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This guitar is my new favorite, the neck is simply unbeatable. It's a beautiful monster I feel honored to weild. The tone is great, string tension is great, and the fan frets feel so natural.

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Now that I have owned one for about six months, I feel I can write an honest review of this guitar. I gave it four stars on ease of use based solely on the fact that the neck is HUGE and takes some getting used to for a short period of time. Otherwise I find this guitar to be well built, and quality all the way around. If you are super into barre' chords then the fanned frets may not be for you. This guitar has a good range of tones from the bridge to the neck pickup and compared to my six string (Godin) has a lot of output for a non active pickups.Aesthetically it has nice lines and a "basic black" elegance to it. I also like how the the fret markers are on swapped to the other side in the higher register of the neck.

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First off, I got the demo version of the product mainly to see the test of time, etc; I'll start with the very few negatives. 1. The guitar came with a separate tuning peg for the lowest string than the rest, however it is a demo model, 2. the tuning stability is not solid, and the intonation is off by about 15-35 cents which can be major or you could be Frusciante, and 3. a negative and a positive: the pickups are hot AF!!Now for everything that $100 setup can't fix. The neck is butter, this thing has amazing resonance, the action is like floating on a breeze without the bees and the 5-way selection switch turned this tech-rhythm Schecter-stan, bridge-only, concrete-tone player into a tone-seeking, shred-bound fiend. For the price that it is for a fresh model, I don't think theres a better 8 string. Go under by $200 and an 8 string isn't worth it IMO and $200 over, it better be a Schecter or the competition is relative or at a loss. The minor grain of salt is that I'm a first time owner of an 8, but it's a minor grain because I'm a long-time player of below-budget extended-range guitars of all kinds (personal favorite is my $250 Haze 7-string), my experience with 8's is about 100 hours between low and high-end and I've been playing guitar about 20 years. Plus, I terrorized Guitar Centers, local music shops, friend's collections and Sam Ash (RIP) for the past 10 years. If you want a full-house of tone, easy access and capability beyond price, this is the answer. Bar none. Overall: Expect a bit of tin from the pickups and run hotter mids, because they CUT. Get 11-90s+ or run it at Drop F or an equivalent raised tuning. Learn to drop the gain on your amp/VST. Get it.Score: 9.2/10

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