Bought my reissue white body back in 2006. Love it and after two years I stripped it down and turned it into a relic 5150. Just love it and your video too. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🤘Cheers Marty!

That was fun to watch. Thanks for sharing! I have an SM1H and it’s a real shredder. I really like these new Kramer reissues. Keep on rocking the 80’s stuff Marty!

oh my lord the tone sounds SO good!!!! so full, seriously amazing

Yeah, I agree; and am of the mind that this particular model probably BEST reflects what Eddie was using back in those times! I appreciate some of its other features--like the fact that the Floyd can be set up to "float" without raising the action excessively...and the "coil tap"(which shapes the tone without killing volume or adding noise). Obviously, Gibson had to be careful as to how they marketed it--so as not to "step on the EVH brand's toes"...

I'm glad I'm not the only one that hears Indonesia and high quality and remains calm. Can't we agree it's DECENT quality?

That Robert Johnson shirt is awesome! As always great playing and lets get back to the 80's rock that shaped us 80's generation.

i play a yellow one 2 months ago and wow a beautiful guitar, i love everything. i’ll buy one day

Sounds great ! Loved all the 80’s riffs…it was a fun time for sure. The JB pickup is a key part in that sound 😎🎸

I still have my 1980 Kramer!!

That’s a keeper. It sounded great on video. I see why you used it playing live. That is probably one the best sounding guitars you’ve played on here. I wish I had that one. Marty you’re definitely a brother in arms

Now that’s how a guitar is supposed to sound!! Awesome tone!! ✌️😊💚

I had one of these back in 2014 or 2015, it was a really nice guitar. Back then they were made with maple bodies so the tone was very sharp and aggressive, borderline "one-trick pony." It sounded great no matter what you plugged into though! Surely put my 5153 combo through its paces, and got pretty close to the vintage brown sound we all obsess over and chase. Traded it in for a Wolfgang Standard when those first launched and got cash on top. Great video!

Great channel, I named my son Kramer , as I drift by.

Love it! Great playing, choice of riffage and killer tone Marty. I have a Kramer Stagemaster Deluxe in oh-so-80s flip-purple that I saved all summer for in 1986. Still plays like a dream and sounds amazing. Subscribed and looking forward to watching more of your videos Marty 🤘🏻😎🎸!

Awesome review! I like my Barreta special a lot , so i think the 84 is the logical next step. More Kramer!

I have the red/black bullseye. Such a stable guitar. Stays in tune beautifully!

Nice axe, fun times, great shredding my friend. 😎🤘🎸🏍

I got one off ebay a couple years ago for about $450, its got the diver down paint job,it gets more use than my other guitars. Great guitar for the price.

Sounds and looks great! A Baretta in bumblebee yellow is high on my wishlist

Always loved the Kramer offset Strat body and hockey stick/banana headstocks. A cheaper version (in white) was my first guitar and I loved it. Wish I had it back.

If I had a time machine, I’d be spending a ton of time in 84 lol. 84 and 85 produced some of my favorite Kramers.

Great 80's jam! You even threw in some Twisted Sister - retro! Love the alpine white '84's! Sadly, now most of the new ones are the matte white or blue.

Have a 2017 84 model with maple body and neck, was originally Diver Down paint scheme, Had it custom painted to 5150 stripes but instead of red went with flip flop red to blue to purple paint. Got it from Chicago Music Exchange for 550.00. These are exceptional guitars for the money. Newer ones have an alder body.

Awesome demo! Funny, After eyeballing this same 84 model in white for over a year I bought one last month. Cant beat it for 800 bucks. I love it.

I have that same one for about 2 years now, love it! Do you have a video detailing how you get your sound? Loving thing tone

Incredible stuff

I built one of these from a KNE body and neck with a Pariah pickup, it's absolutely the most deliciously shreddy guitar. I played a real '84 in guitar center, they sound amazing with that JB

I got one of these about 3 weeks ago and absolutely love it, love that the neck isn’t super flat skinny. The only negative is that the pickup is too high and close to the strings. I don’t mind that it’s mounted straight into the body but needed to be slightly lower

Nice Kramer and awesome playing. I have an older ugly yellow with orange racing stripes beak headstock Kramer that I picked up used years ago. Currently looking for a non Floyd route bridge for it. I became a Kramer fan years ago when a friend of a friend had a black fender headstock Kramer.

Nice! I had an '85 white Barretta back in the day, it was a tone machine. Because of EVH I think most everybody wanted a Barretta at some point. I traded it in to get a black Kramer Stagemaster. If only we could keep every guitar. I don't have either guitar now :-/

Great playing!!!!

