JP
Professional instrument in intermediate category
I have had this now more than 1 year and I haven't had any issues with it. When I first got it, I had this feeling that my skills as guitar player went immediately 2 years forward, because it is so easy and light to play.
All the contours in the guitar have a meaning which makes it very ergonomical to play and all the controls are easy to reach.
Locking tuners are keeping it well in tune if you are doing some basic vibrato for chords or some flutters. What it cannot take is some heavy beating and strong dive bombs. For that you need double locking Floyd Rose guitar.
The Sterlings own pickups are as good as the DiMarzios. I have had the Air Norton (neck) - Steve's Special (bridge) and Liquid Fire (neck) - Crunch Lab (bridge) both installed to my 2 Ibanez RG guitars. When Liquid-Crunch are more metal and high output and Air-Steve's are more 80s rock and lower output, I could say that the Sterlings gain is something in between those two pickup pairs. If you want more gain there is the +12db boost what you can enable which can be good for soloing.
Only difference between the real Music Man and this Sterling versions is the lack of piezo which on the other hand is very controversial flaw since the Music Man is +2000€ more just for the piezo. You can fill this gap by putting the pick up sellector to the middle potision and adding for example BOSS AC3 acoustic simulator pedal to the chain (or some other acoustic simulator). It will do the trick even though its not analog signal anymore.
Needless to say that it is always good idea to by fresh package of strings at the same time and change those factory strings when you receive the guitar.
All the contours in the guitar have a meaning which makes it very ergonomical to play and all the controls are easy to reach.
Locking tuners are keeping it well in tune if you are doing some basic vibrato for chords or some flutters. What it cannot take is some heavy beating and strong dive bombs. For that you need double locking Floyd Rose guitar.
The Sterlings own pickups are as good as the DiMarzios. I have had the Air Norton (neck) - Steve's Special (bridge) and Liquid Fire (neck) - Crunch Lab (bridge) both installed to my 2 Ibanez RG guitars. When Liquid-Crunch are more metal and high output and Air-Steve's are more 80s rock and lower output, I could say that the Sterlings gain is something in between those two pickup pairs. If you want more gain there is the +12db boost what you can enable which can be good for soloing.
Only difference between the real Music Man and this Sterling versions is the lack of piezo which on the other hand is very controversial flaw since the Music Man is +2000€ more just for the piezo. You can fill this gap by putting the pick up sellector to the middle potision and adding for example BOSS AC3 acoustic simulator pedal to the chain (or some other acoustic simulator). It will do the trick even though its not analog signal anymore.
Needless to say that it is always good idea to by fresh package of strings at the same time and change those factory strings when you receive the guitar.
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