The Cheapest Guitar On eBay
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- This is the cheapest guitar on eBay, folks. Holy crap.
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You should do a video where you upgrade them as much as possible and see how they sound and play.
Stoli Monoli Yeah and she should compare it to a regular strat
I agree
I was actually thinking about that.
Replace the tuners, pickups, tone and volume knobs, neck, bridge, body, strings and the nut. Should sound rather nice.
Violent Beggar should've just bought a better guitar at that point lol
Change strings. Set action right. Intonate right... And it's a perfectly fine starter guitar. Don't drop instruments, man. :(
You might as well get a squire at that point. You’ll be spending another $50 on the setup at least
@Dain Do you have a clue or do I have to spell it out for you? The guitar is $50 and set up at the guitar store is another $50. A Fender squire is about $150 and way better quality than that cheap piece of shit. Spend the extra money and just get a better brand guitar or buy one second hand.
@@tempeststormsound Yeah like a beginner is going to know about setting action and adjusting pickups. Id be surprised if they kept the thing in tune.
Taylor Langley well first off the company is spelled “squier” and I’ve been playing for 3 weeks and can already do all of those things. UA-cam has a whole bunch of tutorials.
@Bengt Handlebars excatly thats how i learned
It smells like.....
Me: teen spirit
Vid: bag
:-(
@Aidan Clary oh well nevermind
Hello hello hello....
This comment makes me feel *sappy*
@@tristanpoquette8527 hey I'm covering that song on Thursday with my bro lol
Overrated song
Very few guitars come from the factory in a "play ready" state. I own a music shop & even brand new Yamaha & Epiphone guitars (the main ones I'm a dealer for ) need some fine-tuning upon arrival; i.e. neck straightened, intonation adjusted, action perfected, etc. The guitar looked good & sounded OK. It didn't deserve to be tossed like that.
even if it's a cheap guitar, seeing you throw it away just like that, damn it hurted me so much...
Aaron Matarazzo same :( i kinda like it
I think it landed on a pillow.
TheJoeleo1 already saw, also suicide silence live.
Those moments hurted me more
watch cobain smashing guitars then hahah
your grammar hurted me more
I thought it actually didn't sound bad (through a $2K amp). Considering it hadn't been set up, had incredibly cheap, stock pickups (single coil, at that), probably old and cheap strings....and was only a $54 guitar. I'm sure the craftsmanship wasn't good....but the guitar didn't look bad, from what I could see. For a few bucks...and some attention....it might not be a bad knock about / backup rig.
20 years ago when I started playing, these type of guitars would cost 5 times as much and be worse quality
Marcel No shit. The cheapest Epiphones are even cheaper compared to then. And then after inflation it's like they're half the old price lol. It is a good time to be a new guitarist.
even 10 years ago where i bought my first guitar i paid roughly 180 € and it was far worse than that thing in the video
Marcel I had a "Stone" 15w practice amp and a "Gremlin" Guitar.
Sounds like you just wanted to tell people how long you've been playing.
lol epiphone guitars are higher quality than gibsons now dont diss epi
This was like watching a spoilt child play with another cheaper kids toys
Shocker it didn't stay in tune.
Is that why the chords sounded bad?
Ryan Alvidres-Ivie my guess is that was probably because of bad intonation
Miguel Serra It's a new guitar for lord's sake give it some time!!
Rehan Hashmi i know i was just telling the guy that the bad sounding chords probably weren't due to the guitar going out of tune, but because of bad intonation. Im not complaining about it or saying the guitar is bad because of that :)
The chords sounding bad are indeed from bad intonation, I did not hear the guitar going out of tune, though if it did it would probably be due to the fact that is is brand new, not because of its price tag.
it might be cheap but damn. do you really gotta throw it away like that?
@Martin1911 just like you
I agree Lauren jauregui is perfect lol.
Love your username ❤️
Martin1911 omegalul
Alucard R ???
Cheapest guitar on Aliexpress.
On Avito or IRR, lawl
$48
Do it fluff. I need to see this lol.
backed
AlasPoorJordan yeah if he even gets it in the mail
Why do you test to see if it's in tune? Generally speaking, you want the companies to send a guitar that isn't in tune so there isnt much tension on the neck. If they sent you an in tune guitar, more tension is put on the neck, and it risks snapping when in shipping. So this guitar being out of tune is actually a good thing.
