Mayones Duvell Elite 6 (Review)
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Man, Mayones guitars are gorgeous
Yep, I've had a ton of them and not a single flaw in 5 different guitars
You’re custom Jackson is gorgeous maybe it’s grass is always greener but I’d rather have a US Jackson Custom!
this is exactly how guitar reviews should be done
Thank you for being honest and pointing out these small details. This right here is my dream guitar but I think Marco and I have sorted out these things for my custom guitar. I just want to thank you for introducing Markline guitars to me. Keep up the great work and all the best!
Finally a Mayones review 🥰 I have a Duvell Elite 7 and a Dubell Elite 7 Custom Build. Outrageous build quality, best guitar I have ever owned.
Awesome demo. Honest, and demonstrates capabilities of the guitar perfectly.
Thin neck ≠ Fast neck
It's just a matter of taste, coziness and habit
If your partial to Ibanez RG guitars which clearly the duvell is influenced by, you will be a bit put off by how the neck is feels to an Ibanez in comparison.
Mayones makes exceptional well crafted guitars. But the neck profiles tend to be chunky.
I had the same reaction that he had with the neck once l finally played one.
In this case, because of my habits, it feels like thick equals slow. I really noticed reduced speed in my fingers since I'm used to a 17mm thin Ibanez RG neck.
@@MilianMalivukMusic man, I believe you. It's just that fat neck = slow neck is imho a myth which needs to be busted.
Size and height of the frets have a much higher impact my own experiece.
Anyway, as I said, it's just a matter of what anyone become accustomed to.
There a tons of guitar heroes who play big baseball-bat neck
When your fingers are on the shorter side a fat round neck may not be desirable for every player.
For example, Zack Wylde’s signature les Paul. has a baseball bat for a neck. It’s super chunky and round with a lot of shoulders.
He’s a phenomenally fast player, so you’re right in that regard. He plays hella fast with a super chunky neck.
But He’s got rather large hands though . And this is his preference, as a result.
Which is why l don’t own one. If l ever purchase a les Paul lm going to need a slim 60 neck profile. Which has a thin flat D profile.
Big super round profiles aren’t always comfortable to play. However the thick necks offer more tone. This is why l suspect the duvells profiles have more shoulders. It’s a flat D profile. But thicker than a wizard 3 neck.
well, you see, Ibanez starts as copy of American made guitars for Asian market (Japanese) which, I believe, has smaller hands than an average American, which correlates to smaller neck profile. That alone should say much.
Dude every day your aesthetic and studio keeps getting cooler and cooler!
9:10 clean is just so great for an electric guitar. Sounds almost like classical or acoustic guitar recorded with condenser microphone. Cheers, btw sorry for my english, still learning. I'm from Poland.
your english is perfect- a brit :)
@@BadMotivator66 Thanks
I've played two different Duvells and for the most part I enjoyed playing them however one thing that really detracted from the playability/comfort was that Mayones does not roll their fretboard edges at all. You can see at 2:10 where the fretboard edges are almost still 90 degrees. My Mayones Regius was the same way. I just wish Mayones would roll their fretboard edges, it really helps with comfort. Might contribute to why the neck feels chunkier than the specs on paper would suggest. The Duvell also has a 43.5mm width at the nut vs the usual 43mm on alot of other guitars which contributes to the chunky feeling neck.
My dude! My regius has the EXACT same issue, I don't really know what to do, even though mine is brand new, the forearm edge is basically lacerating my arm. I thought it was because of the binding but the duvell has the same issue huh? Plus I do agree the neck is a bit chunky I thought it was going to be way thinner
@@alvarosilva6652 Haha the Duvell has the same issue on the fretboard edges. My Regius had the same issue with the forearm edge binding and fretboard binding so I took a razor and rolled/rounded the edges myself. Yes I did this to my expensive ass Mayones cause I dont ever plan on selling it and doing so really helped with the comfort. If you know a competent guitar tech or luthier, they should be able to roll the edges for you.
@@Unchainedmaple888 thing is the edge on yours is wood, on mine is binding and I don’t know if that would ruin the binding haha
@@alvarosilva6652 oh nah my regius has binding all around. Plastic binding is easier to round over with a razor than wood cause it's softer than wood.
I feel like some companies don't roll the edges because it makes the neck look less precisely build if you know what I mean. There's something visually appealing to a nicely straight edge of the fretboard but the truth is that rolled fretboard edges are just as important as good fret ends. It's something I never thought that much about but lately I really noticed how round fretboard edges are almost even more important than round fret ends.
Holy F. Best tone you ever had on this channel!
when i saw this review iam so happy with my Ibanez Prestige RG5121 ❤️
I know that exact guitar very well! I was probably the guy who sold that guitar to your friend, definitely was bought from the shop I’m working for. Nice to see it again in action, awesome review.
