Product: Mayones KTM2
Price Paid: US 275
Submitted
06/06/2006
at
07:34am
by
michal
Features
:
8
Made in 2005, in Poland (Gdansk, i think) 24 frets (Schaller, excelent quality). Solid alder body, v.good quality maple neck. Stock Hohner pickups (HH setup), 1 tone, 1 volume. Strat shape.
Sound
:
9
I play many different styles, but recently RCHP, Tool, A perfect Circle, Nirvana, Metallica and stuff. I changed the stock bridge pick up to Seymour Duncan SH-6. Also maked a push pull tone pot for hum canceling. Sound is variable: on bridge hum middy and perfectly balanced. Excelent for playing Rock and Metal music on distortion. But it's also pickup making this great sound. On bridge coil splitted, sound is bit noisy, but clean is wonderful. Exactly like John Frusciante (RHCP) on "Scar Tissue" or Enter Sandman intro with some eq correction. Neck Pup isnt very good, but better than a lot of other ones. I'm just using it very rarely. Sounding very rich, fat sound. Little bit more bassy, but if you want mid/treble, set to bridge position. Summary - good wood with great SD pickup makes it GREAT sound. I compared to lots of CORT - beats them.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
Low action (lower than friend's LP!!), Mayones definietly have good people there. All adjusted properly. OK!
Reliability/Durability
:
No Opinion
Giggin' without backup. Solid work
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
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No Opinion
What to say? All have been said before. With new pickup, it's best guitar in this price range. Cheap one, but with power and sound. Lot better than the new ones
Product: Mayones KTM2
Price Paid: 714 (PLN)
Submitted
04/07/2005
at
06:50am
by
Zee Kat
Features
:
8
Rather inexpensive Polish made Jackson-dinky style solidbody, probably made in 2000, 24 frets, two korean made humbuckers with three way switch, master volume and master tone controls, gotoh two-point vintage tremolo (sort of, should be called "gotoh vintage detuner", whammy bar is best for decoration - longer than typical strat one) and Schaller tuners. Mine is glossy black and has alder body with maple neck/fingerboard and chrome hardware. Oh yes, and a nice roller-nut.
Neck isn't racing-style, but still very comfortable one.
This model is available in many colors, with painted/unpainted neck, with black/chrome hardware and H-S-S/H-H pickup configuration. I got mine, coz it was black and has only humbuckers in it (so 3vil).
Sound
:
8
This is beginner guitar with budget pickups, so sound isn't particulary great. Best suited for rock/metal playing, nice long sustain thanks to no-floating bridge and, I suppose, heavy body.
For my amateur, unexperienced ear supported by tiny Roland GC-405 amp it sounds a bit artificial, lacking "warmth", better on distortion than clean. Very noisless, though.
Replacing pickups is quite reasonable solution to the problems above - but it's still mainly rock/metal axe, with bright sound (chuggachuggachugga*sqeeeeal*). Not bad.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
Nice action out-of-the-box, strings are quite low, but not buzzing with frets. Everything is made very well, straight neck, properly made frets, everything works nice and smooth. Only complaints for paintwork, but these are rather tiny glitches (you have to look close to spot them).
Reliability/Durability
:
8
Been played about two (or three) years, not too hard and only in home. Volume knob started to crackle a bit, bridge humbucker mounting frame got b0rked (shitty plastic, but a drop of superglue helped). Apart of it, everything is nice and right. Frets are high quality (company says these are Schallers - hard to check it, they don't sign them), tuners are great, maintaining tuning isn't a problem even with shitload of bending and vibrato (whammy bar-free, of course). Bridge is equally shity as it was when I bought it :)
Due to it's weight it seems to be very effective weapon (of rather short range, about 25,5 inch), but, well, peace, brothers.
Customer Support
:
6
Was with 1-year warranty, but fortunately haven't use it. I was contact with them once, and wasn't too great. But it's story for the another review (I'll post it in another review in "Flame" section - Flame is subbrand of Mayones, or Mayones is subrand of Flame, whatever)
Overall Rating
:
9
I'm "sunday guitarist", can't play too well, but like it and don't want to get rid of guitar(s) :). I'm very glad I bought this piece of axe, it was good decision. It's very spiffy little guitar, if it were stolen, I'd probably bought the same model. Only sucky thing is bridge, but if you get rid of whammy bar it's perfectly ok fixed bridge :)