Lol I still watch those grainy homemade videos of Dime jamming on the couch by himself gettin his pull on till this day. Dude was a sweet, funny, down to earth guy.
Those that said Dimebag didn’t have a great tone are usually the ones who were dialing in their amps in search of a brutal and distinctive tone, found it to their great excitement, only to realize in their envy that they dialed in the Dimetone.
These are great guitars, and can be upgraded. I got a dean from hell and immediately put an original Floyd it. There was no need though, as I recycled the Floyd special in another build, and it's a great trem after setting it up properly. These black and silver stealth models are among my favorite dime models. Awesome guitar man.
I remember when you could get a Dime Blue Lightning for $99.00 in a pawn shop. The last one I saw was in Orlando FL four years ago. Your guitar does sound great live. Thanks for the honest review.
Dang pizza sounds hella good! Love that guitar man Dimebag was the GOAT and I love every single Dimebag guitar wether it's Washburn or Dean they all kick ass although I lean a little more to the Washburns because of the build quality.
Dude, Dimebag was with you on that night!! You played the 5 Minutes Alone breakdown perfectly in my opinion, it sounded really good!! 🤘🎸😎😎, keep on shredding’ brother!! That’s a beautifully awesome guitar!!
That year requires you to string it backwards. You're supposed to pull the strings through the topof the tuners, the lock it down. Then you need to up D the high E string. This helps balance the backwards stringing.
That would be a good idea. I actually forgot to mention I put a new strap location on the bottom side of where the fret board meets the body. You can see it if you watch closely. That location has made balance perfect for standing 🤘
Use detoxit and spray your pots. The crackle sound will go away just work in the oil move the volume back and forth. Or just change your old pots out. Not hard just a bit of soldering.
Hi bro, I have the same guitar. I bought it brand new in 2005. It did sound muddy, dark and thin so I quickly changed the pickups and the pots. It was a bit better. Recently I changed the Floyd for a Schaller, the guitar sound way better since.
I'd clear the dots, replacing with skulls and not butterflies, and I'd tear off that Washburn meme that has became as pretty as old at Black Jack. Namastè.
I own one of these... and I've had alot of the parts snap on me... so far I've had to replace the locking nut... snapped in half when I tried to lock it down... the string locking inserts inside the bridge all snapped, and the Trem Block has recently stripped away and needs replacing... All hardware on these are super low quality except for the tuners... but they look cool! I always though they were made in Korea, but it makes more sense these were made in China cause of the quality... I heard Dime said these import Stealths were only good as door stoppers! :P
Mine has been unfortunately sitting in its case for years, and I completely forgot it had this weird string through setup on the saddles. I agree, the original pickups sucked, so I upgraded mine with the Kerry King EMG 81 / 85 kit. Looks like I am going to be saving up for an original Floyd or Schaller to put into this beast. It'll only make it more bad ass :) Enjoy the axe dude!
It was just a plugin. Bias fx2 with one of the mesa amps, I think it was the mark v. I used an overdrive in front and an eq rack after the cab. The eq was the biggest factor in my opinion
All the Dime signature guitars were beautiful, but crap build quality...Washburn and Deans. It would have been cool if someone with a little more quality behind their name built them.
Hey this is the backing track I used backingtrackbrasil.com/down/stone-the-crow I put it in reaper and recorded my guitar with bias fx2. You can check that cover out here m.ua-cam.com/video/d1s-esWSz5w/v-deo.html. Im not familiar with irig, but I use reaper and biasfx2 for my home recording. Hope that helps 🤘
I don't think that Floyd is total junk, its usable when properly setup. That said, I dropped an OFR in my Chinese ML (original sunburst model). These are good guitars.
Yeah, but I recently resolved the issue by simply tightening the neck screw bolts. There is only 2 when most bolt ons are 4. Not the best design but it works haha!
bro trust me those 500ks make all the difference, i had a schecter hellraiser that had some bare knuckle hum buckers and it sounded awful until i switched the pots
I have a Floyd special on my schecter and I honestly cannot saying anything bad about it. Can confidently say it’s never gone out of tune. Plays wonderfully. Feels just like any other Floyd. I have another guitar with a special and it’s absolutely shit. Doesn’t stay in tune, feels like shit, looks like shit, it clicks when you use the whammy and that goes through the amp and sounds like fuck. Guess it just depends idk.
