For anybody coming here from Andy's video/anyone else's video in the future talking about this thing: They've tried to do some major damage control by threatening UA-camrs with legal action who hadn't published their video yet, but I have a paper trail saying If they send me an Aeroguitar I have no obligations and can do whatever I want with it. They can email me if they want, but it won't get them very far. Update: I suspect Aeroband has started sending employees/bots to write positive comments under the videos
Funny, I have never watched a video from Andy, but the UA-cam algos sent him my way tonight and that is the exact reason I am here watching your video. So with that said, thank you for your honest review and thank you for satisfying my curiosity after watching Andy's video.
The guitar content creator community on youtube is excellent right now. It's one of the only spaces where the content creators seem to work in unison, collaborate and create friendships through the medium instead of competing for top spot and tearing each other down.
@@justmedeeits maybe more honesty now than for maybe 5yrs ago, but dont believe for a second they all are here for you. They are out for themselves. But I really respect what Mr. 6stringtv did with this video,but it was obvious, the thing was crap. Probably the worst guitar related thin I ever seen 🍟😼
@@RWulff007Events like 42 Gear Street exist as a space for us to network and make friends, and people who tear others down and treat this job as one big competition aren't welcome in that space. Calling us all "friends" is perhaps a bit of an overstatement, but I've likely spoken to any guitar content creator you can name, and am on good terms with them
Nah, it's a poorly designed product that costs a lot of money and doesn't fulfil it's promise. MUCH better off giving young beginners a real guitar, and you'll have enough money over to include a bunch of lessons for the same price. @@TrueDian
I think it’s actually $500-$600 now. If you have arthritis you should just get a regular guitar, set the action really low, lower the tuning and get some really light gauge strings and you should be good I would imagine, maybe if I’m wrong someone should start a kickstarter to make a guitar for people with disabilities specifically and actually make it sound good
@@LizordSword tony iommi had special strings made for him. Go to the nearest shop buy the lightest gauge and try to downtune to c#, idk maybe its me but i just cant downtune light strings. It wont stay in tune
If you have arthritis you should probably change your diet and do some physiotherapy and just get your health back and be able to do a lot of things you probably can’t instead of just switching out your guitar for an expensive replica of a real guitar.
@@n1troni No he used banjo strings and later custom gauge but that was just with 8 gauge on e and b and then an 8 gauge B strings on the G and so on. It just wasn't commonly available in the 60s so banjo strings were a substitute. And if it won't stay in tune it's a problem ypu always have thin strings tuned down just make it more obvious. Probably not correctly filed nut slots, that's where the string usually catches. Always tune from below not above...
@@TheAndostro yeah or as Kaylen said it could either a toy for kids who wants to learn to play or something to make people who can’t play on a real guitar able to play music
This is what I can't get over. My ibanez starter kit cost me 250 euros for a probably janky guitar and a surprisingly decent little amp and some addones like a stand, a strap and such. Granted, I figured out way too late to pay a luthier 60 euros to check it through and sure, the neck was turned way out of whack and that's why it was almost unplayable at first, lol. And sure, there are people calling the guitar terrible, and I"m sure I'll grow out of it eventually, but it's a great learning guitar.
I know this is an insane and controversial thought for many manufacturers, but the only product that a beginner need in order to learn an instrument is... an instrument
@@jerkerjansson386 yeah no kidding. spend 459 as a new person and you have a fairly good guitar from the start these days. this just feels like a weird niche product
If you have arthritis, play drums. Really bad arthritis, drums with your head. No sense of time or rhythm? Free-form jazz drums. Neighbours don't like it? Drums with their head.
@@sixstringtv1 It isn't? I just saw Henning's video and I thought he said you can take the tuning up and down ...but then again, would it really matter, I don't think so, haha.
You did a what we in Sweden call "a Sverker". For many years a man called Sverker Olofsson led a consumer guide program on Swedish public service television called "Plus". At the end of each episode he demonstratively threw away the products featured in the show that were not up to par in a bin right next to the camera, cut to credits.
Dude I love You!!! Ive been in the music retail business for over 20 years and I must say this is the greatest review I have ever seen!!! We need more honesty like this in the business instead of sugarcoating the bullshit so everyone could be happy. Thank You
Another guy who gave it a favourable view has taken down his video today, because he got a lot of flack for obviously saying what the company told him to say.
@@kadiummusic the only innovation guitars need would be the guitar able to tune the tuners itself to anything the player wanted with a press of a button....and maybe somehow re-string itself lol. Other than that i think they function nearly perfectly in theory
THE FACT THAT “ACCEPTED” THE SPONSORSHIP TO HATE ON IT AND THEN SPONSOR ANOTHER GUITAR THING IS INSANE 😭 this is like my first time watching your videos and i can tell i’m gonna be watching more
I’ve seen these advertised on TikTok, didn’t think they’d be nearly $500! You can get a Fender for that. The dubbed audio in the advert is out of tune too. That was painful to listen to 😂
"If you're feeling pain when playing guitary this is the guitar for you" (advertising line) bro what the fuck, if you're feeling pain, you're not playing enough...
I severed the tips of the 2nd and 3rd fingers of my fretting hands years ago in an accident. I tried everything, but nothing worked for me except a similar product to this called the YouRock guitar (honestly, this Aero guitar seems to have more features). Yes, it sucks compared to a proper guitar *but at least I can still play guitar*
Purely on the capo feature, I didn't expect, as you seemed to, that it would so to speak put an invisible capo on a particular fret. I assumed it would just pitch shift the output, so you still have a full-length fretboard.
lmao... just imagine if you went to watch a band at the local music bar and the guitarist walks out on stage with this. ahahaha. Edit: I am just looking at the strap pins really. I mean... Oh god. Surely it is just so you can be one with it better at home... in a seat. rofl.
It's actually a good product when applied properly by someone that knows what it was designed for and how to showcase it. This just demonstrates this guys (i.e sixstringstv) inept and tunnel vision.
