Wow, Rob Chapman's review of this made it out to be the coming of a the next great hero. Thanks Henning, for doing an HONEST review, warts, blemishes & all. We count on you for this when everyone else is all about the hype.
Rob had Vox reps there to ensure he played ball and said nice things. Think of their Mesa Cab clone review. If he'd said 'It's gimmicky, looks gash and cheap whilst sounding like fried assholes', which is my opinion of it, Andertons may not have been Vox favoured in the future. Maybe Rob did like it and think it is the greatest guitar released this year. Maybe. Good term maybe, covers many bases.
I completely agree! However I can not wrap my head around how bad the distortion sounds when Henning ran it through the mixer! Irrelevant of what Rob said in the video, my ears were more than satisfied with the high gain sound in Rob's video! He appeared to run it through an amp with just a clean channel enabled....Could there really be such a difference between a flat eq clean channel amp and going dry into a mixer? PLEASE HELP ME UNDERSTAND
Yes - chalk another one up to Rob Chapman trying to sell us something. I used to watch his stuff but now I just look to see what the company line is and then go searching for the real info.The best effort I've ever seen from him was a "maybe it could be better". It is obvious that he isn't going to tell us what we need to hear. Come on - say it like it is and quit selling out! I hope Henning continues to let it all hang out and tell us what we want to know, not what the companies think we want to hear. GRD Henning! (that's Git-r-Done to you non-hicks out there) :)
+Dr Boris Yum the bad distortion sound you heard in this video is indeed how its supposed to sound direct without a cabinet. this is why cabinet simulation is needed for silent recording.
If you want enter a new market Henning is right, or use some better component to justify the price or give it a price that make people think, well why don't give it a try....
Years ago I had a VOX Grand Prix from the late 1960's which was their version of a guitar with built-in effects - fuzz, tuner, wah wah, speedy tremelo and tone effects. Great for the time but THIS NEW STARSTREAM IS THE RADICALLY UPDATED VERSION AND SOUNDS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the great video!!!!!
Thanks for the review. It helped clarify for me what this guitar is and what it isn't. A vendor on Reverb currently has several of these, new, on sale, for $299.99/free shipping, along with a "Make An Offer" option. (I offered $270 and am waiting for a response.) I'm an older "advanced beginner" (for seemingly forever, although with RUclips tutorial videos I'm actually finally progressing somewhat) and what I like about this guitar is pretty much exactly what you said is its strength: the ability to take it to an open mike, plug into their P.A./mixer directly, use the acoustic mode(s), play my 3 songs/15 minutes, and be done. So unless I totally misread you, for the $270 price, and for my purposes, this could really fit the bill. I think what bugged you was the original price, the cheap build quality, and the idea that this could somehow be a tool for a really serious professional musician. Cheers!
@@nunyerbiz6569 No, I decided to pass and go a more traditional route. Interesting guitar, though. I think it just needs a little work to be really great.
Great review - and I totally agree that they missed the ball with this. Compare to the Yamaha Silent Guitar - that looks worth the money. The electronics are so cheap these days that I just dont see where the money is going. Thanks for the honest review.
Great review, thank you for taking the time needed to really do a good job with it. There are certainly some sounds that are not the best, but gotta give it credit, it stayed in tune the entire review, even with all the bends and heavier stums and vibrato you did at times. I really appreciate your personal opinion and thoughts at the end. It definitely helps people in making a decision regarding a purchase before dropping that much money. It might be a good guitar for someone is a single entertainer that uses a looper to add more instrument variety to their performances.
Plastic - is it fibreglass? Will a proper luthier set up make the neck feel much better? Aluminium parts will add weight. I think it's very versatile and looks great for the money.
That outer frame part looks really cool, I think later incarnations of this (if they continue with it and improve on the modelling) could be beautiful. They could definitely make that part from wood laminate, but it's a lot more expensive and labour intensive than injection moulding plastic. Personally if I was on the Vox design team, I would have gone with a classic Vox Teardrop shape for the inner section with all the hardware and built on that.
Another design flaw is the operation of the Volume and Level pots. The Volume pot works a a Master Volume so if you back it off it doesn't change the drive/crunch only the volume. The Level pot Will change the drive sound. They should swap them around or make the layout selectable. They've made a start. Interest to see what the MkII comes back like.
