UNBIASED GEAR REVIEW - Skervesen Raptor 7 - 7-string Guitar
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Special thanks to subscriber Joseph Taylor for sending me the guitar to review.
2015 Skervesen Raptor 7 - 7-string guitar
5-piece Maple/Walnut Neck
Bolt-on construction
Swamp Ash body with Black Limba top
Ebony fretboard with 24 stainless steel frets and rosewood binding
Bare Knuckle Nailbomb pickups
Hipshot bridge
Hipshot locking tuners
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Well that is super old model...
They stepped up their game recently in terms of QC and finishes.
for 3-5k I would hope so!
Thanks Arnold, I really enjoy your "in details" review!
It's really interesting point that you make about the bareknuckle as well, I was considering those pickups at some point.
Kaosware more than any other piece of gear out there I just cannot understand the appeal OUTSIDE of djent players. I mean, they are PERFECT for that genre, but everything else just sounds so subdued. I've tried Nailbombs, Juggarnauts, Cold Sweats, Aftermaths, Emeralds, painkillers, and Miracle Mans, and I just haven't found ANYTHING that is appetizing at all. Granted I haven't tried War Pigs and everyone says that if there was ever a BKP I would love, it's that...but...experiences up to this point do not leave me holding my breath.
thanks for the feedback!
Did you get a chance to try out Seymour Duncan Nazgul & Sentient ? I think those pickups can satisfy "djen't player and more straightforward metal. Those are the ones I have on my Schecter Keith Merrow
ArnoldPlaysGuitar I owned the ceramic war pigs and had them in a mahogany bodied ibanez. Very thick and chunky, balls for days, but lacking in his mids to highs for attack and pinch harmonics. What pickups do you find ideal for brutal tones. Been eyeing the d-activators or a lundgren m7 of which I did find chunky with good attack
Try Something whit Alico 8 or a Hot Alnico 5 , Ceramics have a high output but lack many other things I think Bare Knuckle have the option of magnets like I don't knoy the PAINKILLERS you can have it Cramic or Alnico , may be a Seymour Duncan or Dimarzio Blaze, many brands and many models can do de job and don't need to be ultra expensive (Lundgren)
ArnoldPlaysGuitar I’ve had two pairs of AlNiCo Warp it’s in two of my Gibson V’s and they’re amazing for doom metal. Deep and heavy with a smooth top that is clear but not too bright, driving mid’s and seems to work great with higher gain drive and thick fuzz without being too muddy. They also clean up really well which is nice because I use a single channel Matamp cranked so my only cleans come from backing off the guitar’s volume.
Nice review!
Completely agree with your assessment of the Nailbombs.
It doesn't matter whether you ground it on the pot or the copper foil, it doesn't give you any advantages in an electrical sense. My guess is that they thought that wiring it to the the foil would make future repairs less messy. If you need to change a pot then you have to remove the solder and then solder it to the new pot. Also the wires might get broken or pulled off if you take the back plate off regularly to mess with the electronics.
Jordan Keating good to know. Thank you
Just because something's not "common practice" doesn't (automatically) mean it's wrong. And as a pet-peeve of mine, i'm not a huge fan of people critiquing what they don't (entirely) understand.
Just a thought... :)
I have never in my life seen grounding to cavity shielding. That’s ridiculous and weird. Unless somebody had been tinkering with the guitar themselves after buying it and did that. Even then I think most people understand grounding to a pot lol. Have you ever seen a wiring diagram showing ground to cavity shielding! Lol doesn’t mean it won’t function the same it’s just odd. In my opinion.
Ease of repair, yup
Fantastic video bro! I am very very picky when it comes to pickups.. I understand the predicament.
“Bare knuckles ... all attack but where’s the balls?” 👏🙌 nailed that phrase
Cool riff! Almost has both a Death and Gojira vibe!
most interesting thing out of this review is the fact that he gets new grooves etc very easily and is inspiring him. So this might be a perfect writing tool with character.
I appreciate the attention to detail in your reviews. Keep it up.
