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Let me start by saying this is not going to compare to a Fender Strat. If you get one of these thinking that it will replace your Hendrix signature or your American Professional then you might need to give yourself a reality check. What you're getting here is a decent sound and a pretty solid feeling instrument for the price. It handles nicely without any sort of neck dive or off balancing issue. It has a good weight and feels like a solid piece of wood. It has a beautiful clean sound that is very punchy and cuts through well in a full band setting. You can get some really sparkly cleans using a combination of the neck and middle pickups or a pretty chunky sound great for chords with the bridge humbucker. The guitar kind of craps out when you put gain through it as the pickups are really weak, but what do you expect for a guitar in this price range? Just accept that this guitar does one thing really well and falls flat on other aspects and you'll be happy with your purchase.

This amplifier is clearly designed with metal in mind, but I've put it through its paces. The clean sound is pretty solid, offering a bright switch to get a nice clean sound with a nice sparkle to it, but where it really shines is the lead channel. You can really get a variety of tones by utilizing the gain knob in tandem with the gain boost button. You can go from a nice rhythm/riffing tone to a squealing lead sound with a ton of sustain. It also takes pedals pretty well, which is just a plus. I've even cheekily put a bass through it before (with the volume as low as can be of course) and that didn't sound half bad either. A good amp for sure, and more versatile than you might think.

I will be honest with you, this was my first bass amp. I still have it, and for a bit of nostalgia I will occasionally plug in and mess with it. But not once have I ever considered using it for a serious gig or venue where my reputation was on the line. The speaker can not handle low end frequencies or high volumes well, which for a bass amp is an inherent design flaw. Whenever I have taken it to a friend's house to jam it could hardly keep up with a 15 watt guitar amp. So when I took it to my first rehearsal in a band I had joined where the guitar player had a 100 watt amp, I could not hear myself think, let alone play. He would have to put the volume at less than 10% while the drummer would have to hit the drums like he was afraid to break them or something. In my bedroom at a very conservative volume, it sounds decent. The 3-band EQ doesn't give you much to work with, but it's great if you are new and aren't entirely sure how to properly equalize your frequencies. In summary, we have an amp that can only work if you keep the volume low and play by yourself, which is extremely limiting to your growth as a player. I will give credit where credit is due however, and say that this amp had me fooled for a while. I really thought it was the best thing i'd ever heard, until I got a thousand dollar all valve head two years later and never touched this thing again...

I got this pedal thinking it would either give me all gain or no gain, but man was I wrong. You can use this pedal as a volume boost, a top end boost, or of course an overdrive. and it does all of those things very well. Cannot recommend this pedal enough.

Holy cow, this pedal does not disappoint. I have played many different choruses, from the crappy danelectros to the TC Electronic Corona Chorus, and the Afterglow is just superb. It gives me THE sound of the 70s that we all know and love. It gives you so many options to choose from, such as turning the rate and mix down to be a subtle thickener to your guitar tone or being a hairy mess when you turn the speed and depth all the way up (which is a good laugh by the way.) My favorite pedal in my collection for sure. Get this thing NOW.

What can I say about this bass that you probably haven't already heard? It's an acoustic-electric bass guitar made by Fender which has some unique qualities to it. The elephant in the room is that it has an electric bass neck, specifically a jazz bass neck, as opposed to a regular acoustic style. This is why I picked up the Kingman, and why I continue to play it after months of owning it. Aside from that, it feels extremely comfortable to play, owing to to its overall light weight and familiar feeling fret board. The one gripe most people will have with the bass is the neck dives that comes with it. Though this personally hasn't been an issue for me as I play a lot of neck-heavy basses, be warned; you will have a tendency to lean into the guitar which can negatively affect your technique. The electronics in the bass are nothing special, we have a fishman pickup with a 3-band EQ and tuner. I find that when plugged in, the Kingman loses the woody quality that you get when playing acoustically. It's not a bad sound, it just sounds like an electric bass that's been processed to sound like an acoustic bass as opposed to what you might expect an acoustic bass to actually sound like while plugged into an amp. In conclusion however, I can safely say this is a fantastic bass for any bass player looking to add an acoustic to their collection. The only thing keeping me from giving it a perfect score is the aforementioned neck dive and somewhat lacking sound when plugged in. Otherwise, it's a solid instrument with no major drawbacks and I would highly recommend it.

I gotta say, this thing was a blast to play with back when I had it. It gave me those classic rock and roll tones to die for, and with a pedal or two I could melt peoples faces off with crushing metal tones. Such a versatile little thing this was, and even though it weighed as much as a small child I enjoyed lugging it around to rehearsals and jam sessions just because I knew the sound I would get would impress everyone who heard it. If you find one of these things on the used market, pick it up. You'll be amazed when you see what it can do for you.