Members peavey_impact Posted November 11, 2008 Members Share Posted November 11, 2008 Has anyone tried one of these little guitars? Mahogany body, built-in amplifier/speaker and a built-in tuning tone for $199. Seems like a really cool lil axe to have around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frets99 Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Never tried it. But I have tried the Mikro. [YOUTUBE]arykNkN1rD4[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ganjaseed Posted November 11, 2008 Members Share Posted November 11, 2008 Never tried it as well but it seems pretty cool to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kneeldug Posted December 18, 2009 Members Share Posted December 18, 2009 I mainly play jazz, so this is my oddball guitar. I saw it on ebay for $50 and thought it would be good to have at work--no amp and such. I wanted to mess around with a short scale anyway. The fingerboard is quite nice. I cannot believe that the manufacturing has this tight of tolerances in a Chinese factory. I have the action adjusted really low and there are no buzzes at all. This is amazing considering that it is such a small scale. It was HORRIBLY set up when I got it. I'll bet they all come that way. The speaker is better than I had imagined, but not much better.The distortions are hilarious. It is not a serious guitar but it is not bad either. It would be my #1 choice for a kid's guitar--it seems solid and well-made. I wish I had had something this well-made to play when I was learning! An epiphone express is a far better guitar if you want a short scale, but that is mainly because they have a neck pickup, and, thus, no internal amp/speaker. It will be fun to play around with and it beats my old Synsonics terminator guitar w/self-amp by far (everything does). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members brandass Posted December 18, 2009 Members Share Posted December 18, 2009 I got one on close-out for my kid; great idea to have everything self-contained and battery operated. It looked really nice, but had a big-ass crack in the body, had to go back. Gave it a quick run-through anyway and found that the built-in amp was very prone to feedback, and not in a good way. Hard to play it with any sort of gain at all; doubt it was due to the crack itself, but maybe due to the impact that made the crack? Anyway, the rest of it was nice - neck, set-up, etc - and I would've been torn about sending it back (might've tried to mod the amp instead) were it not for the crack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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