Product: Framus Panthera Studio Pro
Price Paid: EURO (750)
Submitted
07/09/2005
at
05:05am
by
GOK
Features
:
10
The guitar is a new panthera studio pro, built in Germany 2005;
type: natural oil finish
body wood: mahagony with a flamed maple top; neck wood: ovangkol.
Passive electronics, hardware in chrome, TunO'matic brudge, framus guitar maschine heads.
The pickups are: FR SD HB/SC/HB, original Seymour Duncan:
1 x SAPH-1N,
1 x SAPS1,
1 x SSH4.
The switches are: 3-way switch for humbucker selektion and a "lead free" switch for lead pickup direkt to the jack.
1 x master volume; 1 x volume for Single Coil pull neck pickup split; 1 x tone pull: briudge humbucker splitting.
The guitar has his own design, could bee seen as a very intelligent and pretty mixture between Strat and les Paul.
Sound
:
10
First of all an most important: the guitar sounds incredible great without amplification, has a great sustain; construction and wood-selection give a great impression of how a electric guitar should sound without frippery.
The good impression will be confirmed by playing her with an amp. (I play over a fender blues junior and an roland bolt-60, as and effect pedal board I use and boss gt-3).
The possibility of various combinations and mix of the pickups makes the guitar to an All-around-talent. I don't know a more versatile guitar, exept possibly the Godin-LGX with midi.
I get an warmer Jazz sound as with my gibsen ES-150, realy incredible; but I can sound more stratlike (e.g. the early Marc Knopfler) as my friend with his expensive vintage stratocaster. Even to rock out and play with distrortion, the guitar has the necessary pressure.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
I get the guitar since some month and changed nothing. Everything was and is still OK. I'm a fan of a natural look, where you can see all the wood; so every time I take her out of the case in her natural oil finish I'm a happy man.
Reliability/Durability
:
No Opinion
I like to get old with this guitar. About the solidy in general I can't say anything, because the guitar isn't old enough.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
10
I play guitar and several guitars since 20 years; taste and styles changed. Now I prefere jazz/fusion/ethno sounds and therefore I think the guitar is perfect - but doesn't matter, this guitar seems to be suitable for every style. Because no other guitar I owned by myself or by friends or tried out somewhere has convinced me more I like to confess: I'm at the moment not envy to anyone who ownes an other electric guitar. The only mistake is: the guitar is as heavy as a Les Paul, but there are things its worth to suffer.
