I love my guitars so much!. It can expel my bored or sad things when I play them.
I have 2 guitars. Today,I want to review my electric guitar. This model is called WI66 IDOL of washburn's brand. I purchase it from internet. It made from Korea. I think so its cost is reasonably. It can widely play genre of songs. Pop, Jazz, Rock up to Metal.
This beauty has a tobacco burst carved maple top on a single cut mahogany body. It's a mahogany set neck with a rosewood fretboard. Tune-O-Matic style bridge, Grover 18:1 tuners. Has a 3-way pickup selector switch, two volume knobs and two Voice Contour Control knobs, all giving you control over a Seymour Duncan '59 at the neck and a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom at the bridge. The VCC allows you to get single coil-type sounds out of both pickups. It also has the Buzz Feiten Tuning System. The overall appearance of this guitar is truly striking!
While I really admire what Washburn have tried to achieve with the Voice Contour Control,I think that what they give you with one hand they take away with the other. It's a compromise. The VCC single coil sound is quite convincing and useful on the neck pup and, unlike a traditional true coil tapped single coil sound,is utterly void of hum. However,the ability to blend the humbucker and single coil sounds is a bit pointless in my opinion. At around 5 both pickups get muddy,lose definition and tone. The VCC works best on the bridge pickups and you can get some very stratty/telecasteresque single coil sounds. My main gripe though is that the volume controls are a complete bag of shit. You can't use these to clean up an overdriven amp sound because they only give you all or nothing...a pathetic oversight on Washburn's part. Turn them below 10 and your volume barely drops and your treble is sucked out. The volume is only affected between 0 and 1,but by this stage you have zero treble or tone left and your guitar just quacks. Why do Washburn make all that effort in their quality control and pack all of these features in, only to not even bother to put the correct kind of volume pots in without a couple of capacitors to counteract the treble bleed?! This is POOR but easily rectified. The pots and switch are quite cheap, so I would suggest installing a decent Switchcraft pickup selector switch and four good quality pots. I'm going to wire it back up with a more conventional push/pull volume pot setup for for true coil tapping,together with some tone pots,thus removing the VCC altogether. VCC isn't available on the high-end Idol Series guitars, so why did they choose to fit it on the upper mid to low end of the range?
In full humbucker mode on the bridge the WI66 Pro seriously nails rock and metal. Bags of mids with tons of growl and bite,great feedback and sustain and awesome note definition. You can hear every single note ring out,no matter how much gain you're using. It's a little bright,and with the absence of a tone control you can compensate for this in your amp's EQ settings. The neck pickup does grunge,rock and blues superbly.
If you want to purchase it. You can find it here. Not to ask me for sell this. No way to sell it. Cuz, It's my love... :)
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