I've always wanted to see an in depth review of one of these guitars. They look really badass and I want to see if they live up to the hype.
Jonathan Sefcik short answer, try before you buy one secondhand and you might find an incredible one. This...was not.
ArnoldPlaysGuitar I found a written review somewhere where they talked about the same wood shrinkage problems yours had. The back of the neck on their model shrunk slightly because the oils in the woods dried out. It was all in the back of the neck so they smoothed it out just by sanding it a little. They had other build quality complaints similar to yours, too.
Your spot on with your observations. Also as a builder the wiring grounds are reminiscent of old 1980s jacksons and bc rich. They all used that copper plate ground plate. They work good man
Excellent choice of guitar to review and stellar job!
As usual, great review. Very detailed.
Nothing wrong with the pickups, you just have to adjust the amp and use more gain.
Gustav Gjerstad I'm using high-gain profiles with the gain nearly maxed, and I'm plugging the Direct Out into the Line In on my interface with is giving a stronger DI signal than through the mic inputs. In many of my other videos, you'll notice a trend of folks complaining about the levels peaking, and it is because of how my setup was. This is the last video that I recorded using the Direct signal into the Line In so for this video, nothing was changed at all as far as the recording method was concerned and yet it still sounds weak as hell. Definitely the dogshit pickups.
Found the BKP fanboi
ArnoldPlaysGuitar hey man, is there a fretless MTd bass on the wall hanger? Can I expect a demo review of it? I'm looking for a 35 inches fretless and the cheapest option seems to be an mtd
Sry for really late reply but did you adjust the pickups? Raising BKP closer to the strings makes a huge difference output wise.
gain is for the insecure
Copper leaf is a common way to shield a guitar. I do it to most of my guitars. Most companies used to shield both cavities but have stopped for some reason. Today most companies only shield the pickup cavity but not the volume+tone pod cavity. Believe it or not, aluminum foil is just as effective at shielding as copper leaf. Many would argue this fact, but all you need to do is take a sheet of copper and aluminum and compare the conductivity. They're almost identical.
If you're using active pickups like Blackouts or any EMG, shielding the volume/tone pod cavity isn't that big of a deal as long as the pickup cavity is shielded (usually done with a special paint). Since most guitarists do not have this kind of paint, use leaf. Its super easy to do. There are youtube videos showing how to do it.....otherwise the guitar tech will charge you anywhere from $90-$180. It takes 20 minutes.
Your channel is literally perfect I don't understand how you don't have a million subs
You just sold me on those pickups,, they sounded great!!!
These reviews have been so helpful. If ever you have a chance, I'd love to hear your unbiased opinion on overload guitars. No one else seems to be quite as honest and to the point as you during reviews. Thanks for these!
It sounds like it pains you to say anything negative about this guitar and I appreciate that. You want to find the best in everything but you have to mention those things in a review like this. Love your reviews man.
and YES! Please add a nice short beer review! Live by any breweries?
Hybrid138 not breweries, but I occasionally stumble across an awesome beer bar that sells as well as serves.
THANK YOU! Builders need to tap the woods or check density. Anyone who played an "ultra low density" mahogany LP 2015 vs a 2014 knows. It's night and day.
Stumbled upon your videos by accident, but I´m really glad I did. Great content, dude! And it´s nice to see a fellow Soreption fan ;)
I dig your reviews man, subbed!
this must be an older raptor, i heard they had problems like this, but they have improved, i got a skervesen shoogie and it is perfect in every way
Refreshing to see someone not just drool over a boutique guitar because of its price! Keep up the good work mayn
Man I'm really not into your tone or mix at all. It sounds super scooped with a shrill high end that I really don't dig at all.
I literally don't even know how I'd show you that if I cared to. But I mean I play an ibanez rg550 through an evh5150 and it sounds dope. Definitely full and well rounded.
@Dood Ranch Yeah, I know what you mean. Videomaker either has bad taste/doesn't know what cuts in the mix or no clue how to dial in amps..
Both my used Carvin mid 2000's CT4T and used Kiesel 2014 DC600 are grounded to the copper shielding. Maybe it's more common these days, I don't know.