Awesome guitar 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Very very nice...😃👍..time warp on the demo.✌️

I wanted to love this guitar. I picked one up 2nd hand and it was one of the custom paint series so it had the black/white vortex paint job, which was so cool looking. It came with the D-Tuna and a trem stopper to prevent any pull up (even though it was top-mounted Floyd). Mine had a really bad top/thick E string spacing issue where it was almost off the edge of the fretboard. I tried replacing the nut and also tried moving the neck in the pocket, but no good. Even took it to a tech. Then I kept breaking the high/thin E string due to the excessive bend at the nut to get to the tuning peg. I also missed not having a neck pickup, but would have dealt with it if the string issues could've been sorted out. So I was disappointed with this Made In China guitar that looked amazing and I wanted to really like. I love the JB. I ended up with a Schecter DJ Ashba signature (Made in Korea) that is just a better guitar all around. Love it! I'd prefer the JB over the EMG 81, but they are similar enough.

Classy work horse.👍

The good neck holders are made out of rock! 🤣🤣 Thanks Marty! Cool guitar! Love Kramer's!

Marty, Happy New Year Kidd, hope you and your family are doing well. God bless you, keep fighting the good fight. I'm looking for a couple of those. I was a little disappointed when I played one at Guitar center. Volume pot was not 100% and the split coil stuff not good. Nonetheless, great video. Keep it up. More Van Halen!!!😎👍🔥🔥🔥🔥 Respectfully, "HOLLYWOOD" L. Albert Jackson Munoz

Im abusing the84 but metallic blue for a while and must say its addictive neck profile, no compound 12`` radius bringing back 80s vibes ! The axe worth the interest, sure thing! Thanx for the movie, cheerz

My first project guitar was a Kramer Pacer. I stripped it down to the bones, rigged on a 4-bolt Strat neck and put in a DiMarzio humbucker pickup. Basically just a mishmash of aspects/parts that were part of Eddie’s lineup at one time or another. A year or so later, I stopped by a music store and they had a Kramer 1984 in red on the wall. I took it down and gave it a shot, only to realize it felt just like the guitar I made. I was obviously pissed that the guitar I made already existed.

I have the Diver down edition. Love mine

Great video of an iconic era guitar. Thanks so much for demoing that particular product. What is your opinion of these re-pops versus the original?

Thanks Marty, sounds great. I'm considering building something similar, won't be finished as nice though.

I want the blue one and the soda green one I have a Beretta special and I just got the pacer classic both in blue love them they are killer no flaws I’d love to see what that feels like

Could you do a video on removing the capacitor from the vol pot....would be very helpful...thx

Cool guitar. What effects and settings did you use for that 80s tone

Badass Kramer man

Good stuff

Fun watch!

Nice!

I had a red one..sold it..wish i never ...fk it im buying another 1 seeying u played every song i luv.....stay groovy 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Kickass!

thank you for the video, total newb question, majority of the Barettas are Maple bodies, and the Specials are Mahogany (everyone knows that I recon) so is the 84 series the Alder body, is that the main difference?

Awesome review, had a question, does your b string bind up under the string tree? Mine seems to catch the screw!! Thanks again!

Awesome tone!! is the body size of the 84 smaller than a normal body (classic strat body)? like the charvel dinky and jackson dinky

I like it!!

Love the 1984 reissues. Love that tone too....what is your signal chain to get that tone?

Excellent

nice. some classic riffs going on there :) i quite fancy this guitar but i'm a bit worried it won't be as good as my EVH wolfgang specials, in terms of parts, also not sure if the neck will be great or not, unfortunately not many guitar shops near me and they don't tend to stock Kramers or EVH very much :( do i take a chance? really don't want to be disappointed

I love how he repeatedly has to say "It's not a rock, It's a neck rest". 😂

Killer playing and tone. What are you playing it though? Amp or modeller ?

Sweet

What amp/effects are you running that through?! Sounds awesome

I've got the red one did the same thing clipped the capacitor useless they don't get enough love mine is so stable love it for Ed's stuff or just 80s rock

How about a Night Train lesson or at least the intro part, I haven’t been able to figure out how to combine the two guitar parts into one that sounds right ? I think Slash has always said that every time they play it, it still pumps him up it was and is still one of his favorites. He and Izzy split their parts pretty uniquely at least compared to the other two guitar stuff I’ve always been into. I’m a huge Izzy fan his parts and his tone on Appetite are underrated and awesome and the perfect complement to Slash’s more abrasive I’m your face tone and style. I think of them as the Stones turned all the way up.

