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Victor Ting

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Gear 10

My girlfriend bought this for me for my 22's birthday. It is loaded with 2 Charvel active humbuckers which require the use of a 9 volt battery. Tone is great for rock and metal but somehow also suit Jazz and Blues if your turn the gain down.
I started out playing a Chinese Knock-Off "stratstyle" electric guitar which costed about 100$ that comes with guitar amp built into the hardcase. After a year of playing, I finally get to upgrade to a Ibanez RG Series guitar and from then on I have never touched any Squier/Fender. Till the day I bought one of these Squier Surf Strat that was loaded with DuncanDesigned Lipstick pickups, everything changed. I was able to re-learn the basic of blues again. Everything just felt great on this guitar. I mean, I know it is not an actual Fender Strat but to me these Vintage Modified series felt very close to an actual Fender Strat especially those with the clear coat finish on the neck like these Surf Strats, and especially for the price tag, can't complain.
This is the guitar that I have been using for the last 4 years of my career as a guitar instructor and as a performer. Overall, the tone is really versatile as in the INF pickups loaded in these guitars are great for all clean, a bit of gain or even a lot of gain, everything works well. I am a fan of Steve Vai, therefore I really needed the double-locking tremelo. After a few years of playing, I kinda lean towards the hardtail / non-floating tremolo style guitars cuz I do a lot of bendings and bendings just hurt on a floating trem. But still, I would never stop using this guitar.
I'm user of the Line 6 POD HD500, therefore I knew how this differs from the previous models. Everything just so much better due to the fact that you can now tweek your tones on your iPad! Wirelessly! And with all the colored LEDs, how much better your life would be as a guitarist. You'll soon learn that yellow is for stompboxes/comp, blues are for mod, green are for delays, orange for reverb and it goes on and on and on. And must I mention the tuner on this particular model seems to work the best.
I used this amp with my Line 6 Firehawk FX. Just great great great tone. This specific model is the highest end within the range and has 35 watts of power which I thought at first, would be small, would be not that loud, but when I received it I was like holly molly, it's actually huge! And when I plugged it in, lol... The floor is shaking a little in my room.
Used this for basically all my recordings at home, so easy to use, uncompromising performance for such a tiny unit. Recommended for just anyone, even a pro should use one of these if 2 inputs is good enough.
Use it for anything, everything. Easy connection, easy usage, works with both PC and Mac, even iPad!
Though I am very familiar with some of the higher end and expensive KRK's and M-Audio's monitor speakers, for the price you can pay for one of these Edifier, it works very well and has the same kind of frequency responses you won't need cuz your ears can't really hear them if your age is above 25. Comes with 2 RCA inputs, really versatile.
Loaded with Klark Teknik, I used this mixer at home in my bedroom mainly to mix backing tracks to my guitar playing and do some singing and cuz it has built-in Klark Teknik FX, it makes karaoke-ing with this a bit of fun, and it is very affordable, so for the price, couldn't complain anything. I really like the small size too. And because it is USB, I use it for Podcast as well.

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