lilylou's Reviews

Good enough.

You can hardly hear the distortion when gain's at the nine o'clock position. I always have to keep it higher just to hear it. It's good enough for a beginner, but your tone possibilities with this are very limited.

Wonderful investment.

I got this on my fourteenth birthday as an upgrade from my knockoff strat. It's got a bit of fret buzz, but I haven't gotten around to adjusting the bridge just yet, perhaps someone could set it up well for you.

The tone is fantastic, the feel is great, and it stays pretty in-tune as far as I'm concerned. I think it's the perfect beginner's guitar. Heck, it's great for any level of guitar. I regret picking the black and cream one over the natural one, I fault my punk rock, all-black phase.

Good clean, disappointing overdrive.

I got this for my fourteenth birthday, it has a good clean tone-- it's better than my Orange's-- but a rather awful overdrive. I can't seem to dial in anything decent for a song. With my music taste, clean can only do so much. It's perfect for just practicing, especially back then when I had only been playing for three months, but I don't think I have or will record much with this amp.

All I'll ever need.

Before my grandfather bought me this, I was using a 61-key Casio. I thought the Casio was fine, just a little unnatural sounding whenever I recorded or plugged my headphones in and lacking in a few keys. I never minded because I wasn't really thinking of doing music professionally, it's a lovely hobby for me.

Then we went to the store where he told me to buy specifically a Roland keyboard, and was amazed by how it felt. I loved how I had to apply more pressure so it controlled the amount of mistakes I was going to make (I play some songs relatively angrily so a light touch on my step-father's Casio was kind of like the end of the world-- it feels a lot like playing a grand piano. I really took in how the sound was so much more organic than any other keyboard I've played (Also, thank God, it has all the keys!). I would have been extremely satisfied with just the FP-10, but my grandfather insisted on this. I believe any one of the keyboards in the FP series is the only one you'll ever need.