SixStringSamurai.co.nz Gear Review: Tokai ES60 + Gear Vault

[hamo]

Unintended review side-effect: that new plexi model on the HD sounds pretty good...

[higainer]

Great review.

Well done Ed

[bobiron]

Nice review, my iPad won't play the soundcloud clips damn it. I have always liked the sound of this style guitar. Nice writing and review flow.

[vintage52]

Ahem.

Apologies Rhett.

Have since searched and found and read.

[sopachrga]

Nice review, my iPad won't play the soundcloud clips damn it. I have always liked the sound of this style guitar. Nice writing and review flow.

There is a SoundCloud app that'll take care of that.

[Pastasauce]

Ahem.

Apologies Rhett.

Have since searched and found and read.

No need to apologise.

...I've mellowed since then. A bit.

[MogwaiBoy]

Great site, great review! Looks and sounds like a fantastic guitar on a budget.

Also very impressed by the quality/authenticity of the amp simulations.

[Scooter13]

Listened to all the sounclips on my best headphones. They're great.
After reading you comments on the pickups, I can't help thinking the only thing missing was real amp moving real air. Have you had a chance to try that yet? It would be interesting to hear what you thought of the pickups once they're surrounded by jiggly shaky air and resonating wood.

I think of 335s, gretsches and other hollow bodies as always on the verge of exploding in feedback. Especially in gainy crunchy rock music. The whole guitar is responding to the sound coming at it and that seems to push the guitarist to adjust their playing to suit. It can sound awesome and totally different, to me, to how you'd play on the usual solid body guitars.

Good to hear you like your headphones Capt
Agree about the resonating guitar thing. I think it makes a good difference in tone with solid bodies so would be interesting to hear what it's like with a semi... (ohh err)

[Capt. Black]

Yes. I love them.

[slash-ed]

Thanks guys, feedback much appreciated

Haha I was about to post re: Capt's headphones.

I have indeed played the ES-60 "out loud", and while it probably does sound a little gruntier, the basic sound is actually captured quite well using the HD.

I'll look into better cross-posting/social media integration this weekend - as I said, I'm very, very new to this, so bear with me as I fumble through it.

Looks like there could be some interest in clips of the HD500? I might post a list of the amp models, and see what you guys think of as "classic" tones for them, and try to do something with that, with only the basic amp models/drives without any advanced EQing.

[hamo]

Thanks guys, feedback much appreciated

Haha I was about to post re: Capt's headphones.

I have indeed played the ES-60 "out loud", and while it probably does sound a little gruntier, the basic sound is actually captured quite well using the HD.

I'll look into better cross-posting/social media integration this weekend - as I said, I'm very, very new to this, so bear with me as I fumble through it.

Looks like there could be some interest in clips of the HD500? I might post a list of the amp models, and see what you guys think of as "classic" tones for them, and try to do something with that, with only the basic amp models/drives without any advanced EQing.

Really interested in hearing Motley Crue and early Zakk style tones.

[sheepyd]

hwikurd review

whats the neck shape like on this?

[slash-ed]

Ah yes sorry, haven't had time to fix that yet - it's somewhere between a C and a D. Rounded and comfortable, but not too fat for my midget hands!

[slash-ed]

I just put up the first "Gear Vault" post - see if you guys think it's a good idea!

http://sixstringsamurai.co.nz/2012/05/0 ... -standard/

[SammyD]

I like the idea of the vault ed, we all know it's a pretty big vault. Was it this forum you got it from??