@@CeoWintrz sorry mate, I do not have time these days. I'm about to upload No Good Attack The Radical. I covered it on guitar a couple years ago. It got taken down, so I'm re-uploading it 🤘
Always wanted a Dean/ washburn dime as a teen, but sadly didnt have the money. Growing up now that i have money sadly there arent much of those out there on the market anymore :( The ones on reverb are extremely overpirced.
@@bhance1988 dean did announce a “artist inspired” models coming out sometime, they announced in the recent namm event. They are bringing the slime ML back but ofcourse different pickups, id totally get my hands on that when it launches.
I actually did replace the nut a while ago. It was a cheap one and messed my action and tone up bad. I took it off and put the original back on for now. Could be a great guitar with all them upgrades. Would be fun to a/b 250k to 500k pots and hear how much of a difference
Hey man you are putting the strings in wrong. You gotta cut the extra smaller pieces off the ends and put the strings in backwards. You lock the strings in with the little blocks.
Unfortunately this cheap licensed Floyd doesn't have the locking blocks in the bridge. It is designed the way I showed in the video. Someday I will replace it with a real system that locks at the bridge
@@bhance1988 oh damn I miss understood what you had said. My bad. And thank you for your response I appreciate that. Take it easy and never stop playing music.
accounted for inflation paying 700 bucks 18 years ago is like paying 2000 bucks now, so even if the guitar is going for over 1000 when you account for inflation you are making a loss
It's one of my favorite songs and that is a recording I did of it. Thought would be nice background music. My cover is here m.ua-cam.com/video/d1s-esWSz5w/v-deo.html all instrumental
@@fekdaleo later when Phil said he couldn't tour due to his back. Then goes out on tour with SJR the goes out with DOWN. Meanwhile Dime and Vinnie are like I thought your back wouldn't let you tour
Just met a drummer the other week who has pretty much the same musical taste as me! We are going to jam 5 minutes alone and see where it goes from there
@@bhance1988YES!!!?? HOW DID U KNO THIS!?? ua-cam.com/video/irChosqAnZ0/v-deo.html 3.35 ish min . Big Horrible burp.. f#cking DISGUSTING.. then I see you doing it as well and I'm like " come on!!?? " Wtf He also does a couple of fart jokes/noises around 30 t 60secnds intp the video. Then the burp at 3?30ih. The very next video I watch was yours n yeah it was just too much
Okay why Down in the intro to a dime video. And are you seriously telling me you put the ball ends into the Floyd? No wonder your tuning issues are fuct. Locking nuts are 25 bucks and it's 2 screws. 500k pots for sure. My fuckin head hurts
The way you described it is so vague my dude. I'm not trying to talk shit but all that guitars issues could be solved with a professional setup. I would do one for free.
I'm a massive dime fan and loved his tone..BUT dime made his tone to suit well for the band as a whole..when jamming by himself alot of the uniqueness came from his hands but when couples woth his brother and rex his sound was skyrocketed to monster heights.
Lol I still watch those grainy homemade videos of Dime jamming on the couch by himself gettin his pull on till this day. Dude was a sweet, funny, down to earth guy.
Couldn't agree more! He will be a legend 4ever 🤘
i love this dime guitar, the prices back then were dirt cheap, sadly cant really pick any washburn/dean guitars since there arent many lefties
Same here bro. Got 2 dean guitars tho. So I cant complain
im in the same boat
Yup I’m a lefty and they are hard as hell to find. They had the razor back with flames all over online but now I can’t even find one
@@zagreatandini2345 tbh It's weird for me. I'm left handed but I play right handed.
I have myself a dean razorback if it wasn’t for DIMEBAG I would still be playing grunge
Those that said Dimebag didn’t have a great tone are usually the ones who were dialing in their amps in search of a brutal and distinctive tone, found it to their great excitement, only to realize in their envy that they dialed in the Dimetone.
True
It’s rare to hear someone held on to one of these. Sounds killer man. Glad I came across your channel 🤘🏼
These are great guitars, and can be upgraded. I got a dean from hell and immediately put an original Floyd it. There was no need though, as I recycled the Floyd special in another build, and it's a great trem after setting it up properly. These black and silver stealth models are among my favorite dime models. Awesome guitar man.
Thanks Randy! Merry Christmas 🎄☃️
@@bhance1988 merry Christmas to you man. 🤘🎅
Dime threw a fit when he saw those bolt-in necks. That was right at the end of his Washburn endorsement. Those bottom of the line stealths suck balls.
ya take on a diffrent attitude when ya play. fun to watch, never stop , LLDD!!!
