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  • MattLH37MattLH37

    Instrument haut de gamme

    Music Man John Petrucci 6Publié le 31/10/20 à 11:13
    Guitare achetée d'occasion pour compléter ma strat avec une guitare à humbuckers.
    J'écris cet avis alors que je viens de m'en séparer, après 7 ans de bons et loyaux services. J'ai donc possédé la version mystic dream avec piezzo.
    A l'époque j'étais plus branché métal et styles approchants, et je l'ai jouée sur un orange TH30.
    Je n'ai pas possédé beaucoup de guitares, mais on sent tout de suite qu'on a un instrument de grande qualité entre les mains: les finitions sont impeccables, l'accastillage solide, fiable (rien n'a bougé au bout de 10 ans), la jouabilité et le confort du manche impressionnants.
    Le son et la résonnance à vide sont déjà très bons. Une fois branché, nous avons des …
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    Guitare achetée d'occasion pour compléter ma strat avec une guitare à humbuckers.
    J'écris cet avis alors que je viens de m'en séparer, après 7 ans de bons et loyaux services. J'ai donc possédé la version mystic dream avec piezzo.
    A l'époque j'étais plus branché métal et styles approchants, et je l'ai jouée sur un orange TH30.
    Je n'ai pas possédé beaucoup de guitares, mais on sent tout de suite qu'on a un instrument de grande qualité entre les mains: les finitions sont impeccables, l'accastillage solide, fiable (rien n'a bougé au bout de 10 ans), la jouabilité et le confort du manche impressionnants.
    Le son et la résonnance à vide sont déjà très bons. Une fois branché, nous avons des micros (liquifire et crunchlab) avec un haut niveau de sortie, très précis (ça compensait le côté 'baveux' du orange) et qui ne pardonnent guère les approximations de jeu.
    Je suis peu adepte du vibrato mais dans le cadre de mon utilisation la tenue d'accord était parfaite.
    Pas mal d'avis mentionnent sa polyvalence, et il est vrai qu'on peut tirer des sons corrects dans pas mal de styles, mais son domaine de prédilection est selon moi indubitablement la musique (fortement) saturée.
    Le piezzo est un piezzo, j'ai le même avis la dessus que julien bitoun, même si la possibilité de mixer avec les micros magnétiques peut donner des choses agréables.
    La position centrale avec les deux micros splittés permet des cleans claquants et des crunchs sympas, mais le gap de volume avec les autres positions n'est pas facile à gérer.
    Pour conclure, un magnifique instrument, avec un confort de jeu exceptionnel et des sonorités à tomber dans son domaine de prédilection. Pour les autres styles, à l'occasion mais sans plus.
    Au prix de l'occas', un instrument exceptionnel, au prix du neuf je ne l'aurai jamais prise en revanche...
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  • tenSeNtenSeN

    Très très sympa

    Music Man John Petrucci 6Publié le 27/12/17 à 15:01
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    Avec quel ampli ou effets utilisez-vous cette guitare? Pour quel style de musique et de jeu?

    Je joue sur un Kemper Profiling Amplifier, principalement du rock progressif et du metal, mais aussi du blues et un peu de jazz.

    Quels est votre avis sur la lutherie, l'électronique et la finition de l'instrument? La guitare tient-elle l'accord? Son manche, sa touche et sa forme sont-ils adaptés à votre jeu?

    La lutherie est de très bonne qualité. La finition également, c'est une belle guitare. Elle est très facile à jouer, principalement grâce à la forme du corps (énorme chanfrein pour poser son bras et être à l'aise), les interrupteurs et boutons faciles d'accès, et surtout son manche qui …
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    Avec quel ampli ou effets utilisez-vous cette guitare? Pour quel style de musique et de jeu?

    Je joue sur un Kemper Profiling Amplifier, principalement du rock progressif et du metal, mais aussi du blues et un peu de jazz.

    Quels est votre avis sur la lutherie, l'électronique et la finition de l'instrument? La guitare tient-elle l'accord? Son manche, sa touche et sa forme sont-ils adaptés à votre jeu?

