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The B.C. Rich Mockingbird ST features maple neck through construction, a nato mahogany body with AAA quilted maple veneer, and a Floyd Rose Original tremolo. It's equipped with Rockfield Mafia Pickups, coil tap switches, reverse phase switch and the 5-position tone knob. Inspired by a Mockingbird that a certain top hat-wearing legend plays, the Mockingbird ST is, in many ways, very true to the original.
I now have 21 guitars (all hand picked high quality instruments). I must have gotten a good one cause this guitar is perfect out of the box. It plays and can sound like butter, and the EBONY fretboard had a les paul custom feel. No other guitar has the tone option swithces and this can be an all around guitar for any style. This thing is heavy and looks like it's ready to be with youe on the cover of a magazine with it's unique curves. I love it. Right up there with my primo Ibanezes, PRS's. Great for shredding or crystal clear strumming.
Plug it in, turn up the volume. You wont be dissapointed. I have had this guitar for a few months now and I have nothing but praise for it. This guitar handles high distortion excellently. Plus it gives an extremely unique sound for both rhythm and soloing. You will stand out from the average EMG users. The neck pickup is suprisingly superb as well. It provides a hearty kick but still gives the milky tones you would like to have in a quality neck pickup. But I would even say the best things about this guitar are the clean tones. If you just put your guitar on a clean setting and touch nothing it sounds slightly distorted. But by flipping a few switches on this guitars vast array of controls you can easily make one of the best clean tones I have ever heard out of a guitar. On a middle crunchy kind of setting, this guitar is equally good. The pickups provide A WHOLE LOTTA KICK. Most people are turned off by the BC rich brand name but this guitar might just change your perception. Looks great, Sounds better.
I purchased my Mockingbird ST at a local music store, and dang, it's a great guitar. When I first picked it up I immediately fell in love with it, and I hate almost all B.C. Rich guitars. (Except for the Mockingbird, ASM, and Gunslinger models) I played it, ran it through a couple of pedals, and immediately bought it, here's some info; The factory strings aren't that bad... But I highly recommend getting a nice set of D'Addario strings. I have no idea what people are talking about when they say; "Oh, the tap coils do little, and the reverse phaser does nothing." They both work fine on my Mockingbird, maybe it's because the 9V battery in their guitars ran down or something, but I assure you they both work, and are extremely useful at sometimes, other times they're not. It's not just for "Shredding" or "Metal", I play lots of metal, but I also play almost all kinds of music, and this guitar can play it all, that's why they named it the Mockingbird, Mockingbirds can mimic any sound. :P The neck feels great, but unfortunately this guitar is a fingerprint-magnet, so you might want to wipe it down ever two weeks or so, the action comes pretty low, but I got it set lower, and paired with a nice set of strings, this thing is a beast and it's ready to roar. (Pardon the lame choice of words, xD) The varitone knob is also very nice, but like some other reviewers, I like it set on the top setting, but the second-to-bottom setting is nice for deep-sounding tones. The Floyd Rose tremolo plays like a dream and keeps it in tune all the time, I've gigged with this guitar and I've never had to tune or fix a string in the middle of a gig, another nice thing is it's an actual Floyd Rose, the downside to most nice B.C. Rich guitars is they have "Licensed" Floyd Roses, which don't tend to work half as well as the real thing. The guitar is beautiful, just beautiful, when I gig I tend to notice most eyes in the crowd are on my guitar. (:P Sorry for bragging) And I've had quite a few other guitar players tell me it looked great, sounded great, and that was usually followed up by a; "Can I try it out?". And the Rockfield Mafias? D*mn, those suckers can scream, and they can sing, depending on how you want it. Overall, a very nice guitar, best I've owned (Or played, for that matter) so far, next I'll be purchasing another ST, different colour.
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