Omg I remember when the Kickstarter launched because I saw ads plastered online. Wow, it’s worse than I suspected. Even as a toy, it’s embarrassing - Fisher Price makes more responsive guitar toys. Also, the early bird crowdfunding price seemed criminal for what they were demonstrating and claiming. Also, there are still lots of options for disabled people that won’t frustrate them. Nylon strings are often a great choice. Or even metal strings that are 7’s or 8’s. I agree. If you want midi with an actually functional guitar, get a Jamstik Studio. If you want to learn, get any other real guitar. Your assessment is far too generous, oh wise one. They made it, and that’s on them, as you said. You tried to stop them from sending you one. That’s on them too. Boy, not too bright over there in Aero land. And btw, they also make supposed smart drum sticks. They didn’t beg to send you those to review too?! Thanks for warning the masses to avoid this crap.
Yeah I’ve seen ads on instagram and I immediately said what a piece of shit. And that was before I knew what it actually sounds like😂 like the top comment said it he really does have that songster tone
As someone who’s been playing nylon for about as long as I’ve been playing electric guitars, I wouldn’t advise nylon string guitars as a means for someone with a physical impairment to play the guitar. In theory they should be easier to play, but classical guitars have dead flat fingerboards and usually high action (“normal” classical action on a good playing instrument is very high by acoustic or electric standards; now *cheap* classicals are just within slide territory). You see, nylon strings vibrate more than metal ones, and classical players mostly focus on the first frets. The tonal clarity, sustain and resonance from higher action are more important than comfort; on the flip side, flamenco involves faster playing that is much too hard to execute with such high action, the resulting buzz being embraced as part of the sound. IMO, if you suffer from a disability that affects your ability to play the guitar, just get a well built normal guitar, and have it set up for light gauge strings (8s for instance) and action as low as possible. The guitar just needs to be well built enough so that the neck stays straight and the frets can be levelled by a competent luthier, no need for expensive gear - a used Ibanez, Yamaha Pacifica or a mid tier Harley Benton (a first gen Fusion can be bought for crazy cheap) can do. The cost of a fret job and a good setup is the best money a beginner can spend.
The thing is, as someone who plays both keys and guitar, for me one of the benefit of guitar is precisely that you can can act on the strings in many other ways than plucking it (bending, palm muting, sliding,...). Keyboards can have similar functions with pitch bend wheels and various controls, but it's a completely different interface with its own pros and cons, and just not the same as guitar. My point is: if you really want a useful guitar controller, it needs to be able to do these functions well.
Making a product with disability in mind would be a fantastic thing. Physical ability shouldn’t ever be a barrier to any kind of art. Too bad these sorts of products and the people who make them have no sense of heart to do that.
been watching this man since around 1K and we NEED to get his sub count up. his videos never dull in quality and he keeps pumping them out for us. keep it up!
I’ve already seen this concept, in 2010 when I was starting my guitar journey. It was the “You rock”: six fake strings to strum, and a fretboard that’s basically a touch strip with silicone strings glued to it.
Exactly the same product in a different shape. I actually still own a YouRock Guitar and it’s just as useful as this video shows. But I got it for maybe $100, and it was signed by Tom Morello.
Kudos to you, you have integrity and you didn't cave in to their pressure. By the way, I starting new guitar company, I decided that even silicone makes my fingers sore, so I making the frets and strings out of jello, even beginning players with be able to get some good licks going on it.
I agree if they marketed it as a tool to help disabled people play guitar that's awesome, and from what i can see, not a bad way to go. But we can't even go in that direction because a lot of disabled people (at least in the states) do NOT have $500 to spare 🤦
@@Alex_Martz Andy was even too scared to name the company. He seems too easily swayed by idle threats. Makes me wonder what other negative reviews he was afraid to post...
@@emerhanlon6282 I commented on his video criticizing him for being afraid on even naming the company and he or whoever manages his channel deleted my comments, I no longer watch his videos and unsubscribed, he always seemed too politically correct anyway so no surprise and no loss
You can get, like, a genuinely pretty good *actual* guitar for that price. And by the looks of it, it would be substantially less frustrating to play too
I was thinking even one of those Harley Benton ST-20 for around €100 will do just fine and then use the rest of the cash for actual lessons, from a real teacher. Guaranteed, the results will be far and away greater than whatever you can achieve with this thing.
I bought my Spanish guitar for 32 dollars (I live in Vietnam btw), and for what its worth, sitting in stock for who knows how long, it plays, sounds and feels very good, just that the action is a bit high (cheap guitars)
You kidding?! You can get an incredibly good/more than acceptable actual guitar for that price! I’ve only ever owned one guitar that was about $1,000 smackaroos. The rest have all been in that 300-500 range. And anytime I’ve felt dissatisfied with my time playing it was RARELY ever because of the guitar…
It’s actually CRIMINAL how you don’t have more subs. You’ve got great quality, great thumbnails, humor, and you actually know what your talking about. Keep up the content man! You’ll be huge soon, I know it.
I came here to leave this same comment. Dude, keep it up. You have good ideas really good delivery and as you go on you're just going to get better. My favorite small channel. Wish you a great success.
I bought my 4yo a daisy 7/8s size guitar and that has been great. Unless they make this mini then even giving it to a child is not helpful 🤣 they shit the bed on this one for real.
This isn’t a new idea. I’ve seen this exact concept on a guitar hero controller. Same silicone frets and strings, same slack nylon strummy strings to give the illusion of playing real strings. Brutal honesty! Great video! Just wish you’d get off the fence and tell us how you really feel! 🤣🤣🤣
I started playing guitar in '69. The sound is in your hands. The sore fingers I had in the 70s were like a badge for how long I practiced. This is more like a toy keyboard.
Finally, a way to build muscle memory that will be of zero use on any other guitar in existence, and you don't have to worry about sounding good, because nothing sounds good on it. Impressive!
@@kadiummusic yes👍 It's clearly useless as anything other than a very expensive toy and if you watch the videos it's not even very good in game "mode" 🙄🤣
I have arthritis and i've been playing guitar for a while now, i think if anyone's condition is bad enough, they could use lighter strings and a scalloped fretboard
Not to mention, for that amount of money you can get a somewhat decent cheap guitar that actually DOES work. Hell, if you go to the second hand market, you can get a good deal, so long as you don't mind much some damage on said guitars.
@@proudbrogressive315now that it's 2024 it's even more crazy easy to get a decent guitar. Hell that Squier Debut is miles better and it's freaking 120 bucks
damn thanks for showing this product, have a relative with a muscle weakness disease and if this requires very little force to play that would be great for those cases. Hopefully next iterations or future products develop this idea more.