There are not enough straight up reviews given on RUclips. I usually get the feeling that I am being sold something instead of getting a review. I can see you having problems with manufacturers - you're dead honest! THANK YOU!!!! F**k them if they can't take it! That said, you are critical in the proper sense of the word. You explain who might want this and how they might use it. You don't pull any punches describing the physicality of the gear you review. If manufacturers were more honest in their introductions of equipment we might not be so skeptical when it comes to purchasing new gear. It isn't in anybody's best interest to have gear being purchased then sent back because of the let down after being BS'd about a product. Excellent demo/review. ps - I haven't found one review of the Line 6 JTV 69 variax guitar like the one you just did on the VOX. Especially considering they have changed the format to the Yamaha Pacifica kind of variax. Any chance you will do a review of them vs the James Tyler version????? (please).
It's good looking, I've heard worse, not really into modelling guitars myself but I see the point. The body "frame "should be alloy rather than plastic, it needs better documentation and it's too expensive. Line 6 have a significant market lead, Vox/Korg need to do something more positive to overcome that.
I think it's great! If no one ever took the initiative to start attempting to advance technology we wouldn't be watching this review on RUclips or the web period. There are a lot of crap sounds that could have been processing space for more useable sounds. However, I prefer It to the Variax and if I had an extra grand lying around I would probably purchase one
And yeah, you are right that the acoustic sounds are a big seller for this. That was a big point why I decided to go for it. I should note that I have a Peavey VIP amp that has a technology for both electric and acoustic guitar, so I can use it very easily on one amp. And yeah, I didn't pay 900 for it, it was for about 750 which was acceptable to me.
Thank you for the demo. For me, the take away is that it's got a pro guitar price, but it doesn't have the polish or features of a pro guitar. The acoustic guitar sounds are good, but you'd need an AB box so you could switch to a direct box whenever you use an acoustic patch. For the money, there should be two outputs from the guitar (one piezo, one standard coils), the 12 string, sitar, synth, banjo and drive sounds should be improved or corrected.
Anything new we fear..as time goes prices go down,and things get better..Now the border shell matches the mahogany body, matching headstock,mine is red.And I thank you for giving an honest interview. How about revisiting it
Are these available now or are you playing a prototype? It's good that you have an honest review of the guitar. I applaud innovation and the fact that you go straight into a PA with no extra devices (like the Variax) is great. Shame about the electric sounds going direct. Maybe they will rethink the design and take your suggestions for another version.
Good to finally a see real and through user review. I have a variax jtv-69 and I was wondering how the startream compares to it. From this review, it looks like the variax is better deal in most aspects: really good guitar build , more sounds and the acoustic sims IMO are more realistic (specially the 12 str). Wouldn't you like to test both guitars side by side?
Got a Variax in the end. Respectable Pacifica SSS guitar with very nice Variax modelled sounds, I'm a very happy bunny. Korg/Vox are going to have to go a long way to compete whenever the grown-up version of this gets made. If they ever do, that is. Seems like they should have done a lot more user consultation before running with this model. Full marks for trying, but requires joined up thinking.
Very thorough, objective and expert review, thank you! Actually, I like the Starstream. I'm always into unusual designs and digital gimmicks. I've owned a JTV Variax before and despite its design and tone flaws it was a great instrument. Actually, I like acoustic models of the Vox a bit more. I think, it will be the same like the Variax story. Version one wasn't convincing for me, but the recent developments made it a real "swiss knife" of guitars. Let's wait the next version of the Startstream, I bet it will be pretty cool!
I considere this guitar really great, the only problem is that..what the effects are supossed to sound an example is the nylon efect it doesnt sound like it but it has an interesting sound
At 16:51 you mention how it would sound with a piezo on an acoustic guitar, so you could've cut there and demonstrated said guitar and compared them, not a complaint just a suggestion; the same idea could be done for demonstrating the other functions. i know time may be a factor here but it would've been nice, that's all I'm saying. Great series anyway and i'm not that put out as i've added you to my subscriptions. Thanks for the VT's.
Line 6 is way better. I had one.WAY better.But a good old Ibanez RG is all i ask for , instead of a mod. Guitar.Buy a good modeling amp and create your own sounds instead use those rather good or bad guitar presets.My 2 cents.
the opening jam thing you do....is probably the best...or at least some of the best fucking playing youve ever done on one of these videos. kudos sir. im not a huge fan of the aesthetics of the guitar....and its not perfect...but.....i can see this being a massively useful tool in the studio and out gigging. kudos again on the great playing
I'd have liked to see the same electronics but put in a Vox SC guitar. A bit retro, high quality build etc. Plus an MP3 input A midi output A passive mode for when the batteries fail A built-in tuner and and.....
ahh nevermind, I just heard you say plugged in a mixer while watching. Really sounds good. Too bad about the plastic stuff though... It may be too fragile for gigs.
my issue with this guitar is the same issue I have with a lot of modeling amps, it has a bunch of other guitar's sounds, but it really doesn't have its own sound and that bugs me a lot
Mod . Pickups like Keyztone or dial - a - tone are a great innovation in my opinion, you dont need that emg for this sound or that duncan for low tunings, it safes a lot of money.But a mod guitar??If it would do Slayer(Emg81)AND RHCP(Singelcoil) i buy it,but.?A banjo?Really?
