SX Strat (VERY Nice Looking Cheap Stratocaster)
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- Опубліковано 24 кві 2022
- SX Strat (VERY Nice Looking Cheap Stratocaster)
The world is filled with cheap guitars, and Strats are no exception. The problem with affordable Strats (and other guitars) is that they're often not very good. This Strat by SX Guitars certainly looks very good, and it's really budget friendly. Let's see if it's as good as it looks.
Hope you enjoy!
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Thanks your a cool guy great player also
According to the subtitles your name is “El Moji Cardiology “
Haha 🤣
My sx tele with upgraded pickups is the best guitar I've ever owned
I have exactly this same guitar model. I put in a set of Texas Special pickups and Graphtech nut and it became one the best guitars I've ever played!
Elmo you didn't notice the beefier neck, the flatter radius, fully coated fretboard and jumbo frets! To me the finish of the neck and fretboard is the best part, it feels like a way more expensive guitar in this regard,. I got three of this specific model. Cheers!
Great guitar and video. Keep up the good work Elmo!! 👍👍
I've owned an SX es335 copy (GG5 I think) for about 15 years now.
The hardware, electronics and pickups were junk but the wood and construction surprisingly nice.
After upgrades it's been a very enjoyable guitar.
SX loves those big frets because this has them as well.
I have a couple of SX VTG series 32" scale basses and I agree with you about the instrument itself being solid - good neck, decent frets, okay electronics for the price, etc. On the basses I put good tuners on them, strap locks, a quick fret end dressing, and a good setup and they are surprisingly good. Thank you for reviewing this S-Type SSS configured rocker.
And thank you :)
Liked that little bit of Tender Surrender at 4:16 ; great playing as always!
Thanks!
Thanks for the review. I saw one of these today and liked it a lot. It would be my first electric, I have a nice acoustic and am still quite the beginner.
Decisions decisions.
Great video Elmo! Love this guitar! It would be a great guitar for a beginner to build upon if they want to make upgrades. That weird binding around the neck adds an odd touch of elegance too. 🔥🎸🤘😁🤘🎸🔥
I have an SX, bought it on a whim, too arthritic to learn to play it. I have had it for 5 yrs, the finish is very good, has a rosewood fret board, has stayed in my basement (heated and cooled) no tarnish on the chrome. Several years ago the one with a gold looking trim, it was beutaful, they quit selling it because it tarnished quickly so I think they are concerned about quality. No mechanical issues
In the 80ies I got an original Fender P Bass. For 800.I was happy with this Bass. Palisander Fretboard, standard sunburst look. The seller said it was 20 years old. So far, so good. With one Amp the deep G was always louder than the other the notes I played. I tried other PUs. The result wasn't satisfiend. Well, as time goes by I purchased a double bass. Wow. The big one. I sold the P Bass and the amp. So far so good I could play in a Country Band. I got a SX P Bass for 300. this SXbass sounded (and sounds still) far better as the original Fender P Bass in the 80ies. Some time later I got another SX bass, a Sting Ray copy. For 300. With active electronics, with very good woods. Excellent handling, excellent sounds. The P Bass got a Seymour Duncan PU, and I had Avery great tone. So far to SX instruments.
I have an SX SST62. Very well built guitar. I have changed the pickups. Now sounds very nice like a thousand dollar strat.
What pickups did you get?
@@bhok1971 Fleor Alnico V
@@serdar.saglam Humbucker Fleor Alnico V or single coils? Im also about to get this guitar and the specifics would be cool
Also did you get these on every pickup? Or just replace some (Like replaced the bridge but kept the middle and neck)
Nice bro, I enjoyed the video. Next month I'm gonna acquire my first SX stratocaster.
For a beginner. I think this is a good starter guitar. All guitars when new need to be broken in and tweeked a little bit to get them sounding good. This one looks really nice! Thanks Elmo! 😃🎸👍
Cheers!