Yes, before I realised ithat this thing is a really quite poor guitar controller (compared to, say, 1980s guitar controllers?) as opposed to some kind of teaching or learning aid, I did wonder if there would be LEDs in the "fretboard" but no, just down the edge of the neck. So, even _that_ aspect of it could have been done better!
I remember seeing the Kickstarter for this when it was first announced. I thought it looked cool and also had potential to be cool. I "almost" bought into it but I decided not to and broke out my old guitar and played that for a bit to realize that I still suck at guitar which made me buy a bass last year to learn how to play that instead. :P I pretty much forgot about this thing until I saw your video thumbnail today. LOL! I am glad I didn't buy into this thing. I still think it looks cool (like a futuristic guitar from a sci-fi show) but that's about it. I love your slams on this thing and how you held nothing back. Keep up the good work.
Literally just saw an ad for this on IG, opened UA-cam, and see this video immediately. I'm glad to see someone shitting on this product, it's much deserved. Literally the only application I could see for this sort of thing is maybe as a midi controller for guitar players. But at that point, I'd rather get one of those Jamstik guitars, and have an actual functional guitar along with it for a bit extra. What a joke
@@sixstringtv1yep, just hit that part of the video right after I posted my comment. I figured that there'd be at least SOME practical application for this thing. I'm legitimately scratching my head at who funded this thing
If you're new at guitar, what really helped me with the strings being gritty is changing the draco ones on the electric to Elixir™ strings. they are coated with some kind of plastic so when you put your finger on them or slide they don't bite into your finger. note that it will still cut you on higher strings but it feels a lot better than uncoated ones and they usually last for 4-6 months on me before breaking. they keep the tone pretty well too.
Always go with Ernie Ball. Instead of months, talk years. You can even cook them in boiling water after five years and they'll sound like virtually new. Pay a bit more, end up spending less.
@@Bukkie661 nah elixirs are legit. My sweat is stupidly corrosive for some reason, Ernie balls or any other strings won’t last me a week. The coated elixirs last me months
Reminds me of my You Rock midi guitar... which is 13 years old as of now and I bought used from a friend for less than 100$. I use it only for jamming around and songwriting with my synth plugins as I don't like keyboards, I don't even program midi with it and I'd never recommend someone to buy it as a gateway guitar or whatever Aeroband tries to market it as. So that means Aeroband is just selling you almost 15 year old technology for more expensive than a Fishman Triple Play that you can install on your own guitar. At least with the You Rock I can also play Guitar Hero :D
I got the same yourock guitar for 100$ and I use it for practicing, testing new sounds, record simple midi mélodies and the most amazing thing is writing on guitar pro detecting which fret and strings you play, also the TAP function would work well for some modern players, so yeah, they are selling you an even worse technology for five times the price 😂
@@mg2318 I use the tap function whenever I use an instrument like brass or wind! And bro even that Casio guitar from the 80s you see Ichika play sometimes is more advanced than that Aeroguitar lol
It's good to see an honest review - it's unfortunate that the product is so terrible, but the video is entertaining so I suppose that's something. I've subscribed because...this video made me smile.
Every time I see a JCM 800 I want to cry. I had my JCM 800 50 watt lead series head, as well as my Marshall 4X12 slant cabinet and my Japanese Jackson Soloist stolen from my home a few years back, and I've never been able to replace them. It STILL to this day breaks my heart as if it happened yesterday. I was actually a pretty decent metal guitarist, and it feels like I had all of that stolen from me. Of course life and kids gets take priority, so money is always needed for "more important" things. I've managed to acquire a Schecter Diamond Series C-1+ and a little desktop practice amp, but I just cant do what I used to with this stuff, or even what I want to do. I'd love more than anything to start up another metal cover band, even if we never leave the garage, if for no other reason than to have a little fun while showing my teenage son that is dad isn't a TOTAL nerd. Unfortunately I can't even do that now because I no longer have my rig. GOD I miss my amp!
@@Bukkie661 Any way you slice it, an Orange am is NOT a JCM800. Not even close, and never will be. NOTHING comes close to the sound a JCM800 produces. That's not to say there aren't other amazing sounding amps out there, but for the sound I had, there certainly isn't. Besides, if I were to spend a bunch on a new amp, it wouldn't be an Orange. It would be a EVH 5150III
@@pumpkinheadghoul That's why there are so many brands, so that everybody can be happy! That said though, the classic British Invasion sound isn't for everybody, though it should be possible to achieve any sound that you want with a good Orange set-up. It then would still be cheaper with an eye to the Fender sound that you're gunning for. Fender-andies pay too much for brand-stickers on stuff, really.
I wanted an aero guitar because I’m disabled, but thanks to y’all opening up better options I bought a proper Yahama EZ EG for so much better 😭 thank u for the honest review
From watching other videos of this things, I'm guessing the capo works by lighting up the LED to the capo position and it raises the pitch of the strings a half step each fret position so if you have the LED on the 3rd fret, playing an open string G chord in the regular position will be a Bb. Just a guess.
So in the 80s, there was a thing called a Suzuki Unisynth. It was almost exactly the same thing, except it actually had raised strings/frets on the touch strip fretboard, and... also had a unique sound to it. No clue what it cost new, but the thing is... it was new tech back in the 80s. This thing is NOT new tech. It's already almost 40 years out of date.
I remember Casio had a similar product in the '80s which was a little better than this, you could fret the strings but I think it had sensors under the fretboard, it had synth sounds as well as guitar sounds, If I remember correctly is was a toy trying to be a serious instrument, a quick search revealed it to be a DG-10 and DG-20.
@@SilverwingedBat Yeah I watch LMNC and this museum is not obselete, the tracking on them is not the best, the MIDI pickups fitted to a guitar is the way to go IMO.
Well i found out where they modeled at least one of their tone selections from ! @6:09 , clearly that is state of the art modeling as it is from John Lennon's appearance on the Mike Douglas Show with Chuck Berry. Remember when that engineer brilliantly muted Yoko Ono's mic as she began screaming? Yep, you guessed it! It was secretly being recorded and went into this...."instrument"
As an engineer and professional guitarist I understand why they thought this was a good idea. You'd be surprised how often software engineers try and 'make things better', but often they don't think about the actual end users. To me, this product seems like a bunch of engineers who don't play guitar thought that there was a market for a product like this. Spoiler alert, there isn't.
