Pointy with ebony board and TKL softcase

[DonP]

A Dean Z Eighty-Eight in gunmetal grey. These any good?

[j2379]

not really, back in the day one of my students had one. the trem sucks and it was a decent starter guitar.

[CowboyFromHell]

I gotta agree. It's a decent starter, but beyond that I wouldn't really recommend it.

[DonP]

Well, everything for $90 was a little too hard to pass up LOL!

I plugged it in last night. The first single by the neck is pretty high output, like a humbucker. The middle sounds stratty. The bridge threw me off until I figured it out. It's a three position mini switch. The middle position is off. One way is humbucker, the other way is split.

The neck feels nice. Similar to a Model series, but no model series ever had ebony.

The trem is blocked. I'm not sure how, but it is.

[toejam]

Those old EMG Select pickups are pretty decent... a little dark sounding from what I remember.

[Accept2]

Those old EMG Select pickups are pretty decent... a little dark sounding from what I remember.

This must be the first time in the history of the internet that someone has called EMG Selects something other than a derivative of the word shit. I guess you wait long enough and everything becomes vintage or classic. To quote Comic Book Guy, "Worst pickups ever."..............

[toejam]

Had a pair in a Dinky Reverse in the late '90s... they really weren't bad for Korean pickups, just a tad on the bassy/dark side (not muddy, though).

[DonP]

Those old EMG Select pickups are pretty decent... a little dark sounding from what I remember.

I think you are right. Still in the "Getting to know you" phase

[amimbari]

selects suck, are super bassy and are ONLY good where they should be....in a bass....