Thanks for the review EJK! Cheers!
And thank you Richard!
That's some test you give the whammy for a strat lol. Keep rocking love the content.
just got one of these vintage style ones for equivalent to 70 USD on marketplace today, fabulous guitar for the price.
I own the tele model (ash same wood), it's gorgeous and became my n°1 guitar. Great quality woods, great neck, great feel. Even the pickups sounds really ok. SX is what china does the best in budget guitar/bass to my opinion.
I just bought sx strat FST and put an HS4 on bridge and neck p.u. good feel.
Long live El Moji
I have one with alder body modified with brazilian botique pickups, gotoh tuners for 12 years now and it sound amazing. The best begginer guitar you can buy.
can i see you playing? share your link.
can a humbucker pickup fit to bridge? im planning to buy a loaded pickguard.
Beautiful guitar and nice review!!
Glad you like it!
I have one and put a fender noisless in the neck , and a semour duncan hot rail in the bridge , it sounds pretty good, its heavy, fat neck
That guitars are so amazing! With money you can upgrade and get a nice guitar, much better than Squier guitars for example.
For the money this is GREAT.
Love guitars that show off the wood. Sounds great. I'm sure the expensive Marshal doesn't hurt lol.
It doesn't hurt, no :D
You are just a very good man, my friend!! xD Greetings from Argentina!
Gracias :)
Inspired playing today!
Thank you :)
I owned the same guitar, it wasn`t so good. The most strange thing was the uneven surface under the tremolo. The truss rod was installed incorrectly, so this led to difficulties in neck adjustment. But, nevertheless, I nave SX alder tele whith one piece maple neck, and this thing is perfect in every way, except the pickups. I put poper ones, and now I have almost real tele with all the twang and chime etc
11:21 Riff is Yngwie Malmsteen - Locked & Loaded ⚡ 😏
love the vtg series
E.. good starting point,got to have something, how's about Pawn Shop guitar review..
Wow - quarter sawn neck on a guitar at that price. Impressive.
always a great review Elmo, keep them coming ;) (btw are you related to the bear man Karjalainen from Finland ? saw his story yesterday and figured, this guy has a difficult to pronounce name, might be a relative to Elmo) cheers ;)
Haha :D No :)
Pretty good value SX. They do a short scale bass also that is really cool (other than the stock pickup)
For the money you can't go wrong, minor upgrades, pot's switches, for under £200 not bad, good thing there is loads of decent aftermarket parts like Wilkinson, Tonerider, and Iron Gear, that can make that a killer strat,
Yep.
Hey Elmo good video as always. I really like the look of that guitar and the fact that its maple fretboard too. Looks like a decent guitar and or platform for upgrades. I dont see the link to sx? im wondering about the price. If you said the price i apologize . Thanks for the video . Take care
He said 249 euro
Cheers!
Well for the price it sounds pretty good... Although I think most guitars would sound good through a plexi jijiij
You don't have to switch out the pickups my SX has more power than my fender I even to it to guitar center they couldn't believe how much power it has
Ive owned 3 of these. All the hardware is rubbish, but the wood construction and finish is quite good. I have a sunburst that "sings" the way my Fender strat does not. These things are keeper guitars worth upgrading.
I'm partially Natural Finnish also (on my mother's side).
SX was a lesser brand from Agile at one point and now is owned by Guitar Fetish. they are pretty nice guitars!
SX is sold through rondo in house brand
Thank you.
Not so long ago, a very, very wise and bright man used to open all his videos with the line "lets find out". Unfortunately, he ended up banned from the platform.
I love all 5 of my SX Strats. And all 4 of my SX Teles... And all 3 of my SX Les Pauls... (Hawks, Furrians, and Callistos.) I even have an SX Liquid. Love your playing, dude.