I remember when I was a small child my family got me a starter guitar at target. It had a full wood body, neck, and fretboard. It had outputs for an amp and even had a built in speaker (loud) that was powered by a battery. It was hefty and you could pitch bend some strings on it. I think it may have been First Act branded. At the time it was way under 100 USD maybe even under 50...... That was 100 times better than this plastic 450 USD thing.
I think it's potentially awesome. If they renamed it "The Commodore" and changed the colour from black to beige and dark brown, they'd be on to something with us Gen Xers
It's too expensive for a new guitarist and enforces tons of bad habits, I got in a short spat with the creator, I told him to do a pull. 💀 It has the tone of a paper jam if anyone had one of those growing up 😂
I scored a You Rock Guitar V2 a few years ago & while it’s not the best to play with strumming stuff, there’s a TAP mode where you can only use the fretboard & combining that with MIDI is so much fun! I’ve spent countless hours with Omnisphere 2 & that MIDI guitar
They should just made it a MIDI composer main guitar. For composing in DAW's as a guitarist that can't play keyboards a MIDI guitar would help alot. As for ppl who want to learn guitar, u only get good with NO PAIN, NO GAIN!
For anybody coming here from Andy's video/anyone else's video in the future talking about this thing:
They've tried to do some major damage control by threatening UA-camrs with legal action who hadn't published their video yet, but I have a paper trail saying If they send me an Aeroguitar I have no obligations and can do whatever I want with it.
They can email me if they want, but it won't get them very far.
Update: I suspect Aeroband has started sending employees/bots to write positive comments under the videos
Funny, I have never watched a video from Andy, but the UA-cam algos sent him my way tonight and that is the exact reason I am here watching your video. So with that said, thank you for your honest review and thank you for satisfying my curiosity after watching Andy's video.
The guitar content creator community on youtube is excellent right now. It's one of the only spaces where the content creators seem to work in unison, collaborate and create friendships through the medium instead of competing for top spot and tearing each other down.
@@justmedeeits maybe more honesty now than for maybe 5yrs ago, but dont believe for a second they all are here for you. They are out for themselves.
But I really respect what Mr. 6stringtv did with this video,but it was obvious, the thing was crap. Probably the worst guitar related thin I ever seen 🍟😼
@@RWulff007Events like 42 Gear Street exist as a space for us to network and make friends, and people who tear others down and treat this job as one big competition aren't welcome in that space. Calling us all "friends" is perhaps a bit of an overstatement, but I've likely spoken to any guitar content creator you can name, and am on good terms with them
Nah, it's a poorly designed product that costs a lot of money and doesn't fulfil it's promise. MUCH better off giving young beginners a real guitar, and you'll have enough money over to include a bunch of lessons for the same price. @@TrueDian
It’s got that Songsterr tone💀
Nuh uh 😭
💀
Yikes
AAAAAAAH
Dont insult songsterr like that
I think it’s actually $500-$600 now. If you have arthritis you should just get a regular guitar, set the action really low, lower the tuning and get some really light gauge strings and you should be good I would imagine, maybe if I’m wrong someone should start a kickstarter to make a guitar for people with disabilities specifically and actually make it sound good
A low tuning with light strings is just not possible
@@n1troni toni iommi
@@LizordSword tony iommi had special strings made for him. Go to the nearest shop buy the lightest gauge and try to downtune to c#, idk maybe its me but i just cant downtune light strings. It wont stay in tune
If you have arthritis you should probably change your diet and do some physiotherapy and just get your health back and be able to do a lot of things you probably can’t instead of just switching out your guitar for an expensive replica of a real guitar.
@@n1troni No he used banjo strings and later custom gauge but that was just with 8 gauge on e and b and then an 8 gauge B strings on the G and so on. It just wasn't commonly available in the 60s so banjo strings were a substitute. And if it won't stay in tune it's a problem ypu always have thin strings tuned down just make it more obvious. Probably not correctly filed nut slots, that's where the string usually catches. Always tune from below not above...
A guitar that has the amazing ability to make someone who can play the guitar sound like they can't play the guitar. Truly spectacular product.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣this thing is killer for laughs.
@@boomer3150 I don't know about "Aerodrum" but I think I can safely swerve it. Thanks, all the best.
@@socialmeaslesinpartnership1252 Thanks, and to you as well.
That “rock & roll aunt - rockin hard forever” sticker was worth $459 easy. The horrible toy guitar was just a bonus.
I got it as a face tattoo
Pretty sure 'AUNT' was a typo.... 😀
Repent.
did anyone else realise that at about 2:39 we get assualted by a spec of dust
HOWBDO YOU NOTICE THAT LMAO
Lol I did too that shit was wild
I felt it go into my nose….
In the paranormal investigators world that is called an orb.
Came in like a homing missile
Imagine spending 459 bucks on a guitar and it still sounding like a free shitty guitar software
excaly if it was for like $100 i would buy it just for fun
@@TheAndostro yeah or as Kaylen said it could either a toy for kids who wants to learn to play or something to make people who can’t play on a real guitar able to play music
That run on stock MIDI sounds xD
459 bucks, and it sounds like a guitar toy from the dollar store.
This is what I can't get over. My ibanez starter kit cost me 250 euros for a probably janky guitar and a surprisingly decent little amp and some addones like a stand, a strap and such. Granted, I figured out way too late to pay a luthier 60 euros to check it through and sure, the neck was turned way out of whack and that's why it was almost unplayable at first, lol. And sure, there are people calling the guitar terrible, and I"m sure I'll grow out of it eventually, but it's a great learning guitar.
"I need to get my driver's license"
"Here, try this RC car first. Almost identical"
--Aeroband
almost isn't worth 500 usd
Yeah lol
I know this is an insane and controversial thought for many manufacturers, but the only product that a beginner need in order to learn an instrument is... an instrument
Yes, and for that price you will get a really nice guitar!
@@jerkerjansson386 yeah no kidding. spend 459 as a new person and you have a fairly good guitar from the start these days. this just feels like a weird niche product
@@jerkerjansson386That's around what my Epiphone Les Paul pro 3 cost, and it's got coil splits and all kinds of cool stuff.
