Electric-RC Guitar Review

The sound is pretty good for the guitar price, the strings that come with it aren't the best but it sounds nice with Ernie Ball Super Slinky strings. It has a lot of sounds because you can alter the tone.

Features:	8
Sound:	7
Action:	7.5
Reliability:	8
Impression:	8
Overall rating:	6.9
Reviewer rating:	7.7
Users rating:	6
Votes:	3

overall: 7.6

Reviewed by: Mixter2626, on february 09, 2012

Price paid: £ 118

Purchased from: Amazon

Features: Being a John Lennon fan I couldn't resist this one... It's only 100 odd quid & after a few modifications I got it to look very similar indeed. His original 1958 325 that he bought in Hamburg (or never paid for if you listen to George Harrison!) was originally a natural wood finish with gold pickguard & gold Rickenbacker truss rod cover. It was a prototype with only 2 ever made. No F hole, rubbish vibrato and short neck length... He changed the vibrato to one that resisted going out of tune & had it sprayed black (but still with gold trimmings) when they returned to Liverpool but after their first visit to record at Abbey Rd. They hit it big & he played it until the second Ed Sullivan show in Miami when Rickenbacker gave him a new one which was essentially a copy except the pickguard was a double skin white one & the Rickenbacker logo on the truss rod cover was also white. He used this as his main guitar until the Epiphone Casino came along.

This Gear4Music guitar is very similar to this 2nd Rickenbacker. The body dimensions are exact, the neck length is a normal size, there is an f hole, the pickguard is double skin, the headstock is pretty close, there are only 2 pickups. However a spray or two of black gloss paint with every thing masked off to get rid of the gear logo, a coat of matt black paint inside the F hole, a blank truss rod cover from the internet & an RB decal to go on it with numerous sprays of clear lacquer over it & it looks great! // 8

Sound: It plays very well... Good intonation throughout the neck & good action... If you want the authentic sound you can mess around with replacing the pickups or just get a modelling amp (I use a Fender Mustang) which will give pretty much any sound you want. Having said that, I prefer to play this with a clean sound through a Marshall 50w acoustic amp with a Behringer Blues effect pedal. // 6

Action, Fit & Finish: Good action. // 8

Reliability & Durability: It plays very well. // 8

Impression: At the end of the day I have a Fender Tele, a Gretsch, an Epiphone Casino & various others that I've spent a lot of money on & because I've modified this guitar it feels as good as any of them! // 8

overall: 7.8

Reviewed by: Ljbrownn, on july 26, 2011

Price paid: £ 134.99

Purchased from: gear4music.com

Features: It is a 24 fret guitar and the neck is made of maple and the body is basswood. It has a glossy finish to it and there is polished chrome on the details. There are two volume controls and 2 tone controls one for either pickups. // 8

Sound: The sound is pretty good for the guitar price, the strings that come with it aren't the best but it sounds nice with Ernie Ball Super Slinky strings. It has a lot of sounds because you can alter the tone. It also helps you create the Vintage sounds of the 70's. // 8

Action, Fit & Finish: The paint on the guitar was alright, it had a few thick sections. Besides that it has a nice finish. The pickups were in line and the controls were nice and tight. // 7

Reliability & Durability: I have had it 3 months and it has taken quite a beating. Mine has one small scratch now but it has been dropped a few times. // 8

Impression: Overall this guitar is a good guitar, I have played mostly rock music but it also sounds and looks good with jazz and blues. If it were stolen I would definatly buy this guitar again. // 8

Comments

[MaggaraMarine]

Too short review.

[chocopuppet]

This review is really generic... Can we get some more details?

[rv_phoenix]

chocopuppet wrote:

This review is really generic... Can we get some more details?

No, we can't, because - since we've bought this crap - we are a hopeless amateur, thrilled to have a guitar for the first time, no matter how bad it sounds, no matter how impossible the action is, no matter how many flows has the wood in it...
And yet we write 'reviews'!

[TomMon]

rv_phoenix wrote:


No, we can't, because - since we've bought this crap - we are a hopeless amateur, thrilled to have a guitar for the first time, no matter how bad it sounds, no matter how impossible the action is, no matter how many flows has the wood in it...
And yet we write 'reviews'!

So what you're saying is that this is a guitar which beginners will like despite it's flaws because they don't know any better? And nobody else need play it, meaning any review by an advanced player would be irrelevant anyway? Sounds like this is a good review to me.

[rv_phoenix]

TomMon wrote:

So what you're saying is that this is a guitar which beginners will like despite it's flaws because they don't know any better? And nobody else need play it, meaning any review by an advanced player would be irrelevant anyway? Sounds like this is a good review to me.

Advanced players will never buy such a guitar, for obvious reasons. First of all, because an advanced player will test the guitar before buying it. And such a testing begins (literally) by knocking on its wood and listening to it. A hollowbody made in basswood is a guitar made in the wrong wood, so it can't deliver the right accoustical sound. That's the ending point of a test for an advanced player.
And yes, that's exactly what I've meant: only beginners could appreciate this axe, because they aren't aware it's not an axe, it's just something that looks like one.
But I never meant to say that a real review, of any guitar on Earth, would be irrelevant. The review above is bad and irrelevant because it is written by somebody who knows very little about guitars. Someone who says "It has a lot of sounds because you can alter the tone" doesn't even know what the volume and tone pots are doing there.

[davey i]

a guitar is what it is

[davey i]

i have been playing guitar for more than 20yrs and i bought one of these a few months ago and it is really just a beginners guitar but it is well put together. i have fitted some Seymour Duncans and some new super slinkys some better pots and it has transformed the guitar and it plays just as good as some of the more exspencive guitars i have and i have a few after 20yrs.if you want a great guitar go out and spend at least £800-£1000 but dont forget not every one can do that. what about the less well off who have saved up for a long time and its all they can afford is whats on offer and this is not a bad guitar to start off on. also we have all started off at some time with a cheep guitar. my first guitar 20+yrs ago was a cheep and chearfull it did not even have a name on the headstock. but when you think a guitar is cheep and nasty you should of tryed them 20 yrs ago so come on guys the cheep guitars now are 100 times better than when i was young so give it a brake it is what it is and in time you can add better gear to it and it will make it a better guitar so sorry but i give this guitar a big thumbs up all together it has cost me £275 and that includes the guitar.

[brunhildamuller]

there is a sinister reason for gear4music being so cheap....those are thieves who endlessly resell the very same item...if you have received the item it means that they have your address now and they might get "their" guitar back, very soon... but most of their "customers" (victims) never receive the item they have paid for, cause gear4music usually "works" together with ukmail thieves.... endlessly re-selling the same item... for £10 they obtain "proof of posting" from ukmail, but the instrument never leaves the shop.... they keep on reselling it ....if you complain to gear4music they show you "proof of posting" (good value for money: cost them just £10, and they can keep goods worth hundreds and thousands of pounds) .... this is "as far as their concern goes"...but if you complain to their partners at ukmail you can only do so by calling the premium phone number which is never answered.....from their point of view this is better (cheaper) than catch22....it is catch£10...