Thank you :)
I love SX electrics. I have 6 different ones. 4 Strats and 2 Liquid. I'm waiting patiently for them to restock Strats. I love Jumbo frets. The P90s in the Liquids are great, the pups in the Strats and Tele were the weakness and all I upgraded.
You are truly an SX fan!
Never had a problem with SX...pretty good. Better than alot of Amazon cheapies
Elmo du är riktigt hyvens! Jag har en SX gitarr men i tequila färg. Kietos!
Tackar :)
Yamaha pacifica 112v costs nearly 2x of this sx in my country. This one seems like a better option for me.
The pickups could well be ok, but I'll tell ya ...The "Aftermarket" Chinese pickups are phenomenal.. I Compared some replica Fender CS 69s with the real deal and I couldn't hear a difference.. So boutique quality for sure .
Hey Elmo, that’s a pretty cool looking guitar for the money! Unrelated question here, but can you recommend a good budget 1x12 cab for my Orange Micro Dark head? I got a nice one used, but am still shopping for a cab and I saw the head on your recommended gear list. Thanks!
Cheers!
Something I would like to see as a different approach to reviewing guitars is to review them without regard for price. Is a guitar great, very good, average, below average or lousy? Obviously people are concerned with the price and the price can be stated at the end. I really like Elmos reviews because he doesn't sugar coat what something is
Thanks!
@@rgerwin.3378 His statement was an honest one . What about his statement had any inclination of being an overly cautious person in regards to mask wearing in a vehicle?
@@rgerwin.3378 Hahahah 😂🤣😂
I bought a Douglas shadow pro from Rondo music. It's a Les Paul copy.
My wife several years later bought me a Gibson Les Paul tribute.
I swapped out the crappy pickups in the Douglas with P90's ( humbuckers size).
The Douglas is superior to my Gibson in every way.
Except for resale value of course.
Cheers.
Cheers!
yeah, not buying that one at all
thats great once again !!!
if i buy one SX sst57 strat guitar , can i put Pure Vintage '65 Single Coils or Seymour Duncan pickups ??
Sure.
what name about this model?
Thanks for the review🥂 I would like to ask you, what would you said: this Strato SX or a GL Legacy (Taiwan), there's a price difference but not THAT much. You have a point of view about it? Again thanks, and.. subscribed📌
Thanks! I haven't tried the G&L, so can't say.
I would be too tempted to buy the Squire Natural Vibe(Indonesia), if I were looking for something like this, I know those guitars are decently reliable in terms of QC, come with Fender tuners, with very little to set up, or fix on delivery. The SX is made in China(Like many budget guitars), but has a US flag on it(assembled in US, maybe?), that's always very odd to me. Great looking guitar, on first appearance tho.
The flag is there as it supposedly uses 'american swamp ash', and not chinese wood. I believe it is assembled in China
Elmo - How does this stack up to the Jet and things like EART nowadays?
How much is that?
You should check out Sire guitars. Doesn't get much better for the price
Been thinking of trying one.
That's the closer thing to a Fender I could afford.
Interesting that they went with 3 neck screws instead of 4. I have a Japanese-made Squier Strat that also has 3 neck screws.
In my opinion SX is a hit or miss. The wood they use is top quality- I have a vintage SX strat which is okay, but not great, but I also have a PJ bass which has many frets lifted... and also I had to replace the pickup on it because it had so low output.
I had it , sounded better than my fender MIM ...and waaaay more comfortable. But it didn t have the 22th fret and that annoyed me to the max
It looks very similar to the 1970s style strat.
It is based on 70's fender strats, that's why the three screws neck joint and the neck binding that fender had for a short runin that period. Erick Jhonson has a signature model with neck binding by the way but with rosewood fretboard so it looks nicer.
Man wich do you recommend to play Hard Rock, glam & heavy metal, this SX or Krammer Focus VT-211S?
Didn't like the Kramer Focus I tried at all, so I guess the SX.
