Eastman Romeo LA Demo
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2021
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Fantastic! I own a SB 59 and the quality and feel is top notch. Good job eastman.
Really nice to see more and more companies using the Duesenberg style trem. That thing definitely has the Bigsby kind of vibe to it while being much more usable.
Guitar police here.....It's a Vibrato not a Trem.
@@1970sman Technically you're absolutely right. And still everybody calls it a trem. 🤷😂
Well it's Duesenberg's Les Trem so it's a "Trem" if not a trem
Göldo Les Trem under Duesenberg ltd
It makes attack very compressed, spongy. That’s big complaint Unfortunatelly cause it could be good solution for having vibrato with tom type bridge.
Excellent demo and playing. Awesome guitar. Thanks
I have the Romeo. It is in a class by itself. It is hand made. More custom shop than a Fender custom of which I have two. Playability is amazing. Tone is amazing and you can play any genre with high confidence this guitar will get it done nicely. The Romeo has Lollar Imperial pickups and they are perfect. Nothing about this guitar needs an upgrade. The price doesn't reflect the quality of the instrument which far exceeds its cost. You would be well pleased to have either version.
pretty sure they are seymore duncan pickups...
@@sharkair2839 First Romeo indeed has Lollar Imperial hbs; this one - the Romeo LA - has Seymour Duncan Phat Cat P90s - your choice!
Superb guitar(s) - both electric and acoustic. I have this guitar and the comments which it receives tell their own story. The headstock snobs who dismiss ‘Chinese’ guitars know nothing - check out Eastman’s history before they branched out into guitars. Their recent partnership with Bourgeois guitars also tells its own story - I doubt Bourgeois would partner Eastman if they were muppets.
Eastman also makes great affordable mandolins. I own one!
This dreadful lockdown has turned Jamie into a British Big Lebowski...
Yeah well, that's just... you know... your opinion, man...
@@guitarist ✌😉
"The Dude" will abide!
Killer blues tones, man totally killer. Definitely love your playing. I don’t know if the guitars as great as it could be the Romeo LA, which was the first model I have it but the top on it was solid spruce where is this? Is the laminate but still sounds killer. Excuse me that was the Romeo RS with Seymour Duncan pick ups Seth lover in the bridge and a stacked neck pick up mine is the red burst but this does sound like I said very good.
Would love to know the make and model of the amp you used in this video. Such a great sound.
Usually i wouldn't even look at this guitar because I'm a gear snob but..... I kind of want this one. Looks and sounds great with good quality parts.
What does that even mean? Guitars under $2k aren't good enough? lmao
@@KAIOabstrct He might be referring to the fact it's made in Bejing, China. It does look and sound good to me, but I also would have trouble spending $2,000 on a Chinese guitar.
@orlandoguitarist place of manufacture hasnt been relevant for a long time. Plenty of good instruments have come from Korea, Japan, China etc. Guitars that put $6k sloppy qc, USA made les pauls to shame.
@@KAIOabstrct What I mean is that I usually do buy vintage or £6000 custom shop guitars mainly from Fender and Gibaon. It's what I like and they do sound better than cheaper guitars. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
@@Bensonbadger LOL - alright there chief. Lambo and a Rolex as well? And there was me thinking instruments were about music -making not bragging about your conspicuous consumption...
How is the headstock the 'business end'?
No tone control on net pick up tho? Wants some jazzy feels
Competes with guild x-175 Manhattan special
Thought it was dave grohl at glance
ikr? Dave's look and color of his signature guitar
20 seconds in smashes his ring against the guitar neck - that’s now a bstock brother - well done
these are the demo models the companies send out. they see dozens of hands and are expected to take some wear as such, its inevitable
Wincing at the ring click as you initially slapped your hand on that guitar neck! Obviously not yours!!
Take er easy, bud!
I'm not saving my guitars for anyone; they are made to be played!!!! They can have the pieces when I'm gone.
I closed my eyes and it sounded like a Stratocaster .
Too much bass, idk its the amp or pickups, it shakes everything
Sounds nice but looks very much “Nik Huber”’ish 😉
True, but I’m finding that the more I see it the more I like it.
When I saw the thumbnail I first thought it was a Nik Huber model
Couldnt agree more, saw the thumbnail and thought “oh Nik Huber has a new model”. Haven’t checked the prices yet for US cost, but I might need to later today. Very cool guitar.
Gotta say Washburn had their shot on WI-series.
Sounds much more Strat like than it does 335, if that’s what they’re aiming for. The £1500 price tag is a bit silly for an Asian made guitar, I would have thought 1k max. I can only guess they’re riding on the coattails of 335 prices. You can do a lot with £1500, a very nice strat or a used Gibson. I know what I’d prefer.
It’s not a Chinese guitar in the sense that it’s bad or mass produced, it’s a really good brand that makes the guitars like Gibson (with people, not machines only). I’d take their quality control over Gibson’s any day of the week
Arbitrating 'value' based purely on where a guitar is made, rather than how well it's made, is what keeps people overpaying for mediocre quality instruments - just because they're made by the big names. Given Eastman's build quality and choice of components I'd say the price is spot on, across their range.
I know what I'd prefer too, and it sure ain't the Gibson.
@@Steeve9292 Well I’ve owned a T486 and wasn’t overly impressed for the money. It was similar to my sons Sire H7 in build and sound, comparable to the new Epiphone inspired by range or slightly better. As soon as you pick up a Gibson the difference is instant. You can’t tell me these are comparable because they simply are not.
@@giuseppebaja most stuff coming out of China these days is good. But I wouldn’t say it was equal and certainly not better than Gibson. Although I will say Gibson pricing has been pretty shocking for many years. With the laws of diminishing returns hard at play.
@@Steeve9292 to some extent you have to arbitrate “cost” (i.e. the item’s selling price) based on where a guitar is made, because the reason these kind of guitars are made in China is precisely to save manufacturing cost and therefore either enhance the company’s profitability or achieve a lower selling price point (or most usually, both). Simply put salaries are much lower in China than they are in the USA, Germany, UK, Japan, etc. even for a truly skilled worker in a guitar factory.
If you’re ignoring this then I’d say you’re really not doing a good job as a buyer, and you could find yourself overpaying for something by not accounting for what it really should cost you based on having some concept of cost of manufacture.
I’d also point out that a lot of people confuse purchase “cost” with “value”. Something can be very expensive and be still considered by someone as good “value”. Conversely something can be cheap and be bad “value”. I’d also point out that if we were to have good intel on the company’s costs of production, overheads, etc. (which most of us rarely do, unfortunately) then the concept of a reasonable purchase price isn’t really a subjective opinion… it becomes a pretty factual thing - has the item been priced appropriately according to its cost of production and to cover the overheads of the business or not? Conversely “value” is always subjective and for the same item can be a wildly different judgement from one person to the next. This is because value also depends upon the individual’s own personal circumstances: disposable income, intended use of the item, competence of the individual (e.g. do they have the skills and experience to notice differences in performance such as to place value on them?), etc.
By the way, I personally think that both the cost and the value of this item seems pretty reasonable. Considering that a similarly built (although stylistically somewhat different) ES-335 by Gibson would cost from around £2300 for the satin finished version, or around £2600 for the gloss finished version, I’d say that £1500 for a guitar made to a broadly comparably quality but made in China, with all the cost savings that represents, feels about right. Similarly, considering that the Chinese made Epiphone ES-335 is c. £500 I don’t think that asking £1500 for a guitar made in the same country but to a much higher quality and much higher component spec is particularly unreasonable.