I believe he got it from ProMusicTools if that's the shop!
@@MilianMalivukMusic yes, that‘s the shop. I‘m the Mayones specialist there, that‘s why I immediately recognised it when I saw the thumbnail. The colour was a custom order so you don‘t see that much, at least until the new Qatsi 2.0 was released.
@@Rausche1505 So we meet again, Herr Rauschecker 😬
@@Rausche1505 I definitely highly appreciated your impeccable customer service you provided! And I could not be happier with the mayonnaise!
@@SatansTicklySpot Thanks for the kind words, glad to hear that you are happy with that beast.
I love my Duvell so much! I’ve been following you for years man and I’m glad you finally got around to trying one!
That clean tone is just awesome
Great review man! I'm pleased with the way you mentioned that, even though the neck was too thick for your taste, it did seem to add body to the tone. A lot of us look at Wenge necks with a lot of awe, because you don't see them often. They're expensive and hard to work with, potentially even toxic. If i bought it, i would indeed be hoping those thick slabs of Wenge added to the tone. It sure ain't for the playability it seems lol so might as well sound better at least.
The neck on my Hydra is right perfect. 5 piece maple and wenge. I guess I’d say a modern C shape.
I appreciate the honesty to your review.
Being an owner of a two duvells l agree with you on how chunky the duvell neck profiles are. As lm primarily an Ibanez MIJ RG guy as well.
Most reviews that you see on TH-cam concerning mayones always imply that their guitars are perfect.
It’s like a cult almost. Everyone says the same thing. But you’re the first to really point out and warn how the necks are shaped.
While the craftsmanship is impeccable.
There are some caveats to mayones and you highlighted one. Definitely try one before buy or place an order for one off looks alone.
Matter of taste. It is not chunky for me.
@@meldondglord7930 if you’re primarily an lbanez RG player. mayones duvell profile is similar to wizard 3 necks which are 19mm at the first fret.
A duvell is 20.5 mm at the first fret. That’s a pretty significant increase in size that you will notice.
As the duvell is meant to be a RGA super strat type of design.
I would expect a slightly thinner neck profile for a custom made guitar that you will wait up to a year for, and you’re paying up to 4000 for one of them.
Now if you have larger hands longer fingers, you may prefer a large neck. I also you get better tone with a thicker neck. So l understand why they went with the specs they do.
But it’s a bit disappointing to pay that much for a guitar, you get it and don’t like how the necks feels in your hand because the profile is like a flat D, and a bit chunky, after you’ve waited for a year.
People need to know this before they buy. Soulhenge is the only one who l’ve seen review one of these guitars and emphasize that fact.
Mayones makes exceptionally beautiful instruments without a doubt.
But you need to try one before you order one if you can. The neck profile might be a dealbreaker for most.
Your player skill is so clean and tight. I love it man Cheers
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Yes yes, a three way is nice indeed.
That's a gorgeous guitar. Absolutely gorgeous. Great video, new sub.
Thanks! Is that your guitar as your avatar?
@@MilianMalivukMusic It is, yes. 👍🏻
@@dadude7 Congrats man, original one or 30th anniversary? A loch ness green JEM is definitely on my want-too-badly-list!
@@MilianMalivukMusic It’s a 30th. Never played an original - but the 30ths are amazing.
Guitar sounds sooooo in-tune. Excellent.
I have wanted to try one of those for years. Awesome video!
I was searching OnceOver Mayonnaise… an awesome song… and came across this. Beautiful guitar, I wish I played more and had the excuse to buy one
I am an ibanez guy, and looking at you your hands seem bigger than mine, i also own a seven string mayones. The neck is just 1mm thicker than the ibz seven strings. The thing you mention with the thick neck sounds weird. They have slim necks.
I think Mayones makes my favorite looking headstock
Great review! I actually found the neck on the duvel to be too thin for my tastes! I found it thinner than kiesels, viks, regius that I owned. However, I’m unsure if they have changed the neck shape to a thicker profile on the newer models!
Sounds so chunky! Awesome. Also looks the part! You should get it.
Lovely reel to reel.
The neck is a thin-D, similar to a Jackson. Thin in general but thick if you compare it to a wizard neck, just like all other necks.
Looks and sounds amazing!!!!..
Thank you for that video. For the time you had the guitar, how was the tuning stability?
Is the C Neck similar to Thin U from ESP LTD?
Everything is up to spec for me since I own an ESP with a thin U and it plays fantastic on my hand.
Beautiful guitar but not enough to make me regret my $800 Schecter KM-6 MK-II (same pickups, same bridge, locking tuners, stainless steel frets, solid fretwork, etc.).
