[Unboxing/Sound/Opinion] SubZero Pro 8-String Fanned Fret Guitar
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- Guitar was tuned to F# B E A D G B E 440hz
TimeStamps:
0:00 Content
0:11 Unboxing
1:02 First Impressions
1:45 Two Trussrods
1:56 Nut too wide
2:15 Scratches etc.
3:11 Dent in the Body
4:09 Tuners & Neck
4:48 Sound
5:03 Neck Pickup
5:37 Both Pickups
6:14 Bridge Pickup
6:47 My Thoughts about that PUs
7:06 Distortion Sound Effects
7:25 Neck PU with Distortion
8:04 Less Distortion Single Notes
8:23 Conclusion
i'm a simple man, i see an honest review of a SECRET budget guitar and i hit subscribe!
This is a great video - in fact, it tuns out it's exactly the video I needed!
I received mine today, i ve spend more than three hours setting it up, but i achieved great results and i am very happy with the outcome, sound wise i expected it to be much worse!
The neck PU is very muddy, the bridge tho is very decent and writes well! Frets and fret job is great! Bridge is very responsive! Nut is very good too, the thing i totaly hate are the tuning pegs, they are jumpy and very hard to turn, i ve sprayed some WD 40 but the improvement was minor, the neck was a bit rough but i ve applied some fast fret on it and its more than fine! For the set up what i did is trust rod adjustment, intonation, action, pickups, fretboard oil and frets polishing. I am going to replace the PU to tosin set and then the tuning pegs to something that comes either in set for an 8 string or pegs outside of sets. Overall i am very happy with my purchase!
Yeah, i wrote it too, the first thing i would change are the tuners ....
and maybe the pickups but i really like the bridge PU so i guess they stay.
Doing setup with 2 Truss Rods alone was 2h+ because i wanted to have it nearly perfect :D
But then the Board / Frets are a dream!
The Neck was lil bit sandy but just play with the guitar, it will become smooth .
Basically we had the same experience, just put in some work and you'll end up with an amazing guitar for 300€ :)
got the idea of an better review together with some others who bought this ... interested? :>
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~ 2200 views ... HOLY WAT?
never thought that more then 100 ppl will watch this :D
@@arthostheheretic sure why not! Your review actually helped me alot in deciding!
@@sonicalmods781 well, the guitar isnt available anymore ...
Bad sign ... :D
lets wait until its again on the market, no one needs a review for an guitar that isnt available anymore
where do you plan to get the tuning pegs for 8 string guitars? I tried but I can't find anything in the EU...
@@luca4229 i actually got mine shipped a few days ago, what i did is ordering a 6 string set of gotoh lockings (along with Abasi PU set) from thomann for 69 euros and since thomann doesnt sell em separately... i ve found a really cool shop called guitars parts centre on Poland that actually does sell single gotoh lockings, so i ve found the exact ones from the set that i ve bought from thomann and ordered two more separately 14,48 each and the shipping cost to Greece is like 5 euros not to mention they offer the slingies strings 9-80 for 10 euros! I am using 381 gotoh tuners on my prestige for 10 years and they are the best machine heads i ve ever seen (they even hold tune on a floyd rose guitar without the nut locks tighened) I hope you make use of this info and hey! Dont forget to tell us what you did in the end 😉😉
Great video for what concerns the manufacturing quality of the instrument. Great audio sample for the cleans too. The distortion samples though were complete shit if I may be honest. Sounded pretty much like you tested on a badly setup Metal Zone. Thanks anyways, this gave me a great idea of what type of instrument I'm getting for the price.
Yeah, the distortion parts were just "do something" and i was getting tired and wanted to finish this.
Im playing at home at low volume so i always hear the pure sound of my guitars + the distortion sound which has to compete against the raw sound.
Without the raw guitar sound its too much fizzy/distortion ... meh
Will do better next time :>
@@arthostheheretic the riffing samples maybe was the can of bees tone, but the lead tone you dialed in was not terrible, actually.