As to your comment the guitar "not being resonant": While the additional thin layers of different woods on several Skervesen guitars look stunning, I have always wondered whether putting so much different pieces of wood together might deteriorate the tone. Supposedly there is a reason why cheaper guitars are made of a higher number of chunks of wood compared to more expensive guitars?
I've visited both Maynones and Skervesen. Both where very friendly and undertook some effort to show me their product range. At that time I was thinking of ordering one of their guitars. Seeing their facilities was somehow a little disillusioning, especially at Skervesen. From my experience producing excellent quality requires an adequate environment. I like the Skervesen designs (e.g. I found the Swan to be a very ergonomic design) and I'm still thinking about getting one. For a custom made guitar the price points are very attractive in my opinion. It's just that I'm concerned that I might be disappointed when I finally receive the instrument I have ordered. Your review strengthend this concerns. This is why I'm currenly rather looking out for a preowned Skerv where you can be sure of what you get for your money.
The Nailbomb pickup set was meant to be more of a Thrash Metal kind of pickup, but if you want a good Metal pickup for stuff like Death Metal and other styles, go with the War Pig.
you must've gotten a lemon skervy mate, i own a skervesen raptor and i've had absolutely no quality issues, mine is about the same age as this one, albeit i have other pickups and other wood choices. i know that mine was baked and dried for some time before it was turned in to an instrument as i requested a slightly lower moisture level. i do "the djent thing" so the well-articulated tone is pretty much what i'd want. i also had my selector set closer to my hand and not behind the volume knob, to make it easier to change, took a bit of getting used to, but i no longer have any issues with that either =)
I think some companies build to the customer. If you are a well known person or have some level of influence on potential customers you will get a better built guitar. If you are just some poor working fool who nobody knows you will get whatever they feel like sending you. I am speaking from experience as I spent a lot of money on a guitar that was probably only worth half of what I paid for it and had to wait for six months to get it. Thanks Arnold for not being afraid to say the truth about some of these manufacturers.
you answered your own question in the video.
you can tell if an electric guitar will sound great easily unplugged.
resonance = tone.
it sounded unplugged exactly how you described the pickups i noticed ;)
lol seems someone has no clue about acoustics, oscillations or electric circuits (and I don't think you have a clue, what "tone" means in a physical manner and how it is determined)
That riff is like a melodic soreption
Mind blown about the Bareknuckles. We just recorded a brutal sounding song with the Miracle Mans, and Luc Lemay from Gorguts uses the Aftermath bridge and he had the best metal tone I've ever heard on their latest release. I was having the same feelings you have about the Miracle Mans until we recorded this new track, we dialed in an absolutely disgusting tone.
But I can very clearly hear in the video why you don't like them. It could be a number of things, but man once I got my Blackhawks/Miracle Mans dialed in my setup, there was no going back.
Also according to the Website, Blackhawks or War Pigs sound like what you're looking for.
Great review as always. There's no excuse for shoddy fretwork these days - and that comes down to properly preparing the neck as well; that's the make-or-break issue with any guitar.
I agree with you for the Bareknuckles. For my money it's the Invader, the Nazgul or some Blackouts.
krokmitenband give Guitarmory a shot too. So far, two for two on absolutely kickass tone.
I'm not very familiar with their models. Could you offer some insight of what I might like with what I mentioned above? Ideally I'd like something as brutal as the Invader but a little different to complement a twin guitars rhythm scenario.
So far my favorites were the Patriots. They have a punchy low end that avoids the mud, and the top end is present but not harsh.
Cool, thanks for the suggestion. I'll check this out next time I need a pickup.
Thanks for this video. Skervesen is a brand that I've been interested in, but they are still a relatively young company, so there wasn't that much out there.
i always know what these guitar videos sound like before i hear a note
'dunh dunh duuuuuhhhn, jent jent whiddly-weee" et al ad absurdum.
j/k
thanks for the review was curious about these.
It reminds me in ways of a koa-body carvin DC135 I had in the 90s.