Matt Roome but to see if it is not in tune he has to test it anyway
Sending a guitar out of tune to avoid breaking the neck is actually completely unnecessary. Phillip McKnight did a video explaining this myth and why it doesn't make sense. Many high end companies ship guitars around the world completely in tune with no problems. Any companies that ship with loose strings only do so because they believe the myth that necks will break due to the tension.
Yeah I was gonna say... it would have detuned whilst being deliver presumably anyway
to shit on inexpensive equipment just for the sake of it.
seems a constant sentiment on his channel
Regardless if it's necessary for shipping or not, who cares, it's a $50 instrument and it takes only a few minutes to tune. He could have made the guitar sound great if he took the time to fully adjust it up, but hey, that's not gonna get as many views as him shitting on it and throwing it on the ground like a troglodyte xD
these guitars are for parents on a LOW budget whose children want to learn guitar. Saying that they suck is judging them out of their intended context. The brand is not targeting people who can already play to any kind of level- their inflated description is so that, upon examining their christmas present on ebay, kids are not devastated by an honest assessment of the product. does it make a ‘seasoned’ guitarist like this guy feel good to denigrate the low-budget option intended for children? ‘wow he must know a LOT about guitars’
Totally agree.
You seem to have made up your mind before even touching the guitar. In blind tests most people cant tell any differences between cheap and expensive guitars when the same amp is used. I can sense a small amount on eliticism here.
You can tell from the muddy pickups ...and the light weight body.... and from the pots...and the jack gets faulty over time.... even an idiot can hear and feel it ..
Ooopps throws guitar, to me no fucking guitar should be thrown to thw floor
What a fucking douche
@@SadnanSanim00071 it's shit, I would throw it
*elitism
Matthew Lafontaine he didnt have to throw it just because its not a good guitar. Thats just disrespect to guitars.
ya know some legends started off with shitty guitars
you could probably sell those for triple whatyou paid for them on your reverb account just because you owned and played them lol
That would lose him a ton of respect
Allen Harrison iii
Yep, Pre Owned :)
Allen Harrison i
Let Jimi Hendrix touch it even just for a couple seconds and it'll be worth more than the Moon.
Me: Okay that doesn't sound that bad, right?
Him: * making weird faces, throws the guitar * okay this guitar is awful
Me: oh
I bought a irin guitar , set intonation , new strings , adjusted neck , ran thru my fender twin 1965 , and pedal board , sounded good enough to big with , 👍👍
The guitar sounded totally fine, I have no idea what you're on about and making those ugly faces for. Also no proper guitarist would ever throw or drop any guitar for any reason.
DuncanDeez the Sound was gritty and it didn’t stay in tune so I’d see why he’d drop it
DuncanDeez The guitar couldn’t even stay in tune through 4 chords. And it sounded extremely gritty. It didn’t sound fine.
DuncanDeez Also, “no proper guitarist would throw or drop any guitar for any reason.” That’s probably one of the stupidest things I’ve heard. Thousands of rock guitarists smash their guitars after concerts. Are you saying they aren’t guitarists? Because most of them are pretty talented.
new strings never stay in tune untill they settle in... any guitarist knows that.
Son Goku: there's a difference between a musician and a rich, spoiled-brat rock star.
Cheapest guitar in mcdonalds
Luis Langowski won't happen.
Tweeker might think he's an undercover hahahhaha
0$ if you buy a happy meal
McGuitar
luis 0806 McJunk
luis 0806 Cheapest guitar in Burger King
I've watched a TON of these videos comparing less than a hundred dollar instruments vs. same instrument in a over thousand dollar version. And all I can say are musicians are idiots. Unless you're on the radio, television, recording albums, or playing large venues, save your money. I've owned many different instruments myself. I have a violin valued at over $1000 and went on a trip where I ran into this girl that had a student model violin she got for under $300. I played it and it sounded terrible, but I knew the problem. Her bow was plastic and needed re-haired. I used my bow, and it sounded better than mine. And I had better strings. Musicians are all brand loyal, money burning idiots. I bought my daughter a high end Uke by Luna, concert size. I bought a plastic Uke for myself while drunk on-line. Concert size. The difference in tone is nearly unrecognizable. Intonation is fine. The fretted instruments do need to have good intonation, but if you aren't playing in front of more than 100 people do yourself a favor and don't fall into the snob culture. It's Capitalism people. They WANT you to pay more for something that isn't going to give you the extra you paid. I don't play in front of more than about 20-30 people and I would use that E-bay guitar in a second. (after I broke the strings in) Oh, and SURPRISE. New strings need a break in period. Now some people might be thinking, "what about durability"? For under $100 it's a disposable guitar. Plus I'm sure most serious musicians here have a horror story how the band's van got broken into, or some drunken guy at a bar spilled his draft beer all over whatever piece of expensive gear. That's another reason to play cheap gear. If you only play out at bars... Don't walk in with thousands of dollars worth of gear. Idiots man. Idiots.
