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I've owned the guitar for around a year now. The multiscale design provides very good string tension and tuning stability. The thin c-shaped neck makes the wide fretboard easy to adjust to for a first time eight-string player. For stock pickups the Schecter Diamond Heretics provide great clarity and a tight sound on high-gain tones for most genres. I've wanted to play an eight-string for some time to play songs from guitarists like Tosin Abasi and Misha Mansoor. Overall, this is an exceptional instrument for anyone looking to transition into the world of extended-range guitars delivering premium features, great tone, and excellent stability without a massive learning curve.

So yes, I got rid of my third Squier 51. And I thought to myself: "Right. I need to find something I can be happy with. Maybe I need to spend a little bit more money than before."

I had been lusting after the Guild Surfliner Deluxe, but they weren't nice enough to me to justify the pricetag. But I've played a Voltage Yellow Polara in a used shop before and was impressed. And now? I have it.

Yes, it may be construed as a 'hipster SG', but it is better. The SG's covered pickups sounded muffled and frankly kinda weak. By comparison, the Guild humbuckers in this thing are bright, but warm enough to be humbuckers. Where it really shines is when you throw some gain into the signal - this thing absolutely screams.

And given that these usually go for $549, and I got mine for a fair bit less? I'm going to hold onto this thing.

(Update: Once I get my Surfliner Deluxe out of layaway, this will become my secondary guitar!)

This is the eighth synthesizer I bought. Not my number one recommendation as a first synthesizer because of 2 reasons. One it's very expensive. Two it's a re-issue of a very old synthesizer and therefore extremely limited. On the other hand it has a very simple and intuitive layout that many later synths are based on. Because it can't store sounds you are forced to create every sound from scratch. Meaning that you will learn synthesis very quickly. On top of that, it has a great sound. It sounds fatter than basically any other synth that I know of, but it still remains musical and pleasant to the ear. Unlike for example the MS-20 which sounds much cheaper and can get totally gnarly (which has it's own use). I bought this synthesizer because even though I owned 5 analogue synths (and 2 digital) I often reached for a Model D vst and I was a bit embarrassed by that. I tried to recreate the sound of the Model D vst's on my Subsequent 37, and I can get great sounds out of that one as well, but it just can't do every sound the Model D can. It misses the third oscillator and it sounds too flat. The Model D is also nice to look at and a joy to work with. Very inspiring.