I'm thinking of the 7 string multi scale as my 1st 7 string 🤔
I think the 7 string guitar doesn't need multiscaling, only if you want to go low tone like 8 string then yes you would need multiscaling.
@@WarframeCrunch It really depends how he wants to tune it hey lol
I ve just ordered this one, to be perfectly honest i cant see what can go wrong, worst case scenario frets aren't leveled, you ll just need like 50 euros for a fret leveling to an expert.
All other adjustments can easily be done by anyone without any special tool.
If you change the pickups to lets say Fishman Tosins (and i will) you ll have an instrument of total cost 650 euro that will outperform any 8 string multiscale guitar on the market bellow 1400 euros.
Yeah, same thought :)
Just give the neck PU a try, its worth it
If you get your guitar, i would be interested how yours turns out to be :)
@@arthostheheretic once i ll get mine i ll let you know, it suppose to take more than 24 days, btw how was your delivery estimation? Was it accurate?
@@sonicalmods781 the estimated date was jumping from dec to august and back ... 0:08 -> waited nearly 4 months but corona was new there :D
well, worst case scenario is that you will get a warped neck. Has yours arrived yet? Is it good?
@@martinkrauser4029 havent seen any subzero with a warped neck and never heard any customer talking about it in socials or trustpilot, thats catastrophizing, not casing. No, mine havent arrived yet, in the next week i am expecting it.
awesome unboxing man!
Sehr guter rat. Gute Infos :) Der Ton war ziemlich gut.
Meine Englisch Fähigkeiten:
Lesen 9/10
Hören 5/10
Sprechen 3/10
Deutscher Akzent: 10/10
:D
@@arthostheheretic Sat gitar is kreat :D wie ist denn die Bespielbarkeit des Halses im Vergleich zu anderen Harley Benton ?
@@davewelker7049 kann ich ehrlich gesagt nicht wirklich vergleichen weil ich nur 6 String HBs habe ... ich find die Bespielbarkeit aber sehr gut, fühlt sich gut an und man kommt überall hin, den Daumen gut zu positionieren ist auch einfach :)
Great video, you've got such a calming voice, thanks for that too.
good review, what upgrades / mods have you done so far? Thinking about getting the pro 7
- new Strings, one of the factory equipped strings broke ( bought 9-42 elixir set and 62 (a) + 80 (e) )
- oiled the tuners, they felt rusty
- filed the nut, some strings were really high
- oiled the fretboard
- slightly polished the frets, the fretwork was already very good
- adjusted neck / string height / intonation
- removed the tone poti and moved the volume poti to tone poti position cuz i was hitting the poti there :D
maybe im buying new tuners ... but everything else is fine =)
@@arthostheheretic thanks man, maybe im really going to buy the pro7
I want to Change the Volume knob for a Killswitch
Hey!
Great review, very direct and no-bullshit :)
Today I found out about this guitar, I've been thinking of a 7 string multiscale for some time now.
Have you had a chance to compare it with any other multiscale under 500€ - say Harley Benton or Ibanez?
Compared to both of them Subzero look so much more attractive... I don't have an opportunity to check them at once, hence the videos...
Again, great review!
I owned a 7 String Schecter(no multiscale) ( 660€ ) for two years but i sold it because it has "strange" string spacing and there was always ONE string ringing out due to grooves in my picking hand ... happily i dont have that prob with this guitar.
my most expensive guitar is a ibanez RGIB6 and i had to invest over 300€ to be able to enjoy it .... long story ... not going to comment it further here
i do actually own ... like 5 Harley Benton Guitars and i would say they have higher QC then this brand but they're far away from "buy & play" :D ( and its random like any other cheap guitar what you get )
actually i would say, for a 7 String you wont need MultiScale because if you pick a 26.5 Scale and you're going to use a 9-42 set with a 56 B String then everything is fine.
dont go below 26.5 Scale, a 56 B String was fine but i needed a .62 string for drop A and still it sounded a lil bit wobbly ... but thats my taste, i love it tight and more tension on strings :D
very good
Thanks for the video. I want to get the 7 string version. I wish they had different finishes though.
