I have Been playing guitar since 1957, I must be honest, There was no way to tell what the guitar sounded like, I watched the video half way through and I just heard fuzz and buzz, The only way to hear what a guitar sounds like is add no effects, just play the guitar clean, Testing it with effects makes it sound like any other guitar with effects. Sorry to sound negative but just being honest and trying to be helpful.
@@HighImpaktAudio 13:38 Yes I like to see you the next video, but can you please play stairway to heaven and hotel California on this DLASO guitar to see if it’s sound good on this cheap $100 guitar? Thank you sir 😃👍.
stumbled across this video in my reccomended, and i am very surprised that you dont have more subscribers! The video felt really professional and the editing, information, and pace of the video was really good! You're playing was also really nice. Can't wait for more content!
Hello! Thank you so much for the kind words, and also enjoying/watching my video!! I'm so glad to see I'm reach a bunch of new people. That's awesome that I was in your suggested videos. Have a great day! 😁
Yeah I was pretty impressed with how the pickups picked up the sound of the guitar. As soon as I fix the neck it'll be a proper shredding machine! Thank you so much for watching! 😁
i got mine 2 weeks ago. it came with none of the issues you had. i have guitars from 400 to 3800 dollars. i did replace the strings and the tuners.i use number 8.i do record and i will tell you this people thought it was a joke with the name on it. since i like to screw with people they thought it was a fender i messed with, i also ordered a while back the less paul slash beginner kit for i think 399/ basically 400 with the practice amp/ another cheap guitar that sounds as good as my higher end guitars. but for 100 bucks the dlaso is pretty damn good i use it on stage for the blues band i play with. i will replace the neck with a maple soon. i just prefer a maple neck. i have been playing since 1970. i am 70 . and still love to rockout. rememeber this. mr guitar god brian mays guitar was home made. if it cost them 60 dollars to make id be surprised. also pedals help a lot as do a good 400 watt fender amp, tube of course.
Any decent luthier would be able to sort the neck out with a good fret job for sure. You could make a nice little axe out of that with a few bench hours. I recon your only cost would be some locking tuners. All the rest is just a bit of file work really. Informative video, thanks 👍
I have recently purchased the very same guitar in black along with all the bad points, you raised I've also found it impossible to intonate it's way way out on the sharp side on every string so far out the adjustable trem bridge does not have the adjustment to keep it anywhere near in tune. I am considering blocking out the trem and doing away with the whammy bar. The fret problem is, the same as yours the neck seem worse the high string rolls off the edge of the fret board so will defiantly replace with a suitable neck and change out the tuners. Mine cost my £125 for which I got a decent body and electronics only the rest is junk.
When I first saw this guitar I thought Ibanez because they look real similar to my 421. So maybe an Ibanez neck and tuner setup would vastly improve the guitar.
Hey thank you so much for watching! 😁 I was the one that put new strings on, but I didn't do anything different from what I usually do. I don't know I guess we will see when I Frankenstein this guitar haha
Hey mate, quite sure that this neck and fretboard are made of mapple. Acacie looks totally different, it's a brown wood, it can't look like a plain yellowish tone like this.
I was skeptical about the neck wood as well. When I went to the page that I bought the guitar from it claimed to be Acacia, so that's why I said it was acacia. But you're right it looks just like maple. Which was my original thoughts. Anyway thank you for the info! And thank you so much for watching!
Hi. New subscriber, so I hope you don't mind a few suggestions. I'm a value-oriented guy myself; music is a hobby for me, so every cent spent is an indulgence and not an investment. Since I don't even pretend to be rich, I have developed the idea that the prices of upgrades should make sense related to the price of the guitar in question. I don't have formulas and rules, though. Every guitar needs something different -- or doesn't. So ... You know you need tuners. My suggestion is to go with locking tuners with a universal mounting method. Maybe $60, which is a LITTLE pricey, but they're almost certain to fit. If your nut action seems high, you might swap in a graphite or composite nut; they help tuning stability a bit and nothing has to die to provide them. Get a fret rocker because they are cheap and you can get info on their use for free on this very site. Mark the high frets. Get a fretting mallet or put a thick layer of toweling over your fretboard and a good support underneath the action area and tap those frets gently but firmly. You're seating the frets, so you don't need to tee off -- just give each one a good whack or two. Recheck with the fret marker. You may not even need a fret job. I personally would probably do a fret job anyway. Also I would replace the bridge with an all steel or steel and brass unit. (I'm assuming it's a six screw, so that getting reasonable parts is fairly easy.) Brass saddles are also easy to get and will add a touch of warmth to your tone. After this, do or buy a good setup. I figure you know everything I just wrote about, but maybe reading this will help someone sometime or give you an idea to work with. That would be cool.
