Product: Vintage VR2000MD Raider
Price Paid: GBP 250
Submitted
01/16/2007
at
05:22pm
by
Pang Liang
Email: Domoarigato_mr_robato<at>yahoo dot co dot uk
Features
:
4
metal flake red or blue
Ibanez super strat shape
Floyd Rose FL floating trem
locking grover style
25.5" scale maple neck kinda round
gig bag and 1 set of spare strings
korea, 2005
24 frets
solid top
volume and tone
H/S/H
Vintage bladed pups, though now they are Wlikinson regular pups now
pssive
body is maple and plywood neck is maple, fretboard is maple or rosewood
Sound
:
5
it says it all 'metal aXXe'
peavey, the amp I got with it sounds really dirty
very noisy... White noisy on full gain
tinny and bassy at the same time with NO MID RANGE!
pantera metallica, struggles with megadeth. a good santabarbara sound sometimes
I like the goodness for what it is I hate the weight and naff electronics
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
4
pretty well, intoned, tuned FR not set up well but there was desent action
badly
yep.
there was a divvet on the back of my neck...
Reliability/Durability
:
5
the guitar will, the e string and tuning won't
yeap it's floyd rose
arg easily chipped easily chipped
yeap and the match the rest of the hardware too
yes
no
Customer Support
:
3
nope yes
1 year
specresound aren't helpfull most of the time... but i haven't done anything with vintage soooo...
Overall Rating
:
7
2 years 4 other guitars
can we go to a different guitar shop?
nope I'd let it be stolen
I love the great action when set up I hate the weight
a ??3k fender I didn't like the fender
i wish it had a thinner body
I'm allready lending it to my mum you want me to share my Ibanez too!?!?! XD don't get one unless you're a begginner
Product: Vintage VR2000MD Raider
Price Paid: 185 (In Sale) (#)
Submitted
10/23/2003
at
01:22pm
by
Arrows
Features
:
8
A nice 24 fretted guitar with H/S/H config, 1 vol and 1 tone dial and a 5-way selector switch. A nice fully locking floating tremelo on it. The shape is like a strat with alot more pointy horns.. bit like an Ibanez. Oh.. also - a reverse headstock makes it look wierd..
Sound
:
9
Suits my style of music well... its good for metal, punk and that kinda stuff... but you can also get a pretty quiet clean sound out of it. Very nice sound comes out of the guitar.. made even better with my new pedal :)
The pickups are blades which means you can do the largest of bends and it still picks up just as good hehe... Why you would want to bend that much is beyond me though...
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
6
This is where the guitar scores bad...
Out of the factory it is pretty bad - basically
I have had to:
Adjust the action to stop fretbuzz but stay low enough for easier playing
Adjust intonation
Open it up to re-fit the bridge pickup because the spring wasnt in place
Re-adjust the tremelo to sit straight on the body which is a huge task for someone who just got their first Floyd Rose
And to this day I have to adjust the height of the floating pickups as they constantly sink into the body. First guitar with floating pickups, I dont know if they normally do this :S
Reliability/Durability
:
8
Everything is great. Thick coat of paint for less chips, solidly built... everything is tightly attached and wont break off... only problem is self-adjusting pickups hehe... but a screwdriver fixes that in no time...
Customer Support
:
8
The shop I got it from were happy to show me how to use my Floyd Rose when I first replaced strings.. but I just checked floydrose.com and it told me
Overall Rating
:
8
Its a great guitar when you tweak it... I get pissed off with readjusting pickups all the time but you get used to it... Put up with its "out of the box" faults until you fix em and its a great guitar! Well worth the money.. hehe