The guitar brings it out lol! 🤘
I remember when you could get a Dime Blue Lightning for $99.00 in a pawn shop. The last one I saw was in Orlando FL four years ago. Your guitar does sound great live. Thanks for the honest review.
I replace all my potentiometers with 1MEG on my MLX it definitely made a huge difference sounds brighter with no more sound cracks.
Dang pizza sounds hella good! Love that guitar man Dimebag was the GOAT and I love every single Dimebag guitar wether it's Washburn or Dean they all kick ass although I lean a little more to the Washburns because of the build quality.
Dude, Dimebag was with you on that night!! You played the 5 Minutes Alone breakdown perfectly in my opinion, it sounded really good!! 🤘🎸😎😎, keep on shredding’ brother!! That’s a beautifully awesome guitar!!
What a huge compliment, thanks! Those dimebag riffs definitely got the crowd riled up 😜🤘🍻
I ripped the licensed floyd out of my old ML to and put an 84 OFR in there. Had to expand the stud holes for the new bridge.
I always loved Dimes tone!
That year requires you to string it backwards. You're supposed to pull the strings through the topof the tuners, the lock it down. Then you need to up D the high E string. This helps balance the backwards stringing.
Dimebag is the only person that could rock that style of guitar and make it sound so kick ass.
I’d recommend getting a longer screw for the top neck bolt and put the strap button on that 👍🏻
That would be a good idea. I actually forgot to mention I put a new strap location on the bottom side of where the fret board meets the body. You can see it if you watch closely. That location has made balance perfect for standing 🤘
Use detoxit and spray your pots. The crackle sound will go away just work in the oil move the volume back and forth. Or just change your old pots out. Not hard just a bit of soldering.
Interesting review. Pantera fan from Japan
Cheers from MontanA USA 🤘🍻
Hi bro, I have the same guitar. I bought it brand new in 2005. It did sound muddy, dark and thin so I quickly changed the pickups and the pots. It was a bit better. Recently I changed the Floyd for a Schaller, the guitar sound way better since.
Nice! Did you put the Schaller in yourself?
I replace all my volume pots with low friction either SD YJM or cheaper Bourne I think they are the same thing. I do know the YJM are linear.
I'd clear the dots, replacing with skulls and not butterflies, and I'd tear off that Washburn meme that has became as pretty as old at Black Jack. Namastè.
I own one of these... and I've had alot of the parts snap on me... so far I've had to replace the locking nut... snapped in half when I tried to lock it down... the string locking inserts inside the bridge all snapped, and the Trem Block has recently stripped away and needs replacing... All hardware on these are super low quality except for the tuners... but they look cool!
I always though they were made in Korea, but it makes more sense these were made in China cause of the quality...
I heard Dime said these import Stealths were only good as door stoppers! :P
Do you know what year yours was made? Should be on the last 2 digits off the back of the head stock. Cheers from MontanA 🤘🍻
Mine has been unfortunately sitting in its case for years, and I completely forgot it had this weird string through setup on the saddles. I agree, the original pickups sucked, so I upgraded mine with the Kerry King EMG 81 / 85 kit. Looks like I am going to be saving up for an original Floyd or Schaller to put into this beast. It'll only make it more bad ass :) Enjoy the axe dude!
Awesome man! That will be a massive upgrade
I over heat my pots all the time w the soldering iron. Gotta keep some alpha 5000 on deck
Nice tone ......what amp / effect you diled in ?....I think Dime was using flanger/doubler as well ......
It was just a plugin. Bias fx2 with one of the mesa amps, I think it was the mark v. I used an overdrive in front and an eq rack after the cab. The eq was the biggest factor in my opinion
All the Dime signature guitars were beautiful, but crap build quality...Washburn and Deans. It would have been cool if someone with a little more quality behind their name built them.
My dean ML made in Korea is high quality , not so much the China ones thou I heard
Beautiful guitar, what's the background music in the beginning of the video ?
It's Down - Stone The Crow. An instrumental I covered you can listen here m.ua-cam.com/video/d1s-esWSz5w/v-deo.html
You got the cheaper guitar. With the bolt on neck. I purchased the full version. With no regrets.
Yep, 2st vs 3st
Dude I have an irig hd but new at using it. How to record over a drum track like that and where did you get the drum track for stone the crow?