Nice guitar, and I'd have to give it a try myself to see if it sounds decent to my ears. But that neck and headstock leaves much to be desired. Reminds me of a cheap Starcaster, Pacifica or entry level Squire guitar. And for 900 euros? Nah....
I'm taking up guitar again after 15 years on keyboards so at a special offer price of £251 on Amazon prime, I think I've got a decent 'beginner' guitar for peanuts. :)
The Bridge I believe is a SUNG IL which have these cheap blocks. The Bridges themselves are good, but the block is not. These cost near to nothing and are called "Import Bridges" made in Seoul Korea. I agree it should have better materials. I think the sound was "ok" but my ATG equipped guitar sounds way better. I still think the vox uses IR impulses as guitar bodies. Not a 900 guitar for sure.
Let me disagree with the opinion on the neck and the vibrato. The look of the neck may be basic, but the feel is very good to me. OK, I admit I never owned a guitar over 1K bucks, but I tried some in shops and also owned ESP LTD Deluxe which everyone praised for amazing playibility. I must say ESP was no better than my 400 buck Cort X 11 and no better than this guitar. The fretboard actually feels to me the same as on 2 K bucks guitars I tried. The vibrato too. The vibrato on cheap beginner guitars may look similar, but no way they have the same level of function. This vibrato is actually very well functioning and feels very solid to me.
hi. das ging ja schnell... (thats what she said...;) gestern noch das unboxing gesehen und heute schon in depth... bin mal gespannt. .. interresiert mich ja schon irgendwie aber der look... verbesserungswürdig. auch die Elektronik sollte gitarrenmässiger ausfallen...
great review as usual....probably the best one this will ever get. $100, $800, $2000....a plastic guitar will always be perceived as a toy....2 yrs from now you will see these on ebay for $150. A line6 it is not...in some way it has to be what they were going for. Here is a bit of free marketing analysis for Vox: If you want to make an instrument to sell to guitar players then create a guitar either out of wood or something cool, like metal mentioned here(especially at this price point). Most players will pick it up, probably never plug it in and never get past the plastic....doesnt matter what it sounds like. Sadly you will sell very few. i wish you well but this looks like its made and sold by Mattel.
Vox had a better concept with the ssc/sdc range than with this. Damn it Korg! Stop forcefeeding us so called 'new innovations' that are not up to decent specs, and then releasing it under the Vox name!
The "sitar" sound is mostly like one of those old Coral/Danelectro electric fake sitars with their "buzz bridge". They should have gone for REAL sitar.
Man, the idea isn't bad, but the construction looks like it came out of a toy factory, with AA batteries to boot. I'm checking out this review because these can be found mega cheap now, but I'm not sure I want it even for cheap!
Gonna compare it with L6 Variax, Henning? I kinda think Variax sweeps the floor with Starstream... As for the built-in drive sound quality... that just sounds like a regular gain boost... no cabinet simulation, so that's kinda expected. Put a cab on it and it sounds quite decent actually. I would say that 12 strings, BOTH acoustic and electric sound so obviously fake and octaved it's not even funny... As for the sitar sound - Henning, I think the high-pitched noise up top might actually be emulating (or at least trying to emulate) sitar's resonance strings - those aren't played, but are there for added overtones and whatnot... Still, quite gnarly sounding and not like a real sitar.
Guitarists are a very conservative bunch who tend to stick with what they know. This seems like a good device but a lot of players will dismiss it purely on it's looks and construction. My advice would be to wait and see. If it's a flop you'll be able to get one for a fraction of it's list price in a years time. That's the case with the Peavey at-200 which was another groundbreaking guitar that just plain failed to sell.
It would seem to me that Vox has found a way to reinvent the guitar! You'd think they would have learned with the organ guitar, but no, this time they seem to have got it right!
