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And by that I mean Periphery 4! This thing sounds monstrous straight out of the box, had to do some minor bridge adjustments but that was to be expected with any new instrument. The Alpha and Omega pickups sound amazing, they have an incredibly tight response when using the bridge while the neck brings on a more liquid tone for leads. The satin/matte finish the back of the neck is sublime, making it a breeze to glide around the board, which is super flat! Plays almost like an Ibanez. And the holcomb burst

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Cannot fault how if feels and sounds to play, Its great on Clean tones, and high gain tones. The satin neck just makes it a breeze to play on, the pickups are absolutely amazing sounding, super tight in the lows, and has an amazing chug capabilities, a well balance sound for metal, and any ambient tones. The only reason i give it a 3 star overall is the intonation, im not sure if its just my guitar, with d'addario 10's in drop G# and standard B/drop A. the intonation is horrible, the saddle is like a half turn of the screw from coming off, and its still a quarter step flat. the same is on the high b, but about a third of a half step flat. Ive sent it into someone whos been a touring guitar tech for well over 15 years, and someone who ive gone to for setting up or repairing my guitars in the past. couldnt even do any better than my intonation attempt. its been fine for the first 9 months of owning it as far as i can remember, ive had it for 2 and a half years now, and after taking a step into the realm of recording, its just getting in the way of good takes. the issue is fine with fresh strings, but after about a solid 8 hours of playing its right back to square one. if anyone has a fix let me know. the guitar tech has tried truss rod adjustments, and raising the action, but no success.

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This rating is for the instrument itself, not zZounds. Their customer service is amazing and unparalleled. I've been waiting for the release of the Holcomb SVN for some time now. The finish is great, it's beautiful, the fretboard and neck are beautiful, the pickups are great. The flat radius fretboard is insanely comfortable! Unfortunately, there are an equal amounts of negatives. The nut is garbage. It's plastic, very sharp, and has slag hanging off of it everywhere. I doubt very much that it's properly shaped or set. It has made tuning impossible. The tuning machines themselves are also extremely low quality and seem to have a gap in the gearing, which also makes tuning a very aggrevating process. The low A# string seems impossible to intonate correctly, the saddle is maxed out and it's still registering extremely sharp. This is all in the tuning and string gauge that Mark plays in so... quality control seems to be an issue with these first run Holcomb SVN's. All in all, an extremely beautiful guitar for a ridiculous price while PRS's competitors build far better instruments in the same budget. I would return this if alllowed.

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Showed up super fast and played super well out of the box, even better after some setup work. Nut wasn't cut too bad, 3 way switch started to go around the year mark, and the tuners were absolute trash. Installed a set of cosmo black locking Gotohs and a super 5 way (did the misha wiring) and now it's a total weapon.