Hey this is the backing track I used backingtrackbrasil.com/down/stone-the-crow I put it in reaper and recorded my guitar with bias fx2. You can check that cover out here m.ua-cam.com/video/d1s-esWSz5w/v-deo.html. Im not familiar with irig, but I use reaper and biasfx2 for my home recording. Hope that helps 🤘
@@bhance1988 thanks so much man!
I don't think that Floyd is total junk, its usable when properly setup. That said, I dropped an OFR in my Chinese ML (original sunburst model). These are good guitars.
Agreed! It holds tune pretty great honestly
So.. if u tune it standing and then sit down does it go up 8hz???
Yeah, but I recently resolved the issue by simply tightening the neck screw bolts. There is only 2 when most bolt ons are 4. Not the best design but it works haha!
bro trust me those 500ks make all the difference, i had a schecter hellraiser that had some bare knuckle hum buckers and it sounded awful until i switched the pots
Thats great to know bro! Thanks 🤘🤘
I like your guitar
I have a Floyd special on my schecter and I honestly cannot saying anything bad about it. Can confidently say it’s never gone out of tune. Plays wonderfully. Feels just like any other Floyd. I have another guitar with a special and it’s absolutely shit. Doesn’t stay in tune, feels like shit, looks like shit, it clicks when you use the whammy and that goes through the amp and sounds like fuck. Guess it just depends idk.
How do you know if its a Chinese one i got the dime 333 lightning one signature series
Mine says made in China right on it
Rip Dime 🤘🏻
where did you bought it? thats my dream guitar
I bought it in 2004 from musicians friend magazine
$699 18 years ago.. now they're going for $3,000 😢 Makes me want to get a Chinese fake and built it to real specs.
What is the song that plays in the beginning. I know the song but I always always forget the name
Stone the Crow ua-cam.com/video/d1s-esWSz5w/v-deo.htmlsi=5K_enQHbSgx3se5V
@bhance1988 ah yes thank you sm
@@bhance1988 can you cover cemetary gates by pantera?
@@CeoWintrz sorry mate, I do not have time these days. I'm about to upload No Good Attack The Radical. I covered it on guitar a couple years ago. It got taken down, so I'm re-uploading it 🤘
@bhance1988 all good dude. I'll def watch the reupload
Always wanted a Dean/ washburn dime as a teen, but sadly didnt have the money. Growing up now that i have money sadly there arent much of those out there on the market anymore :( The ones on reverb are extremely overpirced.
Yeah, it's messed up. Curious to see what the new Dime guitars will be like. Hopefully affordable and awesome 🤘🍻
@@bhance1988 dean did announce a “artist inspired” models coming out sometime, they announced in the recent namm event. They are bringing the slime ML back but ofcourse different pickups, id totally get my hands on that when it launches.
If it was me, upgrade the bridge upgrade the pots, fix the nut cause it would drive me insane and then get a Vinnie Paul sticker
I actually did replace the nut a while ago. It was a cheap one and messed my action and tone up bad. I took it off and put the original back on for now. Could be a great guitar with all them upgrades. Would be fun to a/b 250k to 500k pots and hear how much of a difference
@@bhance1988 do it bro! That _would_ be fun to see
Definitely the 250k pots. You need 500k. The Dimebucker is opposite of muddy. Some even say it is too bright and harsh
why down is playing on tge background and not pantera?
Because I'm crazy 😜
Hey man you are putting the strings in wrong. You gotta cut the extra smaller pieces off the ends and put the strings in backwards. You lock the strings in with the little blocks.
Unfortunately this cheap licensed Floyd doesn't have the locking blocks in the bridge. It is designed the way I showed in the video. Someday I will replace it with a real system that locks at the bridge
@@bhance1988 oh damn I miss understood what you had said. My bad. And thank you for your response I appreciate that. Take it easy and never stop playing music.
@@bradleybnelson391 likewise Bradley 🤘🍻
I own a Washburn Dime Slime
Nice!!
I have the Dean Stealth Snakeskin. Not too bad, but not great.
Sounds about right
accounted for inflation paying 700 bucks 18 years ago is like paying 2000 bucks now, so even if the guitar is going for over 1000 when you account for inflation you are making a loss
Good thing I'm holding onto it
That’s not actually correct. $700usd in 2004 to now would roughly be $1100-1200.