Its like a DIY 5150 Kramer guitar . Just need a Frankenstein humbucker pickup , red and black Schwinn bicycle spray paint , and some 5150 stickers .

i’ve got one of these and thinking about a new custom paint job and suggestions?

Do you have this setup for dive-only? If so, did you habe any trouble setting it up? The Barettas seem to have a slight amount of pullback which makes having a DTuna setup almost impossible unless you crank the trem springs, causing the trem to sit tilted back (not completely parallel) Any issues like that for this model, I wonder.

Proof here, that Nothin but a good time, We will rock you & don't look back, all utilize that very effective riff!

Dad had a brand-new American ‘85 Kramer Pacer … candy-apple red. He ended-up trading-it for an American Strat soon-after.

do you find that the non recessed floyds tend to stay in tune better since theyre dive only? great playing.

I'm super surprised and impressed at how good that is. My home town has one little guitar shop and all the Kramers they had there were just terrible instruments.

I determined: Poison - Nothin' But A Good Time (Riff) Poison - Talk Dirty to Me (both Riff and Solo) Poison - Fallen Angel (Riff) Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It (Solo) Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me (Riff) And the last solo, but I can't remember name of the song (8:27) This is the first time I knew almost every song, that had been played

Back in the day I picked up a used Beretta for $100. Put a Super Distortion pup in it for $100...later on added a Floyd for $100. It was a $300 flamethrower that played like it cost a grand. Lol. I miss it.

The pull/push knob says series/parallel on the Kramer website. Too bad you cut off the treble bleed. It's not for everyone but definitely for me. Still getting this guitar. It's everything I personally need on a guitar, nothing more

Sounds killa

Thinking of buying one. Is the fretboard finished? Doesn’t look like it

I have the same one. I feel the trem is too stiff. Is yours similar? BTW, is that a rock your resting the guitar on?

People give C.C. shit but I've always loved his tone. I think it all stemmed from a "worst guitarists" list some guitar mag did years ago critiquing a live version of Eruption he played in the early 90's. What a jerk that writer was. Probably some insecure 3-chord-wonder like the rest of the trolls of the world. Anyways, thanks for giving C.C. some much earned love.

This guitar is made in my country but til this day I haven't seen it for sale on any store. The price at sweetwater is 900usd, which means it's gonna be priced at about 600ish usd here. Compared to the US or EU, guitars are way cheaper here I don't know why. About 100 to 300usd difference, some are even 1k usd less. For example an Ibanez J-custom is 3k usd in US, but here you can get it for 2k usd. Crazy, eh?

I just got mine and I don’t like how high my Floyd is and I like them sitting also but is anyone else’s neck just tall off the body? Because if put the Floyd down all the way then the strings are sitting on the neck. Can anybody help me with what to do

Man who is singing your intro? Is it a clip of DLR

You can pull up on the knob to make the humbucker into 2 singles.

It would be nice if some company made a floyd rose/ humbucker guitar with a rounder fatter neck profile.

They should slant the pickup like the Kramer Baretta Special Oh and Marty snip those strings!

I've got one of the newer Kramers and while I like it I don't love it, it feels a little cheap plus my finger keeps falling off the edge of the fretboard on the treble side.

I accidently rewired a strat, it becomes one knob strat and it sounded better with natural tone

So the only difference between this and the Baretta, is that the pickup is at an angle in the Baretta. Same Floyd Rose 1000 etc.

Convincing DLR in intro music, is that him or someone else ? REPLY WALDO !!

Awesome guitar

is the sustain good?

WAS THIS INTO A PLUG IN? OR WERE YOU MIC'D UP?

🤘😝🎸

I could do without any C Deville Poison or that Paper Mache Rosy-cheeked cartoon Band Twisted sister. Other than that Great video.

I have this guitar i like it i wanted a white guitar with a floyd, the neck shape is odd for me and i dont care fore the pickup,other than that i like it its a cool guitar

I have a red one and love the sound but I find the neck to be thick and uncomfortable to play in comparison to my EVH guitars (wolfgang, striped, etc).....almost like a cut in half baseball bat.

“ hit it CC “

Can use a coin to open the wrench holder

saaaaweeet

I own a BUNCH of 80s Kramers. The new ones are decent... definitely not as good as the originals, but they're close.

Not bad olde bean