Product: Agile AD-3000 Prestige
Price Paid: US $420.00
Submitted
04/30/2006
at
04:18pm
by
Matt
Features
:
8
I bought this guitar in the Fall of 05 from the rondomusic website. Here are the specs from the website.
# Solid mahogany (not a multi-ply!) arch top body
# High quality 3/4" Book-Matched Flame Canadian Maple Top (100% real wood top-not a photo top!)
# Natural wood body binding; Bound neck and headstock
# Improved Nickel plated hardware, including Nickel die-cast Grover tuners with 18-1 turning ratio for ultra fine tuning (Model 102-18N)
# Matching flame top headstock
# Two Type V Alnico humbucker pickups for warm, tradional sound
# Single conductor braided 18 gauge American wire for pickups, high voltage pots with brass shafts for reduced noise and an improved pickup selector switch
# Two volume and two tone controls, plus a three way pickup selector switch
# One piece Mahogany set neck with 13.7" (350mm) radius neck for fast play and adjustable truss rod
# Ebony fretboard with 22 Jumbo frets and real Abalone Trapezodial inlays
# GHS strings installed at the factory and a professionally cut bone nut
# A pre-cut graphite nut is also included in the bag with the trus rod adjuster for those who prefer graphite
# Individually hand filed frets for professional feel and playability
# Width of the neck at the nut: 1 5/8"; at the 21st fret: 2 3/16"
# Neck taper/thickness at the 1st fret: 21.5 mm; at the 12th fret: 23.5mm
# Overall length: 40"; Scale length: 24.7"
# Body thickness: 2" at edge; Width at the widest point: 13"
# Bridge pole spacing is 3", and the Tail piece pole spacing is 3 1/4"
# Actual Weight is only 10 lbs
Mine is the tribal blue color. It looks really pretty.
Sound
:
8
I haven't really messed around with trying to obtain any certain sound other than my own, switch-in-middle low-set-tone-knob high-set-volume knob sound. It sounds good for what I play, which is Toolish, but with more lead guitar, and more clean licks interspersed. It's kinda hard to get good sounding pinch harmonics, even after messing with all the knobs. Doesn't bother me much though.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
7
The action came a little high, but was easily adjusted. The pickups were fine. The frets kinda stuck out from the bottome of the fretboard, but I still haven't fixed that. Sometimes it can hurt when you slide up and down with part of your hand running along the bottom of the fretboard, but my playing style does not involve much of that so I left it alone. However, in the future I may fix it.
The finish is nice. A better finish than I have seen on many guitars in the same price range, certainly.
The bottom of the fretboard near the pickup is splitting. Definitely will have to get that fixed eventually.
Reliability/Durability
:
8
Definitely a solid feeling guitar, which I like. The finish seems solid and durable, but I don't really put it through much that would wear it down. I have replace the strap buttons with schaller buttons and locks, at least I think that's what they are.
All in all, I think it's a good guitar for the money.
Customer Support
:
10
Customer support is fine.
Overall Rating
:
8
Positives
Good finish, sound.
Negatives
Frets/fretboard not as quality as I would have liked.
I would recommend this guitar or any other guitars from the site as good starting guitars or backup guitars. I personally use it as an everyday workin' man's guitar and it performs well.