Started out the video for the Dime guitar with a Down song
That's from an instrumental I did of stone the crow here m.ua-cam.com/video/d1s-esWSz5w/v-deo.html
It's one of my all time favorites 🤘
@@bhance1988 it’s a great song
@@joshualett6536 cheers from MontanA 🍻
what's this one called?
The guitar is a Washburn dime 2st.. is that what you meant by your question
Made a follow up video playing the guitar more here m.ua-cam.com/video/C4I7XAjpdeM/v-deo.html
Weird to intro to a dodgy rendition of an instrumental to Stone The Crow by Down.... A phill and rex band lol.
The guitar police 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
You use Phil’s band down to review a dime guitar 😂😂
I sure did Jimmy. I recorded the guitars on stone the crow myself. I like it as background music
U upgraded the pickups but not the floyd........
It's a bold strategy
@@bhance1988 seems legit
what's up with the down intro lol
It's one of my favorite songs and that is a recording I did of it. Thought would be nice background music. My cover is here m.ua-cam.com/video/d1s-esWSz5w/v-deo.html all instrumental
@@bhance1988 cool man, i just thought its was weird to put a down song on a Dimebag video
@@fekdaleo I could see that giving the history and all lol
@@bhance1988 what do you mean? Dime and Vinnie loved down, they even attended the Dallas show in 1995
@@fekdaleo later when Phil said he couldn't tour due to his back. Then goes out on tour with SJR the goes out with DOWN. Meanwhile Dime and Vinnie are like I thought your back wouldn't let you tour
Mine is USA made
Lucky!!
Musicians Friend Magazine?
What's a Magazine?
🤪
Ha! That was back in the day when I had to walk uphill from and to school 😛
"Long and pointy..."
Gigidy
dude you need a band just go get people who love metal then getcha pull!!!!
Just met a drummer the other week who has pretty much the same musical taste as me! We are going to jam 5 minutes alone and see where it goes from there
But you've got Down playing and Dime wasn't in Down.
I know, I just love stone the crow lol
I have one. Got it in 2008 online ebay auction no inlays_
I'm just here to read comments on why you're playing a down song for a dime guitar review
I'm glad we could provide you with plenty of material
It’s a crime to play Down with dime’s guitar
Better throw me in guitar jail
2nd guy in a row burping in a guitar video.. gross
Was the 1st guy ola englund? My future videos shall be sponsored by tums 🙂
@@bhance1988 Sponsored by tums?.
@@bhance1988YES!!!?? HOW DID U KNO THIS!??
ua-cam.com/video/irChosqAnZ0/v-deo.html
3.35 ish min . Big Horrible burp.. f#cking DISGUSTING.. then I see you doing it as well and I'm like " come on!!?? " Wtf
He also does a couple of fart jokes/noises around 30 t 60secnds intp the video.
Then the burp at 3?30ih.
The very next video I watch was yours n yeah it was just too much
@@Add_Account485 that is too funny!! Have a great day
Nothing says Dime like a Down tune....
I talk about that here actually m.ua-cam.com/video/C4I7XAjpdeM/v-deo.html
@@bhance1988 I refuse to click the link.
@@CamBaldeon well someone is a real crab. I hope playing stone the crow during a dimebag review didn't trigger you too bad. Good day sir
@@bhance1988 Mother said never take links from strangers.
😂
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The ending...lol
It's a work in progress here 😂😂
Okay why Down in the intro to a dime video. And are you seriously telling me you put the ball ends into the Floyd? No wonder your tuning issues are fuct. Locking nuts are 25 bucks and it's 2 screws. 500k pots for sure. My fuckin head hurts
There is no locking unit in the Floyd. Did you not pay attention? This is a cheap licensed Floyd. You should take some ibuprofen for your head
The way you described it is so vague my dude. I'm not trying to talk shit but all that guitars issues could be solved with a professional setup. I would do one for free.
There on the bridge and the nut is the last lockdown
And talking shit to possible subscriber? Offered to help but automatically talking shit?
@@stevenborrowman9282 go to the gym, you'll feel better I promise
Who the hell said dimes tone wasn't that great?
I hear from these new age djent guitar players. They are obsessed with mids lol!
I'm a massive dime fan and loved his tone..BUT dime made his tone to suit well for the band as a whole..when jamming by himself alot of the uniqueness came from his hands but when couples woth his brother and rex his sound was skyrocketed to monster heights.