Thanks for the review, Elmo. My only problem is that I can't find the link you promised on the video to buy this beauty. Can you post it? Or am I just too blind to find it?
I must have forgotten. I'll fix that asap.
It looks indeed very nice. The body is not the most amazing piece of wood I have ever seen but still it would be a shame to hide it under paint. You see it a bit more these days even in the budget segment, which is nice.
Another inexpensive Chinese made Stratocaster knockoff. What's with the American flag on the thing? If it is sold in Europe, why not the round star thing? It's a bigger market. Their website shows they are based in China. Why not the Chinese flag? Why not one of those Nordic flags with the crosses? Maybe the Maple Leaf for a Maple guitar. Oh well. It looks like a decent product. Elmo's playing of the William Tell overture (Lone Ranger thing) sounded good on it. It does indeed look very nice. Good guitar to play in the long days of Spring sunshine.✌
@@daniellarson3068 I think that's just a sticker. It says "American Swamp Ash", would be silly to put that on a Finnish flag 😁
Edit: If you look at the guitar on the website, it is shown without the flag.
@@dr.s. Thanks
@Discernment huh? What's a print? Sorry, I really don't get it, this just a clear coated piece of wood with a plastic pickguard.
@@daniellarson3068 The flag is a marketing gimmick as it supposedly uses 'american swamp ash', and not chinese wood.
Hi Elmo, do you restring the guitars before review? Cheap factory strings are usually so bad you can stretch them until they break, but will never stay stable.
Most often I don't.
D’Addario strings are installed at the factory on this guitar
Do you sell these guitars you review somewhere?
Great video👍 but in my opinion as long there are used fender mim at the same price with big trem block and other quality features made by fender not really good reason to buy this kind of strat copy out of the box
fender mim for €240?? where?
Fender MIMs usually go by double of this amount, at least in my country.
😊 my SX vintage stratocaster looks different than that my vintage neck is different maple my SX is left handed like all my guitars I like my SX stratocaster better than my fender SX has ALOT more power than my fender I have nine guitars all made left handed I sing and play mainly chords I know instrumental lead I don't use over drive or fuzz my SX doesn't go out of tune I know how to fix them to I been singing and playing over 50 years my friend
Hi Elmo! Nice review, as always! I have been interested in an SX Tele, would love to see a review on one from you one day. Just wondering, did you order directly from their website? It seems that their guitars are a bit difficult to buy.. yeay, and as you say, the website doesn't say much... Cheers, take care!
Yes agreed please Elmo do a review of a SX Tele🤘🏻
I think I did. Too much going on though, so my memory isn't entirely trustworthy.
And yeah, I might review one of their Teles at some point. Just that there's so much gear out there.
Hey bro goodday... Can u make a review on ibanez grg 140 please. .😊😊😊😊 thanks... And Godbless and more power.. 😊😊
I have that guitar first year with mahogany body. Try to find old one. It is good and with locking tuners it stays in tune.
Maybe at some point. I've done a couple of Ibanez reviews, but there's just so much gear out there.
Hi. Would you recommend this or the Yamaha Pacifica 012?
Probably the Pacifica.
hi. you like stratocaster guitars. do u have an opinion about the EOB stratocaster, with sustainer, made in Mexico? does it worth its price ? thx a lot
Haven't tried it.
@@MrPolevaulter i hope u will test it one day. there r many different opinions about it
Maybe u know the youtube channel "the guitaristas" , he is specialist about Gibson and Les Paul.... he makes great reviews. You are the Fender stratocaster specialist ,your reviews are great too. A pleasure to listen to ur analysis and your playing.
A steel Wikinson bridge, GFS pickups, properly sanding the nut grooves - probably a fine guitar.
The older SX are worth looking for as their headstock shape is closer to the fender one.
Although this one doesn’t look like it would be too difficult to alter with a sander!
Hello, which neck on this rocket?
The one it came with.
Its better then affinity you think ?