    La lutherie est de très bonne qualité. La finition également, c'est une belle guitare. Elle est très facile à jouer, principalement grâce à la forme du corps (énorme chanfrein pour poser son bras et être à l'aise), les interrupteurs et boutons faciles d'accès, et surtout son manche qui est exemplaire. Ce manche n'est ni trop fin ni trop épais, et est légèrement satiné sur l'arrière pour que ça glisse bien: c'est une véritable autoroute.
    Attention par contre au vibrato qu'il ne faudra pas trop maltraiter sous peine d'être désaccordé (surtout sur la corde de sol). Bien lubrifier les gorges du vibrato et les gauges du sillet aidera à maîtriser ce point, mais ne vous attendez pas non plus à faire des dive bombs dans tous les sens et à conserver l'accordage, vous n'êtes clairement pas sur un floyd rose. En contrepartie, on change les cordes en 2 minutes montre en main avec les mécaniques bloquantes et le chevalet non bloquant, ce qui est très agréable. De la même manière, le design du chevalet permet de régler la hauteur de chaque corde très précisément de manière indépendante, et ça on apprécie!

    Les sons clairs, crunchs et saturés vous conviennent-ils dans les différentes positions de micro? Le spectre est-il équilibré?

    En clean, le micro manche est super sympa, chaud et rond. Peut-être un peu trop présent dans les bas mediums, du coup il vaut mieux garder le tone ouvert et baisser un peu le volume si on veut pas envahir le mix. D'autant plus qu'il y a un écart de volume assez important entre les positions manche et intermédiaire, donc mieux vaut pas se mettre à fond en position manche. Le micro aigu nécessite par contre de fermer un peu le tone car trop criard sinon (c'est clairement taillé pour la disto). En gros pour sortir un son clean super sympa, soit on reste tout le temps en position intermédiaire qui est clairement top, soit on se ballade dans toutes les configurations possibles, mais alors il faut jouer avec les boutons de volume et de tonalité pour s'en sortir à moindre mal.

    à noter que la présence du piezzo permet de faire quelques expériences sympa, même si c'est à mon humble avis plus destiné aux sessions d'enregistrement pour lesquelles on a plus le temps de chercher son son qu'au live. ça a le mérite d'exister et ça fait un jouet bonus :D.

    Le crunch est compliqué, car le niveau de sortie des micros est très élevé. Le mieux c'est d'utiliser la position intermédiaire avec le tone ouvert à fond, et d'affiner le tout avec le volume car les potards sont vraiment très progressifs et permettent ce niveau de finesse dans le réglage.

    Et enfin pour la disto, c'est Byzance, et on voit que c'est clairement fait pour ça. Ambiance Death Metal / Metalcore avec le micro chevalet qui se veut ultra-agressif quand le volume est à fond. Le micro manche quant à lui permet de garder une bonne articulation quand on joue des solos rapides avec son haut niveau de sortie.

    Quelles sont les choses que vous appréciez le plus et le moins?

    Les +:
    - la guitare la plus confortable qu'il m'ait été donné de jouer, avec son manche satiné aussi beau qu'efficace et ses boutons/interrupteurs faciles d'accès
    - le chevalet non bloquant et les mécaniques Schaller à blocage, c'est super pratique
    - la lutherie impeccable (et faut avouer qu'elle a de la gueule)
    - les micros qui donnent de la voix en saturation
    - le son en clean plutôt facile à trouver

    Les -:
    - le prix (mais bon, on est habitués avec MusicMan...). C'est plutôt une gratte à chopper d'occasion si vous avez l'opportunité
    - les micros très précis qui vous obligent à jouer de manière extrêmement propre (l'instrument force à la discipline!)
    - la tenue d'accordage perfectible (on peut pas avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre)
    - la palette de sons réduite en clean (c'est à ce prix là qu'on arrive à avoir autant de possibilités en disto, encore et toujours une histoire de compromis).

    En gros c'est une machine à metal qui dépote, qui vous accompagnera tout au long de votre progression en vous obligeant à être précis et rigoureux dans votre rapport à l'instrument, ce qui ne fait pas forcément de mal... Moi je vois ça comme une anti-Les Paul, en quelque sorte. Finis la chaleur des sons crunch et les saturations moelleuses, place aux riffs qui tranchent et aux solos ultra-calés :).
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  • tjon901tjon901

