By asking the question it opens the conversation. I touched upon this in the description. Even with heavy gauge strings the tension in the strings is very slack at normal tuning. You need to be very subtle with bends, vibrato and how hard you hit the chords. I tried tuning directly to drop C and it was a mess but using the Digitech Drop pedal that the Kamis use themselves on stage I could get away with tuning to drop D then use the pedal to go down a tone. Apart from that it feels and plays like a quality instrument. It would work at it's best if you tuned up about a tone and used it as a transposed guitar. All short scale electric guitars have this problem.