Haha yeah, it's similar on the other end of things, in the car audio and home audio industry. People focus on things like $1000 amps (let alone cables lmao) yet spend 0 on things like acoustic treatment where you'll actually get the most bang.
pirateturns360 You know, you really shouldn't drink the cheap stuff....
I mean if you can afford good quality, theres no comparison between a lets say fender with a 50$ ebay crap
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I'd say that you would have to set it up well and upgrade a bit
"It smells like... bad"
Noah Zurhaar it's that harbor freight smell
No. He actually said "It smells like BAG"
straf
i'm using a similar one…i bought it with the money i got for selling one of my favorite cd. that's my very first guitar. enough for punk:)
There's nothing wrong with that guitar. The guy is a douche.
@@scottwilson7095 thanks for this, i was gonna buy this same exact guitar actually because I can't afford a high priced one. And when he said it was shit and garbage I kinda felt as if playing a guitar and learning it wasn't worth it anymore
@jim halpert Oh thank you for telling me. I'm thinking about getting it soon :)
the sound quality is not so bad, i even like much the clear sound, the attack of the pick is phenomenal
"Lets see if its in tune" (strums chord and it sounds terrible) "YUP" LOL
Junk Head I DIED WHEN THIS HAPPENED LOL
Legoguy YT If you think that was in tune. Than stop playing guitar.
@@collinmackin5911 then*
hannah Do you feel better now?
@@collinmackin5911 yes
Did you even set it up - intonation and action? No matter the cost it has to be done to EVERY guitar before judging it. You can't tell what guitar went through on the road from factory to your home.
i did set irin guitar up, here is the sound and my review ua-cam.com/video/1U0NO9MLaGQ/v-deo.html
That's right, i saw your comment just after posting mine. This test was quite useless done this way.
That’s a good point. He said he was gonna tune it up, but I’m guessing he meant that literally and not that he was gonna intonate it and fix its immediate flaws. Maybe the guitar would’ve sounded a LITTLE bit better after a proper setup.
Ryan Alvidres-Ivie same goes for Amazone guitar. It takes less then half hour to set up. If it sounds like shit then we would know but now it seems like it sound like shit because of lazy guitarist that didn't set up his guitar.
Exactly, even if it's perfectly set up from the factory you really need to do it yourself because of atmospheric pressure and differences in humidity. That's why your guitar is never in tune when you unpack it at a gig
It doesn't matter how good your guitar is, it matters how good you are at playing it.
This is coming from a person who never held a proper guitar in his hands...
yeah
Chronos yeah I was going to say that only applies when it’s at least a semi playable guitar
Nuff said !!
Idk sometimes it does depend on the guitar cause if you're competing on a cheap start and some guy with a les Paul competes and you too have similar skills then the les Paul is gonna have the edge cause of the cost and quality of the instrument
next up: cheapest guitar in local GoodWill, come on do it!
There was a Squier Strat for $60 and a Squier P Bass with no strings (didn't know the price) at my local goodwill 😂
ExtremeSalGamerz i bet the squier is way better than these cheapos from amazon or ebay, great find!
The Cantrell Project I go to goodwill all the time, I bought a sweet strat for $50 and sold it for $250
spencer rhea holy flip!
The Cantrell Project One time I found a no name guitar at goodwill that was in decent shape but looked like it was of terrible quality for $35. I almost bought it to mess around with.
I bought one of these for $50 on ebay last week before finding this video- identical model except no manufacturer logo anywhere. Super light, maybe under 6lb. Spent 10 min stretching the stock strings, lowering the saddles, tuning and intonating - plays fine, everything works. Parts are cheap, but everything is standard Asian size. No issues with assembly and quality control is better than expected. Fat, lightly oiled neck on mine.
I used to deal with those types of guitars when I started out. After about a year, when I could actually play, I started buying guitars from eBay for example encore and some other no name brands to mod. I remember keeping an encore strat that I refretted, rounded the edges of the fretboard and did a proper fret level and setup and it was still my favourite thing to play like 6 years later. To be honest, that guitar doesn't look bad. The neck is at least finished in some sort of finish, it has a solid wood body and normal tuners. Some squiers have those shitty small hole tuners that they put in on purpose so that you can't upgrade them without drilling out the holes. I think the worst guitar I've had in to setup was a Lidl supermarket Strat. The neck felt like one of those cheap planks cheap bed frames are made of. No finish, splinters everywhere. Frets were literally falling out of their slots and the neck had a twist that made the guitar unplayable. No wonder kids quit if parents keep buying this garbage thinking "it'll do".
