Hiwatts-n-Gibsons
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So I got this today...
First impression is pretty awesome. I bought it used, so the previous owner had played with the internal trimmers. Got it in the mail, opened it up, and reset them to stock, then got to playing. Plugged my P90 and Staple pickup loaded LP Special tuned to A Standard on telephone wires into it, sent the out to a Hiwatt DR103 and an alnico SRO12 and Fane Medusa 30 loaded 4x12, and then got to riffing on sludge and death metal.
This thing is mean af sounding. The active EQ is easy to take to extremes of bright and cutting abrasive tones, to dry and boxy, to that evil heavy grinding chain saw death metal tone, to more thick and gnarly doom and sludge tones. It's easy to make sound both bad and good.
If you like super heavy riffing, and have an amp and speaker cab that can handle it, this thing will shake the earth, but still has awesome cutting grind dialed in where you want it. Pinch harmonics on low string riffs sound so fat and vocal, yet it will still roundhouse you in the cajones thumping out palm muted rhythm riffs on the low strings.
Gotta spend more time with it with other guitars in different tunings, but so far I'm a fan. With the internal trimmers and the 4 band active eq it's a tweaker's dream/nightmare, but if first impressions are worth anything I may leave the internal trimmers stock. The outer controls are pretty wide ranging.
First impression is pretty awesome. I bought it used, so the previous owner had played with the internal trimmers. Got it in the mail, opened it up, and reset them to stock, then got to playing. Plugged my P90 and Staple pickup loaded LP Special tuned to A Standard on telephone wires into it, sent the out to a Hiwatt DR103 and an alnico SRO12 and Fane Medusa 30 loaded 4x12, and then got to riffing on sludge and death metal.
This thing is mean af sounding. The active EQ is easy to take to extremes of bright and cutting abrasive tones, to dry and boxy, to that evil heavy grinding chain saw death metal tone, to more thick and gnarly doom and sludge tones. It's easy to make sound both bad and good.If you like super heavy riffing, and have an amp and speaker cab that can handle it, this thing will shake the earth, but still has awesome cutting grind dialed in where you want it. Pinch harmonics on low string riffs sound so fat and vocal, yet it will still roundhouse you in the cajones thumping out palm muted rhythm riffs on the low strings.
Gotta spend more time with it with other guitars in different tunings, but so far I'm a fan. With the internal trimmers and the 4 band active eq it's a tweaker's dream/nightmare, but if first impressions are worth anything I may leave the internal trimmers stock. The outer controls are pretty wide ranging.
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