Maestro by Gibson Double Cutaway (SG Style) Electric Blue Guitar Kit Review

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(More customer reviews)-------------------------Very Good Starter Instrument-------------------
I got this Guitar from a Thrift Store in Iowa City for only $31.50..! What Originally Caught my Eye was the Truss-Rod Access Panel had " "by Gibson" Etched in to the Panel..!
Well it even came with a Gig bag so ..I bought it..!
Fairly Good Electronics, 1 Volume and 1 Tone control ..just a basic 1 pickup Design. A Humbucking Pickup. Machine Tuners. And a great Dark-Cherry Finish round out this Great-Value-For-your-Money Student Electric. I also Really Like the SG style Double-Cutaway...Easy to Hold...sitting Down Or Standing up with a Guitar Strap, Either Way it's Light and Easy to Get into the Position you Want to play it in.
Great Rosewood Neck as well. the Fret's could have used a little more Dressing-up, and polishing I thought..but Definitely Easy to play the action almost sets itself up with The Original Style Gibson SG Bridge.
Overall, I would give it 3 1/2 Stars out of Five as an Instrument. Not Stage-level Quality, But Definitely a good Practice/study Guitar..Even Sounds GREAT through my iPhone AmpKit With Distortion and Noise gate. also sounds fine Through a Little Traynor 10 Watt Practice Amp I use quite often.
One Note: overall the Action is Excellent..But I did have a Little "Fret Buzz" around 12th Fret, Probably just a T-Rod Adjustment is all that's Needed.

This Instrument Retails for $179.00, a Little High perhaps..But if you can Buy one used for ..say a Hundred Dollars or So... I would Grab it.

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ESP LTD Deluxe EC1000 Electric Guitar (Vintage Black) Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased this exact model one year ago, and had owned 2 other solid body electrics, an acoustic electric and a couple of acoustic guitars before I bought this one. It is awesome! And for a picky guitar player that buys and sells gear frequently, I've had this one for a year and have not considered selling it... I've played other brands of Les Pauls, and they manufacture these so well, I was disappointed not to see the same quality in many other guitars in this price range. The pickups are great, and can be adjusted from nice cleans to great powered humbucker gain. The Ebony fretboard and locking tuners are icing on the cake.

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Squier by Fender Classic Vibe Stratocaster 60s, 3 Tone Sunburst Review

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(More customer reviews)I already love the Classic Vibe Series from Squier. I already have the Custom Tele and love the quality, feel and sound of the guitar. This is a great guitar with a unique sound... here's why...
The Build
This guitar is a quality built guitar. 2 Pieces of Alder with amazing quality to the Sunburst finish. It is a gorgeous guitar body. The neck is a thin C-shape with a unique design. It is glossy and thinner than the C-Shaped Mexican Strat Necks or the US Strat Necks. The medium-jumbo frets on the rosewood neck have no sharp edges and seem perfectly installed. The guitar came in the box, perfectly set up, although I needed to set the pickup heights a little differently and change the intonation a little with the bridge saddles. (This should be expected on almost any guitar.) There were a few dinks on the fretboard from the factory, but nothing that affects play at all.
The Hardware
The Tuners are vintage tuners that I have seen on some Us Strats and even the Kenny Wayne Signature Mexican Strat. They stay in tune perfectly well and seem like a great quality. The Bridge and saddles seem to be a good quality. The trem has a zinc trem block that seems less than the quality that I would want. I'm not sure why they don't have a higher quality stainless block.
The Electronics
The Pickups are Alnico and sound great. (remember that the stock Fender Bullet Strings are garbage and need to be changed.) Throw some decent strings on it and you will find that the pickups are fantastic. Tons of character from the notch settings. You get great Strat Spank and quack with a great sound. What surprises me in a huge way is the sustain. This guitar sustains way better than ANY Strat US or MExican that I have ever tried. (I assume that this is a combination of the quality build, the Hardware and the Electronics.)
The Sound
This guitar has a fantastic unique sound. Playing through several amps, this guitar sounded high quality through all of them. You will not find any Squier that has this kind of quality sound and sustain. Not even the Mexican Made Strats have this great sound. The older MIM strats all have ceramic pickups that are no good. This strat has high quality ALNICO pickups.
The Feel
The neck is thin, and if you like a thin neck this guitar feels amazing. I love the feel of this guitar. If you blindfolded me, I might pick the feel of this guitar over any strat that I have ever played.
Overall
You won't find a Strat with such a high quality and interesting sound as good for this price anywhere. If you like the sound and feel, you should feel lucky to find a guitar for this price. I could play this onstage or with any amp and be happy with the sound and sustain.
My guess about this guitar is that they had the China Squier factory use top quality parts and has developed a better quality control system to make these guitars more consistently good.
I love these guitars. Mine is easily becoming my favorite strat to hear, feel and play.

