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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2016 7:17:34 GMT
Yeah what a crap guitar I think we should buy a Fender instead. Sure it costs 10x the price of HB but at least the screws will be tight on the Fender
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DefJef
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Post by DefJef on Jul 4, 2016 8:38:04 GMT
there's a review of the TE 90 FLT here, which is kinda dubious The clean sound samples on this review sound lovely to me. These Roswell pickups are a bit of a mystery. Only seem to be able to find them direct from the manufacturer n dollars. They certainly look like Filtertrons. Anyone know if they sound like them? You're right though, the review does seem a bit
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DefJef
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Post by DefJef on Jul 4, 2016 8:45:17 GMT
Yes indeed - a great first post! Welcome to the board Mr. and Mrs. Boozyfllozy. Like you I'm not a fan of the belly cut or the reversed headstock. I'll go out on a limb here and say that as a Lefty I almost find reverse headstocks to be kind of insulting. Us Lefties had to put up with them for years, not by choice but by the necessity of having to reverse right handed guitars. If the right handed guitar community wants to experience the lefty experience (even the Jimi Hendrix Experience .. forgive the pun ) then lobby the guitar manufacturers to make more left handed models for all the right handed players who want to feel what it's like to slum it with us lefties! Luckily I've moved on from having to reverse righty strats and indeed if Jimi had the same choice in the 50s and 60s as we have today today I'm sure he wouldn't have had to either...and the legacy of the 'sexy' reverse head stock would never had happened. Go on salteedog. I dare you.
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Post by tarn on Jul 4, 2016 10:17:24 GMT
The clean sound samples on this review sound lovely to me. like the sound samples to, but thy highlight the common treats of filterton(type) pickups. there wonderful sounding with clean and crunch, but don't digest O.D or heavy distortion well. and lack the definition when under (very)high gain. at that moment its like trowing a stone in a puddle, no matter how you trow it its always gone make a splash. maybe not the splash you want but a splash non the less. there great for 50s-60s music, rockabilly, grunge and punk(maybe), ...... , hence why they are not a common type of pickup. but in the end its all in the ear of the beholder, if you like it thats all that matters.
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Post by Lm2 on Jul 4, 2016 16:32:34 GMT
Yeah. I zoned out as the samples entered distortion territory. But the cleans were great. A bit P90-ish Who said clean P90 ? I checked the review. Some remarks : - They wonder if the body is hollow ? Open the "God Damn" pickguard !!!! - Reverse Headstock is New-German ? - The quality is sensational ? Didn't they miss, as earlier mentioned, the screws for the pups ?
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Post by john on Jul 4, 2016 18:06:01 GMT
To sum it up the quality is abysmal and Thomanns reply of "you can expect this at this price range" is amateurish at best and also a bit patronising. But..... what we have here is an £80 guitar that costs £160 and plays and sounds like £500. I'm glad I got one.
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Post by DerAlex on Jul 15, 2016 7:43:08 GMT
there's a review of the TE 90 FLT here, which is kinda dubious one of the plus points is finish!!!!!, yet is clearly visible that the left screws of the bridge pickup sticks way out and the right isn't seated either. I added a comment on the Bondeo-test (which is basically the blog by Thomann) asking about the "quality" of the screws on the humbuckers. They said that "you can expect screws to get loose during transport and they could be drilled in without any problems". Yeah, sure . I had no loose screws on my guitars but maybe I am just lucky. Anyway, enjoy the sound of your guitar and maybe you can upload a track some time because I would be really interested in listening how it sounds.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2016 17:14:55 GMT
According to Henning Pauli he had received very expensive guitars with screws not tightened properly and even in case of a through-body-strings the rings at the back not aligned at all and even falling out. He said that because he was impressed with the HB guitars he got (talking about the TE-90QM in this case). Sure things can get improved but so far I had no issues with returning gear I wasnt happy with. Telling by the reviews it seems that not all guitars from the same batch or model are the same, some good others bad. This sure can be expected with such cheap guitars. Cheaper than affordable let me remind you. Chappers and Captain call 500 Euro guitars cheap I mean to have one guy at Thomann check all the guitars before shipment will increase the cost considerably. But what I would like them to have is an optional service charge for set-up in case I wish to pay it (which I wouldn't mind to be honest in case its not more than 50 Euros). All that said I do understand the feeling of disappointment we get once we receive a badly set up guitar. I was there and I moan a lot when I get such but once my head cools down I realize that without Harley Benton I would not be playing daily for more than 2 years now and recording and having fun, maybe even improving my playing who knows.
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Post by DerAlex on Jul 15, 2016 20:40:43 GMT
I fully agree with you papache, I mean we are talking about guitars for less than 200 EUR. But what I don´t like is that stupid attitude to deny facts on the photos and patronizing customers. And this should be regardless of the price. Bonedo could have said "Yes, there were flaws which we detected after shooting the photos but they could be easily fixed". And someone said Thomann even told them that they should expect that kind of flaws with a cheap guitar. Thomann should have said - "Ok, if you don´t like it send it back. No problem". I am not sure if the guitar was shipped to the US and this hassle was due to no free shipping back. And one cannot expect Thomann to pay for the shipping costs worldwide. That should be obvious. Anyway my two HBs are perfect from a price-performance perspective and flaws can happen everywhere. So I will wait for the next batches to arrive at Thomann, would like to have a CST-24 with coil split functionality.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2016 21:15:43 GMT
I had Thomann telling me that I should not expect the cheap HB acoustic sound like a Martin or Tailor guitar but they sure paid for he return and I got me cash back, which is the most important thing for me.
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Post by tarn on Jul 16, 2016 7:43:00 GMT
Chapers and The Captain call 500 Euro guitars cheap i rather call them Jester and the Thief. on an other note i recently came across a rather interesting picture of the fender custom shop george harrison rosewood tele. ill let you guess whats not quit wright with it. in the meantime ill point out thats a €10.000 guitar.
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Post by oghkhood on Jul 16, 2016 13:20:32 GMT
TEN eur that's very cheap
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