I can't wrap my head around this. There must have been a point where the Vox/Korg-People compared this to a Line6 Variax and thought "yep, ours is as good or better let's sell this". When it's clearly not. The sounds are barely ok, it always needs batteries and that control panel looks like the cheapest China toy. By the way, although the AC30 sounds good. That cheap ass golden plastic badge gives me eye cancer.
I really wanted to like this guitar, I love the idea of innovation, but it seems way overpriced and the sounds appeared to be 'adequate' at best. From here, the acoustic sounds were worst of all, really brittle, scratchy and thin, like a £50 shallow bodied electro acoustic, very nasty. I think if I wnated a versatile guitar to gig with, I'd be better off buying a secondhand Peavey Generation EXP ACM for around £200, a Roland Cube to go with it, and if I still wanted the synth sounds, then there's enough cash left out of £900 for an Electro harmonix Micro Synth..as for the banjo, well, I've never needed one of those. Great review Henning, nice to have such honesty. All the best, Robbo.
I wish they had just hidden the electronics and just drilled some holes in the wood and put put the pots through. I guess then the problem would be labeling everything.
I can appreciate all the modern features this guitar has. But like a lot of modern style guitars trying to "break the mould", I just find looking at it is a complete EYESORE. Just like the Parker Fly. Brilliant, but FUGLY (and of course, out of production!). Yes, of course some people do like the looks, but how many? I MUCH prefer the earlier more "conventional" style guitar they had, with the triple tone pickups. They should have just put a piezo bridge in it, and linked the modelling section to that, then carried on selling that.
I love the fact that guitar companies are trying to innovate, now all they need are some guitarists to help them pick a path to innovate along. It's a crying shame and I hope Vox hasn't dumped a ton of development money into this instead of something people are actually going to buy.
Acoustic sound is not the same, overtones and dynamics were not there on the Vox. It's similar to an acoustic, but that's all. I didn't think much of it in the Rob Chapman video, they sounded positive but the cheapness of the product was obvious to me from just looking at it.
The acoustic patches would probably sound better going through a mixer or at least an acoustic amplifier. Your vox is not voiced for good acoustic tones.
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Wow, Rob Chapman's review of this made it out to be the coming of a the next great hero. Thanks Henning, for doing an HONEST review, warts, blemishes & all. We count on you for this when everyone else is all about the hype.
Rob had Vox reps there to ensure he played ball and said nice things. Think of their Mesa Cab clone review.
If he'd said 'It's gimmicky, looks gash and cheap whilst sounding like fried assholes', which is my opinion of it, Andertons may not have been Vox favoured in the future.
Maybe Rob did like it and think it is the greatest guitar released this year. Maybe. Good term maybe, covers many bases.
I completely agree! However I can not wrap my head around how bad the distortion sounds when Henning ran it through the mixer! Irrelevant of what Rob said in the video, my ears were more than satisfied with the high gain sound in Rob's video! He appeared to run it through an amp with just a clean channel enabled....Could there really be such a difference between a flat eq clean channel amp and going dry into a mixer? PLEASE HELP ME UNDERSTAND
Yes - chalk another one up to Rob Chapman trying to sell us something. I used to watch his stuff but now I just look to see what the company line is and then go searching for the real info.The best effort I've ever seen from him was a "maybe it could be better". It is obvious that he isn't going to tell us what we need to hear. Come on - say it like it is and quit selling out! I hope Henning continues to let it all hang out and tell us what we want to know, not what the companies think we want to hear. GRD Henning! (that's Git-r-Done to you non-hicks out there) :)
+Dr Boris Yum the bad distortion sound you heard in this video is indeed how its supposed to sound direct without a cabinet. this is why cabinet simulation is needed for silent recording.
If you want enter a new market Henning is right, or use some better component to justify the price or give it a price that make people think, well why don't give it a try....
I am going to try one and see. Let's not dismiss innovative ideas. I like the concept.
Years ago I had a VOX Grand Prix from the late 1960's which was their version of a guitar with built-in effects - fuzz, tuner, wah wah, speedy tremelo and tone effects. Great for the time but THIS NEW STARSTREAM IS THE RADICALLY UPDATED VERSION AND SOUNDS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the great video!!!!!
Thanks for the review. It helped clarify for me what this guitar is and what it isn't. A vendor on Reverb currently has several of these, new, on sale, for $299.99/free shipping, along with a "Make An Offer" option. (I offered $270 and am waiting for a response.) I'm an older "advanced beginner" (for seemingly forever, although with RUclips tutorial videos I'm actually finally progressing somewhat) and what I like about this guitar is pretty much exactly what you said is its strength: the ability to take it to an open mike, plug into their P.A./mixer directly, use the acoustic mode(s), play my 3 songs/15 minutes, and be done. So unless I totally misread you, for the $270 price, and for my purposes, this could really fit the bill. I think what bugged you was the original price, the cheap build quality, and the idea that this could somehow be a tool for a really serious professional musician. Cheers!
