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Daisy Rock - Rock Candy Standard
Daisy Rock - Rock Candy Standard reviewed by The Man in the Jar
The sales brochure for the Daisy Rock line proudly announces "Girl Guitars" in pink writing. I scratched my stubble and approached with caution.
Features of the Daisy Rock - Rock Candy Standard
Tuners - Chrome Grovers with kidney buttons, the same as featured on some Epiphone guitars. Smooth and accurate.
Headstock - Nice compact design with 3-a-side arrangement. It's faced with the same sparkle finish as the body, in this case Atomic Pink. The rear of the headstock is natural maple to match the neck. The Daisy Rock logo sits sweetly between the pegs and the black truss rod cover bears the model name - Rock Candy.
Nut - Standard black plastic, tidily finished.
Neck - This is where the Rock Candy throws off any pre-conceptions that it is in any way a novelty guitar. The neck is a top quality bolt-on maple affair which is slim, smooth, comfortable and fast. Daisy gets top marks here.
Fretboard - Smooth rosewood which is effortlessly playable. Inlaid mother of pearl stars replace the traditional dot markers.
Frets - Medium small with rounded profile, all tidily finished.
Action - Nice and low from the box, I had no trouble with fast runs or high barred chords.
Body - A basic slab body with a Les Paul-ish outline. It's made from mahogany and has a satisfying weight. With the target market in mind and in an effort to reduce weight issues, the makers have contoured the face of the body away around the edges of the front. The upper back face is also deeply contoured. This reduces on-strap weight but leaves the thickest mahogany right where it is needed most - under the bridge to assist sustain. The contouring makes this an extremely comfortable guitar to wear and to play. The sparkle finish is Fab! And black binding around the front edge adds definition.
Bridge - Standard chrome Gibson-type floater and stop tail. All very much in order with the general feel of the instrument.
Pickups - Two Seymour-Duncan-designed open coil humbuckers.
Controls - Single volume and tone control with a three way selector on the lower bout. The tone control is also a master coil tap. Pull up the knob and both the humbuckers are knocked into single-coil.
Pickguard - None fitted.
Strap-buttons - Quite large and secure.
Output Jack - Set in oval chrome plate on the lower edge of the body.
Finish - The dense sparkle finish is evenly applied and nicely finished.
Sound of the Daisy Rock - Rock Candy Standard
Plugged into a Roost valve amp with coil tap engaged the Rock Candy immediately presented me with brash, indie tones with bags of treble and a low-end growl to match. The pick-ups fell in perfectly with the Roost's valves and the result was quite infectious - I was almost obliged to play stuff I already knew in a Punk-ish fashion and quickly found myself doodling with new chord progressions that might have made me famous in 1977. A quick push on the tone knob dropped me out of these bright indie-tones into darker rock sounds.
So I moved over to a Line 6 Flextone and took the Daisy Rock on a day-trip to metal-land. And what a satisfying journey. This guitar has bags of sustain and all the squeal and yowl potential you need for (excuse me girls) Cock-Rock solos of the old school. As the sustain of my last note faded away all that was needed was a slight tilt of the guitar towards the speakers and the power of the humbuckers picked up a harmonic and fed it back in a beautifully controllable fashion.
Darkness step aside, here comes Daisy Rock !
Overall Impressions of the Daisy Rock - Rock Candy Standard
This instrument excels in all the areas that make a guitar great. It has a lovely neck that's fast and easy to play. It has great tonewood shaping its sound. It has excellent pick-ups with power-a-plenty and the coil-tap gives huge tonal variations to the sound. Given all of this I would recommend this guitar to anyone, not just the female market to which it is inclined. I accept that the pink finish may have limited appeal amongst the boys, so maybe they should take a look at the Standard's sister, the Rock Candy Special with its blue finish on a quilted maple top.
These are not the cheapest guitars on the block, but for your money you'll be getting an instrument that will cover a lot of tonal bases and will be a perpetual joy to play. Think Pink !
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