Switch Wild IV MIDI

This is a 2005. Here is the factory blurb

Vibracell? One piece neck & body
1 Red Hot humbucking bridge position
1 Red Hot humbucking neck position
String through body
Roland GK-2A MIDI ready pickup
Fixed bridge

Black hardware

Grover tuners

Rosewood fingerboard
Pearl dot inlays

3-way toggle switch
Dual volume controls
3-way mini switch for MIDI / blend / pickup
Up & down switch to control MIDI

13 pin MIDI ready output & 1/4" input jack

Scale: 24 3/4"
Neck width @ nut: 1 21/32"
22 Frets

I wish it had a tone control for the humbucker pickups. So a 9 here

I tried it straight in to a Lexicon G2 and a Park combo so far.
The sound is a warm sound considering that they are ceramics in there and the lack of a tone knob leaves the pickups wide open. I compared it to an Ibanez high end and a Les Paul Copy with L6S pickups. It seemed to be closer to the Les Paul copy in tone. The Ibanez was brighter. It is a double coil guitar so it does have some beef to the tone but the lowend is fairly tight and not too honky.

This axe looks great. Keep in mind this leans more towards a futuristic look rather than classic which is what I prefer. But it is what it is and has a smart look to it. I bought it for the midi pickup.
The d had a slight buzz but a little tweak fixed that. I changed the strings to a higher guage anyways so I had to adjust the neck and intonate the strings. There are individual saddles so you have control here. It plays great.

I think this guitar should be great live. The tracking is outstanding
except I am having a weird glitch where the OPEN d string fades out and falsly triggers a 2nd harmonic midi note. It is only that note on that string!! I think it is due to the resonate nature of the guitar but a call to their tech informed that they never had this problem before. So I have to wait and try this out on different rigs before I can honestly say what is happening here.
Other than that the guitar is solid and the tuners are great and I still can reccomend for midi because it tracks very well except for that glitch.

Here is where the company is outstanding. I originally bought the Wild I midi and I had the same glitch with the midi pickup which is why I'm thinking that it could be something on my end.
I called Switch and they just said "Where do you want us to pick it up?" So at no cost, I shipped it out. The tech fixed some grounding on it but couldn't be sure if they fixed the midi glitch or not because he couldn't get it do what I described through there setup.
Switch discontinued the Wild I so they offered a replacement. The Wild IV midi, at no extra cost!! It's the same thing with a different finish and it has 2 pickups instead of 1. He added that I should call them if there are any problems or if I want to send this one back too because of the glitch but I do want to try it in other systems first.
You don't get that kind of customer service nowadays. An 11 should go here.

I've been playing 35 years and I own lots of gear. If it got stolen I would probably upgrade because It think the company is great and the product is excellent and fresh. I'd like to see there whole line. That make some beatiful instruments. I don't mind synthetics. I own and play a Reverend that I love.