Overall, from experience I can tell you that it's the shitty strings that are most likely making the guitar go out of tune. I would try a basic DIY setup, new strings and let it sit in the room for a few days so the wood settles on the new setup and then see how you like the guitar. If that doesn't work, id then fix the nut. Then tuners and bridge. But the cost of doing that will buy you about two more similar guitars. Maybe see how far upgrading gets you. Sometimes it's better to just buy another guitar, but some people don't have all that money up front, so could be interesting.
I could hear everyone cringe when he dropped the guitar!
So, what specifically made it feel so bad to play?
"the action is about 1/4 mile high"
Well that's just a matter of turning a few screws.
Probably because the neck could be too thick, or the fretboard isn't very smooth, or that it just sounds bad through the amp, I dont know those are my guesses.
My guess is at that price, not a lot of thought goes into how the neck is cut and finished. I’d imagine neck feel is a deal breaker for a lot of players, or at least it is for me. I’ve had my eyes on guitars that left me kind of disappointed when I found out that I hated the neck shape.
It went out of tune from strumming chords in a few seconds. That's bad.
I bought one of these kits that came with a little amp when I first started playing. Not great quality of course, but did me real well when I first started learning
sounded kind of good to me.
Catastrophic Stupidity I just started music and I’m on a budget and I really want a guitar because the music and I’m trying to produce is like aesthetic if you know what I mean but I need a guitar Do you think I should get it
User Name It couldn’t even stay in tune & it sounds gritty, if that’s your aesthetic than it’s perfect for you
Sounds like shit
Respect an instrument man, regardless of it's cost based specs. For people who clicked on this video, this is somewhat all that's affordable
That face when trying the guitar is PRICELESS
Bumper 3007 Cracked me up!!! Haha!
Bumper 3007 I would have expected it to be much worse😂
Pre-stretch your strings!!!
The first thing I do when I put new strings on is tune them up to pitch, then bend each string two whole steps up, then re-tune, then bend another two whole steps up, then re-tune. After that I can basically do all the bending I want and the strings will stay in tune till they get rusted or one breaks, which is usually after twenty hours of playing, about one week.
I know nothing of guitars, I play a trumpet. To me, sounded pretty awesome
To guitarists, Trumpets are just annoying noise.
Kylo Fan chet baker: am i a joke to you?
Kylo Fan as both i can say you dont have a diverse enough taste in music
@@idk4529 nope thats just you
You are an asshole
Not everyone is able to afford the 6,000 dollar guitars like all the "popular" people can get. We get what we get. It honestly sounded fine.
65 years ago this 60$ guitar would be a freaking amazing instrument.
watched Herman Lee take care of his new cheap guitar pack made me smile .. even Herman Lee (pro guitar player) give a positive advice and comment for the beginner out there ..... the guitar sound good enough for that price ,, the only thing that suck is your skill ...
Prettier than my strat
I got this exact 🎸 on Amazon and after it was tweaked and set up it's not as bad as you make it out to be. Is it as good as a real strat, of course not but did you really expect it to be? This guitar was doomed before you unpacked it. Why did you make this video? So you could throw it on the floor from your ivory tower? Not funny ! =Middle finger !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Agreed. Cheap guitars like these always need a little bit of work to get them going, but the end result is not bad. I have a Davison strat style guitar that I got off of ebay for $27 bucks and it is currently my go to when I want to play.
Yeah this video is nonsense it's like a spoiled brat who buys all he wants and making fun of it haha
Robert Lofrano wow who knew people got offended about scrap wood being thrown
@@gamesandguitars3901 ??? A guitar "scrap wood"? Take "Guitar" off your name. Pleeeeaze.
@@gamesandguitars3901 its still an instrument, any decent person with a brainstem can know to respect guitars no matter what quality
"Craftmanshit"
I wish i had a guitar :(
Christmas is comming up
Why didn't you intonate octaves? You can't expect this guitar to come with a setup made, you should have done a rough one in order to make fair test.
Yeah but when you pick up a PRS that's not intonated you make a setup before saying it's crap..
GuitarMind
A PRS also doesn’t cost $54....
