Vintage REVO Series Colt HS | A budget offset with top tones and unique features! | Review & Demo

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This is the Vintage Guitars REVO Series Colt HS: an affordable offset guitar in the style of the Fender/Squier Mustang… but with a few unique twists up its sleeve!

More info on the Colt HS:

The Vintage REVO Series (REVO stands for Retro Vintage Originals) is a growing family of quirky electric guitars and basses at a very decent budget point. Designed by the Vintage team along with UK designer Alan Entwistle, each REVO Series model gives its owner something new and different to pretty much anything else out there – while also being oddly recognizable and classic too.

The Colt HS is no different. A fairly standard Mustang (or possibly even more like the rarer Fender Cyclone) on first glance – albeit resplendent in this wonderful Blueburst finish – its specs reveal to us a mixture of classic features and modern comfort and playability.

One key feature is the guitar's scale length. Most Mustangs have a shorter 24” scale, but the Colt’s is a standard (the Gibson standard, in fact) 24.75”, or 628 mm. That will make this guitar a more comfy proposition, not to mention an easier switch, for certain players.

The neck on the guitar is maple, and you get 22 frets on the jatoba fingerboard. The nut is Graph Tech, and up at the headstock you get Wilkinson E-Z-Lok tuners. The neck has a rather pleasant medium to slightly chunky C shape, and the fingerboard's fairly flat radius - which feels about 10" to me - should also make playing any kind of music anywhere up the neck a breeze.

At the body (which is made of okoume), the Colt HS is the first Mustang-type I’ve seen with this humbucker/single coil pickup configuration, which should really give us those quirky offset tones alongside an extra layer of versatility.

The pickups are Alan Entwistle models: in the bridge you get the Fender CuNiFe Wide Range Humbucker-resembling HV72, while in the neck there’s a vintage Burns-inspired Astrosonic ETS2. Angled towards the guitar’s bridge, rather like a Strat bridge pickup would be, this pickup promises twangy tones aplenty! Finally, you have a Vintage Combo Bridge-Vibrato for all your wobbly and atmospheric needs.

For around $550/€450, then, this looks like an intriguing package for the money. Offset tones plus a humbucking bridge pickup? Could this be the new HSS versatility king of the offset world? It’s time to find out!

In the video, I test the Colt HS in as many different musical styles as I can, from country, folk and indie, to pop, rock, punk, metal, and more. Let me know your thoughts in the comments!

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:16 Introduction to the Vintage Colt HS
01:28 Specs and info
04:01 Today’s rig and plan

04:20 Clean tone reference chords on all pickup settings
04:35 Clean tone samples
07:38 Post rock/ambient tones + Source Audio Collider
09:07 Indie and alt rock tones + Marshall 1959 Super Lead pedal
12:06 Classic rock tones + Marshall 1959 SL
13:59 Hard rock tones
15:51 Alternative rock tones
16:14 Punk rock tones
16:55 Modern/progressive rock tones
17:46 Metal tones

19:44 My thoughts
20:09 First impressions, looks
21:15 Weight
21:39 Build quality and hardware
22:49 Playability and neck
23:39 Sounds and pickups
26:43 What other similar guitars are out there?
29:00 My conclusions on the Colt HS and why you should buy it

Here’s the excellent video I mentioned where @MarkB.Guitar really gives the Colt’s vibrato all it’s got:

My setup was as follows: I ran the Colt into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, also using my Marshall 1959 Super Lead and Revv G3 pedals for overdrive and heavy distortion sounds. The amp went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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