C
HB 7 string
Očekával jsem něco mnohem horšího, ale mile mě to překvapilo. Kytara je velmi lehká a příjemná na hraní. Urcite jsou kytary i s lepším zvukem, ale nedá se od toho očekávám světovou zvukovou kvalitu.
0
0
Ohlásit hodnocení
M
Needs some mods, but it is a great foundation for well playable 7-string
If I focus on physical characteristics, it immediately fitted into my hands, it is nicely playable, and the finish is smooth and nicely looking. As it was advised by some buyers, I also ordered a HB locking tuners and immediately installed them. You will need one 3L+3R set + one extra as this is 7-string beast.
The evil came when I connected it to the amp. I realized that what I got is unusual, as the sound was a like muddy thunderstorm behind the hills. OK, for riffs on high gain it was nothing bad at all, but I had to switch for other guitar whenever I needed to play something softer and cleaner. So I was rather going around this guitar in circles. Nevertheless, it took me almost two years to find out what this guitar needed. I had to make several quite cheap modifications:
1. When using on hi-gain channel, I always heard some radio broadcast coming out of the guitar. So I opened the back lid, and completely shielded the cavity with copper sticky foil. This really helped out to solve the issue. And at this moment I noticed that this is not a guitar with active humbuckers, but a guitar with passive humbuckers and a built-in preamp behind the volume knob.
2. So I got idea to try it as a passive guitar, and decided to disconnect the preamp from the potentiometer, jack and power supply, and make bypass connection from the pot to jack. Signal was not as strong as before, anyway still strong, but also still quite muddy. And then I realized need for one more tiny modification:
3. There was a capacitor soldered directly on jack socket between signal and ground. Probably mitigation to some oscillations which could get introduced by the built-in preamp. So I disconnected capacitor from the signal pin, and finally got a well sounding guitar with passive humbuckers, still with quite strong signal level (when compared to my other HB guitars with humbuckers).
Conclusion: Guitar is a great build, nicely playable, but to turn it into a real workhorse, you need a soldering iron and some metallic sticky tape, shield off the rear cavity completely, and get rid of the builtin pream module. And only then, if you still do not have the sound you wanted, invest into pickup replacements.
The evil came when I connected it to the amp. I realized that what I got is unusual, as the sound was a like muddy thunderstorm behind the hills. OK, for riffs on high gain it was nothing bad at all, but I had to switch for other guitar whenever I needed to play something softer and cleaner. So I was rather going around this guitar in circles. Nevertheless, it took me almost two years to find out what this guitar needed. I had to make several quite cheap modifications:
1. When using on hi-gain channel, I always heard some radio broadcast coming out of the guitar. So I opened the back lid, and completely shielded the cavity with copper sticky foil. This really helped out to solve the issue. And at this moment I noticed that this is not a guitar with active humbuckers, but a guitar with passive humbuckers and a built-in preamp behind the volume knob.
2. So I got idea to try it as a passive guitar, and decided to disconnect the preamp from the potentiometer, jack and power supply, and make bypass connection from the pot to jack. Signal was not as strong as before, anyway still strong, but also still quite muddy. And then I realized need for one more tiny modification:
3. There was a capacitor soldered directly on jack socket between signal and ground. Probably mitigation to some oscillations which could get introduced by the built-in preamp. So I disconnected capacitor from the signal pin, and finally got a well sounding guitar with passive humbuckers, still with quite strong signal level (when compared to my other HB guitars with humbuckers).
Conclusion: Guitar is a great build, nicely playable, but to turn it into a real workhorse, you need a soldering iron and some metallic sticky tape, shield off the rear cavity completely, and get rid of the builtin pream module. And only then, if you still do not have the sound you wanted, invest into pickup replacements.
0
0
Ohlásit hodnocení
Mž
Skvělý nástroj!
Tento nástroj mne velmi příjemně překvapil, jak vizuálně, tak zvukem. Ať žije metal s kytarou Harley Benton! Děkuji!
0
0
Ohlásit hodnocení