    Rougeâtre Signature Petrucci

    Music Man John Petrucci 6Publié le 09/01/12 à 19:35
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    The MusicMan Petrucci model has been a very popular model with guitar players for a while now. It is a truely modern design that takes a lot of the better aspects of other Musicman guitars and puts them into a single model. The model is continually evolving as well with a new version coming out just about every year. This is the original model in the red finish. The finish kind of reminds me of a Wine Red burst but with a plain top. This guitar has a basswood body with a bolt on maple neck. The neck is nice and thin with a rosewood fretboard and 24 jumbo frets. Up top on the 4x2 headstock you get locking tuners and a non locking nut. The tremolo is a non locking unit but it holds tune well. The pickups are Petruccis preferred set of Dimarzios. Depending on when your model was made these can be different. This example was a bit older so it came with a Dropsonic in the bridge and an Air Norton in the neck. The controls are simple with a volume and tone with a 3 way toggle switch.

    UTILIZATION

    The playability on these guitars is great. Petrucci plays with a super low action and sets his guitar up with the neck as flat as possible. To be able to pull this off you need precise fit and finish on the neck. The radius is about 15 inches which is pretty flat. The neck is similar to an Ibanez neck and this is understandable since Petrucci use to play Ibanez guitars. The bridge is a nice solid piece. It kind of reminds me of PRS tremolos. It is very solid and stable even without a locking nut. The lack of locking nut makes the guitar a bit easier to tune and whatnot. The basswood body means the guitar is super light. Newer models have other tonewoods that are a bit heavier.

    SOUNDS

    Petrucci always has a good sound thanks to his huge rig. The pickups in this guitar are the set of pickups he used early in his Musicman days. The Dropsonic was the big new thing at the time and nowadays people have moved on from it. It had its problems. It was an asymetrical design which means it sounds different by the way its oriented. Petrucci orients his with the blade facing towards the neck for a thicker sound. The problem with this pickup is that it is really noisy. Tone wise the pickup to me is a mix between the x2n and the tonezone. It is hot and bright with crazy harmonics. This leads to a bit of noise as expected. The Air Norton in the neck doesnt have any of the problems. It is a classic Dimarzio neck pickup. It has a very smooth modern lead tone. It has the output to keep up with a hot bridge pickup like the Dropsonic but has the smoothness to not sound harsh when playing leads and single note lines.

    OVERALL OPINION

    This guitars are great solid shred guitars for people who want something that can do more than just metal. They can do metal fine but they have a more subtle look and a very versatile sound. A lot of these models also come with Piezo as well but if you get one without that you can save a bit of money. To me these guitars are like grown up Ibanez's. They dont need the pointy edges any more but they still have all the playability. The stock pickups are night and day better than what you get on most Ibanez guitars as well.
  • moosehermanmooseherman

    Music Man John Petrucci 6Publié le 25/03/10 à 02:20
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    This is an American made, signature series guitar. This is a signature guitar of John Petrucci, guitarist extraordinaire for prog-rock dynasty Dream Theater. It features a vintage tremolo bridge (I haven't seen it anywhere else before, and I'm not too familiar with all of the MusicMan guitars as of right now). It has a basswood body, a maple neck with a rosewood fretboard. It has 24 frets, and 3 pickups (two humbuckers and a piezo). It has a 5-way selector switch, a master volume and two tone knobs.

    UTILIZATION

    This guitar is pretty easy to play, and I mean that in the best way. I don't think any old amateur is going to play it that well, but any reasonably experienced player is going to have a good time playing it for the sheer sake of playability. The 24 frets, with the enormous cutaway, make top-note shredding a breeze. If there ever was a guitar that was great to set you free to play all along the fretboard, this was it. That being said, playing rhythm sounds that are anything but rock and metal is a chore, mainly because of the way the guitar is setup. Everything is stable with the model I tried, and it's not too heavy and it's pretty ergonomic.

    SOUNDS

    Here's where I fell off with this guitar. I think that the guitar suffers from new trends in guitar tones that emerged after the "hair-metal" period of the late 80s. It's got a great natural sustain, sure. The leads almost always sound creamy and are a cinch to play. However, the tone is simply not my cup of tea. When I want to simplify things a bit, and get back to basics by playing some R&B or a Blues tune, or even straightforward rock, I find myself really missing the classics. There really isn't any diversity at all to be found with this guitar. I don't know what I was expecting, Petrucci himself is notorious for monotony, but that's definitely the case here. The clean sounds are pretty lame on their own, a few effects or boosts here sort of help the problem but not really. The distorted sounds are generally only good if you love Eddie Van Halen-wannabes and the guys who followed the trail that he blazed. People in search of soul in their tone should look elsewhere.

