Like most other 12vers the Musicvox is a Mitsubishi Zero honing in on a hapless surface target. . .an F-4 Phantom with twin-engine flameouts. I don't like the neck shape, it's overly-square to me, but I have been getting used to it. It's wide but definitely flat and not too thick. There isn't a lot of tone control--you get more from playing with the pickup selector--but what it does have is major output. In active mode it's punching the deep end of red, bending needles, breaking LED displays. I like it better tuned to DGCF for some reason, perhaps just a bit less jangly. I'd like to try strings a little larger on the fundamentals, right now I'm using the MV strings which are a tad small for my taste, somewhere around .40-.96. I'm used to a more typical .45-.105. Still, they sound good. The bass definitely will drive any effect or pedal and give a signal strong enough to drive a tube preamp into the ground. I haven't had to do anything to the neck since I've had it, very stable. Extremely so. The pickups seem to have a naturally Ampeg-ish tone to them, or at least that's what comes to mind for a comparison. Since it's neck-thru with a brass nut it's got tons of sustain. The wider string spacing makes fingerstyle a breeze and I even mess around with some simple slap on it just for amusement.
My gripes--poor tone controls seem to do very little. Major neck dive. Odd neck shape. That's pretty much it, and all three have been liveable, especially since I picked it up used for about five bills with I believe five extra sets of Musicvox strings. I haven't been able to find out who makes the pickups but they're definitely quality. I don't mind the big black "12" on it, since it makes it obvious even when inebriated that you are NOT plugged into a chorus pedal.
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It took a while, but they eventually balanced out and stayed in tune.
