Paul Stanley Apocalypse Special Review

This Silvertone Paul Stanley Apocalypse solid body features A 24 3/4" scale neck with rosewood fingerboard, 22 frets, dual high output humbucking pickups, and a sculpted bolt-on maple neck.

Features:	7
Sound:	9
Action:	7
Reliability:	5
Impression:	7
Overall rating:	7
Users rating:	6.1
Comments:	12

overall: 7

Reviewed by: meta1militia, on june 20, 2006

Price paid: $ 250

Purchased from: Sam Goodys

Features: The features are pretty good for the price.

- 22 XJ fretboard
- Laminated top
- 2 passive humbuckers
- 1 tone and 1 volume
- Bolt-on neck
- Grover Tuners. // 7

Sound: The sound is very good for the price. Really quiet in the background. The pickups aren't so good for thrash and nu-metal, or country for that matter. But the over all sound is good. I'm running it through 2 Boss pedals and a wah pedal, along with Fender amps. The sound is very bright, but not enough crunch for me. The variety of sounds is basically around 3 different main sounds. // 9

Action, Fit & Finish: The guitar was set up pretty poorly when I got it. The action was very high, so I had to lower it. I also had to lower the bridge pickup and raise the neck pickup. The volume control came loose after a year of having it too, but easily fixed. Everything else was fine. // 7

Reliability & Durability: I would not use this guitar at a live show at all. The neck is so heavy as soon as you let go of it, the guitar neck plunges straight to the ground. The hardware would last a long time, but the guitar is just simply too neck heavy to be played while standing up. I would only use this as a back up guitar, or at home practice guitar. Also, sitting and playing with this guitar is a nightmare because of the shape. It hurts your legs and if you stand it's bulky too. // 5

Impression: I play mostly melodic death metal and this guitar really doesn't cut it for me. For the price, its pretty good. Other than that, I really couldn't use it for much else. I've been playing for 3 and a half years now and I have 2 other guitars about the same quality as this one, but I don't have the money for a really nice one. I would not buy this guitar again if it was stolen, I'd just simply buy a new one. I love the way it looks, and sounds, but it's just not quality. I'd probably go with a Jackson or ESP over this. I also wish it had another volume or tone knob or something. Simply not enough things are worth it unless you just want to play this guitar at home. // 7

Comments

[acefrehley]

dude this is a KISS guitar, whyd you get it if you play death metal, thats like opposite KISS completely

[YourLastAffront]

Plus it looks crap...and is afiliated with kiss.

[liam177lewis]

yourlastafront has an emo name... lets all judge him on that... nice review - kiss forever

[playing4_Christ]

kinda looks dumb

[Ierius]

it's got good looks, and ace frehley used it so yeah, kiss forever xD

[Ierius]

sorry for the mistake XDDD it was PAUL STANLEY not ace xD that was stupid...

[red star]

stay away from silvertone guys

[68_SG]

dude red is right silverstone are worthless second of all now you own it, if you like the body and the neck just change the electronics i preffer gibson or dimarzio pick ups... its basicly your choice... you'll get good stuff for less big ones than esp or jackson guitars one more thing for the neck... i own a 68 gibson sg and the guitar is pretty hard to get ballanced if the strap isnt instaled on the start of the neck you should try that

[rhcpfan118]

ugly.

[Retributions777]

would be better like the original colors

[johnnyj2]

i just bought one for $100 new for the price it is the best guitiar ive ever played

[Rad_Sauce, yo]

My dad gave me this model for my first guitar. It's great for beginners.. but now that I've been playing for a bit I'm keen to get a better guitar. I've really been looking into the Jackson Randy Rhoads, and I'm quite certain I want one.

and as the review said..it's extremely uncomfortable to play standing.