Hello! Excellent suggestions. At the moment I'm weighing out my options, but ill definitely end up doing something with this guitar. Thank you so much for watching, and the subscription! 😁
This most maple fretboard don't because they usually have a finish on them, but this fretboard was unfinished and raw which is good to oil and clean. Thank you so much for watching!
As for the Frets on the Fretboard... use a Magnet 🧲 if it's Stainless Steel it will be attracted to the magnet 🧲. If it is Nickel it will not be attracted to the magnet. Stainless Steel is Ferris Nickel is not. Looks like you would have been better off with a Garry. New Strings new nut some fret work adjustment to truss rod & it's playable. Oh yeah a set of Alie-Exptess Seymour Duncan INVADER ( KNOCK OFF ) Pickups & You Have A SHRED 🎸... Cheers 🍻
Actually, I used to think the same thing, that stainless steel is magnetic. I found out that I was mostly wrong. I bought a couple of Donner DST-400s after reading that they had cold-rolled steel sustain blocks on their vibrato bridges. Thinking the same thing you did, I got a neodymium magnet (my strongest) and gave a block the magnet test. It responded very weakly, which puzzled me. The other option on cheap guitars is usually zinc, and zinc sounds dead to me; this guitar didn't, so I didn't know what was up. Finally I bit the bullet and did an Internet search, "Is stainless steel magnetic?" Answers I got added up to sometimes yes and sometimes no and made it seem that a weak magnetic effect was possible also. Maybe stainless steel fret wire is at least mildly magnetic, but it takes a strong magnet to get any feeling at all. And yes, it could be real stainless steel and non-magnetic, too. I don't know how you tell then. Oh, and I have a feeling that guitar WAS made by the Glarry people.
@@edwinstovall3334 I believe that I actually covered that in my reply to the first question ❓ about Stainless Steel being both magnetic 🧲 & not magnetic "What types of stainless steel are not magnetic? See following variants Austenitic steel grades 301 and 304 are not magnetic but can become partially magnetic with cold forming. Austenitic steel grades 302HQ, 303, 310, 316, 321 253MA, 904L." Cheers 🍻
@@hotrod8915 it can discourage you to play which won’t allow to improve. If an instrument is easy to play then learning is easier and eventually you will get better.
I have been buying a lot of stuff from Temu lately. A lot of it is just garbage. The prices are so low I don't even bother returning the stuff like I would on Amazon. I bought a belt that lasted a week, a hose that broke after a few uses, a Hellraiser cube that was total garbage. There are some great deals worth checking out however. I bought a wireless guitar system for $3 dollars that was normally about $30 dollars. This is such a cheap guitar. It's surprising you would put so much time and effort into reviewing a Temu guitar.
You're definitely not wrong on the quality of alot of the temu items. And this guitar isn't an exception. There are some good qualities, and of course the bad ones. But I've never checked out a cheap o guitar like this, and thought it'd be fun to put it to the test haha. Thank you so much for watching!
There is simply no way I would buy a guitar from Temu. It is very simple why these guitars are cheap. Cheap labor. Cheap wood. Cheap electronics. Once you pay $100 for it you will not be able to sell it for over $30.
I don't like it and I'm sorry it ain't like anything against you and ain't nothing I'm afraid to buy a cheap kids are either I just don't like the sound of that guita
What's the point of getting a guitar and the detuning it to silly low nonsense and only auditioning the sound with heavy distortion? You are trapped in your metal silliness
Hey Chris, a brave move bro 😎 another fun vid! You have $$$$ room to bling into a shred machine, I'm with @jaredmaio6301, Dlaso makeover vid, cheers Will.
This review is completely useless 😢 have you ever played a guitar clean using full chords? Playing two fingers metal riffs doesn’t do anything for this review
Yes I like to see you the next video, but can please play stairway to heaven and hotel California on this DLASO guitar to if it’s sound good on this cheap $100 guitar? Thank you sir 😃👍.