The fretsprout is a bummer, but may be unavoidable in some regions even if you kiln-dry. The sealing ability of the finish becomes more important than a few% of moisture content.
ay got this on notifications just what i needed to put off sleep a bit longer. Great video man always look foward to these
edit: Do you still have the agile 10-string? if you do what do you think of it? given it any more attention? Also what do you think of fanned fret guitars in general? pretty much no stores near me have a fanned fret and if they do its a guitar center (they just wont take it down off the top rack). do they play nicer than a non fan fret and do you think itd be worth buying a fanned fret guitar even if i havnt tried one yet?
I'm assuming the Stealth on your wall is the Chuck tribute? Personally speaking, for what you pay for a Skervesson you might as well buy a Mayones. almost ever Mayones is absolutely flawless.
As description says , it was sent to him by subscriber for review
Who Cares I get that it was a subscriber's submission but, I was talking in a general sense. Mayones makes some pretty amazing guitars which have almost flawless build quality.
Just posted the video: ruclips.net/video/d5QyOD4pmys/видео.html
Hey really nice review as usual buddy! One thing I learned to look at from your reviews: the fret work, I got obsessed with it too LOL!
What's the price range for this instrument though? Maybe you mentioned it in the video and I missed it.
I think it's a detail worth knowing, because if it was a $700 guitar, then it's definitely a wanna-buy... if it's in the couple-of-thousand-bucks area, I'd probably go for some other custom shop given the shortcomings you brought up - like a Kiesel, I'm really digging those guitars lately.
Roberto Stocco offhand I am unsure, but I want to say they go for 2500 Euros and up. I COULD BE VERY WRONG ON THAT.
Roberto Stocco This is an older model from 2014, the newer models kicks Kiesels butt, also the base price for a Raptor is at around 1900 euros
That tone is not good
Hey Arnold, nice review, was curious if you planned on reviewing what appears to be a fretless mtd bass, till next time, have a good one.
Sean Serenade yep. And Bonus. Chad is gonna write the riffage for that one!
ArnoldPlaysGuitar awsome man cannot wait, have a great day man
LOL. Totally meant to do that this week
You can always swap Nailbomb for something else :) Plus for the guys that think they only do necks with the DAT profile, they don't - it's custom shop after all ;)
Thanks for the reviews - definitely appreciate someone who isn't afraid to give a dissenting opinion on a popular product. Question though - why didn't you measure the bridge? Rather than saying it 'appears' to be mis-mounted, why not just take a ruler and measure each side to the edge of the neck? Then you'd know for sure whether it was aligned straight or not.
mazereon It's off. I'm the one who found it. It is angled. Absolutely contributes to the lack is sustain.
10:48 "Appears to be" - i don't suppose you might have a tape-measure lying around the house, hmm? Or even just a piece of string, to compare the distance between two sides of the bridge and the fretboard?
Have you gotten your hands on any Skervys since this vid? I really really appreciate a review that covers these details like this for guys like me who don't have a local dealership that stocks these things that I can just head down to at any time. Have you found that they've been ironing out these slight quality dips over the last few years or are they still kinda inconsistent? Appreciated, brother.
At the last couple of NAMM shows and damn if they didn't impress me through and through. Since this guitar I think they've only gotten better.
Something you said in this video is incredibly inaccurate. "Kiln dried" wood will not eliminate the popping out fret ends issue. Its an issue for ALLLL instruments involving frets. Kiln drying is just drying wood faster than natural drying. Thats all it is. Wood collects and releases moisture with the environment its in, causing it to swell and shrink. This WILL happen with wood if its kiln dried or naturally dried. Some necks do it, some dont. You example was agile, which if im not mistaken is made in the same factory as dean, ibanez, epiphone and sterling guitars. So using ibanez as an example since i have played more of those than anything else, some have been perfectly fine, and some had the frets sticking out of the neck at least 1/32nd of an inch. It happens, its one of those things that you just take it to a local luthier or repair guy and have it remedied, once thats done, it really shouldnt be an issue ever again unless the neck shrinks again even further.