IKR! This thing totally negates one of the most basic things a beginner needs to develop - callouses!
Literally the worst guitar ever made, is good for at least the first 6 months, and that's a lot cheaper than this.
If you have arthritis, play drums. Really bad arthritis, drums with your head. No sense of time or rhythm? Free-form jazz drums. Neighbours don't like it? Drums with their head.
I think this would be clearer as a decision tree.
I messaged the company on Instagram asking them if it's capable of drop tuning and they didn't even know what I was talking about 🤦
It is not.
HAHA. should tell people all they need to know right there
They're selling a "gitter" what do you expect.?
@@sixstringtv1
It isn't? I just saw Henning's video and I thought he said you can take the tuning up and down ...but then again, would it really matter, I don't think so, haha.
@@DerEchteBold it's essentially pitchshifting but no drop-tuning.
For a sec I thought that it was kinda cool....
Then I remembered it isn't $20.
You did a what we in Sweden call "a Sverker". For many years a man called Sverker Olofsson led a consumer guide program on Swedish public service television called "Plus". At the end of each episode he demonstratively threw away the products featured in the show that were not up to par in a bin right next to the camera, cut to credits.
We need that here in the states
That's a show I haven't thought of in many years.
Sounds like a great show!
Lol instantly thought of Sverker/Plus too, it had the same exact energy
@@thesolersystemofgames841 Wouldn’t be possible, companies would sue the crap out of them.
the stwings hurt their fingies 🥺
That’s a good one. I have to admit
Dude I love You!!! Ive been in the music retail business for over 20 years and I must say this is the greatest review I have ever seen!!! We need more honesty like this in the business instead of sugarcoating the bullshit so everyone could be happy. Thank You
Good on you for being honest. This company have gone after at least one other channel for slagging off this awful product.
Another guy who gave it a favourable view has taken down his video today, because he got a lot of flack for obviously saying what the company told him to say.
@@speedy692cut slack or give flak
*cough 66samus!!!* cough@@speedy692
Aeroband can suck a fat one, massive gimmick scam company.
I want one, it seems really good.
"their product is very real, it just...shouldnt be"
😂😂 Brutal.
Brutal and VERY deserved.
that was the best part
Savage 😂
Ive been seeing this thing all over Instagram and I alwais thought It looked like a horrible idea
People shit on them on their own Instagram ads too and they just leave them up and respond with hearts and stuff lmao. Glutton for punishment
@@guidosaur7506even negative attention is attention (to those masochists). 😂
@@guidosaur7506 lol exactly
Guitars... the last bastion of change! 😃
@@kadiummusic the only innovation guitars need would be the guitar able to tune the tuners itself to anything the player wanted with a press of a button....and maybe somehow re-string itself lol. Other than that i think they function nearly perfectly in theory
THE FACT THAT “ACCEPTED” THE SPONSORSHIP TO HATE ON IT AND THEN SPONSOR ANOTHER GUITAR THING IS INSANE 😭
this is like my first time watching your videos and i can tell i’m gonna be watching more
Hi Aeroband Bot!
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I’ve seen these advertised on TikTok, didn’t think they’d be nearly $500! You can get a Fender for that. The dubbed audio in the advert is out of tune too. That was painful to listen to 😂
"Maybe it could be useful as a synth guitar."
Sixstring: and here's a fully functional guitar with midi at the same price
Or slightly cheaper.
I dont think this thing even has midi outs...
Yeah, but isnt the whole point of a synth guitar is to create guitar sound without playing actual guitar?
@@Flahtort no the opposite, to play the guitar and get non guitar sounds
12 points to you for doing an honest video about this thing. Hilarious attempt at damage control from them today. 😂
What a great piece of drama to ruminate with over the weekend. Andy handled it well
@@thenextkurtwithout a doubt.
Where can I see the damage control?
@@JBrooksNYS a certain Guitar Geek received a legal threat and didn't name them but mentioned it's a Kickstarter. He shared their whole email
@JBrooksNYS me too lol😅
"If you're feeling pain when playing guitary this is the guitar for you" (advertising line) bro what the fuck, if you're feeling pain, you're not playing enough...
I severed the tips of the 2nd and 3rd fingers of my fretting hands years ago in an accident.
I tried everything, but nothing worked for me except a similar product to this called the YouRock guitar (honestly, this Aero guitar seems to have more features).
Yes, it sucks compared to a proper guitar *but at least I can still play guitar*
Purely on the capo feature, I didn't expect, as you seemed to, that it would so to speak put an invisible capo on a particular fret. I assumed it would just pitch shift the output, so you still have a full-length fretboard.
So then it's not a capo, it's just a different tuning.
Awesome review. So funny. I can't believe the founders of this company have threatened reviewers who give bad reviewers. What an awful company.
Yeah, here from TheGuitarGeek
@@deejay7339same
@@deejay7339 Who doesn't have the integrity to name the brand.
@ doubt integrity has anything to do with it bud
lmao... just imagine if you went to watch a band at the local music bar and the guitarist walks out on stage with this. ahahaha.
Edit: I am just looking at the strap pins really. I mean... Oh god. Surely it is just so you can be one with it better at home... in a seat. rofl.
I LOVE awful reviews! Brilliant. People need to tell it how it is. You very rarely get a review this honest and clear. Thanks! Loved every second.
It's actually a good product when applied properly by someone that knows what it was designed for and how to showcase it.
This just demonstrates this guys (i.e sixstringstv) inept and tunnel vision.
This is like a $500 version of Paper Jamz
When you don't get the payment in time🤣
they wanted a video, they got one.... i appreciate not holding back.. 99% of youtubers are too scared to do that with crappy products.
Omg I remember when the Kickstarter launched because I saw ads plastered online. Wow, it’s worse than I suspected. Even as a toy, it’s embarrassing - Fisher Price makes more responsive guitar toys. Also, the early bird crowdfunding price seemed criminal for what they were demonstrating and claiming.
Also, there are still lots of options for disabled people that won’t frustrate them. Nylon strings are often a great choice. Or even metal strings that are 7’s or 8’s.
I agree. If you want midi with an actually functional guitar, get a Jamstik Studio. If you want to learn, get any other real guitar.
