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Vurdalak and the Crafter CTS150-12/N
Hi. I’m Humber, guitarist and bassist of the band Vurdalak. What follows here is my review on the Crafter CTS150-12n, which has been my axe for almost all amplified performances with Vurdalak.
I originally bought this guitar after Vurdalak decided to move away from the, almost instinctive lure to Distortion, and started to move to a more acoustic, yet amplified, sound. At that time, playing an ordinary six string acoustic guitar seemed to lack the punch to play some of the harder, more metal, songs like The Last Harvesters (Webmaster Jurnst, can you hook me up with a link please?). To keep the punch of distortion without getting the compressed and “unnatural” sound of an electric guitar, I then turned towards twelve string guitars.
The Crafter CTS150-12n did exactly this. And thanks to it’s thin body, it allows the guitar player to stand up and run or jump around on stage without being limited in his movement by the huge volume of a more Dreadnought-like body, something which I personally see as a very big plus. Further more, it has an excellent amplified sound, which is both very natural and very strong at the same time.
Of course the thin body also has two down sides. Due to it’s thin body, the weight of the neck is relatively high, which makes the guitar a bit unbalanced. This is not a problem when you are sitting down, but if you are standing up, it means you have to “carry” the neck of the guitar, and constantly push it up. Yet complaining about this is something only sissy pussies would do.
The second thing is that, again due to it’s thin body, it has a very low acoustic volume. I never found this a problem when I was playing on my own, but when playing in a band with violins squeaking in one ear and percussion wobbling in the other, the volume of this guitar is just a bit to low. But as said before, I needed a guitar for amplified gigs, not one for acoustic ones. And that is exactly where this guitar really shines.
On stage, surrounded by heavy bass lines, thick smoke, shocked faces, you wouldn’t want any other mutant elektro acoustic guitar. |