Vox Virage SC Vintage Sunburst

Vox Virage II SC Vintage Sunburst
From the Reviews…edited for brevity
The Virages are made in Japan and build quality is extremely high.
The two toggle switches unlock the tonal versatility of the CoAxe pickups.
The Virage, which takes its name from the French word for bend or turn, is a single-cutaway semi-solid guitar.
It has a subtly different voice with a bit more solidbody ring and push, and a little more width, but still with a hollowness and resonance.
These Virages were made in limited numbers in Japan and were aimed at 'connoisseurs' or 'artists'.
The Les Paul-inspired SC version has a beautiful ash top over a mahogany body, but unlike a typically maple-topped guitar, the ash forms the top half of the body, the mahogany the lower half.
Internally the majority of the wood is removed, leaving only the rims and the two prongs (or tone bars) of the partial centre block, like two over-sized bass bars running through the centre of the body from the neck to the feet of the MaxContact bridge. 
The back is heavily edge-chamfered; it's a deep body too, and because it's not arched more mahogany is left in. This contributes to a solid but still light weight and chunkier, more Les Paul-like girth, with a centre depth of approximately 60mm.
The strap buttons are widely flared; the very solid metal jack plates are perfectly aligned. Even the way the rear cavity coverplate is inset into a perfectly cut recess - it's impressive, detailed and careful guitar making.
These guitars are superbly engineered, the cast aluminium MaxContact bridge are a thing of beauty, it has tune-o-matic- like saddle adjustment in that the height is altered by the two posts that hold it in place.
The strings enter from the rear, unlike a wrapover-style bridge.
The uniquely shaped tuners are aesthetically pleasing and stay in tune.
The CoAxe pickups are co-designed with and made by DiMarzio. The Three-90 has three conventional coils that are combined in various ways to create the different sounds. Two adjacent coils are combined in series for the 'lead' voice, the outside coils are combined in series for the 'crunch' voice, and two adjacent coils are combined in parallel for the 'clean' voice.
This arrangement results in a good range of tone change across the modes.
The benefit of this arrangement is that the hum-cancelling coil has both the six pole-pieces and the two blades as its core, so it requires less wire (about a third of the turns) to reach the same noise sensitivity as the centre coil. Less wire means lower impedance, which means the high frequencies are all there, but the noise isn't. Both the sensing and hum-cancelling coils are tapped, so able to achieve different tones and levels by engaging different parts of the coils.
To achieve the three modes there is a pair of chunky three-way switches that select, for each pickup, the clean (single-coil-y), crunch (P-90-ish) and lead (humbucking) modes. There is a three-way pickup selector, plus a master volume and tone.
The mode switch when Pushed down gets the lead voicing, a little thicker sounding, pushed up you get the clean voicing, extra sparkle and less thickness.
The middle position is crunch, which sits in between - a little wider and fuller than clean but still with sparkle and a slightly down-shifted mid-range character.
These Virage have a more organic, rootsy, classic rock tone with cleans sound crisp but not sterile, and with a little tone roll off you're into Gretsch semi-solid territory.
Mid-crunch tones have depth and body but zing if needed, while old-style blues sound really good on the clean modes; and higher octane blues-rock is easily achieved with the lead modes.
As befits the Vox name, the Virage II guitars reflect over 50 years of rock and pop, somehow touching all those bases but retaining their own specific character.
In that way these Mk II versions sound perhaps less three-guitars-in-one, and more one guitar with three characters that, if used with different amp tones (and the guitar's volume and tone controls), will reward the player who understands sound: these are two very, very musical instruments indeed.
Superbly made, with the more modern design flourishes enhancing the experience without feeling 'new', and the guitar looks appropriately classic without in any way cloning the instruments on which they're clearly based.
Modern guitar design doesn't get much better than this. There's no denying this is a quality guitar
A beautiful guitar that is unmarked and like new, plays and sounds great.
Comes with the original Vox quality hard shell case 
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