I know it well, but even a PRS will sound aweful if you mess up its intonation as much as it was on this one. Being not intonated isn't a flaw (unless it's impossible to actually intonate it) and yeah this cheap guitar sure sounds like crap even when intonated, but at least you're hearing it's real potential.
Ryan Wilson $5,400 though...
+Ryan I've got a few cheap guitars - not $54 cheap but still cheap - and generally, a few minutes spent changing strings, fudging the truss and the bridge etc yields some kind of transformation if they're not that playable to start with. Sometimes the transformation is incredible. Taking a cheap guitar and playing it unenthusiastically without doing a setup you'd do on a "real" guitar doesn't represent it well, unless the goal was to get some easy "well look how shit this cheap guitar is" kicks.
So, I asked Santa last Christmas to get me a guitar. Electric, to be exact.
Turns out, he gave me the cheapest one Ryan found on Amazon.
CHEAP PRICK.
Did you already know how to play before asking?
I don't think that the wood is bad. This guitar needs some love here and there, some upgrades and then it should sound decent.
riff.dude ACE!
ACE? What does that mean? And welcome to my channel mate 😀
But I mean at that point
Why not just buy a Squire Strat? It's a bit more expensive but you will get a better experience with the stock hardware. Just gotta tweak intonation and action.
OrangeJackson
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I actually bought one, one of the Glarry strat copies off Ebay $55.
I had some extra Dimarzio Pickups in my parts drawer and wanted a guitar to test them in. I'm thrilled with this guitar. The Stock pickups are pretty weak, but if I was just starting out they would be just fine. They are better then the MIM fender ceramic pickups that come in the $500 fenders. I know because I tried a set of those in this guitar as well. Holds tune great. the bridge is the weak spot, but you know that going in. It works...but. Neck is like a freaking baseball bat. Really a chunky neck, like an LP which is kind of odd, but no sharp frets. Guitar came with a very good set up. Don't forget to tighten the truss rod a little as they ship them loose. I got a sunburst and it is a one piece body that looks awesome. I had other pickguards on hand as well, So I put a new guard on it with 3 dimarzios (The Air Norton is amazing!) I think these guitars are a no brainier. Who cares if it is light? I like that actually, doesn't wear your back out standing with it. For $50, I'm thrilled with this guitar. Lost of stores sell them in differing colors, look for the ones that ship from NJ. got it in a week.
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I bought a cheap kit guitar, a tele for fun and I actually really enjoy playing it. It has a single string which has a small bit of tuning issue, but it actually sounds great for a sixty five dollar guitar. I've played it silly since I got it and it has a nice tone.
Wait you win guitars at carnivals????
Shinigami Master 😂😂
i won an inflatable guitar once...
i could imagine a real guitar as a carnival prize... it would definitely be one of these [insert randomly generated brand name here] chinese cheapos and the amount of money you'd spend upgrading your prize to get to the guitar could have got you a used squier (and not even bullet or affinity... squier standard or better)
Well as a beginner and as someone who doesn't have enough money to buy an expensive guitar right away, I would not throw away cheap guitars. They can be useful for learning and then you save up money to buy a more decent one. But I don't feel like buying a 7000 $ guitar at first. When I started piano lessons I had the stupidest little mini organ my uncle gave to me and I learned a lot on it, and after 2 years I bought my first piano. It was such an emotion touching a real one. It was a Yamaha. I feel like playing on that cheap organ helped me improve a lot with basics and I remember of it as being a sweet memory. I got the Amazon version guitar, and I hope to have enough money, if I become better at it, to buy a good one, but just remember guys that not everyone can afford expensive guitars. I myself don't for an example, so I do what I can to learn. Anyway I know they are not so professional but hopefully you will become better at it and buy a better one in time. That's what I do all the time and I feel like I can appreciate better the musical instruments that I have had during years.
What I dont get about these super cheap guitars is that they have tremolos that are too crappy to even work properly! A hardtail would be even cheaper, stay in tune, and sound better! A beginner especially doesnt want to spend all their playing time tuning up lol
That's always perplexed me as well
When i was a beginner, i always wanted a guitar that looks like the real deal but with a dirt cheap price tag. Ended up with a decent les paul look alike.
I imagine there’s quite a lot of beginners like me, and these sort of guitars may appeal to them
It's probably more about having all the bells and whistles. They probably sell more of these to beginners than they sell hardtails, since beginners wouldn't really understand the massive difference in maintenance/tuning/setup and would just be like "Fuck year, wammy for more Star Power!!!".