    OVERALL OPINION

    I think that the playability of this guitar is absolutely stellar, and for that alone, it would be very versatile, just because the player would be operating at his peak ability. It's a shame that the design (maybe the basswood, maybe the Piezos) gives it such a lame tone. I doubt anybody would really want this unless they worshipped at the Dream Theater altar. Then again, I guess that's the same for all Signature models anyway. At least I'm pretty sure Petrucci plays this one!
  • King LoudnessKing Loudness

    La musique est le moyen, l'homme!

    Music Man John Petrucci 6Publié le 17/03/11 à 01:49
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    When I was hunting for a killer superstrat type guitar, I looked at several options in my sub $2,000 price point. I looked at Ibanez, Jackson USA, ESP, Carvin, all the usual suspects. However, reviews online kept leading me to this one... the USA made Music Man John Petrucci signature model. I'd heard about Music Man before, but had very limited experience with them prior to October of '09 when I purchased my JP6. Now, I'll say that I'm not normally very gung ho about the idea of signature guitars, but this one was definitely an exception. The feature-set is very lucrative for a lead based guitarist like me. Some of the highlights are as follows:

    *Basswood body with contoured rib and arm scoops
    *Maple neck with rosewood fretboard, 24 frets, and Music Man's proprietary gunstock oil neck finish (extremely fast and smooth, plus it is easy to clean as well!)
    *Dual DiMarzio humbuckers (Models from 2005-2009 have the D-Sonic in the bridge and a Petrucci Special in the neck, whereas the models from June 2009 and onward have the Crunch Lab and LiquiFire in those positions.) I've had both sets of pickups in identical JP6s so I will discuss the tonal differences in the sound column.
    *Custom designed Music Man recessed two-point tremolo (non-locking)
    *Schaller M6 locking tuners
    *Music Man compensated nut
    *Piezo pickup

    The guitar is extremely ergonomic and sits very well on the body. While it is heavier in weight compared to say, the Parker Fly's that I've owned, it's still quite light for a standard superstrat. I've had two of them, a 2007 (NOS) and a 2010. Both were very consistent in their features and general quality, which I think speaks very favourably to Music Man's QC department. All in all, this is definitely a very stellar guitar with a feature-set that allows great versatility with the piezo pickup option, but because of its design, it really allows lead players to flourish and play to their best!

    UTILIZATION

    As I stated above, the guitar's design is quite ergonomic. It balances very well in sitting or standing positions, and is light enough to not act as an inhibitor to stage antics. The upper fret access is definitely a high point (pun intended) overall. When I would go to play a fast run covering the whole of the fretboard, I never had to worry about my hand hitting a neck joint.. it would just glide to the top. Obviously the system wasn't FLAWLESS (being that the guitar was a bolt on), but as far as upper fret access, I had no real problems with either of my JPs.

    Possibly the best feature of the neck is the finish. Music Man uses a proprietary blend of gunstock oil and wax to finish their necks, and the end result is a slick and EXTREMELY comfortable neck to play on! This finish, combined with a thinner but manageable neck profile really allowed my fingers to fly about the fretboard. It really made for a killer playability experience overall... and it's definitely one of the biggest, if not the biggest, selling points of the JP6 (or even other EBMM guitars in general.)

    The other big point about this guitar is the tones that it offers. The JP has a custom wiring scheme that is optimized to offer maximum performance from minimal controls. On the magnetic side, there is a volume, tone, and a 3 way toggle switch. The switch offers three sounds which are different from the typical 3 way setup in one big way. You have your standard neck and bridge pickup settings, but the middle position is actually the inner coil of each humbucker. This provides a very "jangly" sort of tone that has less output, so it allows you to get good cleans just by hitting the toggle and the channel switcher on your amp, as opposed to having to coil tap your humbucker or engage parallel wiring. If this wasn't enough, you've got the option of a piezo pickup. For those who don't know, a piezo pickup is a design that allows very acoustic-like tones. To activate this, there is a second 3 way toggle that selects magnetic signal, piezo signal, or both mixed together (a very unique sound to be sure.) But wait, there's even more! The JP has two 1/4" jacks. One of them is stereo to allow use of the piezo, and the other is magnetic only. What this allows you to do is use the piezo toggle as a kill-switch of sorts... which I found quite cool to have!