Yep.
please !!! suffice to say it's a good beginner's instrument...for a small investment it's a GREAT all round instrument for any Guitarist.
250 euro approx £200, Second hand Classic Vibe or Brand new SX, What do you think Elmo?
Classic Vibe probably.
@@MrPolevaulter Thanks for your reply Elmo. Happy New year 2U.
@@TheKimgower You too!
The omission of bridge+middle pickup configuration is an absolute deal breaker for me but nevertheless if I buy one I will take that stock crap out and get a Genuine Fender loaded pickguard because the stock pickups sound cheap af to me.
My first electric was an sx, honestly for a beginner it was good, it played alright and has a pretty decent neck shape however the electronics are shit and hardware is garbage, probably great mod platforms though
Yeah, should be good to mod.
Huomenta, onko studio sinulle? Missä?
Turussa.
@@MrPolevaulter uau... Tämä kaupingi se on vanha ensimäinen on Suomessa. Olen Mikelissa ja etsin hyvä studio.
Here again, I realized that it sounds better than a Squier, am I right?
Probably, just a bit.
Better than a Bullet but not a Standard (".)
Is the guitar heavy ?
Can't remember.
@@MrPolevaulter i have 1 same brand slightly different model maybe : customsx handmade standard edition mine is made in korea, i find it heavy .The pick ups aint great.need to up grade mine.
You can really play.
man you spiking so much as like as my grandmama
..jesus
All SX electrics have Jumbo frets.
Cool bananas :)
Clean sounds first would have been good
Are the SXs well built ?
In general, I'm not sure. This one developed some fret issues, but other than that it was good.
IMO, yes. I own 4 SX guitars and am extremely happy with all of them.
Sounds muddy for a Strat!
why this headstock! why!!!!! WHy!!!
Thats a very entry level guitar as you said, your changed your playing up which good on a few levels as you did it on a pretty crappy guitar. Are you a dedicated gear review channel ? If not you should learn the intro to say G.O.A.T. by Polyphia I think they are called .You have more than the skills to learn it, this Tim Henson kid is very talented but its mathematical music which I find soulless the drummer is the star if you ask me, nevertheless if you put up a vid saying " I learnt G.O..A.T. " just the initial guitar intro so you dont get in trouble with UA-cam you will get a ton of views & more subscribers , younger players adore this kid & the guitar sound is this slightly overdriven but very clean which is the way guitar is heading ( guitar without tons of overdrive ? thats not for me, if I want to play clean I will but having it as your lead guitar tone.... hahahah thats not metal or R&R its prog ) they wear high necked thick jumpers no matter what the wether & cross their legs when they sit to play & have an arrogant air to them. Bending ? thats for boomers... look I am generalising & ranting but This Took me 3 days to learn, thats a long time for me so there are some difficult parts at the start in particular .Getting back to my initial point if you learnt this & played just the intro your numbers will clime no doubt ,& this is the point of having a channel, to reach as many people as possible & you'll have a new audience to teach how guitar is meant to sound & be played . Have a listen if you haven't already & see what you think & as always Take care.
Thanks for the suggestion. I had a listen and I just found it boring, so probably won't be learning it.
@@MrPolevaulter Yeah I thought it was also very clinical but thats where guitar is heading sadly ,what he does is quite hard to learn though. I just was just thinking of building your channel . Take Care
every price has a reason. Cheap is not cheap because it is good but because it is bad. I know this from my own experience because I never had money for an expensive guitar but I bought cheap ones and never enjoyed the tone of the guitar. And the beauty of the guitar is not important at all. the sound and fine finish are important, and cheap guitars don't have that. Now I have Eko s300 beauty cheap 155€ guitar but with terrible sound. 😣
Sx make great guitars. The best thing you can do with that one is to remove that ridiculous sticker from the pickguard. There's nothing worse than seing that insignia plastered all over everything u.s. (".)
You sound triggered.