I have Been playing guitar since 1957, I must be honest, There was no way to tell what the guitar sounded like, I watched the video half way through and I just heard fuzz and buzz, The only way to hear what a guitar sounds like is add no effects, just play the guitar clean, Testing it with effects makes it sound like any other guitar with effects. Sorry to sound negative but just being honest and trying to be helpful.
Totally agree.
I'm with you. Start clean, finish fuzzed. lol
10/10 I want to see you modify this guitar to where you're fully satisfied with it!
Alright ill see what I can do to get it going! 😁
@@HighImpaktAudio 13:38 Yes I like to see you the next video, but can you please play stairway to heaven and hotel California on this DLASO guitar to see if it’s sound good on this cheap $100 guitar? Thank you sir 😃👍.
stumbled across this video in my reccomended, and i am very surprised that you dont have more subscribers! The video felt really professional and the editing, information, and pace of the video was really good! You're playing was also really nice. Can't wait for more content!
Hello! Thank you so much for the kind words, and also enjoying/watching my video!!
I'm so glad to see I'm reach a bunch of new people. That's awesome that I was in your suggested videos.
Have a great day! 😁
Nice review, thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much for watching and enjoying! 😁
Great guitar to mod and it will rock. It does look really decent and the color is awesome. Make it bada$$!
Happily subscribed. Could definitely see this guitar turning into a low tuned shred machine
Hey thank you so much for subscribing!! I'm hoping to fix some issues and make this guitar that low tuned shredding machine!! 😁
The color was the first thing that caught my eye. I got two guitars from Amazon and they also had rough frets. For 100 large not bad.👍
Sounds great! In a blind test and going by sound alone it sounds like a much more expensive guitar imo. Thanks for the demo!
Yeah I was pretty impressed with how the pickups picked up the sound of the guitar. As soon as I fix the neck it'll be a proper shredding machine! Thank you so much for watching! 😁
i got mine 2 weeks ago. it came with none of the issues you had. i have guitars from 400 to 3800 dollars. i did replace the strings and the tuners.i use number 8.i do record and i will tell you this people thought it was a joke with the name on it. since i like to screw with people they thought it was a fender i messed with, i also ordered a while back the less paul slash beginner kit for i think 399/ basically 400 with the practice amp/ another cheap guitar that sounds as good as my higher end guitars. but for 100 bucks the dlaso is pretty damn good i use it on stage for the blues band i play with. i will replace the neck with a maple soon. i just prefer a maple neck. i have been playing since 1970. i am 70 . and still love to rockout. rememeber this. mr guitar god brian mays guitar was home made. if it cost them 60 dollars to make id be surprised. also pedals help a lot as do a good 400 watt fender amp, tube of course.
Any decent luthier would be able to sort the neck out with a good fret job for sure. You could make a nice little axe out of that with a few bench hours. I recon your only cost would be some locking tuners. All the rest is just a bit of file work really.
Informative video, thanks 👍
I've been definitely looking into it. Thank you so much for watching, and for the suggestion 😁
Looks like Ibanez GRG170DX, perhaps it has the same specs, like basswood body, perhaps even the same pickups which are also noname buzzy HSH set
I can definitely see what you mean. I'll try to look further into the specs!
Thank you so much for watching! 😁
Hey man, Does it have jumbo frets? Thats a deal maker for me if it does.
I have recently purchased the very same guitar in black along with all the bad points, you raised I've also found it impossible to intonate it's way way out on the sharp side on every string so far out the adjustable trem bridge does not have the adjustment to keep it anywhere near in tune. I am considering blocking out the trem and doing away with the whammy bar. The fret problem is, the same as yours the neck seem worse the high string rolls off the edge of the fret board so will defiantly replace with a suitable neck and change out the tuners. Mine cost my £125 for which I got a decent body and electronics only the rest is junk.
When I first saw this guitar I thought Ibanez because they look real similar to my 421. So maybe an Ibanez neck and tuner setup would vastly improve the guitar.
Can't wait to see the mod video maybe they didn't give the strings enough slack when they put them on and there to short making them to tight
Hey thank you so much for watching! 😁
I was the one that put new strings on, but I didn't do anything different from what I usually do. I don't know I guess we will see when I Frankenstein this guitar haha
Hey mate, quite sure that this neck and fretboard are made of mapple. Acacie looks totally different, it's a brown wood, it can't look like a plain yellowish tone like this.
I was skeptical about the neck wood as well. When I went to the page that I bought the guitar from it claimed to be Acacia, so that's why I said it was acacia.