I saw he still has them. Did you end up getting one? If so..how did it work out for you?
@@nunyerbiz6569 No, I decided to pass and go a more traditional route. Interesting guitar, though. I think it just needs a little work to be really great.
Great review - and I totally agree that they missed the ball with this. Compare to the Yamaha Silent Guitar - that looks worth the money. The electronics are so cheap these days that I just dont see where the money is going. Thanks for the honest review.
Great review, thank you for taking the time needed to really do a good job with it.
There are certainly some sounds that are not the best, but gotta give it credit, it stayed in tune the entire review, even with all the bends and heavier stums and vibrato you did at times.
I really appreciate your personal opinion and thoughts at the end. It definitely helps people in making a decision regarding a purchase before dropping that much money. It might be a good guitar for someone is a single entertainer that uses a looper to add more instrument variety to their performances.
Plastic - is it fibreglass? Will a proper luthier set up make the neck feel much better? Aluminium parts will add weight. I think it's very versatile and looks great for the money.
That outer frame part looks really cool, I think later incarnations of this (if they continue with it and improve on the modelling) could be beautiful. They could definitely make that part from wood laminate, but it's a lot more expensive and labour intensive than injection moulding plastic. Personally if I was on the Vox design team, I would have gone with a classic Vox Teardrop shape for the inner section with all the hardware and built on that.
Your honesty is refreshing and much needed. Also, that opening jam was ace!
Great review... This guy is playing licks like you'd actual play in a band or gig... THANK YOU! Now I know what this guitar can actually do for me.
i really appreciate an honest review! i know you use vox equiptment so... it shows a great deal of integrity to give them an unbiased review!
as a coffee drinker, i find the slurping of the coffee satisfying.
Brilliant playing Henning some great little licks, and tones, showed the capability of the guitar, sweet
Another design flaw is the operation of the Volume and Level pots. The Volume pot works a a Master Volume so if you back it off it doesn't change the drive/crunch only the volume. The Level pot Will change the drive sound. They should swap them around or make the layout selectable.
They've made a start. Interest to see what the MkII comes back like.
Thanks for your honest review. The physical style is excellent, too bad the sound lacks so much definition!😢
let's be honest here... does any guitar sound bad through an Ac30?
Honest, informative and very entertaining. Who knows, in years to come this guitar might become like an 80's retro throwback.
There are not enough straight up reviews given on RUclips. I usually get the feeling that I am being sold something instead of getting a review. I can see you having problems with manufacturers - you're dead honest! THANK YOU!!!! F**k them if they can't take it! That said, you are critical in the proper sense of the word. You explain who might want this and how they might use it. You don't pull any punches describing the physicality of the gear you review. If manufacturers were more honest in their introductions of equipment we might not be so skeptical when it comes to purchasing new gear. It isn't in anybody's best interest to have gear being purchased then sent back because of the let down after being BS'd about a product. Excellent demo/review.
ps - I haven't found one review of the Line 6 JTV 69 variax guitar like the one you just did on the VOX. Especially considering they have changed the format to the Yamaha Pacifica kind of variax. Any chance you will do a review of them vs the James Tyler version????? (please).
It's good looking, I've heard worse, not really into modelling guitars myself but I see the point. The body "frame "should be alloy rather than plastic, it needs better documentation and it's too expensive. Line 6 have a significant market lead, Vox/Korg need to do something more positive to overcome that.
I think it's great! If no one ever took the initiative to start attempting to advance technology we wouldn't be watching this review on RUclips or the web period. There are a lot of crap sounds that could have been processing space for more useable sounds. However, I prefer
It to the Variax and if I had an extra grand lying around I would probably purchase one
And yeah, you are right that the acoustic sounds are a big seller for this. That was a big point why I decided to go for it. I should note that I have a Peavey VIP amp that has a technology for both electric and acoustic guitar, so I can use it very easily on one amp. And yeah, I didn't pay 900 for it, it was for about 750 which was acceptable to me.
Thank you for the demo. For me, the take away is that it's got a pro guitar price, but it doesn't have the polish or features of a pro guitar. The acoustic guitar sounds are good, but you'd need an AB box so you could switch to a direct box whenever you use an acoustic patch. For the money, there should be two outputs from the guitar (one piezo, one standard coils), the 12 string, sitar, synth, banjo and drive sounds should be improved or corrected.
