Post by grayn on Apr 9, 2013 17:18:55 GMT
Made in Indonesia. this is an auditorium sized guitar, with a shallow cutaway. It is all solid woods. These being, an Englemann Spruce top, a beautifully grained Rosewood back and sides, Indonesian Mahogany neck, Ebony fingerboard, bridge and pins and Maple binding. It has Grover machineheads, with ebony buttons, a slimline, abalone rosette and a Shadow pickup system.
This guitar uses the Nanoflex pickup, with the SH863 preamp. The preamp has volume, bass and treble controls, a phase invert switch and an EQ-shape switch. All potentiometers are push-push-type. Keeping everything flat, until needed.
Acoustically, the Venus has a rather sweet tone, with very good separation. The treble sparkles, very nicely and with a vibrant mid and balanced bass. The overall tone plays and sounds a treat. It’s a small guitar, so doesn’t thunder. Yet tonally, it plays solo and within ensembles, very well. I mainly play with a pick and this Faith suits my style extremely well. It’s a great strummer but my style is more arpeggios, syncopated and emphasised rhythms and single/two note lines, often accompanying vocals. For all this, the Venus excels. It sounds well for fingerpickers too, although it’s 43mm nut may be a little slim for some.
Using the pickup system is a doddle. And the natural tone of the “Nanoflex” U.S.T., is the best I have heard. Better than the Headway “Snake 3”, I had fitted to another guitar of mine. Of the 2 extra controls you get, the Phase switch inverts the signal, helping to limit overall feedback. Pressing the “EQ-shape” switch (with the tone controls are in middle position), will turn your linear output frequency curve into a V-shape form, which means it will boost bass and trebles and cut the mid. Now you can use the tone controls to influence this V-shape sound and create your own personal tone. Cool.
This guitar, with it’s gorgeous, rosewood grain, including sapwood on the back and hi-gloss finish, is crafted superbly. Infact, to a quality, way beyond it’s price. There is nothing amiss here and the set up was perfect from the shop. It has a very comfortable neck, with a low but solid action, that makes it a joy to play. This is genuine high quality, at a low-mid price.
This is solidly built, with a tough finish, that deters knocks from marring it’s beauty. It’s a gigging guitar, built for purpose.
My 2 other guitars, at the moment, cost 2 ½ and 3 ½ times that of this Faith
Venus. So it’s hard to make fair comparisons. That said, this little guitar really holds it’s own. Okay, it doesn’t feel handmade or exotic. But it is a fabulous, factory made guitar that truly does punch above it’s weight. It’s tone, plugged or unplugged, suits me very well indeed and is of a very professional and gigging standard. If you are looking for a smallish, sweet toned, electro, that’s extremely well priced, suitable for many situations and quite handsome to boot, the Faith Venus HI-gloss Electro Cutaway is well worth a try. I’m very glad I gave it a go. I would very likely buy another, if I lost this one. And am thinking of the Jupiter Hi-Gloss Electro, as a future purchase.
This guitar uses the Nanoflex pickup, with the SH863 preamp. The preamp has volume, bass and treble controls, a phase invert switch and an EQ-shape switch. All potentiometers are push-push-type. Keeping everything flat, until needed.
Acoustically, the Venus has a rather sweet tone, with very good separation. The treble sparkles, very nicely and with a vibrant mid and balanced bass. The overall tone plays and sounds a treat. It’s a small guitar, so doesn’t thunder. Yet tonally, it plays solo and within ensembles, very well. I mainly play with a pick and this Faith suits my style extremely well. It’s a great strummer but my style is more arpeggios, syncopated and emphasised rhythms and single/two note lines, often accompanying vocals. For all this, the Venus excels. It sounds well for fingerpickers too, although it’s 43mm nut may be a little slim for some.
Using the pickup system is a doddle. And the natural tone of the “Nanoflex” U.S.T., is the best I have heard. Better than the Headway “Snake 3”, I had fitted to another guitar of mine. Of the 2 extra controls you get, the Phase switch inverts the signal, helping to limit overall feedback. Pressing the “EQ-shape” switch (with the tone controls are in middle position), will turn your linear output frequency curve into a V-shape form, which means it will boost bass and trebles and cut the mid. Now you can use the tone controls to influence this V-shape sound and create your own personal tone. Cool.
This guitar, with it’s gorgeous, rosewood grain, including sapwood on the back and hi-gloss finish, is crafted superbly. Infact, to a quality, way beyond it’s price. There is nothing amiss here and the set up was perfect from the shop. It has a very comfortable neck, with a low but solid action, that makes it a joy to play. This is genuine high quality, at a low-mid price.
This is solidly built, with a tough finish, that deters knocks from marring it’s beauty. It’s a gigging guitar, built for purpose.
My 2 other guitars, at the moment, cost 2 ½ and 3 ½ times that of this Faith
Venus. So it’s hard to make fair comparisons. That said, this little guitar really holds it’s own. Okay, it doesn’t feel handmade or exotic. But it is a fabulous, factory made guitar that truly does punch above it’s weight. It’s tone, plugged or unplugged, suits me very well indeed and is of a very professional and gigging standard. If you are looking for a smallish, sweet toned, electro, that’s extremely well priced, suitable for many situations and quite handsome to boot, the Faith Venus HI-gloss Electro Cutaway is well worth a try. I’m very glad I gave it a go. I would very likely buy another, if I lost this one. And am thinking of the Jupiter Hi-Gloss Electro, as a future purchase.
Jo whoever he is.