I own quite a few expensive guitars like Caparisons and a Mayones but nowadays I'm really getting more into mid range guitars like the KM6 MKII. At some point the extra cost just isn't worth it anymore. You get afraid of evening breathing on it wrong and accidentally damaging it or something.
@@Unchainedmaple888 I bought 2 PRSs many years ago (Singlecut & Custom 22) and I cannot agree more. They spend waaay too much time on the wall more as beautiful wood art than an instrument in my hands. I just gravitate to thrash my Ibanez Prestige all the time.
Duvell neck is already a very thin neck on my opinion, i got a 7 string duvell. For me it feels like a 6 string.
Man I just want a Duvell 8, just imagine how deadly that would look.
Save a lot of money and get the Schecter Hellraiser C-8. They look bad ass too.
@@EvilMerlin It’s a great guitar, but you can’t compare them.
@@stndrd3608 Sure you can. Never understood why people say that, as if a guitar hand made in one country makes it 2-3x the price?
@@EvilMerlin but it does. Producing something e.g. in china is probably 100x cheaper than having it hand made in germany, due to the way higher wages.
@@stndrd3608 The Schecter stuff in question is made in South Korea. But a higher wage doesn't mean better quality. I mean look at the Quality issues with Gibson as of late
all of your points are valid for a 3,000 dollar guitar. It better be perfection at that point xD
Chris Isaak vibes around 9:25. So tasty sounding.
Would you say the neck is as thick as a les paul 60s neck profile
I think you should try a Sterling Majesty Maj100 or Maj200.
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I totally agree on the output jack and the sorta chunky neck profile too. My Mayones Regius is also a bit too chunky for my liking but I got used to it. The Mayones Setius has a very nice and thin feeling neck profile (which is weird because the paper specs say that the Duvell has a thinner neck profile) but unfortunately Mayones does not allow you to spec different neck profiles onto different guitar models. So if you like the looks of the Duvell but you want the Setius neck profile, they wont do it which doesn't make alot of sense to me. Each model has a specific and different neck profile and they do not allow you to interchange them.
Happy owner of a Duvell here. I also have a huge Ibanez background, and I haven't noticed the Mayones neck to be that chunky. To be fair though, do not expect Mayones to have a crazy super wizard thin like neck profile, if you are planning on getting one. Gotta say that after around 6 months he Duvell neck feels more comfortable to me than my Ibanez guitars now...... comes down to a personal prefference, and seems I am on the chnkier side of things:). Also, agree that the pret edges could have been rounded a bit more, here the Ibanez prestige fret treatment is just unmatched. Conclusion would be that the guitar, and the neck feels great for riffing, while for leads and shredding I would still grab my Ibanez prestige over Duvell, but that is just me.
What tuning is ? Great review
Maybe 10 years ago their prices were justified because the big brands were so behind the curve, but nowadays the prices all those Eastern European custom shops ask for what they offer are ridiculous.
Any $1000 Indonesian-made guitar by Ibanez, Schecter, LTD etc. is and looks just as good. Or just buy a $400 Harley Benton Fusion-II and swap in your pickups of choice.
Guitar prices in general are getting egregiously high. Caparison's cheapest $2000 model is now $2800 and a regular Caparison is now $3200. ESP E-II can run as high as $2500 and you don't even get the ESP logo on the headstock or stainless steel frets. Ibanez Prestige is now around $2000 as well. Now I'm much more interested in Schecter's solid $800-$1500 range and PRS SE at sub $1000 (the new Zach Myers model is super appealing).
@@Unchainedmaple888 The raised prices are a result of the massive inflation that happened during 2020. It wasn't guitar-specific.
Killer sounding guitar! And you're playing is excellent as always... could you tell me what tuning you are in? and what gauge strings are on that sixer. Thx
It's drop C, not exactly sure what gauges the owner used here!
Hey bro nice playing
What is the name of that finish? It looks absolutely gorgeous.
I have a duvell standard. Cant hold the tune. I am so disapointed. I always wanted mayones bul this sucks.
its an custom shop tho u can let them do anything for that price they would also drop in bareknuckles custom knobs any hardware neck profiles cusotm finishes if u email them
They won’t change neck profiles, l’ve asked.
You get exactly how it’s speced.
@@byronh77 thats odd since a custom shop usually does give u more options
I thought the same, given how much they charge for a guitar and the build time. You’ll be waiting for at least a year.
They won’t change mimic a super wizard neck if you ask them to.
Their profile is their profile that’s it for whichever model you order.
I have noticed that some necks are slightly thinner than others because they’re handmade. They’ll be slight variances even measured to the same spec.
