Product: Sears Effector
Price Paid: US $150 used
Submitted
04/30/2002
at
07:47pm
by
Tanis Rafter
Email: tanisgr<at>aol dot com
Features
:
7
Plywood explorer-style guitar, thick round neck, rosewood fretboard. Two humbuckers, with no switching system. Vintage-style tremolo. There are a bunch of buttons you push in to get effects: phase reverse, disortion, chorus, delay, and tremolo. Volume, tone, and effect speed knobs. Bad, thick white finish with chrome hardware and ugly orange-cream colord humbuckers.
Sound
:
1
It sounds absolutely terrible! The intonation was horrible, the pickups harsh as bad single-coils... The effects were...um...odd. The phase reverse was a regular, decent phase reverse. Distortion would have been great with different pickups, a smooth, seething tone with nice thickening. The tremolo, chous, and delay all sounded alike--a warbling with slight variatins in character, and no level controls, and very low quality--I'd never use any of these. With new pickups, a noise-rock or nu-metal band would dig it. I play jazz and jazz-rock, however.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
1
Terrible--the intonation, the action, all wrong. Neck was too thick--even for me, and I like thick necks. Thicker than a PRS thick neck. Pickups were set at a good height.
Finish was ugly and thick.
Reliability/Durability
:
No Opinion
Definitely a bang-up guitar, but stayed in poor tune.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
2
Terrible but interesting. I would buy it again for $50... If I was into spacy/scrappy noise-playing, I'd be a find with some SERIOUS work. I'd block off the tremolo, get new pickups, and take it to a pro-setup guy. It's weird extras that save this from being a Peavey Pradator or othere worst-of-the-worst beginner guitars.
