Best Evh 5150 Deluxe QMT Purple Daze Alternatives

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This review is for those who is really struggling with the choice of spending his hard-earned money for a guitar; on the first glance stunning super fashionable piece of gear; on the other hand - Mexico-built signature version of almost regular Jazzmaster. So here is the truth, my friend: This is the most incredible guitar you could possibly get on the market today. You can hunt on Ebay for years for nice-looking second-hand AVRI or built your own Japan-made beauty way replacing the pickups and electronics. I know what I'm talking about - I did it, not once. Or you can go for this precious thing. Let's start from the finish, look and overall craftsmanship - 10/10. The Mexican factory is as good as Californian. The same people, the same procedures, the machines and tools. Do not be...

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• The look is tremendous. Exact same warm yellow as on the pictures. • Mine is extremely light, weighs a kilo and a half (I don't know if I just lucked out but I hope that's always the case for other customers!) • Its size is awesome. You can play in really cramped up spaces without fearing to hit anything with the headstock/neck, and when you put the guitar back in its bag, it's so tiny that it's difficult to believe that you're carrying an actual guitar (it's smaller and lighter than my bag to go to work!!) • The neck feels great. Thin enough for comfortable soloing but thick enough to give you a good grip for chords and such. • The access to the highs and the ability to play two notes that are really far apart on the same string are tremendous. • The...

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I was a little nervous about buying this instrument online and untried. These things have a bit of a reputation for being unruly and difficult to set up, with poor intonation and uneven response. I shouldn't have worried!!! First off, the instrument is well built with a decent fingerboard and frets and good hardware. Electronics are noise free. In addition the instrument arrived very well set up, and after a quick tuning tweak it was plug and play - the buzz response is even across all strings and all up and down the fingerboard - no choked notes, or undesirable clean ones either! Intonation is a tiny touch iffy above the 12th fret on the bass strings, a bit more tinkering with the bridge and the string gauges might improve this, but even out of the box it was possible to play lead runs,...

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For many years I have lusted after a Super-Sonic, being a big fan of Nick Reinhart and Tera Melos. I never bit the bullet on a Vista series or Pawn Shop series one, but then they announced these Paranormal ones, and I knew I had to get one! AND LET ME TELL YOU - I was not disappointed. I LOVE this guitar. I haven't been able to put it down since I bought it. PROS: - Guitar plays beautifully, required minimal setup. - The quality is great for the price, doesn't feel cheap in any way. - I'm a small dude, and this guitar is short scale so it suits my frame perfectly. CONS: - The strings the guitar came with were a bit light for my taste, so I've swapped them out for 11s. - I've seen some people complain that the wood on the neck is too pale. Those people are idiots. It's fine. Yup mulla!

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This is a guitar that exudes its Vintage Heritage and whilst the 360 used to look more like the current 330 it loses nothing in it's immediate impact. For a lot of 60s and a few 70s Bands this was the weapon of choice and whilst they are not seen quite as often these days of multi-string, fanfret and other varieties of guitar it does invoke a feeling of the past especially when covering 60s and 70s music. Can't say enough about it but a beautiful guitar beautifully made which sounds fantastic.

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The guitar arrived in great condition, Even though you often hear they need a shim in the neck with these mine doesn't appear to have a problem. Everything is working fine mechanically. The guitar came with 9 gauge strings but putting something thicker on seems to come with no downsides. At least 10s work great. Pros and Cons: +Incredibly comfortable to play, because of the low weight and great body shape. Also very well balanced. +Great Jazzmaster sound +Trem system seems to be working fine and the guitar stays in tune -Mine seems to have some sort of weird buzz, it is not related to the 60/50 cycle hum. More like input jack issue or maybe static electricty. -The frets are a mess - they don't seem to be polished at all and bending feels like dragging the string over sandpaper. Either...

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Build quality is excellent Sound is somewhat bassy, but can easily be modified with the low-cut filter and modeselector. Only negative is the Hagström temolobridge. It's not exceptional at keeping tune and can come very loose if you store the guitar with the arm on, and when changing strings. You'll need to be aware of those things when using it. The trem cannot make big, wavy trem - like a Supro or a bigsby, but that's just the way it is. All-in-all a very versatile, good sounding, hard rocking guitar.

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i bought this guitar after watching some reviews on YT , first up i was going to go for the army green one ( and will still prob get that one ) but the wife intervened and said that looks cool , and seen as i have a lot of guitars i got this . anyhow seems i got lucky with the finish as mine came all even unlike the one in the picture. i now totally feel sorry for all my other guitars as when it comes down to it nothing plays like this does , the neck is so comfy its unreal . sound wise , sounds great, you aint gona get those single coil neck tones like from a strat (there are some upgrades you can do) , for rock hard rock even blues stuff you cant go wrong . if you are looking at this you are thinking about it so just buy the thing .

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Learned to play on my grandpa's original 60's signature model of what this guitar is based on and fortunately this guitar is lighter, more stable and the neck is much wider allowing for my fat fingers to find those notes so much easier. The soapbar style pups are smooth and sound great on all the classics through my hotrod deluxe. Just wish it had a vintage tremolo or a tune-o-matic/stopbar setup to pop one on without drilling into its beautiful metallic blue carved top! Keep up the great work HB!

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This is my first high end guitar. I've always wanted a Jazzmaster, but they had always been out of my price range. This guitar did not disappoint. It plays flawlessly, required no set up on arrival, and sounds wonderful. I couldn't be happier with it and I'll keep it to my dying day. As this was my first Jazzmaster it took me a while to get a hang of the two -circuit system, but once I did a world of possibilities opened up. A very versatile guitar which is a pleasure to play no matter what that may be, I can understand why they are considered classics.