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Vibra 75 Natural is the 3/4 classical guitar from Vibra series by Eko Guitars. It features a Cedar top, laminated Mahogany back and sides, Mahogany neck and a South American Roupanà fingerboard. Thanks to its small scale length, Vibra 75 is the ideal instrument for children who want to start studying the guitar.
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Vibra 100 Natural is the classical guitar from the 'Vibra' series by Eko Guitars with a Cedar top, laminated Mahogany back and sides, Mahogany neck and South American Roupanà fingerboard. It is ideal for those who want to start studying the guitar with a structurally stable instrument, made from selected woods and following the Spanish lutherie tradition, at an affordable price.How else could I start this review other than by referring to the inevitable prime point of discussion that always revolves around Phantom-shaped guitars – the design.
The Vox Phantom, originally brought out in the early 60s amidst the boom of psychedelic rock, came in several variations of 6 string, 12 string, a version with on-board effects and stereo splitter cables to attach one to two amps and even a Phantom organ-guitar several years later. Needless to say some of these were more successful than others, but they didn’t properly catch on until around twenty years later, during the post-punk and new wave movements when notable Phantom players included Ian Curtis of Joy Division, seen playing one in the video for
Bring it up to the 21st century and there are really three contemporary Phantom guitar producers. Vox reissued their Phantom and Teardrop guitars as the MKV/III recently (and they don’t look brilliant to be honest). Phantom Guitarworks produce a pretty fantastic-looking range of Phantoms and Teardrops (and well as Mando-guitars and a Phantom/ Telecaster crossover) and Eko.
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As much as I would have liked to have bought a Phantom Guitarworks guitar, they only ship to the US (without negotiation and no doubt expensive shipping costs), and cost a fair bit at that, as I believe they’re built to order. So I turned to the Eko Ghost VI.
Eko were responsible for producing a lot of the original Vox Phantoms when production moved to Italy in the ’60s, and 50 years later they’ve brought out what is seemingly an updated version of the Phantom.
So, having briefly acknowledged the fact that people seem to either hold the view that Phantoms are damn cool-looking guitars, or that they should only be used to paddle a canoe (turn of phrase nicked from Premier Guitar’s review that I rather loved), does it sound any good?
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The Ghost VI is equipped with three Hot Rail mini humbucker pickups. These single-coil pickups are popular in Strats and Teles, and along with the Fender-style 5-way pickup selector, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the Ghost is just a dressed up Fender.
I certainly don’t use that as a negative, though. Flicking through the positions, the Ghost VI can certainly summon up some Fender-esque tones. Played through a ’72 Vox AC30, the Ghost could produce some beautifully rich tones in the neck and middle positions, especially when turning down a combination of the two Vox-style tone knobs. In neck and neck-middle, the Ghost produced more brassy, harsh tones, as you would expect. Neck-middle and bridge-middle produced my favourite tones – clear and lush out-of-phase Knopfler-esque sounds.
When I recorded the Ghost directly into my interface, the tone of each of the pickups was surprisingly mellow, even muffled in a lot of nearer-the-neck positions, which was quite a contrast to my naturally bright and jangly ‘80s Korean Strat and Jazzmaster. The amp made a huge difference in allowing this guitar to shine. The deeper, mellower sound of the Hot Rails worked beautifully in the trebly ‘brilliant’ input channel of the AC30.
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The Ghost is capable of producing quite a range of tones, making it feel just as suited to a tuneful blues as it is to hard rock and a lot in between.
With a basswood body and maple neck (and a rosewood fretboard), the Ghost feels solid, but might attract criticism for the choices of wood. Again, there’s pretty much 50/50 deliberation as to whether basswood is considered ‘low end’, but in this case the Ghost feels like it’s made out of good stuff.
The machine heads are diecast and the rest of the hardware is chrome. The pearloid scratch plate with white body and black pickups and headstock go well together, and while some people may view pearloid as a little tacky, I think it sits well with the design of this guitar (in a non-tacky way).
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The ‘EKOLogic’ Bigsby-style tremolo looks cool on the Phantom body, and from an aesthetical point of view I wouldn’t have it any other way, but it does rather annoyingly contribute to more frequent slight losses of tuning. The intonation was a bit off and the Ghost VI came with .9 gauge strings when I received it, so after changing them for .10s I had it set up by my go-to guy for guitar related issues (Mike Comerford, if anyone local is interested – he’s very good and experienced. And no he didn’t pay me to say that).
The 22 fretted, 650mm neck is a standard C shape profile and around medium thickness; it’s certainly not too thick, but it’s slightly chunkier than many Fenders I’ve played. It plays well, and with the fairly low action makes for a very playable guitar.
Overall I’d give it 7/10. I’m wavering on an 8 just for looks alone. It’s a nice sounding, very playable guitar. It needs an amp to bring out the best in the tone (kind of obviously, but just a word for any DI’ers) and can be prone to tuning issues due to the bridge style, but with it looking like it does, you just can’t stay mad at it for little flaws.
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And for anyone interested, here’s a picture of some proper vintage Voxes in a guitar shop on Denmark Steet in London. Mmmmmm
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