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Squier by Fender BulletStrat HSS w/Trem, Arctic White Review

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(More customer reviews)Got this when it was $99.
This is a great guitar for beginner or expert.
It's sold and well built.
The sound from it is great.
You can spend more for a guitar but why? This does just about everything thing you could want a guitar to do.
If you have kids that want to start playing or if you want to learn, this is the guitar for you.
I would also recommend Intelli IMT-900 Chromatic Clip-on Tuner. It does not use sound it uses the vibrations of the strings to tune your guitar. So if you are in a noisy room, cheep amp, etc.. it will not effect the tuning.
Hope this helps

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Starcaster by Fender Strat Electric Guitar Starter Pack, Black Review

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(More customer reviews)I give this 4/5 stars because the description is incorrect.
It is a great guitar for a beginner, but it DOES NOT include an instructional DVD or a Gig Bag (as the description states).
If those had been included, I would have gotten 5 stars.
Great Tone, Great Features, Fender online guitar training rocks (so you really don't need the dvd). Good Buy for the price, just make sure you buy a gig bag too.

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Fender Starcaster Strat Pack - 3-Tone Sunburst Review

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Its just amazingly perfect for playing at home!!
It includes everything. And I mean everything that you might need. Its not even mentioned in the product description that a headset is also included! Which is totally what I needed as I play it for hours and hours and I should not be disturbing others. Amp is cool, its loud enough for home use. It has Bass and Treble effects as well which is very cool. A guitar stand is also included which makes it easy to keep the guitar when not in use.
About the guitar itself, it needed a bit of tuning when I took it out of the box, but that was again very easy with the chromatic tuner provided. After that tuning its just been sounding inch perfect!
Everyone around me is in love with this guitar. Trust me it won't let you down. A fender is always a good choice! Specially if it comes with all the accessories for a really great price!
About amazon, very fast service, cheers!!
I paid for standard shipping only. And I got in something like 60 hours!

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Electric Guitar Package - Includes Guitar, Amp, Strap and Instructional DVD SX RST 3TS w/GA1065 Review

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(More customer reviews)Shipping - They shipped the guitar package to me the next day, and in addition, they used UPS "Quantum" so that I got automatic email updates with the status of the shipment.
Packaging - The guitar and amp were each packaged separately in brown boxes. The boxes did have the words "guitar" and "amplifier" so if they are meant to be gifts, use caution. There was no excessive amount of cushioning, but the packaging was well engineered and meticulous and everything arrived in excellent condition.
Quality - As a beginner, I have no specific knowledge about what makes a guitar a high-quality guitar. But as a consumer, I can tell you that the general fit, finish and construction is excellent. To my eye, everything seems very well made (see tuner note below). Considering the price of this kit, I am really impressed.
Tuner - The included electronic tuner impressed me at first. It seemed like something that could easily sell for $20-30 on its own and it looked well made. Unfortunately is stopped working after a few days. When I notified Rondo Music, they immediately offered to ship me another free of charge with no questions asked. The new one arrived after about a week and so far it is working well. The great service from Rondo more than made up for the disappointment of the broken tuner.
If I do end up sticking with this hobby, I will definately look at Rondo first for future purchases.


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Silvertone SS10 Citation Guitar & Amp Package (Liquid Black) Review

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(More customer reviews)I've been trying to seriously begin playing the guitar for a while, and I bought this one in hopes that spending money on an electric would motivate me more than just using the acoustic that I never had a rapport with. I bought this Silvertone as a starter kit, just looking for something solid and inexpensive. I settled on this one because most of the other guitars in the price range were Austin Bazaar, and Austin Bazaar seems to make very low-quality starter kits in hopes that people who don't know better will buy them.
This guitar has done exactly what I wanted, I can't stop playing it. It comes with everything you need as a beginner--it's already stringed (with light gauge strings, which are good to start with), has a spare set of them as well, picks, amp, tuner, and cable. The only thing you could possibly want added would be a distortion pedal, but a beginner has bigger things to worry about.
I have had no problems at all with the guitar. It is solid and well-built, very satisfying to play. This is probably the best deal you can find on a starter kit.