Your assessment is far too generous, oh wise one. They made it, and that’s on them, as you said. You tried to stop them from sending you one. That’s on them too. Boy, not too bright over there in Aero land. And btw, they also make supposed smart drum sticks. They didn’t beg to send you those to review too?!
Thanks for warning the masses to avoid this crap.
Yeah I’ve seen ads on instagram and I immediately said what a piece of shit. And that was before I knew what it actually sounds like😂 like the top comment said it he really does have that songster tone
As someone who’s been playing nylon for about as long as I’ve been playing electric guitars, I wouldn’t advise nylon string guitars as a means for someone with a physical impairment to play the guitar. In theory they should be easier to play, but classical guitars have dead flat fingerboards and usually high action (“normal” classical action on a good playing instrument is very high by acoustic or electric standards; now *cheap* classicals are just within slide territory).
You see, nylon strings vibrate more than metal ones, and classical players mostly focus on the first frets. The tonal clarity, sustain and resonance from higher action are more important than comfort; on the flip side, flamenco involves faster playing that is much too hard to execute with such high action, the resulting buzz being embraced as part of the sound.
IMO, if you suffer from a disability that affects your ability to play the guitar, just get a well built normal guitar, and have it set up for light gauge strings (8s for instance) and action as low as possible. The guitar just needs to be well built enough so that the neck stays straight and the frets can be levelled by a competent luthier, no need for expensive gear - a used Ibanez, Yamaha Pacifica or a mid tier Harley Benton (a first gen Fusion can be bought for crazy cheap) can do. The cost of a fret job and a good setup is the best money a beginner can spend.
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The thing is, as someone who plays both keys and guitar, for me one of the benefit of guitar is precisely that you can can act on the strings in many other ways than plucking it (bending, palm muting, sliding,...). Keyboards can have similar functions with pitch bend wheels and various controls, but it's a completely different interface with its own pros and cons, and just not the same as guitar. My point is: if you really want a useful guitar controller, it needs to be able to do these functions well.
a keytar would do the same as this thing cheaper, better and with more versabilty
I'd rather have a keytar for those very reasons. And that's a different beast again.
Making a product with disability in mind would be a fantastic thing. Physical ability shouldn’t ever be a barrier to any kind of art.
Too bad these sorts of products and the people who make them have no sense of heart to do that.
That would have worked imo.
Definitely
This is like those drumsticks that simulate playing a drumset, neat idea, but they all turn out to be terrible, for everybody.
been watching this man since around 1K and we NEED to get his sub count up. his videos never dull in quality and he keeps pumping them out for us. keep it up!
What an OG!
Thanks for all the support! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
I’ve already seen this concept, in 2010 when I was starting my guitar journey. It was the “You rock”: six fake strings to strum, and a fretboard that’s basically a touch strip with silicone strings glued to it.
Exactly the same product in a different shape. I actually still own a YouRock Guitar and it’s just as useful as this video shows. But I got it for maybe $100, and it was signed by Tom Morello.
I've got one, same construction with removable neck. They didn't even come up with an original design.
I have arthritis and wouldn’t touch this piece of crap.
Kudos to you, you have integrity and you didn't cave in to their pressure. By the way, I starting new guitar company, I decided that even silicone makes my fingers sore, so I making the frets and strings out of jello, even beginning players with be able to get some good licks going on it.
I agree if they marketed it as a tool to help disabled people play guitar that's awesome, and from what i can see, not a bad way to go. But we can't even go in that direction because a lot of disabled people (at least in the states) do NOT have $500 to spare 🤦
Quick question: how is this supposed to help disabled people play?
@@Vexxel256 they don't have to press their fingers down hard like we had to do, and it's light weight
Kudos for doing a video on this P.O.S. and not fearing legal action as the other youtubers did!
The difference is that he has documentation to show that he advised that he would not follow the "guidelines" if they sent it... they sent it anyway.
Andy wussed out reviewing it after being sent an email. Not sure I can trust him now knowing that he won't give something a negative review.
@@emerhanlon6282 Exactly! me neither
@@Alex_Martz Andy was even too scared to name the company. He seems too easily swayed by idle threats. Makes me wonder what other negative reviews he was afraid to post...
@@emerhanlon6282 I commented on his video criticizing him for being afraid on even naming the company and he or whoever manages his channel deleted my comments, I no longer watch his videos and unsubscribed, he always seemed too politically correct anyway so no surprise and no loss
it sounds like the guitar setting on certain keyboards
You can get, like, a genuinely pretty good *actual* guitar for that price. And by the looks of it, it would be substantially less frustrating to play too
I was thinking even one of those Harley Benton ST-20 for around €100 will do just fine and then use the rest of the cash for actual lessons, from a real teacher. Guaranteed, the results will be far and away greater than whatever you can achieve with this thing.
I bought my Spanish guitar for 32 dollars (I live in Vietnam btw), and for what its worth, sitting in stock for who knows how long, it plays, sounds and feels very good, just that the action is a bit high (cheap guitars)
You kidding?! You can get an incredibly good/more than acceptable actual guitar for that price! I’ve only ever owned one guitar that was about $1,000 smackaroos. The rest have all been in that 300-500 range. And anytime I’ve felt dissatisfied with my time playing it was RARELY ever because of the guitar…
The first thing I thought; a decent Squire or Epiphone.
Thank you for the honest review. More people should see it. I briefly thought about getting one till I found out a midi pickup is a thing.
Finally someone with the balls to speak out about a product other than trying to sell it.
It’s actually CRIMINAL how you don’t have more subs. You’ve got great quality, great thumbnails, humor, and you actually know what your talking about.
Keep up the content man! You’ll be huge soon, I know it.
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If they change the price to $59.99 I might consider one for my 4 year old 😂
Exactly hahah
I bought my 4yo a daisy 7/8s size guitar and that has been great. Unless they make this mini then even giving it to a child is not helpful 🤣 they shit the bed on this one for real.
Good news! The did change the price to $539! (I assume you left out a digit)
But again you wont learn how to play the guitar, so its $60 wasted
@@JosePineda-jn8jkmaaan I love the Daisy rock guitars! Where did you get it?
