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Reviews on the Dangelica Ex Dc Hollow Body

Our Verdict

The EX-DC is a grade act that feels very road-worthy: a existent journeyman's guitar with plenty of fashion.

Pros

  • A classy spin on the classic ES-335 with expanded colour options and versatile sounds.

Cons

  • A picayune weighty; trimmer pricing would make it a no-brainer.

MusicRadar Verdict

The EX-DC is a class act that feels very road-worthy: a real journeyman'due south guitar with plenty of style.

Pros

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    A classy spin on the classic ES-335 with expanded color options and versatile sounds.

Cons

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    A little weighty; trimmer pricing would make it a no-brainer.

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D'Angelico EX-DC Standard

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D'Angelico EX-DC Standard

While the archtop hollowbody and its 'modernised' centre-blocked thinline have moved in and out of fashion over the years, in today'southward over-filled market where every stylistic niche is seemingly covered, the once-called 'jazzbox' seems nicely anchored with numerous mainstream brands offering a pretty wide choice of style and price.

D'Angelico's guitars are manufactured in Korea - as are Order'due south Newark St Collection - and they typify that country of origin, coming with a cost tag that sits betwixt lower-cost Chinese and Indonesian archtops and semis from the likes of Gretsch and Epiphone, and the higher-priced USA-made Gibsons or harder-to-find Japanese makes such equally Yamaha.

Originally conceived in the jazz historic period by John D'Angelico, these guitars take been reissued on occasion over the years. Then, dorsum in 2011, the brand was kick-started once again and today has quite serious presence and a number of top-line users, including Bob Weir, Susan Tedeschi and Brad Whitford, not to mention Lake Street Dive's Mike 'McDuck' Olson.

The EX-DC is the well-nigh- perfect guitar for the player who needs to cover a lot of styles or wants to accept but one guitar to a gig

Those of you lot with a knob fetish will enjoy the EX-DC with its classy ebony-like command knobs and three thin inlaid strips for position markers. And, before yous run to the hills, the EX-DC is offered in more than conservative colours than just our showy Surf Green on review here.

The EX-DC's trimmer depth (43mm at the rim) and double-cutaway shape are easy to manage on a strap, but suffer the sick of many a mod thinline in that the guitar is quite heavy. Nonetheless, information technology balances nicely seated, not to the lowest degree with the help of that elongated headstock - which isn't always the case with heavier-bodied ES-335-alikes.

The neck features a deep-ish, slightly square-shouldered 'C', and fretting is from a medium/heavy judge that seems a bit 'rock'.Plugged in, we get a skillful thought of the transition from the hollowbody (with just dual top braces) to the thinline with its solid maple centre cake and the single-ringlet P-ninety, to the humbucker.

The EX-DC illustrates what thousands of players already know: the ES-335 is hugely versatile! Clean, there'southward a little more sustain, more 'solidbody' to the grapheme still the tonality would easily arrange your jazz gig. Simply boot in some gain and we're into near-perfect blues carol soloing territory.

The bridge avoids sounds too spiky and is vintage-y and clear enough for some authentic state swing and rockabilly lines through a clean amp, simply totally rocks information technology with some archetype stone-era gain. Musical feedback is easily induced for those wilder moments, as well. The pickup mix remains a rhythm player'southward dwelling house, with dual volumes and tones to subtly alter the graphic symbol: Motown, funk, soul or far more gimmicky effected voices all work superbly. Information technology's the well-nigh-perfect guitar for the histrion who needs to cover a lot of styles or wants to accept but one guitar to a gig.

The EX-DC has even more than competition to fight than its sibling the EX-59, but it'south the versatility of its style that makes it polish, not to mention the attraction of those color choices and that headstock, which adds a far-from- generic spin to the guitar.

Dave Burrluck is one of the world'southward well-nigh experienced guitar journalists, who started writing back in the '80s forInternational Musician and Recording Earth, co-foundedThe Guitar Magazine and has been the Gear Reviews Editor ofGuitarist magazine for the by two decades. Along the way, Dave has been the sole author ofThe PRS Guitar BookandThe Player'south Guide to Guitar Maintenance as well equally contributing to numerous other books on the electric guitar. Dave is an active gigging and recording musician and still finds time to make, repair and mod guitars, not to the lowest degree forGuitarist's The Modern Squad.

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Source: https://www.musicradar.com/reviews/guitars/dangelico-ex-dc-standard-639671