Product: Framus Panthera Pro
Price Paid: USD 1280
Submitted
11/26/2007
at
06:35am
by
superunknown
Features
:
8
http://framus.com/guitar_panthera-pro.php
It's simply beautiful, and unique in the endless row of the LP wannabes.
A class wood, and pickups.
It was made in Germany.
Sound
:
10
I think this guitar is primarily best for jazz-blues-rock styles. But since I don't belive in style-borders, this is a pointless question for me. I use for blues-funk-jazz-rock, and I love the neck's brilliant brigth warm tone, which you can check out here: http://superunknown.hu/MyFramus/MyFramus.mp3
The neck and bridge together gives the classic hot quaky sound. Just loving it, and the bridge is a scratchy beast, with such a great dynamic in its sound that's still owerawing me. But this one is true for all the three tones of the guitar.
When I bought it, I went into the store fell in love with a PRS Singlecut SE. The seller offered this one, for a try out. It was an hour long battle between the two guitars in me, but only because of the positive prejudice against the PRS. Without that Framus'd have won in two minutes:D It's just better.
Here is an unfinished song, played with my Panthera, on all channels:
http://superunknown.hu/music/amazingEvolution.mp3
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
No Opinion
Reliability/Durability
:
10
I've picked this for a life. I can't image what can go wrong on a german made guitar, with this quality of wood, and hardware.
Customer Support
:
10
Never had to try, but as far as I know Framus is the only manufacturer that has an international site witch is translated to Hungarian, and to many many other languages. Check out www.framus.de. For me it's irrelevant, but I appreciate this kind of sensitivity towards the customers.
Overall Rating
:
10
I've been playing for about 7 years. This is my second electric guitar. The first was a Yamaha Pacifica, sounded great too:
http://superunknown.hu/music/ConfusedMorning.mp3
http://superunknown.hu/music/RunningTime.mp3
But for me this is a dream-instrument. It has so much inside, I just can't get out of it, that I think it will satisfy me for decades.
If you wouldn't like to spend too much money on an instrument but want a clear, definite sound than this is the one. It's an affordable first class instrument made in the EU.