But you're right it looks just like maple. Which was my original thoughts.
Anyway thank you for the info! And thank you so much for watching!
I would replace the neck. I would go for a darker fret board which I think would look great with the red
Oh yeah that would look pretty sick! I'll have to see what I can get my hands on. But I will keep that in mind.
Thank you so much for watching! 😁
@@HighImpaktAudio If all you want is a darker fretboard, just stain it a darker color \m/
Hi. New subscriber, so I hope you don't mind a few suggestions. I'm a value-oriented guy myself; music is a hobby for me, so every cent spent is an indulgence and not an investment. Since I don't even pretend to be rich, I have developed the idea that the prices of upgrades should make sense related to the price of the guitar in question. I don't have formulas and rules, though. Every guitar needs something different -- or doesn't. So ...
You know you need tuners. My suggestion is to go with locking tuners with a universal mounting method. Maybe $60, which is a LITTLE pricey, but they're almost certain to fit. If your nut action seems high, you might swap in a graphite or composite nut; they help tuning stability a bit and nothing has to die to provide them. Get a fret rocker because they are cheap and you can get info on their use for free on this very site. Mark the high frets. Get a fretting mallet or put a thick layer of toweling over your fretboard and a good support underneath the action area and tap those frets gently but firmly. You're seating the frets, so you don't need to tee off -- just give each one a good whack or two. Recheck with the fret marker. You may not even need a fret job.
I personally would probably do a fret job anyway. Also I would replace the bridge with an all steel or steel and brass unit. (I'm assuming it's a six screw, so that getting reasonable parts is fairly easy.) Brass saddles are also easy to get and will add a touch of warmth to your tone.
After this, do or buy a good setup.
I figure you know everything I just wrote about, but maybe reading this will help someone sometime or give you an idea to work with. That would be cool.
Hello! Excellent suggestions.
At the moment I'm weighing out my options, but ill definitely end up doing something with this guitar.
Thank you so much for watching, and the subscription! 😁
Are maple fretboards supposed to be oiled.
This most maple fretboard don't because they usually have a finish on them, but this fretboard was unfinished and raw which is good to oil and clean. Thank you so much for watching!
You made a good video and a review, but I was done when you pronounced tremolo the way you did lmao.
Is it a versatile guitar?
with those fret issues, nothing that some crowning,and polishing with some high grit 2000 paper, steel wool, and a fret protector can't remedy
I appreciate your input! I'll definitely look into that.
Thank you so much for watching! 😁
Do the mods. 👍
As for the Frets on the Fretboard... use a Magnet 🧲 if it's Stainless Steel it will be attracted to the magnet 🧲. If it is Nickel it will not be attracted to the magnet. Stainless Steel is Ferris Nickel is not. Looks like you would have been better off with a Garry. New Strings new nut some fret work adjustment to truss rod & it's playable. Oh yeah a set of Alie-Exptess Seymour Duncan INVADER ( KNOCK OFF ) Pickups & You Have A SHRED 🎸... Cheers 🍻
Many times stainless steel is not magnetic, as lower iron is what makes it resist rusting. It depends on the kind of stainless steel.
I'll definitely check it out and see if it's magnetic. Thank you so much for the ideas, and for watching! 😁
Actually, I used to think the same thing, that stainless steel is magnetic. I found out that I was mostly wrong.
I bought a couple of Donner DST-400s after reading that they had cold-rolled steel sustain blocks on their vibrato bridges. Thinking the same thing you did, I got a neodymium magnet (my strongest) and gave a block the magnet test. It responded very weakly, which puzzled me. The other option on cheap guitars is usually zinc, and zinc sounds dead to me; this guitar didn't, so I didn't know what was up. Finally I bit the bullet and did an Internet search, "Is stainless steel magnetic?" Answers I got added up to sometimes yes and sometimes no and made it seem that a weak magnetic effect was possible also.
Maybe stainless steel fret wire is at least mildly magnetic, but it takes a strong magnet to get any feeling at all. And yes, it could be real stainless steel and non-magnetic, too. I don't know how you tell then.
Oh, and I have a feeling that guitar WAS made by the Glarry people.
@@edwinstovall3334 I believe that I actually covered that in my reply to the first question ❓ about Stainless Steel being both magnetic 🧲 & not magnetic
"What types of stainless steel are not magnetic?
See following variants
Austenitic steel grades 301 and 304 are not magnetic but can become partially magnetic with cold forming.
