Product: Swing Guitar Technology Classic DC
Price Paid: EURO 585
Submitted
07/30/2007
at
04:22am
by
Alexander
Features
:
10
Body: Mahogany
Top: 20mm Hard Maple
Neck: Mahogany
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Number of Frets: 22
Scale Length: 629 mm(24.75 inches)
Hardware Color: Chrome
Machine Heads: Grover
Bridge: Wilkinson
Pickups: Seymour Duncan (2x)
Controls: 1 Volume, 1 Tone
Color: Amber
Strings: D'addario 010
Rating 10 for excellent quality of features (hardware and electronics).
Sound
:
10
Styles I play are jazz, jazzrock fusion, blues, rock, pop, latin, gospel.
Amps: Marshall 6101 30th anniversary combo, Marshall Valvestate Bi-Chorus 200, Sessionette 75, Roland Cube 30.
Effects: Digitech 2120, Digitech RP350, various Boss pedals.
The guitar has a pretty standard Humbucker/Humbucker configuration with the standard 3-way toggle switch. The Seymour Duncan's provide excellent sound quality with plenty of body on the neck pickup and fat tone for gain on the bridge pickup.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
Action: This is something that is very player specific. The action upon delivery was good, but most players will need the action set up to their personal preferences anyway, so no real comment on this.
Construction and finish is just about perfect, no flaws discovered as of yet. You can't getter better construction than this, no matter how many thousands of euros you add to the purchase amount.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
Guitar has been stage tested by me already and came out victorious. The sound cuts through, the hardware is solid and reliable. This is a real working man's tool of high and excellent quality.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Did not have to deal with them, so I don't know.
Overall Rating
:
10
Been playing for 15+ years. By now I own several other Swing guitars, among which a Jeff Watson signature model, which is a Classic DC model but with different looks, 24 frets, EMG pickups, solid bridge. Several other guitars, tele, strat, Guild X500 jazz guitar.
This guitar is becoming one of my standard working instruments. I love everything about it. Would (or probably will) buy it again.
Value for money is superb!
I paid a bit more (585 EURO) than standard price (about 495 EURO) because of the Seymour Duncans.
Product: Swing Guitar Technology Classic DC
Price Paid: 425 (EURO)
Submitted
06/17/2006
at
02:54am
by
H.M.
Features
:
9
Made in 2006 this is a Korean PRS copy double cut. Mahogny body with 20mm hard maple top. Mahogny 12" set neck with rosewood fingerboard and jumbo frets. Scale lenght 24.75". With 2 passivw humbuckers and 3 way toggle switch. 1 volume control and 1 tone control. High quality chrome hardware. Grover tuners and Wilkinson WVP Tremolo bridge.
Sound
:
9
I'm using this baby with several amps. Mesa rackgear, Triaxis 2.1, 2:90 and G-Major with MESA and ENGL cabs. Also use a JCM 900 and a JCM 800 with Marshall cabs. I'm playing all kinds of music. Blues, Country, Hard Rock. The guitar has a full and fat tone. The Swing branded pickups are good for lots of styles. Humbucker crunch is very good, and it has excellent clean sounds. It comes very close to my PRS CE. Because of the set neck it has unbelievable sustainnnnnnnnnnnnn. Even more than my PRS!
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
Those Korean guys really know what they are doing! The action is low but not to low, just fine for me. This guitar was in 100% condition when a bought it. Couldn't fine any defects or flaws. Fantastic!
Reliability/Durability
:
10
I own the the Classic DC for a couple of months now. The hardware is first class, so that won't let me down. Every thing is solid on this guitar I have use it without any backup. It is phenomenal!
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Never dealt with.
Overall Rating
:
9
If it got stolen, I would definitely buy a new one. Would even trade my PRS for one!