So you will not know if you’re going to like the guitar until after you’ve paid for it.
It will look amazing and the craftsmanship will have you in awe.
But the reality is eve after you’ve plunked down 3 to 5000 for one.
The neck profile is a deal breaker.
That would and does suck.
Try one before you order one.
@@byronh77 i mean a fame forum cost 1000 and is build in the same factory by the same people with grewt apecs aswell
How is the neck compared to kiesels? I have a delos and even that feels chunky after playing wizardlike necks for years although there shouldnt be that much of a difference based on neck dimensions.
I would say they're pretty much in the same league. My bandmate has a Vader and when I played that lately I noticed how thick that neck is compared to my RGs or my own headless build.
Have you ever tried a skervesen? I can really recommend them.
I've had quite a few in my hands since I know somebody locally who owns a handful, very excellent guitars as well!
What cab sim/impulse response are you using with that PRS? Sounds huge
It's a cab IR from Overloud TH-U!
I enjoyed the review but I used to be a thin neck guy, but now I don’t really care
I tried one (duvell elite 26.5 scale) out that had lundgren m6 pickups on it, and as you said the fret work was flawless it was the straightest neck I've ever seen and the action was super low but I couldn't get it to pinch harmonic I was waiting to see if you did some pinch harmonics I didn't hear any maybe the action is too low on the mayones stuff for that?
I've seen Mayones artists do it before its probably more particular on the sweet spot for pinch harmonics and could've been the action it was set to at the time. Ryan Siew and Rick from Polaris as well as John Browne of Monuments do it sometimes
@@DC13c16 I think I might have seen Rabea do it on a mayones, maybe I should go back and double check his videos, I'm super curious about that because I really want one and as far as shredding in my opinion they are the ultimate guitar but without pinch harmonics that would be a deal breaker I wonder if you just have to raise the action a bit or maybe it was the lundgren pick up's I've never played on those before ,or maybe that guy had the pickup set too far away from the strings I forgot to check that, I've been pulling pinches on emg 81 on les paul, hot rails on a 90s ibanez, and Chapman stock pickups on a ml1 pro easily so it's definitely not my technique.
@@yournaztyhabit now that you mention it I do recall Rabea doing them my best guess would either be the pickup height or the pickups themselves though I dont think thats the case ive heard a lot of good things about lundgren could be the setup or the strings being under too much tension possibly I dont think any of these monster players would play something or revere them this much if they had a glaring issue like that
@@yournaztyhabit I've had that issue with one of my guitars that's got a Juggernaut in the bridge. I haven't really sat down to teak any variables yet though.
But I also remember seeing Bea do it with Mayos in the past, but that guys PHs are some of the absolute nastiest in all the best ways.
And
@@danarchism-dissident keep us posted if you do tweak it I'm really curious, that Juggernaut should definitely squeal,,, my guess on all of this is that the guitar I tried maybe that guy had the pickups set too low I wish I would have checked that or maybe with super low action it's harder to pull off pinch harmonics as that mayones had such a perfect neck and fret work I don't think I can get the action that low on anything else I have to experiment,,,, maybe if anybody else knows about super low action versus pinch harmonics or low pick up height versus pinch harmonics maybe I'll try lowering the pickups on my other guitars and see what happens
Do you think that it's a high quality material or is there better guitar for modern metal player ? I intend to buy premium metal guitar and I eagerly await your response. Thx
Everything is from the best quality here, no doubt.
What other brand/neck profile would you compare the Mayones neck to most?
Hard to say since I've only been playing Ibanez for the last 1-2 years. It's not as thin as the general appearance of the guitar suggests.
What tuning is this?
Wait...you think the neck is thick? Weird... other than Ibanez, nothing feels smaller to me.
Since Mayones are really expensive, bottom line do they worth the price?
I think past 2k euros the question if it's worth it doesn't make much sense, at least to me. You can definitely get guitars for half the price that are just as nice as this one. The question is, do you want a Mayones or not?
Bro you got any guitars to sell? Around 200euros
oooo baby, my wallet cries
That’s not actual binding it’s the top
I think he said Natural Binding which is the correct term for that
@@pimvandervliet That's the marketing term, not the correct one.
@@ErebosGR lmao, please enlighten me on what it is called then?
@@pimvandervliet Unstained top sides.
It's not binding because it doesn't bind anything.
Unstained top sides it shall be then.
4:46 My indonesian Ibanez has a decent jack ! How dare You ...
Sorry no offense to those guitars, I own two myself without that jack too in fact 😂
3k? get outta here!
No guitar is worth that much lmao
Handmade?! 😂😂😂
This actually gave me an idea for a video, I'll get back to you if that comes, thanks!