the beauty of the beast

i can imagine so many wordplays for this picture.. it's about exactly 5 years old

the beauty and the beast for sure :p

today's guitar is a B.C.Rich Beast, NJ-series
since i made plans to learn and play guitar, i always had an eye on guitars from BCRich, they just look so fucking metal.. 

it's the same discussion all the time, so either you love or you hate the shape, most time there is no "inbetween"

with good luck i got this one for the third of the regular price! well i was a happy boy hehe i was wandering through the old city of schaffhausen and suddenly there was a musicshop.. there where only "normal" looking e-guitars and acousticguitars in the window, but i had time and took a look inside


at the very end of the shop, in the last corner, there was this guitar which didn't fit in at all to the sortiment
but naturally it got my full attention and i played with that baby


so the shop owner joined me and it was obvious i had fun with that one.. he told me that they have this guitar since 2004 in stock and it was involved in a fire accident once (no burnings, just smoke and ashes).. there are no customers of him, who'd bought such a guitar.. they stick to the normal ones


now seeing me with this beast he said, if i take it now, i can have it for 500CHF with the bag.. regular priece (at this time) was about 1500CHF, so i didn't hesistate long and took it with me..


still it's for me one of the most beautiful guitars ever!
but there are two mayor disadvantages.. the first one, it's heavy like shit.. (well it's supposed to make heavy metal :P) it will break your back! i think it's about 7kg


and the second negative point (since 2 years) are the strings!
it's a special system, called "speed loader". you don't have to trim the strings, they come already in the right lenght, you just snap them in and you're ready to play.. super fast, super easy


but not very common, so the company decided some time ago to stop producing those strings.. too bad, but i still have many as replacement


the guitar itself has passiv pick-up's from b.c.rich, they sound quite well. it is a real bass monster, the deep tones are quite dominant and give a warm clean sound. the output is not that high (normal for passive pick-up's) so you'll have to turn your gain up to 10 for a brutal distortion sound!


what i like the most about playing this guitar is, how well the neck is made.. the string position is perfect, it's so near the neck but it doesn't touch it where it shouldn't.. it feels really great and you're able to play quite fast with almost no need to use force to press down the string.. it's a dream hehe


i recorded our complete first album with this guitar, it also does not de-tune, even after months not playing.


my producer is very firm with all kind of guitars and even he was impressed how playable this one is.. he always said "die fickt junge, die fickt richtig gut" haha, translate it yourself


even it's not my main-guitar anymore, i'll always love this beast.. 
just look at her

and it really looks great on stage, but there are many people who'll tell you're a poser.. so you have to play good, and show that you can handle a beast and not just carry around :P


oh, girls fancy it ;D