Anything new we fear..as time goes prices go down,and things get better..Now the border shell matches the mahogany body, matching headstock,mine is red.And I thank you for giving an honest interview. How about revisiting it
Dude!... Your hilarious!.. and Im not a big fan of most guys doin reviews.. dont change anything with your style.., it's perfect!
al di meola 20:35 how cool is that! i kind of like how the guitar looks. the ac30 sounds just great.
Are these available now or are you playing a prototype? It's good that you have an honest review of the guitar. I applaud innovation and the fact that you go straight into a PA with no extra devices (like the Variax) is great. Shame about the electric sounds going direct. Maybe they will rethink the design and take your suggestions for another version.
i love your honesty. great honest, no bullshit review
Your socks are different coloured. :) And your playing is amazing. Great thanks for this deep honest review!
Good to finally a see real and through user review. I have a variax jtv-69 and I was wondering how the startream compares to it. From this review, it looks like the variax is better deal in most aspects: really good guitar build , more sounds and the acoustic sims IMO are more realistic (specially the 12 str). Wouldn't you like to test both guitars side by side?
I would like to test a variax, but line 6 would have to send me one!
Roland G-5 vg stratocaster OR Vox Starstream???? cool vid as always :) greetings from Spain.
When he said the price I was very surprised... also the drive sounds directly into the mixer did sound very very bad. Yeah, not for me...
But is it better than a Variax?? 🎶🎸
Got a Variax in the end. Respectable Pacifica SSS guitar with very nice Variax modelled sounds, I'm a very happy bunny.
Korg/Vox are going to have to go a long way to compete whenever the grown-up version of this gets made.
If they ever do, that is.
Seems like they should have done a lot more user consultation before running with this model.
Full marks for trying, but requires joined up thinking.
Very thorough, objective and expert review, thank you!
Actually, I like the Starstream. I'm always into unusual designs and digital gimmicks.
I've owned a JTV Variax before and despite its design and tone flaws it was a great instrument. Actually, I like acoustic models of the Vox a bit more.
I think, it will be the same like the Variax story. Version one wasn't convincing for me, but the recent developments made it a real "swiss knife" of guitars.
Let's wait the next version of the Startstream, I bet it will be pretty cool!
I considere this guitar really great, the only problem is that..what the effects are supossed to sound an example is the nylon efect it doesnt sound like it but it has an interesting sound
Well now it’s 529 American in mahogany, with matching headstock,and humbuckers can be passive.. so I got one last month
At 16:51 you mention how it would sound with a piezo on an acoustic guitar, so you could've cut there and demonstrated said guitar and compared them, not a complaint just a suggestion; the same idea could be done for demonstrating the other functions. i know time may be a factor here but it would've been nice, that's all I'm saying. Great series anyway and i'm not that put out as i've added you to my subscriptions. Thanks for the VT's.
Ah so i should've waited my mistake, sorry!
great demo, would be interesting if you compare this guitar 1 on 1 to a line 6 guitar
Line 6 is way better. I had one.WAY better.But a good old Ibanez RG is all i ask for , instead of a mod. Guitar.Buy a good modeling amp and create your own sounds instead use those rather good or bad guitar presets.My 2 cents.
5:00 That mix gave me some good ol' Mark Knopler with a twist of Henning vibes right there - awesome.
the opening jam thing you do....is probably the best...or at least some of the best fucking playing youve ever done on one of these videos. kudos sir. im not a huge fan of the aesthetics of the guitar....and its not perfect...but.....i can see this being a massively useful tool in the studio and out gigging. kudos again on the great playing
Erm ,any chance there is an mp3 of the song you played at 2:26 somewhere for me to download ? Cause its brilliant : )
it is in production right now... it will be on the second album from the band CAMPAIGN LIKE CLOCKWORK.... thanks !
I'd have liked to see the same electronics but put in a Vox SC guitar. A bit retro, high quality build etc.
Plus an MP3 input
A midi output
A passive mode for when the batteries fail
A built-in tuner
and and.....
wow this sounds great! Was this hooked up directly to a console?
ahh nevermind, I just heard you say plugged in a mixer while watching. Really sounds good. Too bad about the plastic stuff though... It may be too fragile for gigs.
I agree though that the electric sounds aren't as nice as the acoustic sounds.
thanks for another honest review! and yes, i have to admit it really sounds waaay better through the ac30.