The only way wood wont shrink and expand is if its "roasted" or "torified", which is the same as kiln drying, but at much higher temperatures. Think of it like a toaster oven for wood. In this proccess, all of the moisture in the wood is evaporated out as well as the internal structures of the wood are ruptured and it makes the material far less prone to environmental changes, or it may eliminate the issue all together. Past that, composite necks are the way to go if you never want sharp fret ends to happen.
Gave it a thumbs up as soon as I saw the the Soreption shirt. Was it on purpose to draw influence from them in this demo?
Eddie's Guitars yeah, but believe it or not I shot this maybe 2-3 weeks ago, before I had any idea Anton was leaving.
4k fuck that ! get and Ormsby!
if a bridge is misaligned, that's fucked up .
i redid my guitar and have the volume and toggle that far away too. I hate it when the controls are right under the strumming hand.
soldering it to the shielding is ok, other guitars don't do it cause they don't have shielding or they dont trust that paintable shit to last so they solder it to the volume pot.
Glad to hear someone that was all gaga over Bareknuckles. Just curious, have you played the Duncan Pegasus/Sentient set?
Matt Good yeah, BKPs kinda suck. And I love the Pegasus/Sentient. Nice, full-bodied tone with kinda the right amount of everything, and I like how the mids lean a bit lower and a bit less.
Yeah, I'm agonizing over a guitar build and the Pegasus/Sentient set seemed to be the most balanced. I'm looking for something that's versatile and will cover a wide range of styles/tones.
increase ur input volume.
I've never been a Nailbomb fan. Warpigs are my go to
You should do a video lesson of the song you played!
The pickups clearly sound like you put the distortion gain down to 3 or 4
oh my god. I have the very same As I Lay Dying poster (signed and all) on my wall! right the fuck on! subscribed because of this
I've always hated the toggles Skervesen uses.
Riff at 0:46 is absolutely bosss!!
oh man. I know exactly what you mean by Indonesian/chinese Ibanez razor frets. that's a deal breaker on its own to me. even for a guitar that cost half of that one.
Get it cheap and send to luthier for little bucks and get nice frets too = win.
ebony is not a good wood for a fretboard. It dires out pretty quickly, that caused the frets to be sharp. Skervesen is known for an awesome fretwork. Probably if the owner called Skervesen they would repair it, even for free
0record0 while it's true that Ebony is a very dry wood, it's a matter of drying the wood properly before treating it and working with it. After that, it's a matter of proper maintenance, just like Rosewood. Let it soak up tons of oil, and if the problem persists, its less about the wood and more about the methods used.
do you buy these guitars or just review them and send them back ?
Great review & playing - problem is, think i need to buy a 7 string guitar now! 😉
I like your reviews but I do understand pickups are a personal choice... Personally I love BKP pickups and I do find them brutal and delicious in the same time and one my guitars have Dimorzio illuminators and I love them almost equally to BKP pickups...
So what is your favorite high end 7 string guitar then Arnold for the brutal metal and why?
Hey man. Check out the padalka guitars. Hope u could review them. I saw a photo of its wiring,and its pretty immaculate.
MammothAndSloth giving a lot of thought to placing an order, actually.
oooohhh.nice... I hope you'd get one. :D
I've played three different Skervys and wasn't that impressed. There were few finishing issues on each one of them, and only one sounded really good (the one with the most finishing flaws, ironically ;) )
Good job with all your videos. It's hard to find truly unbiased reviews of gear. :)
Sucks that Soreption's guitarist left....
Hey man I enjoy your video's. what brand strings do you use on your guitars and different gauges?
A variety of different ones. Honestly just whatever I feel like using at the time, but I always try to get gauges for the lower strings that are a bit heavier and therefore a bit tighter than the treble side. For instance, if I was in D standard, I'd be playing a 10-52 set. 7-string, every so often I find a set that's around 10-62 or 10-65, so I'll grab that. And for 8-string, right now I really like Ernie Ball's 9-80 set. But I change stuff up a lot and I don't tend to prefer one brand over another. I kinda feel like the differences between string companies are blown way outta proportion.
