stevie_bees
Cat In The Hatministrator
As a few of you know, I am coming to the end of my RAF career, and I am planning to buy myself a guitar as a leaving gift to myself. I have a limit of £1000 and I'm still not certain on what I want.
I went to Anderton's store in Guildford this afternoon to try a couple that I've had my eye on.
The member of staff that helped me out, Matt, was great and we had a good chat about what I was after and what to try.
I tried out a white Gibson SG Standard, one of the newer ones with the smaller scratchplate, a seafoam green PRS S2 Mira, and a black ESP Eclipse II with EMG's. All 3 were put through a JCM 2000 DSL1 1W combo (what a fun little amp that is!)
The SG yielded exactly what you'd expect, all those classic crunchy tones were there and it was well set up. From warm and mellow, to spiky and crunchy I had great fun, while avoiding playing AC/DC cliches!!
The Eclipse was a great guitar to play, but just felt a little flat, a lot less bass response, which I'm guessing is probably the EMG's. I'm not sure what EMG's they were, and I don't have a lot of experience with them, but I was left feeling there should have been more from the guitar.
The Mira was great fun, very alive and vibrant with a great range of tones, ergonomically designed and comfortable to play. I had so much fun just with the 3-way switch and utilising the volume and tone that I totally forgot that it has a coil-split and didn't realise until I was on my way home! I'm not a great technical player, and a lot of my technique is very sloppy, but I felt I was sounding better with the Mira, even coaxing pinch-harmonics at will!
Hopefully in the next few weeks Anderton's will be getting a couple of S2 Starlas in, as I'm quite keen on comparing that with the Mira. I tried one of the original Starlas a couple of years ago and really liked it.
All in all and good way to spend a Friday afternoon.
I went to Anderton's store in Guildford this afternoon to try a couple that I've had my eye on.
The member of staff that helped me out, Matt, was great and we had a good chat about what I was after and what to try.
I tried out a white Gibson SG Standard, one of the newer ones with the smaller scratchplate, a seafoam green PRS S2 Mira, and a black ESP Eclipse II with EMG's. All 3 were put through a JCM 2000 DSL1 1W combo (what a fun little amp that is!)
The SG yielded exactly what you'd expect, all those classic crunchy tones were there and it was well set up. From warm and mellow, to spiky and crunchy I had great fun, while avoiding playing AC/DC cliches!!
The Eclipse was a great guitar to play, but just felt a little flat, a lot less bass response, which I'm guessing is probably the EMG's. I'm not sure what EMG's they were, and I don't have a lot of experience with them, but I was left feeling there should have been more from the guitar.
The Mira was great fun, very alive and vibrant with a great range of tones, ergonomically designed and comfortable to play. I had so much fun just with the 3-way switch and utilising the volume and tone that I totally forgot that it has a coil-split and didn't realise until I was on my way home! I'm not a great technical player, and a lot of my technique is very sloppy, but I felt I was sounding better with the Mira, even coaxing pinch-harmonics at will!
Hopefully in the next few weeks Anderton's will be getting a couple of S2 Starlas in, as I'm quite keen on comparing that with the Mira. I tried one of the original Starlas a couple of years ago and really liked it.
All in all and good way to spend a Friday afternoon.