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Silvertone's SS10 Citation Guitar Package gives you everything you need to start refining your rockin' talents, from electric guitar and amplifier to a strap and carry bag.

Citation SS10 Guitar The precision-built Citation SS10 guitar features a contour-cut, S-type sculpted body design with a classic black and white coloring. It also features a vintage tremolo for subtle shimmery manipulation of chords or hard-core whammy-bar excursions, three high output single coils with 5-way selector switch, single volume and dual tone controls, and a sleek maple fingerboard.
Double Cutaway Sculpted Body Design
5-Way Pick Up Selector With a Single Volume and Dual Tone Controls
Vintage Tremolo Bridge System
Precision Die-Cast Tuners
Smart II 20 Watt Peak Performance Amplifier
Limited Lifetime Warranty (Guitar)

Silvertone Smart II Amplifier Silvertone's Smart II 20-watt amplifier includes a switchable overdrive, 6-inch speaker, three-band EQ, and a headphone output--great for private practicing.
Included Accessories This package also includes a digital tuner, a nylon carry bag, a guitar strap, cable, set of multicolored guitar picks, chord chart, and an extra set of strings.
About Silvertone For more than 50 years Silvertone has been an icon in the American guitar industry. Our mission now, as it was when we began, is to make quality instruments from quality materials with contemporary styling while providing exceptional value. We have confidence in what we are doing, so many Silvertone products come with a Limited lifetime warranty.
Your new Silvertone guitar or bass may well be the only instrument you will ever need to buy.
What's in the Box Citation SS10 guitar, Chord Chart, Silvertone Electronic Digital Tuner, Nylon Carrying Bag, Guitar Picks, Silvertone Pro Strings (Extra Set), Guitar Strap, Instrument Cable

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Squier by Fender Black and Chrome Standard Stratocaster HSS Rosewood, Black w/ Mirrored Pickguard Review

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(More customer reviews)Okay, this is the first electric guitar I ever bought, it was some years ago, and I was excited.
Over the years, it got pretty worn down.
It is a nice guitar, everybody loves the pickguard, but the pickguard will get scratched up and be kinda ugly.
The pickups aren't bad, factory strings aren't either, but you have to upgrade the strings sometime.
It has a nice sound, nice paintjob, I wouldn't recommend any really insane wammies, it'll bend the neck, but it has an adjustable truss bar, which is nice.
Overall, nice guitar, I would recommend getting something in the price range that is better, though, maybe a used B.C. Rich ASM standard.

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Dean EVO XM Solid Body Electric Guitar, Mahogany Finish Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this Evo because I wanted a cheap non tremelo guitar around to play with alternative tunings, and I really like the looks of it. My other guitars are a Fender Strat and a Fender Lead 1, both equipped with Floyd Rose systems so the Evo was a nice change of pace.
On to the guitar! The first thing I noticed was the weight. At 5.75 lbs. it's probably the lightest guitar I've ever played. Right out of the box it wasn't set up, which didn't really surprise me for a $100 guitar. After setting up the guitar (adjusting the bridge and truss rod) it turned out to be a very nice player. The stock pickups sound great and the solid mahogany body has decent sustain. The good tone surprised me considering how light it is. I have only one complaint. The cheap tuning keys. They're cheap and it's obvious when you turn them and feel varying amounts of play from each of them. That being said, they seem to stay in tune pretty well. The bottom line is that the Evo is an EXCELLENT value! The only thing keeping it from getting 5 stars are the tuning keys. I would highly recommend this guitar to beginners as a first electric or experienced guitarists who want something cheap to play around on. The guitar should be set up properly for best results. If you don't know how to do it, take it to your local guitar shop and pay to have it done.
Enjoy!

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Epiphone LP Standard Plus-Top Les Paul Collection Electric Guitar, Vintage Sunburst Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased mine from Guitar Center about a year ago. Guitar is simply beautiful. For my money there has never been a nicer looking guitar than the Les Paul, it just screams classic rock. Very comfortable to play, it isn't a Gibson, but most players don't have the money to purchase a Gibson when they are first starting.
The only minor complaint being the stock pick-ups are little muddy. I added a couple of Seymour Duncan humbuckers and had the action lowered which greatly improved the sound and ease of playing. Play this guitar through a Line 6 Flextone and you can have really good tone for under a grand.

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