Is there a chance you could review the Washburn Solar or something from the parallaxe series?
If I can ever get my hands on one I am down to review whatever.
To impress anyone with the Skerv it's enough to switch it in the mode "accoustic" - there is no other guitar which imitate accoustic guitar in so perfect way
Arnold, I don't know if you like talking about this, but I'm curious, what happened to your band Mirros?
Please can you review the BC Rich stealth that's in the background, as I am thinking of buying one and want to get an honest opinion of their quality and playability
I dunno what's up with Ibanez, but all of my Indonesian Jacksons sound and feel amazing.
Also, as far as the grounding goes, it should be grounded to the pots AND THEN to the shielding as well. I won't be buying one of these anytime soon. Bad grounding can literally kill you if you touch a mic and the guitar at the same time.
Being that this poor excuse for an axe is only grounded to the shielding, that means that the ground signal never makes it to the output jack, and even if it's grounded to the foil and then to the jack, it's still gonna be a shitty connection, which means it might as well not even be there.
Is there a guit review channel from a professional guitar player?
Well, it is just natural materials, not something engineered like artisides.mightve been a dead piece of wood. We've all played mahogany bodied guitars, and they all have a little different voice.
As for the ground, it is grounded, but doing that makes them easier to come off. It is soldered to copper FOIL, after all.
soreption shirt conveniently worn to mourn the departure of Anton from the band :'(
Do a review on the agile Intrepid Pro 72730 EB CA Tribal Purple pls I'm wondering if the 3 inch fan is too extreme and overall performance of the guitar
what your pedal board looking like man
Dethsyndrome strictly an Airis OD (which I only really kick in for leads because of the Kemper) - or something else depending on mood - into an ISP decimator, which isn't set for very hard gating. For recording purposes I usually keep it light and lean. Occasionally I'll throw a Morley way on a lead, too.
nice im not a fan of the kemper im old school thrash foot stomping fuck the guy in the back handling things. have you tried positive grid desktop?
First time I've heard someone hate on bare knuckles. I always wanted to get a pair of nailbombs, but maybe I should wait till I get to play a guitar with them installed before I dive in on these expensive boutique pickups.
Yeah. At this point I have played many different BKPs and absolutely none of them have lived up to the hype. I find they are great for some stuff and not great for others. Unfortunately what they are not great at is more extreme types of metal or even classic metal...which is exactly what I like to do.
I think the word you were looking for was volume .
The pickups from your 10-string Agile video sound better than these for sure.
i had a bc rich luck 8 and i put bareknuckle jugs in it
I'm shocked. Those are the "Guitar of the Moment" along with Strandbergs and this one seems rushed through and sort of half assed. For a guitar that costs as much as a decent used car, it's unforgivable. Do you buy these pricey guitars yourself? You've run through half a million in product, how do you do it?
I want to like those so badly, but they just sound like thin crap, and at that price point it's gotta be perfect. Thanks for doing these reviews.
Song is heavy as balls
that's unfortunate that this guitar has those flaws. I really like their guitars aesthetically...Definitely will steer clear of them. For that price those flaws are unacceptable.
fuck me. Where can i download that riffage brother!? 🤘
wow...brutal review for what is probably a $3k+ guitar.. thx for the honestly though
Chris Maihofer Closer to 2k
Hey buddy!
Do you know what year this was made?
yessir. 2015 model. Thank you, I'll update the description.
"it just doesn't have that bite and that growl that..." - you'd better learn how to dial in a amp. With todays amps ESPECIALLY kempers/axe etc. you can dial in any sound with any growl you want for any pickup. Just because those pickups are different in output than other pickups you use doesn't mean, they cant sound like you want... really disappointed by that non-scientific statement, dude. That just sounds really subjective to me.
Those pickups may have other magnets in them than your other pickups have. Different flux densities lead to different inductive outputs with the same amplitude of string vibration.
There we come to the next problem:
you talk about the guitar being not "acoustically resonant".