Austenitic steel grades 302HQ, 303, 310, 316, 321 253MA, 904L."
Cheers 🍻
@@BackWoodsBillyCraftBeerReviews Yes, I managed to miss that reply, but it was worth it for the new information you gave. Thanks!
If it has jumbo frets I’d give it a go.
I said the same thing, dude. 24 jumbo frets and I'm sold on it.
@@hotrod8915I realize the Jackson JS guitars fit the bill but my experience with banana/ hockey Stick/ slanted headstocks isn’t good.
@bluwng I've never owned that type of headstock either. My theory is that it can't make my playing suck any more than it already does.
@@hotrod8915 it can discourage you to play which won’t allow to improve. If an instrument is easy to play then learning is easier and eventually you will get better.
@bluwng yeah well, those hockey stick headstocks are a pretty badass 80s metal look
22 Acacia avenue!
what bogren ir did you use
I did a mix of the Scamp IR and the Hairycoffee IR from the Tue Madsen IR Pack.
Thank you so much for watching! 😁
what was the blend on it was it like 50 50 or 70 30
@@HighImpaktAudio
@rudycastillo6369 50 50! It's one of my favorite combos! Nice and thick while still having enough high end frequencies to keep things tight
@@HighImpaktAudio any other combos you sugget i have that pack and i could never get the mix right
cool do you know any other good blends with the tue madison pack too@@HighImpaktAudio
Hours and hours of playing Fishland just to try and grab one of these even cheaper... sold out. Looks like an Ibanez headstock. Enjoy.
I can see you are a Simpsons fan! \m/
Steel wool
Its leftover ibenhad contract
I have been buying a lot of stuff from Temu lately. A lot of it is just garbage. The prices are so low I don't even bother returning the stuff like I would on Amazon. I bought a belt that lasted a week, a hose that broke after a few uses, a Hellraiser cube that was total garbage. There are some great deals worth checking out however. I bought a wireless guitar system for $3 dollars that was normally about $30 dollars. This is such a cheap guitar. It's surprising you would put so much time and effort into reviewing a Temu guitar.
You're definitely not wrong on the quality of alot of the temu items. And this guitar isn't an exception. There are some good qualities, and of course the bad ones.
But I've never checked out a cheap o guitar like this, and thought it'd be fun to put it to the test haha.
Thank you so much for watching!
Looks like its a metallic red not candy apple red from here.
Serrated fret wires.
Yeah you are not going to tune to drop D with 0.54. Polish the frets.
Mod it
There is simply no way I would buy a guitar from Temu. It is very simple why these guitars are cheap. Cheap labor. Cheap wood. Cheap electronics. Once you pay $100 for it you will not be able to sell it for over $30.
Pretty sure it’s teeeemu not taymu
Then I could make it great
Recrown them
Seth Rogan???
Play any guitar through enough effects and they all sound the same.
Those earrings are distracting as fudge.
It's a Ibanez knockoff
Totally an Ibanez knockoff!!!
I don't like it and I'm sorry it ain't like anything against you and ain't nothing I'm afraid to buy a cheap kids are either I just don't like the sound of that guita
What's the point of getting a guitar and the detuning it to silly low nonsense and only auditioning the sound with heavy distortion? You are trapped in your metal silliness
Haha drop C is low? Pretty funny stuff. I'll make sure to not play metal on a guitar that's marketed for metal next time 🤣🤣 try again next time dude
Hey Chris, a brave move bro 😎 another fun vid! You have $$$$ room to bling into a shred machine, I'm with @jaredmaio6301, Dlaso makeover vid, cheers Will.
Haha thank you my friend! I'll have to save up a bit, but ill definitely look into see what I can do! 😁
Thank you for watching!
This review is completely useless 😢 have you ever played a guitar clean using full chords? Playing two fingers metal riffs doesn’t do anything for this review
Thank you so much for watching and helping the youtube algorithm. 🤣
GUITAR BRO ALERT!
TEMU is a huge rip off!
Yes I like to see you the next video, but can please play stairway to heaven and hotel California on this DLASO guitar to if it’s sound good on this cheap $100 guitar? Thank you sir 😃👍.
Got the Johnny bravo from temu hair cut 😂lol jkjk
Well for the low price of a can of hairspray you can get whatever style you want haha
@@HighImpaktAudio lol 🤣 I'm dead. Tell me. Was it a can from temu? Haha if so I will literally explode 🤣