dukeuke

This guitar cost around £300GBP, which to be honest, for a guitar, doesn't seem like much; you'd expect £300 maybe to get you an instrument, with quality at the very bottom of the middle price scale, or near the top of the budget, probably not to be deemed a high quality object, yet this doesn't seem to be the case with this. Flawless bolt on construction, allows for uninterrupted fret access, to the higher notes on what is a ridiculously comfortable neck; The hardware is sturdy, and keeping tuning is as good as it gets, for a non-locking hardtail guitar; two crystal clear humbuckers, master vol, and tone, and a five way selector provide a variety of flavours, from a full on powerful bridge humbucker, to a stratty coil tapped neck single, all the way to a once again fairly stratty bridge (Though with the tone knob you can go more into tele territory) single tone. All this tonal versatility means that whatever I want to with the seventh string, be it slap, or djent, I can do it, but also that it can function as a regular guitar, when the seventh string is not being utilised. In terms of issues there are very little: slight issues on the fretwork, that are practically unnoticeable, and the neck is only a one piece, and feels a little bare, though that's probably because I'm used to my glossy jazzmaster one. Aesthetically it's perfectly as expected, a lovely finished mahogany top. In the future I might swap the pickups, for some dimarzios (Probably Ionizers) but other than that its fine, and the setup when I received it was great, with low action, and decent strings. Overall excellent value for money, and a beautiful machine, with a clear versatile sound, and of course that extra string for all manner of fun fun fun...

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: At the time of this first review I've only owned this for three days, and in that I've still, unlike most music hardware I've used to date, only scratched the surface. This is a combination of two things: One, the sr16 is packed to the rim with features, and settings, and buttons that it can take a while to learn how to use, or even uncover, and Two, this is one of the most ridiculously un-user friendly devices I've ever used, though considering these are from originally, and mine is dated to also, 1990, they are decent. I think that if a product has been in production for the last 26 years non stop, pretty much, it is probably okay.

Its good considering its free, but its essentially garbage for music production, but then its not necessarily built for that sort of purpose. If you want to tweak with a song, or make samples this is good, but tbh after you've got used to ableton or Cubase theres no going back really.

I've heard it given glowing reviews, and I know millions use it, including people I know, but unfortunately mine broke, and I had not the patience to get it fixed, so I sent it back. Still got some nice free stuff with it, so it can have two stars.

Bought this from Andertons - The UK Dealer - earlier this year, as I needed a replacement for my shitty behringer OD. Tbh its absoloutley nothing special, its a fairly regular, cheap klone pedal, if not a little too blanketty/fluffy if that means anything. Also the LED died after about a month, so I'm sending it back, and getting a replacement. Wouldn't really recommend, its just a bit of a shoddy klon at the end of the day