The acoustic 12 string is much more convincing when you're just strumming chords than when you're noodling around. Pretty cool stuff.
my issue with this guitar is the same issue I have with a lot of modeling amps, it has a bunch of other guitar's sounds, but it really doesn't have its own sound and that bugs me a lot
Nice, thorough review.
Nice touch, playing Mediterranean Sundance at 20:34. Always my go-to tune on nylons, though I can't really play it.
OK, warum ich hier auf Englisch schreib', wissen die Götter...
Mod . Pickups like Keyztone or dial - a - tone are a great innovation in my opinion, you dont need that emg for this sound or that duncan for low tunings, it safes a lot of money.But a mod guitar??If it would do Slayer(Emg81)AND RHCP(Singelcoil) i buy it,but.?A banjo?Really?
This is the most fucking awesome and honest review ever! Thank you!
Soul that can't be bought! :)
Nice guitar, and I'd have to give it a try myself to see if it sounds decent to my ears. But that neck and headstock leaves much to be desired. Reminds me of a cheap Starcaster, Pacifica or entry level Squire guitar. And for 900 euros? Nah....
The "between" sounds are probably Vox's idea of the sounds one gets from Fender guitars (mostly Stratocasters) with the switch "between" two pickups.
I'm taking up guitar again after 15 years on keyboards so at a special offer price of £251 on Amazon prime, I think I've got a decent 'beginner' guitar for peanuts. :)
the sitar sounded like there were trying to simulate some harmonics and overtones and that produces a rather distorted sound to my ears
Really Cool Review and Guitar! 👌
...the " think beginner advice " is Gold
The Bridge I believe is a SUNG IL which have these cheap blocks. The Bridges themselves are good, but the block is not. These cost near to nothing and are called "Import Bridges" made in Seoul Korea.
I agree it should have better materials.
I think the sound was "ok" but my ATG equipped guitar sounds way better. I still think the vox uses IR impulses as guitar bodies.
Not a 900 guitar for sure.
You were spot on sir
good job Henning
Imma purchase gut the internal gizmo and make it a headless
Let me disagree with the opinion on the neck and the vibrato. The look of the neck may be basic, but the feel is very good to me. OK, I admit I never owned a guitar over 1K bucks, but I tried some in shops and also owned ESP LTD Deluxe which everyone praised for amazing playibility. I must say ESP was no better than my 400 buck Cort X 11 and no better than this guitar. The fretboard actually feels to me the same as on 2 K bucks guitars I tried. The vibrato too. The vibrato on cheap beginner guitars may look similar, but no way they have the same level of function. This vibrato is actually very well functioning and feels very solid to me.
Manual Kant. Nice.
Loved him in split.
hi. das ging ja schnell... (thats what she said...;) gestern noch das unboxing gesehen und heute schon in depth...
bin mal gespannt. .. interresiert mich ja schon irgendwie aber der look... verbesserungswürdig. auch die Elektronik sollte gitarrenmässiger ausfallen...
great review as usual....probably the best one this will ever get. $100, $800, $2000....a plastic guitar will always be perceived as a toy....2 yrs from now you will see these on ebay for $150. A line6 it is not...in some way it has to be what they were going for. Here is a bit of free marketing analysis for Vox: If you want to make an instrument to sell to guitar players then create a guitar either out of wood or something cool, like metal mentioned here(especially at this price point). Most players will pick it up, probably never plug it in and never get past the plastic....doesnt matter what it sounds like. Sadly you will sell very few. i wish you well but this looks like its made and sold by Mattel.
Vox had a better concept with the ssc/sdc range than with this. Damn it Korg! Stop forcefeeding us so called 'new innovations' that are not up to decent specs, and then releasing it under the Vox name!
Hey.. You were not on 12-string according to the switch. ]80)
And the price needs to come down for what they are offering.
The "sitar" sound is mostly like one of those old Coral/Danelectro electric fake sitars with their "buzz bridge". They should have gone for REAL sitar.
It sounds good.
Man, the idea isn't bad, but the construction looks like it came out of a toy factory, with AA batteries to boot. I'm checking out this review because these can be found mega cheap now, but I'm not sure I want it even for cheap!
It’s gret for my pedalboards.
the fact you have to turn it on for it to work is a total deal breaker for me =P
Great review, thanks. ;o)
Gonna compare it with L6 Variax, Henning? I kinda think Variax sweeps the floor with Starstream...
As for the built-in drive sound quality... that just sounds like a regular gain boost... no cabinet simulation, so that's kinda expected. Put a cab on it and it sounds quite decent actually.
