Novo Serus J Review: BEST Guitar I've Ever Played? (Honest Demo)
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- čas přidán 4. 08. 2024
- Hey everyone!
What's the best guitar you've ever played? For a long time it was my Suhr Alt T but I think this Novo takes the cake!
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Chapters:
Intro 00:00
Sound Sample #1 00:16
Reason Number 1 (Neck Relic'ing)... 00:53
Sound Sample #2 02:01
Reason Number 2 (Ergonomics)... 02:42
Sound Sample #3 03:47
Sound Sample #4 04:14
Reason Number 3 (Tremolo System) 04:36 - Hudba
👀 I've gone ahead and started moving forward with a custom build with my luthier after our brief exchange yesterday, but I will always want a Novo haha.
Ever since Rhett Shull posted one of his channel I've wanted one!
I’ve bought an sold 3 so far just trying to find a good select or non custom. I just enjoy the way they look more than sound and play. So far speaking for only myself. Voltur is calling me .. try me next try meee. (I did not novo flip any - sold all for what I paid) great jam!
I do enjoy your videos. I especially like the Kemper content. Your take on parameters, settings, effects settings and discussion l long for. You occasionally offer a video but give us more. So… to my main question. I have a lot of guitars. Some with a straight 12 degree radius , some a flatter radius. I have been into compound radius boards and built quite a few with 10-16 radius, 10-14 radius and 12-14 radius plus l have some Ibanez that their neck is like 15 right? Honestly 🤔 l like them all but l question about really getting necessarily better action or playability with a compound fretboard. Please reply. I would like to hear an open opinion and discussion 🤔
Hey Mark! Appreciate you watching so many of my videos! I've seen some of your comments on previous posts!
Hopefully I answer your question correctly around being able to dial in a bridge with a compound radius lower than on a typical flat radius guitar.
Personally I'm not sure I'd ever notice a difference on playability too much from a 10-16, 10-14, 12-14 but I can absolutely tell a difference on a 7.25" vs. a 9.5-14" radius.
Similarly, because of the way a compound radius neck is created it allows the strings to be closer towards the top of the nut vs. wider and flatter the higher you get up on the fretboard.
In this case, the mastery trem system allows me to be able to get my action really low and still handle those bends without worrying about fretting out.
Hopefully that answered your question!
Hi! What song was sound sample #2? It sounds so familiar. Lianne La Havas?
Radio Head Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi
Nailed it!
I had a Novo SJ for about a year. Sounded great but I could never bond with it. The body and headstock just always looked and felt ridiculously oversized to me and I couldn’t get past that. Sounded great and played good, but didn’t do it for me. Plus I get the relic on a strat, or Les Paul, but for a newer shape that hasn’t been around long enough to be reliced, it seemed kind of silly. Glad you like yours
Honestly now that you say that I can definitely understand how you'd have that experience! I think because I have several other guitars and can change it up when I want, it doesn't feel too bulky!
@@ZachBrobstMusicI wouldn’t assume that the person you are responding to doesn’t have plenty of guitars and can’t change it up. I have plenty of different guitars and in all different shapes, from Murphy Lab custom shops to squires. It’s the only guitar that feels and looks completely oversized. It felt more clunky than my Firebird IV.
Hey there! Sorry - that wasn’t my intention of my comment! I was just saying I hadn’t noticed the bulkiness feeling myself.
Totally can see your perspective on this though and even with having a lot of different guitars!
Had a Jennings Voyager with Bigsby. Felt extremely cheap compared to my Novo Serus J. Also, tuning stability was terrible on The Voyager where the Serus never goes out of tunr.
that's genuinely surprising to me because I love my Voyager!
What do they go for?
$3800 for this model. Definitely VERY expensive and probably not fully worth that $4k mark but they're incredible guitars nonetheless
The best I ever played is a Black Bobbin Custom Jazzmaster, at VintageGitar in Oslo - beats everything I played before (it's still for grabs BTW)
Weird Fishes 🐠
Opening playing Andy Timmons gets an automatic thumbs up!!
Such a killer song!
I’m contemplating a Novo but my biggest pet peeve w guitars is fret edges…and if they aren’t rolled well/enough. So your comments concern me because at this price point it’s a JOKE if the fret edges aren’t done well. But I haven’t heard this complaint from other Novo players…maybe yours is an outlier case…or maybe fret sprout happened during shipment.
I would say that the fret ends were never sharp. More so, I just would want them more rounded but after owning it for a year-ish I will say I’ve not had any issues with the frets!
These are among the best guitars on the planet but they currently offer a compound 9.5-14" fretboard radius ONLY. That, and the new proprietary vibrato footprint will keep me away from getting a new one.
Definitely a bummer on the lack of options for the compound radius. For the proprietary vibrato footprint, can't you just swap out the vibrato arm?
@@ZachBrobstMusic Mastery vibratos are mated with their arms at the factory and you can NOT buy a replacement arm. I was referring to the footprint of the unit itself - it's a unique shape and therefore can't be replaced with a standard offset vibrato
I was able to replace the arm on my mastery trem but it was with another mastery arm! Went with the UFO shape but wasn’t sure if the new Novo propriety arm was unique to just their mastery housing units
@@ZachBrobstMusic I suppose another Mastery arm COULD fit, but it's the footprint/shape/screw hole layout that's proprietary vs a standard offset vibrato