickups, the bridge, the tuners, the strap button spacer (and even the strap buttons themselves), the switching that goes along with the pickups. The pickups are kind of like a P90-based version of a P-Rails-like idea.
The profile is a slim C.
The nut slots need some widening, and I don't really care for the tuners, in looks or in function. They have a "wave" shape on the buttons.
But the fret work is decent, and the guitar plays well.
The body is contoured in a very bizarre way, but you get used to it.
The body is about half mahogany and half maple, in a sandwich. Then the extremely deep carve is done on the maple. It has a flat back with a slight tummy cut...but the top is carved as if it is wrapping around the players body.
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