I would say that 12 strings, BOTH acoustic and electric sound so obviously fake and octaved it's not even funny...
As for the sitar sound - Henning, I think the high-pitched noise up top might actually be emulating (or at least trying to emulate) sitar's resonance strings - those aren't played, but are there for added overtones and whatnot... Still, quite gnarly sounding and not like a real sitar.
Educational tool = Jack of all trades, master of none
How on earth I missed that guitar 😱😭
Du bist auch deutsch? Lol. Ey hättest du ein Tipp wo man die Gitarre kaufen kann. Finde die nirgendwo
Guitarists are a very conservative bunch who tend to stick with what they know. This seems like a good device but a lot of players will dismiss it purely on it's looks and construction. My advice would be to wait and see. If it's a flop you'll be able to get one for a fraction of it's list price in a years time. That's the case with the Peavey at-200 which was another groundbreaking guitar that just plain failed to sell.
I think this outperforms Variax in acoustic mode
it doesn’t
It would seem to me that Vox has found a way to reinvent the guitar!
You'd think they would have learned with the organ guitar, but no, this time they seem to have got it right!
I can't wrap my head around this. There must have been a point where the Vox/Korg-People compared this to a Line6 Variax and thought "yep, ours is as good or better let's sell this". When it's clearly not. The sounds are barely ok, it always needs batteries and that control panel looks like the cheapest China toy.
By the way, although the AC30 sounds good. That cheap ass golden plastic badge gives me eye cancer.
It sounds like a spider v line 6 mod amp. I own one .The same 'not really good but enough for the bedroom' sound.
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Does Vox make lefty guitars? If not, I have no interest. Thanks.
Yes, would be great to know if they make left guitars!
32:30 Oh hey. It's Henning's Paulies.
GOOD CALL!
I really wanted to like this guitar, I love the idea of innovation, but it seems way overpriced and the sounds appeared to be 'adequate' at best. From here, the acoustic sounds were worst of all, really brittle, scratchy and thin, like a £50 shallow bodied electro acoustic, very nasty. I think if I wnated a versatile guitar to gig with, I'd be better off buying a secondhand Peavey Generation EXP ACM for around £200, a Roland Cube to go with it, and if I still wanted the synth sounds, then there's enough cash left out of £900 for an Electro harmonix Micro Synth..as for the banjo, well, I've never needed one of those. Great review Henning, nice to have such honesty. All the best, Robbo.
Thumbs up for you green socks!!! BTW, great review.
I wish they had just hidden the electronics and just drilled some holes in the wood and put put the pots through. I guess then the problem would be labeling everything.
The plastic parts could be made out of carbon fiber, but in no way out of aluninium. The thing would end up heavier than your doubleneck
I can appreciate all the modern features this guitar has. But like a lot of modern style guitars trying to "break the mould", I just find looking at it is a complete EYESORE. Just like the Parker Fly. Brilliant, but FUGLY (and of course, out of production!). Yes, of course some people do like the looks, but how many? I MUCH prefer the earlier more "conventional" style guitar they had, with the triple tone pickups. They should have just put a piezo bridge in it, and linked the modelling section to that, then carried on selling that.
900 euros for a plastic guitar???
Exactly
in EUROPE....yes...iys basicly 400-500 us dolars
in EUROPE....yes...iys basicly 400-500 us dolars
Still to expensive!
yes i agree...would give as much for an average pedal
Da fehlt aber noch was im Mediterranean Sundance!
Sorry to say but the Boss GP-10 blows that away with the acoustic and 12 string sounds.
I love the fact that guitar companies are trying to innovate, now all they need are some guitarists to help them pick a path to innovate along. It's a crying shame and I hope Vox hasn't dumped a ton of development money into this instead of something people are actually going to buy.
And now you have stuff that cost wayyyyyy more than this git. I paid 5 bills plus 41. ...cheers
Acoustic sound is not the same, overtones and dynamics were not there on the Vox. It's similar to an acoustic, but that's all. I didn't think much of it in the Rob Chapman video, they sounded positive but the cheapness of the product was obvious to me from just looking at it.
Man I paidEXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID 499
The acoustic patches would probably sound better going through a mixer or at least an acoustic amplifier. Your vox is not voiced for good acoustic tones.
they we're going through a mixer
27 minutes in, look mom no hands!
Build in drive really is horrible :/
I like the acoustic sounds, but the problem is, you pay for the electronics, and you're left with a $900 guitar with a $200 neck.