![]() Same exact reason why I got the SE 250 that went out of tune the minute you tried to play it. There are not enough springs on the tremolo to keep it in tune, or the springs have died. Oddly enough, it is the exact same reason I got the SE 250 as cheap as I did. I think it laughed at that much gain, so I engaged the pre-amp side of the V-Amp, switched to the rectified high gain model and tried again.Well, the strings are dead, and I now know why I bought it so cheap. Then I plugged it into the V-Amp, killed the pre-amp, turned the reverb down, and dimed the gain on the Mojo Diamond. Enough so that you could practice without an amp quite easily. If you are running one of the singles pretty close to break up, where you can push it over the edge, and then switch to the humbucker, it will drive the whole thing way too far over the edge. Switch to the bridge 85, and the volume jumps, but still stays pretty clean. Sweet clear expressive cleans with all the volume you need. Be careful fretting, because hammers ring loud and clear all over the neck! Plays really well, and will set up so low someone with a light tough could fly on it. ![]() This is my post from when I purchased the SE250. The RGX has a more strat style body that actually looks and feels like it is thicker than a Fender Strat. The SE250 is a rounded edge body that isn't really thin, but it is made like some of the older thin bodies that have a rounded edge on them. I play the Torino SG copy more than anything these days, and the shorter scale with 24 frets feels pretty much the same. I think the SE is 25.5 scale with 22 frets. It was billed as a beginner guitar, but none of us has ever figured out why. Great neck that feels wide enough for an emergency landing strip, but is really not that wide. The pickups are okay stock, and with 11's, they start to have incredible tone. You push the coiltap and it pops up by itself. The SE 250 has the same kind of set up with two pickups and a spring loaded coil tap to split the bridge. $75 won't buy the bridge pickup in the guitar unless you find one used!īy the way, the fresh battery did not hurt anything on the sound! It is much brighter now. The nut actually stops short of the end of the slot. The specs also call for a coil tap to split the bridge pickup, which this one doesn't have. The singles have foam springs molded on the back, so you can't see which they are, but the bridge is an EMG 85. The specs call for Yamaha pickups, but it has Gold Label EMG's in it. If I keep this one, it will too.īeing an early model, the jack is in the face, not the edge. The nut is 41 mm, and it doesn't even reach the ends of the slot, but at least one source says that the first two years of production used the 41 mm nut. That is the first year for them, so it is a very early model. ![]() YAMAHA RGX 312 GUITAR SERIAL NUMBERThe serial number says it was made in February 1987, and that it was number 134 of production. Without the locking nut, I don't think it could have been brought up to tune at all. When I got it, the strings were literally tied onto the tuners, with very little wrap of any kind. Would not stay in tune, even for a few notes. I got this one home, and guess what? The tremolo springs are trashed, and there were only two to start with. When I bought the SE 250, the tremolo springs were trashed, and it would not stay in tune, so the guy sold it to me cheap. Heck, the case is worth a big chunk of what I paid for the guitar. ![]() I took a quick look, bought it, and headed home to open my Christmas present to me. We met yesterday, and it came in a factory fitted Yamaha case. I have the SE250 from the same factory and time period, so I called him up and told him I wanted it. ![]()
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