Good video, thanks!
Hey fellow German, I could live with the imperfections you observed. I ordered the 7 string and returned it twice. Now waiting for the third one hoping that it's fine. The first one had a loose fret and buzzed therefore a lot and a sensible knothole on the neck stripe along with some finish imperfections. The second one had the nut of the seventh string cut too deep causing buzz like hell and several spots with dirt and big scratches
under the clear coat. Keep the fingers crossed for me. Disgracefully the guys are unable to check it once more before sending.
@@cikl Thats bad luck :/
Cheap guitars are always a little bit gamble but two times worst case ... :/
and yeah, QC is rare because price needs to be low ...
so yes, fingers crossed :D
@@arthostheheretic Got the replacement. This time it is decent. No major flaws. Frets definitely need some polishing, one fret and is rough, strings are rusty. Several finish imperfections and in places sloppy binding. But overall it's ok and those things can be adressed or ignored.
Thanks for this video ! I think to buy one. I want to know if the strings always buzz ? With bigger gauge it would be better ? Also does the lower strings, F # and B string sounds good in clear and distortion sound ?
There shouldn't be buzzing in audio, can u mark where you heard that?
F# and B are included in the sound sample and i still havent changed the pickups so yes i think they're good :D
Just decided that i could buy one. Should i swap out the tuner, Mono rails and pickups? What could i keep? And is it possible to have a nice setup after afjustements? And recommendations?
As someone else said, he had to return it twice until he had a good one.
So its basically a gamble.
The first thing to swap out are the tuners in my opinion but maybe they improved them ...
The mono rails bridge is perfect in my case, sits very good.
Pickups: as mentioned in the vid, the bridge PU sounds very good, so i didnt changed them.
If you take some time to adjust the two trussrods you can set up this guitar as you want, got very low string height and no dead spots, love this
recommendations:
take elixir optiweb 9 - 42 and a single 66 + single 80 string, best tension/sound/feeling :)
Ganz dumme Frage aber ich "muss" auch elixir saiten spielen und überlege mir die Gitarre zu kaufen.
Sind dir lang genug ? Und woher findest du die dicken einzelsaiten? Finde da irgendwie nichts im Netz!
Grüße
Ich hatte mir die dicken Einzelsaiten bei Thoman dazu bestellt. Die Standard Elixir Saiten waren deutlich lang genug, das war nichtmal knapp :)
Just got mine a couple days ago and I have to say, I'm not really satisfied: I am the only one thinking these guitars do NOT have stainless steel frets??? Right out of the box the frets are all tarnished...not a good sign...
Now, apart from the usual quality issue (nut cut badly, some imperfections here and there on the fretboard and body) that can be acceptable for the price point, if this are normal frets sold as stainless steel I am very likely going to return it
That was one of my thoughts before buying, too .... stainless frets within this range?
maybe thats cheap stainless ... but they're fine ( i dont know what exact material they used )
wow its sound so german ;D
zhänk yu for yur comment.
i have no clu how yu figuret out zhät im german :D
thanks for the review - I think I'll pass on one of these - quality control looks terrible
Actually, im very happy with this guitar.
The fretwork is great and there are no buzzing or dead spots on the neck, bridge Pickup sounds nice, so basically its a very great 8 String FanFret for me :)
I've expected worse for 300 Euro.
Maybe im doing a follow up vid with all the mods / changes i did
And thx for the first comment ;D
I bought the 7 string & sent it back te neck was way too fat & build quality was terrible truly a stay away from guitar
I believe that the guitar is phony
Shit guitar..I send it back ..horrible
@Der_Mantie change for an ibanez rg8..has no issues..no 3 or 4 hours setti g..that's work for old guitars..not a new one