This isn’t a new idea. I’ve seen this exact concept on a guitar hero controller. Same silicone frets and strings, same slack nylon strummy strings to give the illusion of playing real strings. Brutal honesty! Great video! Just wish you’d get off the fence and tell us how you really feel! 🤣🤣🤣
i can't tell you how many times I've seen things like this come and go, after 50 years in music retail.
Your laughter at 6:00 would make a great thumbnail for this video. 😆
I started playing guitar in '69. The sound is in your hands. The sore fingers I had in the 70s were like a badge for how long I practiced. This is more like a toy keyboard.
I’m so tired of big channels making videos about products like these and overselling them to the point of parody, thanks for an honest review
Finally, a way to build muscle memory that will be of zero use on any other guitar in existence, and you don't have to worry about sounding good, because nothing sounds good on it. Impressive!
Good to see there is still honest people on UA-cam 👏👏👏
So the people who are saying it's perfectly fine for the intended use are liars? 🙄
@@kadiummusic yes👍 It's clearly useless as anything other than a very expensive toy and if you watch the videos it's not even very good in game "mode" 🙄🤣
No way that thing costs $460 while my Ibanez costs literally half of that💀💀💀
I have arthritis and i've been playing guitar for a while now, i think if anyone's condition is bad enough, they could use lighter strings and a scalloped fretboard
Can't play guitar? Pay us 459.00 and we'll help ensure you never will.
Not to mention, for that amount of money you can get a somewhat decent cheap guitar that actually DOES work.
Hell, if you go to the second hand market, you can get a good deal, so long as you don't mind much some damage on said guitars.
@@proudbrogressive315now that it's 2024 it's even more crazy easy to get a decent guitar. Hell that Squier Debut is miles better and it's freaking 120 bucks
Love the push back. They truly don’t understand who they are messing with by trying to intimidate guitar influencers.
"So you're saying there's a chance..." -- Aeroband
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The walrus plug in the first 2 minutes of the video on another companies product is such a flex😂😂😂
Thanks for the honest review. I've been seeing ads for this thing and was wondering what a real guitar player thought of it.
damn thanks for showing this product, have a relative with a muscle weakness disease and if this requires very little force to play that would be great for those cases. Hopefully next iterations or future products develop this idea more.
Could go very light gauge strings, thin neck and very low action would could help
A well set up classical guitar 3/4 scale would be an option
@MexiNorge - completely agree except for the incredibly stupid price. Criminal price for..........
How about giving that relative a student-guitar and telling him about Django Reinhardt? That should be very inspiring for them.
To be fair a capo that allows you to still play the muted notes offers very interesting possibilities. Probably the only good part.
As a learning aid I kinda expected to see the frets light up for scales and chords and such.
Yes, before I realised ithat this thing is a really quite poor guitar controller (compared to, say, 1980s guitar controllers?) as opposed to some kind of teaching or learning aid, I did wonder if there would be LEDs in the "fretboard" but no, just down the edge of the neck. So, even _that_ aspect of it could have been done better!
"fretlight guitar" a past failed guitar!
Especially for the price
I remember seeing the Kickstarter for this when it was first announced. I thought it looked cool and also had potential to be cool. I "almost" bought into it but I decided not to and broke out my old guitar and played that for a bit to realize that I still suck at guitar which made me buy a bass last year to learn how to play that instead. :P I pretty much forgot about this thing until I saw your video thumbnail today. LOL! I am glad I didn't buy into this thing. I still think it looks cool (like a futuristic guitar from a sci-fi show) but that's about it.
I love your slams on this thing and how you held nothing back.
Keep up the good work.
good to see you made it your own with those stickers!
Literally just saw an ad for this on IG, opened UA-cam, and see this video immediately. I'm glad to see someone shitting on this product, it's much deserved.
Literally the only application I could see for this sort of thing is maybe as a midi controller for guitar players. But at that point, I'd rather get one of those Jamstik guitars, and have an actual functional guitar along with it for a bit extra. What a joke
it's even less precise for MIDI tracking than it is for regular "playing", absolutely not
@@sixstringtv1yep, just hit that part of the video right after I posted my comment. I figured that there'd be at least SOME practical application for this thing. I'm legitimately scratching my head at who funded this thing
If you're new at guitar, what really helped me with the strings being gritty is changing the draco ones on the electric to Elixir™ strings. they are coated with some kind of plastic so when you put your finger on them or slide they don't bite into your finger. note that it will still cut you on higher strings but it feels a lot better than uncoated ones and they usually last for 4-6 months on me before breaking. they keep the tone pretty well too.
That’s pretty cool !! Personally what I found helpful was to just play the damn instrument and grow the callouses.
Always go with Ernie Ball. Instead of months, talk years. You can even cook them in boiling water after five years and they'll sound like virtually new. Pay a bit more, end up spending less.
@@Bukkie661 nah elixirs are legit. My sweat is stupidly corrosive for some reason, Ernie balls or any other strings won’t last me a week. The coated elixirs last me months
Reminds me of my You Rock midi guitar... which is 13 years old as of now and I bought used from a friend for less than 100$.
I use it only for jamming around and songwriting with my synth plugins as I don't like keyboards, I don't even program midi with it and I'd never recommend someone to buy it as a gateway guitar or whatever Aeroband tries to market it as.
So that means Aeroband is just selling you almost 15 year old technology for more expensive than a Fishman Triple Play that you can install on your own guitar.
At least with the You Rock I can also play Guitar Hero :D
I got the same yourock guitar for 100$ and I use it for practicing, testing new sounds, record simple midi mélodies and the most amazing thing is writing on guitar pro detecting which fret and strings you play, also the TAP function would work well for some modern players, so yeah, they are selling you an even worse technology for five times the price 😂
@@mg2318 I use the tap function whenever I use an instrument like brass or wind!
And bro even that Casio guitar from the 80s you see Ichika play sometimes is more advanced than that Aeroguitar lol
You do the best slam vids in existence. The word choice is outstanding.
There is a plus side. They don't do a bass version.
Oh thank god, it would sound as bad as
It's good to see an honest review - it's unfortunate that the product is so terrible, but the video is entertaining so I suppose that's something. I've subscribed because...this video made me smile.
You win some and you lose some...
Granted, I've not lost anything in this case, but Aeroband sure has
I don't think there's a bad Walrus Audio pedal, bought quite a few over the years and love all of them.