- electric guitars SHOULD NOT be acoustically resonant. Every major acoustic resonance means that energy travels from the strings into the body and induce oscillation in larger surfaces leading to sonic transmission.
The energy that travels from the string into the body CAN NOT be recorded by the magnetic pickups, because this energy has already dissipated into the body and as well into acoustic sound.
The "wrong bridge alignment" is also a very bad explanation for the lack of "resonance". Resonance (what you mean) is extremely complex and a LOT of factos are contributing to it. A little millimeter (or less - we don't have exact measurements) of bridge misalignment won't lead to major resonance difference.
It's also interesting that you look for a grounding but can't find it. Were there any problems with grounding like humming? I don't understand why you're searching for it if there was no problem from the beginning? Seems not so unbiased to me but more like desperate fault search from skervesen.
And I think by stressing those little problems so much you really distort reality. How about bringing the things skervesen did GOOD into a time-related context to the things they did not so good? I think then this review should be 10 times longer with you just talking about the good things in those extra 9 times of video.
No good review here. In a review one is adressing the good as well as the bad and the ugly. (the ugly would for example be the misaligned bridge - bad the little protruding fret ends, easy to fix btw - and good a lot of things like overall craftmanship, looks, weight etc...
Things i would have wished for in a guitar review:
Talking about important things for playability:
string action, fret level, nut, bridge, neck-bow (or straightness)
Electronic functions should be measured by using equipment. For output, frequencies etc...
Most else can be measured by ruler or caliper gauge. If you want to review high quality guitars please do high quality reviews with ACTUAL measurements and no subjective statements that tend to bias peoples' opinions.
Cheers.
Aran Bülgür I played this guitar. Arnold was far nicer than he should have been. This is a terrible guitar for the money. His uses "resonance" when he means sustain. The sound dissipates almost immediately when you play a note. This is due to poor wood selection and the misaligned bridge.
Arnold's tone is always bad, sorry. Doesn't matter what pickups he has lol.
eXtremelasers, glad someone finally said it, the drums are horribly mixed too.
''I and my buddy Chad....''....he means you Chad?
Aran Bülgür Damn u stole my words and said it even better. Ya fret ends is easy fix and yeah u lose sustain when guitar is resonant so thats good thing. And the wires can be grounded to the shielding thats np. Wish i had skervesen someday theyre the best looking guitars ive ever seen. EVER!
Get the SkerveTEN next ;)
Unbiased Beer Reviews when?
Great Playthrough Keep on ! Maybe you look at mine to .)
Best Regards.
Your lead tone is terrible . Place some reverb room. 10% mix. And some delay. 470 time. 30% feedback. Mids of amp at 65% . Presence at 50%. Overdrive gain. 5%. Mid at 55.high at 50. Chorus 30% mix add some compressor at 80% on lead. For the riff ad some flanger at 30% after the chain and some 8ctave at 25% mix. Makes the riff sounds nice.
Again shocking. The fact that these hand made guitars that cost 3k, have bad fretwork. It seems all of these boutique vendors are rushing guitars out and quality control is shit. Makes me glad that I hunt down old Ibanez guitars that had the necks finished by hand by folks that gave a crap. 3k for an indo level guitar? Bullshit plain and simple
I have to wait almost a year for my guitar. :(
Great videos dude but you focus way to much complaining about pickups imo. It doesn’t matter if you have good amps and effects. Literally every video you complain about pickups lol
It sounds like straight up garbage. Skervesen has always been a lackluster company. I think they’re over priced garbage. for that kind of money I would get a nice carvin. I’ve never liked bareknuckles either, they sound bad. I had juggernauts and I hated them. Also to return them is a pain in the ass. I’m guessing they get them for cheap in Europe. That’s probably the o lot reason why all those builder use those pickups. They’re the emg of Europe. I do like the customer service from emg tho. More professional. I wouldn’t trust a boutique guitar builder tho. They’re a hit or miss in terms of quality.
Wtf! That sounds like emg with dying battery😁
Seriously good tune. Nice git too.