The raw sound reminds me of the days me and my buddy got our first guitars, it sounded like shit, but hey, memories.
Running it through such a great amp just makes it sound like one of the more modern Classic Player Squiers if anything. Yes it didn't stay in tune but it doesn't sound extremely horrible.
Bought one a few months back.......It has 22 frets. Very light. My neck looks maple. Not as dark as yours.
Machine heads were okay if you stretch the strings well. Pickups were 3k with 220k pots. I put 3 chinese 500k pots and 3 single coil humbuckers in it.....okay now. Packaging was the worse ever but...I got lucky and it wasn't damaged. Whammy block was threaded bad for the bar....I just blocked it off into a hard tail. The paint cracked in a few places on the back but didn't make it to the front....used a tooth pick with super glue. Front looks excellant. Had to level and crown the medium frets...it's not perfect but very good after level.....you can only level so much on mediums .039. Mine didn't have a label on head stock! Yea! Definately needed a bone nut. The plastic nut was the worse I've ever seen. Like butter. With a new chinese bone nut it's great. I ordered 3 white single coil humbuckers from aliexpress. They were supposed to be 10-11k....were 8.6k so they refunded me everything (23.00) and said keep them. Great customer service....lousy sellers...don't cut them any slack! They're average pickups. Put DPDT switches on the neck and bridge pu's. Can switch between North single, South single, or humbucker. I have about 60.00 bucks in it. Nice guitar now! Frets had to be leveled and crowned. Only thing I would replace now is the machine heads....but don't have too.....it will play in tune even bending. Replaced the plug female jack too.....metal was too soft. That was 5.00 for an allparts one. I could gig with it......for a clean sound.
that's cheap man but why do you just throw it away? do some giveaway man
Those gouges are supposed to be there. Its common on alot of strat styled guitars. Its for ergonomics
Next video is after they have a full set up and some basic hardware upgrades to see which is a better mod platform?
this would be interesting
GuitarZack45 great idea
I have 3 of these. All 3 are finished beautifully. One had killer sharp frets that took a couple hours of work with a $4 set of files from Harbor Freight to correct. If you don't want to learn how to finish them or set them up they're not a good deal. I bought a new Epiphone 335 copy in the early 70's for $250. All 3 of my $50 guitars are infinitely easier to play and sound better.
Gross lol.
*metal gear solid noise* !!!
It has high action, but it doesn’t have high intergrity!
Agufish doesn’t djent 👎
give it EMGs (and replace the tuners maybe?) and it can djent... just tune it down an octave or three...
like your reviews lol
I bought a cheap DIY kit that had the same problems with the action height. So much that, when I had done a proper intonation of the low E string, it played an F# on the first fret...
Fortunately that could be resolved by installing a new, lower nut. New strings and new machine heads make it stay in tune, unless I use the trem, of course...
Basswood is probably what they used (if they didn't use plywood). It's light, but super soft and easy to chip. I recommend using it as firewood or a flimsy axe.
Some people want their pine Telecasters because of "the brighter tone."
DiscipleOfSound yup that's what we use for kindling here, splits nice and starts good!
I actually picked up a Stagg s300 3/4 about a month ago for $130. So far I've leveled and re-crowned the frets, set the intonation, replaced the plastic nut with a TUSQ XL, lowered the strings at the nut and it honestly don't sound to bad now other than pickups. It's been a fun little project that still needs some work. Electronics are crap but I have a set of take out pickups from a PRS SE to drop in it, needs a decent set of tuners and I think it'll be a great little gitfiddle.
I'll make you one for 'bout tree-fiddy.
i had an irin strat. at first it easily went out of tune. i tightened the screws on the tuning machine with a screwdriver. the action was ridiculously high. it took a some adjustments.
Cheapest 2x12 or 4x12 cab.
Disclaimer: I am a below beginner and couldn't carry a tune to safe my life 😆, I briefly played as a kid, and now I am getting back into it with my daughter in my later 30's, her grandparents got her a Taylor acoustic. So I recently ordered a beginner electric guitar kit from Amazon for about $150us for myself, so I can play with and kinda encourage her (it's now Sept 2020,) it has a unanimous 5⭐ rating from people who say they know nothing to people claiming to be "seasoned players," currently playing on Fender etc. They say its definitely not a Fender, but it could hold it's own...haven't gotten it yet, but can't wait to see how it is. Lol I also saw his cheapest Amazon guitar vid.
