I don't have any objection to inexpensive import guitars. But what I think IS a bad idea is to buy LOTS OF them, just for the sake of filling their collection. At some point, you will need to sell them and/or someone else will. It's so much better to just invest in a good, name brand, guitar that will always be worth something, whereas the cheaply made ones just won't hold any value. Same with amps. But yes, if you're budget is limited, or if you gig in sketchy places where you're worried about theft, I think it makes great sense to play a lower-priced guitar that you upgrade as needed. If you don't have the skills, a great tech is worth their weight in gold! Pickups (almost 100% of the time), replace plastic nuts, and you might be able to stop there (with the pro setup being assumed). After that, it's diminishing returns - i.e., bridge, tuners, pots.
Not throwing shade, getting the guitar in tune is helpful. It did sound out of tune during the sound demonstration. Clean sounds were decent, but a tad on the murky side. I could see with a proper setup and intonation, it would be a decent player. Could be a solid mod platform.
I have noticed that in many of my videos the guitar is out of tune because I tend to play it right out of the box on fresh strings. I also think most of these cheap guitars could really use an adjustment to the intonation. I did the GearIt strat and that wouldn't stay in tune out of the box, I put good strings on it and set the intonation and it sounds so much better. So I'll have to start doing a quick setup on these guitars after I do the unboxing. This Lyx was already out of the box but was a display model at my friend's music store with the original strings. Plus I tend to really mash on the strings when I fret notes, so it goes out of tune. I'm so used to playing acoustic. I have found I shouldn't play anything lighter than a 10. I'm actually going to try 12's on one of my guitars with tall frets and see if that helps. Thanks for the comments.
If I'm being honest, it sounds really bad. Not sure if that's more to do with your overall setup though. But quite certainly, it needs pickups (but unnecessary for beginners!). FWIW, I bought a Firefly Les Paul Custom as an experiment. I upgraded everything, but the tuners (people replace perfectly fine tuners far too often IMO) and I had my tech give the neck as much attention as needed to make it as good as possible. When I got it back, yes, it was vastly improved. No doubt it transformed the guitar into something tolerable, but it still had a weird harshness to it. Like an upper-mid spike. This was with one of my favorite pickup sets, the Seymour Duncan Jazz/JB set. I ended up swapping all the electronics with an Epi Les Paul Custom and sold it. That $799 Epi? It's absolutely one of my favorite guitars. It took me 5 different Epi Les Pauls to land on my white Custom, but it was so worth it. No, it's not quite there with the tone of my Gibsons (with Burstbuckers
I put Seymour Duncan pickups on it, a graph tech nut, and Grover tuners..its pretty good now.
I had to file down the fret ends, and put a piece of tape over the screw on the pickguard; But, other than that I love mine.
Took a chance on the Lyx Pro T-style. Wanted to like it so, so bad. Unfortunately that was not possible. Yours looks considerably better.
Try guitarsgarden.com. GearIT also makes T styles.
I don't have any objection to inexpensive import guitars. But what I think IS a bad idea is to buy LOTS OF them, just for the sake of filling their collection. At some point, you will need to sell them and/or someone else will. It's so much better to just invest in a good, name brand, guitar that will always be worth something, whereas the cheaply made ones just won't hold any value. Same with amps.
But yes, if you're budget is limited, or if you gig in sketchy places where you're worried about theft, I think it makes great sense to play a lower-priced guitar that you upgrade as needed. If you don't have the skills, a great tech is worth their weight in gold! Pickups (almost 100% of the time), replace plastic nuts, and you might be able to stop there (with the pro setup being assumed). After that, it's diminishing returns - i.e., bridge, tuners, pots.
Not throwing shade, getting the guitar in tune is helpful. It did sound out of tune during the sound demonstration. Clean sounds were decent, but a tad on the murky side. I could see with a proper setup and intonation, it would be a decent player. Could be a solid mod platform.
I have noticed that in many of my videos the guitar is out of tune because I tend to play it right out of the box on fresh strings. I also think most of these cheap guitars could really use an adjustment to the intonation. I did the GearIt strat and that wouldn't stay in tune out of the box, I put good strings on it and set the intonation and it sounds so much better. So I'll have to start doing a quick setup on these guitars after I do the unboxing. This Lyx was already out of the box but was a display model at my friend's music store with the original strings. Plus I tend to really mash on the strings when I fret notes, so it goes out of tune. I'm so used to playing acoustic. I have found I shouldn't play anything lighter than a 10. I'm actually going to try 12's on one of my guitars with tall frets and see if that helps. Thanks for the comments.
If I'm being honest, it sounds really bad. Not sure if that's more to do with your overall setup though. But quite certainly, it needs pickups (but unnecessary for beginners!).
FWIW, I bought a Firefly Les Paul Custom as an experiment. I upgraded everything, but the tuners (people replace perfectly fine tuners far too often IMO) and I had my tech give the neck as much attention as needed to make it as good as possible. When I got it back, yes, it was vastly improved. No doubt it transformed the guitar into something tolerable, but it still had a weird harshness to it. Like an upper-mid spike. This was with one of my favorite pickup sets, the Seymour Duncan Jazz/JB set. I ended up swapping all the electronics with an Epi Les Paul Custom and sold it.
That $799 Epi? It's absolutely one of my favorite guitars. It took me 5 different Epi Les Pauls to land on my white Custom, but it was so worth it. No, it's not quite there with the tone of my Gibsons (with Burstbuckers
Well, I’m not the best player. Plus this was an early video. I’m trying to get better at recording guitar.
Nice review, pickups sound muddy, but the guitar looks pretty cool!
I agree. They did sound muddy.
it looks like it has a one piece neck or does it have a scarf joint ?
I can't be sure. It really looks like one piece but could have just a really clean joint. If it isn't joined, it isn't very obvious at all.
Nice Review
Thanks I appreciate that.
Let me guess. Another $200 guitar that’s better than a Gibson.
Let me guess. Another person commenting on a video they didn’t even watch.
I didn't see any of this brand of guitars in Tony's store
He only had one left, he might have sold the last one. I haven't been to his shop in a while.
Please tune the guitar!
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