Cornuck wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 4:46 pm
Hadn't seen the Revstar before - looks like a keeper!
Watched a couple of videos, and it's got some great tones.
So...I got the guitar and played for about 3 hours last night. I am pretty sure that its not going back....
There are a *lot* of tones coming from this thing. While there are two pickups, there are five pickup positions -- I don't get the sense that the 2 and 4 positions are doing the out of phase strat things as much as they are changing the "mix" of the bridge and neck pickups. There's a push-pull pot that they advertise as a "boost" -- and it does seem to bump the dbs slightly, but its main effect I think is to provide a "boxy" tone that you might produce with a hollow body. A bit gimmicky, but has a place.
Other noticeable things: excellent sustain -- you know when an electric resonates not plugged in that its going to have good sustain. The neck is a little different -- its a bit on the fatter end (though not 1950s fat), and this is my preference since I learned on full sized acoustics and didn't pick up an electric until I was 15. But whatever the finish on the neck it, its very conducive to the left hand moving up and down the neck easily. I don't love the fretboard and the stainless steel frets themselves are a little "fatter" than I'm used to, and all of this combined with a short-to-medium scale length will take a little time to adjust to, but at the end of the day, I think I only notice these things because I can compare them to the other stuff I've had or have.
Its smaller than I anticipated -- I heard they increased the size for this 2d version and I was expecting something in the neighborhood of the Ric 330 I own. But its just a little bigger than an SG, and there doesn't seem to be a huge distance between the bridge and the bottom of the guitar -- and all of this means the guitar "sits" smaller (your left hand isn't as extended when you play near the nut -- the middle of the fretboard is right there). There's no neck "dive" when strapped on, which is a problem with double cut guitars.
The pickups are punchy yet very articulate when you've got the tone know dialed in. Its excellent for clean sounds, and I was drawn into playing arpeggiated patterns because of the fine articulation. That's probably the most noticeable attribute.
So my initial impressions are that its well worth the price and different enough that I can "justify" its existence in my collection....