Stop acting all high and mighty. The guitar was fine. Just because you’re able to afford better brands with better quality doesn’t mean it’s “bad” or “cheap” that guitar is perfectly usable for a beginner
Man i'm dying to have a guitar and watching you throwing it like that is killing me more
Brahim YT I agree
how dare you drop that guitar that you bought with your own money on your own CARPET unbelievable man it didn't even sound bad just give it a proper setup, a new bridge, custom order a neck with frets that aren't made of zinc and wood that isn't used for drywall, some nice tuners, new pickups, new pots and a wiring job, and you've got yourself a perfectly usable guitar man!! >:( >:(
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"There's that smell. It smells like a Chinese child's sweat!"
Much better than any guitar from the 80s when the cheaper costed about $300
im honestly impresssed. You couldn't buy the wood as blanks for that price where i live lol
Yet compared to the Kay Guitars from Woolworths in the 70's for (inflation corrected) twice the price this thing is amazing. People are so spoiled today. Our fingers used to bleed as did our ears.
Ive had several of these on my channel, they take a lot of time to setup correctly but will sound decent in the end. Cant compete with a $100 Squire but they are fun to mess around on once you set them up properly. Action, intonation, and truss adjustments.
but does it djent?
I have a lguna I bought for $50 used. I think it came new with an amp and some accessories for $100.... And it's actually a pretty good guitar. It's not my favorite guitar, but the pickups give me a clarity almost like a single coil, while keeping the girth of a humbucker. Basically... It djents like crazy.. And the cleans are amazing.. without hum.
It's not my number one, but I can see using it when a single coil just has too much noise or I need to overdub something and the other guitars just don't fit because it would make things too flubby.
I bet that if someone gave him that guitar as a gift without telling him the price, he would’ve probably thought that it sounded like the “super expensive EXTRA fancy” guitars. 😤🙄
Eh no he wouldnt
It’s easy to hear a guitar’s quality. Although he is pretty much an ass for throwing a guitar
@@aidanatienza Yeah not quite easy but this one sounded too bad tbh. Still shouldnt have thrown it out of disgusts
Not that easy but sometimes its pretty obvious if you buy a cheap one but not because of the sound, sometimes the overall quality
I once found an old acoustic guitar wrapped in a tarp in the woods. It was so warped, the action was in the upper stratosphere. Played it till it fell apart, put it back together with bits of this and that, and played it some more. Then I put it back in the woods some months later. Good times.
And this is why kids give up trying to learn. Spend a little more Dads ;-)
rezner101 Middle ground, if you ask me. Or go with a company with a reputable budget line. I’m not gonna go buy my kid a custom made Kiesel if he/she is just starting out because he/she may lose interest.
Probably no more than $300 is what I’d spend on an electric if I had a kid that wanted to start playing guitar.
Or the kid could have my Squier Strat. I don’t really play it that much except as a backup. Hate the flat fingerboard.
Ryan Alvidres-Ivie got my lad a nice Washburn for £200 he didn't carry on playing and so we sold it. But at least he had a half decent guitar to have a go.
If he got his son a new Gibson, the production wouldn't be any better.
I have a cheaper guitar than that one, check my videos
I got a guitar that looks exactly like that but is blue and it came from zeny... and omg. On the day the guitar came it was an absolute nightmare... it was one of those starter guitar packages that came with a guitar,amp,cable, and strap for 99 dollars. At that point I already knew something was going to be fishy... an amp... and a guitar? 90 Dollars? My acoustic was 200 dollars and it didn't come with anything, except maybe a free pick. So it's Christmas morning... I open this thing and I'm so happy to have received it. Then I go to play it and my mood changes completely... the fret board cut me lol. While I was doing a barre chord. Then anything beyond the twelfth fret did nothing but create a buzzing sound... the high E didn't work at all. It wasn't till this Christmas that i was able to play it cause my mother was generous and decided to pay to get it adjusted, the fret board filed, the action to a comfortable place. So now its actually playable but the top pickup doesn't work at all neither does the one in the middle very well. Only the bridge. But if there's one thing I learned... It's never order a guitar online
Didn’t sound bad but couldn’t stay in tune
Did you cut and paste that from a Gibson customer?
cause its new and the strings need to tight up
And on these guitars, once the strings are broken in there are usually a whole host of other issues that keep it slipping out of tune... Then a sharp edge from the 25 cent bridge breaks the string and you start over, and your basically tuning endlessly instead of playing, constantly tuning and breaking more strings, in the endless quest for your strings to break in-evenly and stay in tune. Then the guitar goes out of adjustment randomly This guitar was fairly in tune for a few seconds when he started the actual demo by strumming those single chords, and then it slid out horrendously by the fifth chord, the E minor. You can see his reaction, kind of like "that went south fast!"