    All in all, this is definitely an extremely versatile instrument that allows a whole variety of tones with very minimal controls which is definitely a great thing!

    SOUNDS

    This guitar, being designed for John Petrucci, is obviously going to excel at the sorts of tones that he uses. I'm not a HUGE Dream Theater fan, but I definitely go for a similar tone/rig setup to John's. When I purchased the guitar, I was using a Mesa Boogie Mark III (green stripe) head and a Basson Sound B212 speaker cabinet with Emience Legend drivers. All in all, I was able to get excellent clean, mid-gain, and higher gain settings (more specifically on the 2010 model.) Being that I owned two Petrucci's made three years apart, I have had experience with both sets of the pickups used in the guitars from 2005 onwards.

    2007 JP6 - I found the Petrucci Special neck pickup to be extremely smooth and vocal like. It had medium output, so I found that it cleaned up very well using the volume control on the guitar, but it also took gobs of gain quite well. I used it only for lead passages or clean tones, relying on the bridge pickup for all of my rhythm based sounds. The D-Sonic was a fairly hot pickup... though it didn't have absurd amounts of output. I found it to be a bit more sterile on the cleaner and low gain type of sounds, which was something that I didn't care for. The higher gain tones were nice, but I found that it didn't have the tightness that I was looking for (I found it to be more of a looser vintage vibe, but still with lots of output available.) It's definitely a great sounding pickup, just not for the modern high gain type of tone that I expected it to do.

    2010 JP6 - The LiquiFire neck pickup carries on where the JP Special left off. It retains a lot of the liquid like quality of the JP Special (hence the name), but I found that it had a little more output overall and seemed to have a little more kick to the sound. I found myself using it in the same manner that I had the JP Special, but I was trying different settings (IE: Less gain, more high end, etc) with better results. The Crunch Lab is what I expected the D-Sonic to be. It had a tighter attack and took high gain a lot better. Where the D-Sonic might have gone a little bit muddy, the Crunch Lab stayed nice and chunky, even at very high gain settings. All in all I felt these pickups were certainly an improvement over the JP Special and D-Sonic due to the fact that they simply sounded more like the pickups I expected from a John Petrucci signature guitar.

    Being that the current production models (from June 2009 onwards) have these new pickups, I have no problem recommending a new JP6 to someone who really wants a great modern sounding superstrat.

    OVERALL OPINION

    When I was shopping, I tried various "mass production" guitars from Ibanez, Jackson USA, and Fender, and looked into guitars by companies like Carvin, ESP, or Parker (I own a Fly Deluxe, so I considered complimenting it with a NiteFly or another USA Fly.) However, in my seaching online, I kept coming across Music Man, Music Man, Music Man. It was my first foray into the "boutique" world and I haven't looked back since. The Music Man guitars have a great thing going for them. Sterling Ball is notorious for his stance on quality control, and I can safely say (having owned two JPs and played numerous JPs, Axis' and Silhouettes) that it's all for something. The guitars are extremely consistent and play/feel like very few others do and that's a great selling point. The Mystic Dream flip/flop finish is really eye catching and really made me stand out on stage in any setting, which was great as well.

    My only real caveat with the guitar was a personal one, and that was the fact that it said John Petrucci on it. I'm not JP, so it felt very odd to have a guitar with his name on it. Ultimately it sort of limited me, as I found myself playing mainly Dream Theater type riffs or JP type lead lines. Obviously this would be more of a psychological thing, but in the end it was a bit frustrating. The other thing of note is that EBMM guitars almost always develop paint cracks by the neck pocket. At first I was scared and thought they were wood cracks, so I arranged to have a replacement guitar shipped in via my dealer. However, after doing research I realized that they were finish cracks only. It's nothing to worry about structurally, but it is an annoyance for sure, and you would think that Music Man would make inroads to fix it in some way... ah well.

    All in all, the EBMM JP6 is truly an awesome "shredder's" guitar. It has a killer design, great neck profile with that gunstock oil/wax blend finish, plus now it has been updated with the stellar DiMarzio LiquiFire and Crunch Lab humbuckers. A great guitar that I would surely buy again if I was in the market for that specific type of guitar. However, I realized that a Les Paul was more my speed, so I no longer own one.