Every time I see a JCM 800 I want to cry. I had my JCM 800 50 watt lead series head, as well as my Marshall 4X12 slant cabinet and my Japanese Jackson Soloist stolen from my home a few years back, and I've never been able to replace them. It STILL to this day breaks my heart as if it happened yesterday. I was actually a pretty decent metal guitarist, and it feels like I had all of that stolen from me. Of course life and kids gets take priority, so money is always needed for "more important" things. I've managed to acquire a Schecter Diamond Series C-1+ and a little desktop practice amp, but I just cant do what I used to with this stuff, or even what I want to do. I'd love more than anything to start up another metal cover band, even if we never leave the garage, if for no other reason than to have a little fun while showing my teenage son that is dad isn't a TOTAL nerd. Unfortunately I can't even do that now because I no longer have my rig. GOD I miss my amp!
Just get an Orange combo-amp. Stop crying. Be happy!!
@@Bukkie661 Any way you slice it, an Orange am is NOT a JCM800. Not even close, and never will be. NOTHING comes close to the sound a JCM800 produces. That's not to say there aren't other amazing sounding amps out there, but for the sound I had, there certainly isn't. Besides, if I were to spend a bunch on a new amp, it wouldn't be an Orange. It would be a EVH 5150III
@@pumpkinheadghoul That's why there are so many brands, so that everybody can be happy!
That said though, the classic British Invasion sound isn't for everybody, though it should be possible to achieve any sound that you want with a good Orange set-up. It then would still be cheaper with an eye to the Fender sound that you're gunning for.
Fender-andies pay too much for brand-stickers on stuff, really.
I wanted an aero guitar because I’m disabled, but thanks to y’all opening up better options I bought a proper Yahama EZ EG for so much better 😭 thank u for the honest review
From watching other videos of this things, I'm guessing the capo works by lighting up the LED to the capo position and it raises the pitch of the strings a half step each fret position so if you have the LED on the 3rd fret, playing an open string G chord in the regular position will be a Bb. Just a guess.
the biggest problem with this, and the casio ones is they are stuck in standard tuning, no alternate or open tunings = no sale😁
and this is your only drawback on this? 😂🤣
imo it's a big enough drawback, if each string had a dedicated synth, you could have unlimited possibilities😁
imagine paying 459 dollars on a guitar only to make some sega genesis noises with it
Please don't insult the Sega Genesis like that.
You should get a PaperJamz Guitar and compare it with this
So in the 80s, there was a thing called a Suzuki Unisynth. It was almost exactly the same thing, except it actually had raised strings/frets on the touch strip fretboard, and... also had a unique sound to it. No clue what it cost new, but the thing is... it was new tech back in the 80s. This thing is NOT new tech. It's already almost 40 years out of date.
That’s worse than lacing boots on an epileptic centipede 😂
Its got that fricken simply guitar sound💀💀💀
I remember Casio had a similar product in the '80s which was a little better than this, you could fret the strings but I think it had sensors under the fretboard, it had synth sounds as well as guitar sounds, If I remember correctly is was a toy trying to be a serious instrument, a quick search revealed it to be a DG-10 and DG-20.
I picked up a Roland GR-707 and Casio DG-20 at a garage sale 10-12 years ago for $200. They were worth about exactly that.
Yes. Billy String has been playing one live lately and it soundS WAY better than this despite being 40 years older.
@@SilverwingedBat Yeah I watch LMNC and this museum is not obselete, the tracking on them is not the best, the MIDI pickups fitted to a guitar is the way to go IMO.
Well i found out where they modeled at least one of their tone selections from ! @6:09 , clearly that is state of the art modeling as it is from John Lennon's appearance on the Mike Douglas Show with Chuck Berry. Remember when that engineer brilliantly muted Yoko Ono's mic as she began screaming? Yep, you guessed it! It was secretly being recorded and went into this...."instrument"
I just saw an ad about this thing and now they are saying it's great for arthritic guitarists lol
The one time the workman blaming his tools is justified
Can someone please tell me what the clean part played at 2:03 is? thanks
hey sorry for late answer. its seasons in the abyss by fuckinn slayeerr
@@egemen_p198FUCKING SLAYERRRR
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There is controversy, bloggers will get more traffic, guitar companies will be abandoned by users, this is the final outcome
As an engineer and professional guitarist I understand why they thought this was a good idea. You'd be surprised how often software engineers try and 'make things better', but often they don't think about the actual end users. To me, this product seems like a bunch of engineers who don't play guitar thought that there was a market for a product like this. Spoiler alert, there isn't.
Chalk this down to “idea that looks good on paper”
You know Im actually surprised that We never got a chance to see a late night infomercial featuring this product!?.?!
I remember when I was a small child my family got me a starter guitar at target. It had a full wood body, neck, and fretboard. It had outputs for an amp and even had a built in speaker (loud) that was powered by a battery. It was hefty and you could pitch bend some strings on it. I think it may have been First Act branded. At the time it was way under 100 USD maybe even under 50...... That was 100 times better than this plastic 450 USD thing.
Sounds like you are going to play in a medieval festival with this sound, wtf lol
I think it's potentially awesome. If they renamed it "The Commodore" and changed the colour from black to beige and dark brown, they'd be on to something with us Gen Xers
It's too expensive for a new guitarist and enforces tons of bad habits, I got in a short spat with the creator, I told him to do a pull. 💀
It has the tone of a paper jam if anyone had one of those growing up 😂
Why does it say "paper jam" when there IS NO paper jam!!!
these dropshippers are getting crazy 🤣
Thank you for the honest review
Great shirt
Henning can't be the only one who gets to look ridiculous
@@sixstringtv1do the tone options include square, triangle and sine? Wait whats this thing for teaching bad habits?
They asked me to make a video on it and I said no thanks...
I scored a You Rock Guitar V2 a few years ago & while it’s not the best to play with strumming stuff, there’s a TAP mode where you can only use the fretboard & combining that with MIDI is so much fun! I’ve spent countless hours with Omnisphere 2 & that MIDI guitar
I lost it at the “power chords.”
They should just made it a MIDI composer main guitar. For composing in DAW's as a guitarist that can't play keyboards a MIDI guitar would help alot. As for ppl who want to learn guitar, u only get good with NO PAIN, NO GAIN!