I bought a ssh version of this guitar. I did some heavy modifications and it plays pretty well!
cheapest guitar on facebook marketplace
ohgod
could be interesting... he would have to throw out the "new" requirement i've seen quite a range myself locally...
my 89 squier strat i found on facebook for $65 (with a 15W crate that needs repair)
i sold a first act me302 (vaguely tele-ish style with a 3+3 headstock) for $25 (i paid $13 for it, not a bad guitar to be honest)... i don't recall seeing any functioning guitars for less but i have seen them pop up in the $40-60 range from time to time... usually off-brand/no-name cheapos
If you set up both of those guitars as well as possible would they improve greatly?
I mean the whole lot: Neck relief, action height and intonation.
set them up properly and do another video
Please be more specific - What is it that sucks? Is the neck ok? Are the frets level enough? Does it sustain ok? If the answer to all those is yes, then it’s already ahead of the terrible not-so-cheap guitar shaped objects which most of us had to start on years ago. Can’t the action and intonation be adjusted? I expect to have to do this on any new guitar anyway
you make me cry when i see how you drop that guitar :( it hurt me im a guitar lover :(
No matter how cheap it is, that is straight up disrespect
What was the last song he was playing
Basswood has a density only a few steps up from balsa...I'm impressed it didnt fold like a taco when tuned up.
Alot of guitars including fender are made if basswood
Yep, even Fender makes cheap guitars lol
acousticpsychosis Steve Vai JEM's are made of Basswood
Lots of nice guitars are made of basswood. You clearly don't know much about how guitars are made, which is fine... but don't act like you do
I didnt say basswood was a bad material.
throw some decent pick-ups and good set-up electronics in it nice tuners and you could have a decent guitar to just throw around and not care about
Hey man, that might be the guitar that starts some kid out who will become the next Hendrix. Never diss a cheap instrument. Music is from the soul.
I’d be curious to compare one of these after a setup to what was an entry level guitar when I was a kid in the early 1980s. I’m thinking like a 1983 Honda strat copy (made in Japan) pretty much what you had there (except I’m sure your $50 eBay guitar was made in China). The Hondo starts we’re approx $200 in 1983, while other entry level guitars were a bit more. Oh, and to convert the $200 in 1983 to today’s currency, would be just under $500 in today’s money. So the entry level strat you got was approximately 1/10th the price of what I started with.
When he threw the guitar I went “😭🤯🤬”
I got a $97 Cobra by BGuitars Bass on Amazon. I think it sounds pretty good when piped through Mixcrafts virtual amps.
Would sound better with a Blackstar
Or with Line6 Spider
Dillan *FUCK BLACKSTAR!* The HT100 is fucking garbage.
followmefornothing He was just kiddin
It would sound better if it was any other guitar.
Dillan But why not Tsubaki?
My first guitar I got at 11 years old was a nylon string guitar my parents bought at a store called jamesway I learned on and I loved it
A free video of a man who doesn't know to intonate octaves and set up action on a new guitar. Frankly, I'm shocked that the craftsmanship isn't on the high level of free online content.
Martin Krauser exactly but the guy knows how to make money with a useless video
To be fair, you need to have a high IQ to understand bad gear reviews. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also bad gear reviewer’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into their characterisation- their personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike bad gear reviews truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Ryan's existential chord progression “D A G Em” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Ryan Bruce's genius wit unfolds itself on their tv screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂
And yes, by the way, i DO have a bad gear reviews tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎
i love donuts but of the european variety a.k.a. berliner
puppies r good
I got one the neck is maple I had to sand the back of the neck and fine sand the finger board leveled and crowned and polished the frets I put a good bridge on it I also lowered the top but slots and new strings and set up and now it plays and sounds great.
That sort of defeats the purpose of buying a $50 guitar if you turn around and do $200 worth of work to it.
Frank Littlefield I had the bridge in my parts cabinet and I did all the work my self so no moor money was spent.
I'm not saying necessarily in your case. I buy cheap guitars and fix them up all the time. But the point of the video is the quality of the $50 guitar. The average person won't want to spend the extra money paying someone like us to fix it.
Give it to me 😭 I cannot buy one cuz my family will not use money for this stuff
wahaj A ): i feel that bro
Edgy Child exactly.