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ethan_oroshiba

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Gear 11

Good amp with a cool effects processor
The guitar itself and its tone are pretty good. However, because of the preamp system, you can't customize any of the electronics. The pickups are unique and the preamp won't work without them because they are both active and passive, so you can't replace the pickups. The preamp prevents you from making any big changes to the electronics because all the knobs and switches are built into a circuit board, so to change one thing you'd have to change everything else. But the guitar works just fine and the preamp is pretty cool
Pros: Good Pickups Nice sound Long Neck(can be a con) Cons: Strings buzz Neck is too heavy
Being a teenager without a steady source of income, I didn't really have an option to splurge on a fancier Fender or Gibson, so I opted for the Mitchell. All the reviews looked good and it was just at the top of my budget. For the price, it's an astounding guitar. The pickup combination and the 5-way switch all make for endless tone possibilities that are amazing for a guitarist still searching for their sound. The build quality is good and the guitar as a whole feels nice to play, especially since it has a very thin neck. My only complaint with the sound are the ceramic pickups. Depending on your style of music, these may be great for you, but for me they're not the best pickups that probably could have been chosen for the price.
I received this guitar secondhand, so take my review with a grain of salt, but the overall sound quality just isn't great. It's by no means bad, but it could easily be improved upon. On top of this, the neck has a gloss finish that I am not a fan of at all. The tuners also seem to be fairly low quality. With that said, if you throw some good strings on there, it makes a great beginner acoustic guitar.
This amp is amazing. Seriously. It sounds great and it's got tons of head room and power. This combined with the 5 amp choices and the entire customizable library of Boss effects makes endless tone possibilities. For a 100 Watt, it's not super bulky and the small tilt stand at the bottom is a nice touch for gigs. Overall, you're not going to find a better amp for the price and it rivals many solid states that are hundreds more expensive.
Okay, let's be honest, for a portable amp, it's pretty pricy. However, what you get is an astounding amount of power and tone quality with a great amount of control over tone and even built in effects. The batteries will last you a very long time on this amp as well. Another thing worth noting is that this amp has some SERIOUS BASS. This makes it a great all rounder whether you're using it as a practice amp, for busking, or as a karaoke machine (microphone and center cancel features are very nice)
This is by far the best looper I've used, from the small Ditto to the hefty Boss Loop Station, this is my favorite. The many features on this such as stereo input and output as well as a microphone input and expandable storage make this insanely versatile and useful. Well worth the money, especially if you're someone who busks.
Let me start off by saying that this is an amazing overdrive pedal. It sounds great, is very versatile, and isn't terribly expensive. However, I was looking to use this pedal in a more hard rock aspect and it let me down in that way. As you crank the drive, the tone gets lost and it starts to sound very mid heavy and a little robotic. On the lower drive levels it sounds great, but it's just not exactly what I wanted.
For $50, this is by far the best distortion pedal you're going to get. It sounds great and can do everything from classic rock sounds to prog rock, so it's amazingly versatile. The only downsides for me are that 1. it has a noticeable amount of background noise (even using isolated power) and 2. you can hear handling noise (i.e. you can hear through the amp when the button is being pushed down.
There is nothing super special about this power supply. It's got isolated outputs and a voltage selector, and that in itself makes it worth the money. I personally do not use the load dependent voltage (LDV) feature, but I'm sure it would come in handy for someone looking for specific tones. Great power supply.

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