Silent Electric Steel String Guitar

A good value for the price, but keep in mind that the price is very low for a musical instrument. It looks and feels like the kind of guitar you would expect from Walmart; don't expect music store fit and finish. Out of the box, it's little more than a toy. The strings are junk. Throw them out. Expect to adjust the truss rod, knock in some high frets, and properly finish the fret ends. The only reasonable amp setting is full bass, with treble and midrange turned off. The sound was too shrill otherwise. I suspect that the internal amp was not designed for a piezoelectric pickup.That said, everything else about this minimalistic guitar is really nice. It's lightweight and easy to carry, just over 4# with bag and all. The intonation is accurate, and the sound is very clear with headphones, and even better thru a guitar amp. After a bit of setting-up, it's a very good guitar for taking along with you as you travel.

Amazing practical design & light weight portability make this guitar a potential instrument design changer. Sound quality from the onboard amp is crisp & clean. Echo function expands the range of possibilities in countless ways. Fret accessibility is easy & neck is fantastically fast. Guitar comes without strap buttons so I installed my own. Not a drawback, because it allowed me to set strap location my way. This ax weighs only about 4 pounds & folds into a handy little form. I have also played it folded as a lap steel. Beautiful in appearance, this is a minimalist's dream: slim, technologically perfect, & durable. The added jacks for headphones/earbuds and MP3 player input work flawlessly as well. This is a great guitar all around for a number of reasons: playability, design, price, & portability. Comes with a neat case about the size of a violin or mandolin. I've been playing since 1963 and this is overall one of the best designed guitars I have ever played.

My husband liked it very much but would like to know what effects pedal to use to get a better base and mellow sound it is sharp sounding right now thank you

An ability to have got a folding light-weight silent guitar for midnight toilet-playing, trips and short cloub sets was extremely inspiring for me from start of my attempts of public performances. Unfortunately in our harsh territories the silent guitars can be Yamaha's ones or "cheaper" Aria's instruments and you cannot find something other even in on-line shops. For me it would be better to buy new "strat" for these money. So when I found cheap Ruison silent guitar before my El-Paso business trip I was pretty wondering and decided to purchase one these instruments after some internet investigation. Is I understand these guitars are sold on the US only despite the fact that they are created and manufactured on another continent. What I found before the purchase is these guitars are quite compact, have got acceptable sound and pretty odd echo effect. Well... So one day I got a parcell on the reception of my Hilton Doubletree hotel. Let me share some of my experience.I can't show a carton box of the guitar because my new camera hadn't been received at that time. The guitar inside one is shipped with own soft case. That is pretty durable but the protective layer could be thicker in order to protect the instrument during trips. Really if you want to take the guitar on voyages you should to order something more reliable.The dimensions of the cover are quite moderate so you is really able to place it in the plane luggage box over you head... But it would be better to be the first person who places luggage there and to pray for the other passengers haven't got hard sharpen-angle cases. Usually the airport staff doesn't protest when you're trying to take the guitar to cabin. Honestly. I tried some times in different airports. I attached photo of case in comparison with regular dreadnought one.Ok. Lets take a look... In our harsh territories there is some prejudice about a quaility of goods from one of the main world producers country. We even use the country name as a nominal. But what about the US shops? Is quility acceptable? Let see... Fretboard is suddenly straight, now screws, no humps - this is not guaranteed even for more expensive instruments. Arcs are performed from steel (not an alluminium) and have some soft sleeves from some kind of porous rubber. The paint of handles looks unreliable a bit but it looks like the instrument is pretty good (for its money). Oh, Stop! The two arcs are attached to the deck by four plastic brackets. These brackets are screwed by two screws each... And one of screw... I've attached a photo of this issue after some progress. It looks like the best idea was to had the guitar changed but, unfortunately, I'm living on other continent and shipping is a real problem in this situation. The defect likely is progressing one with breaking as a result.The guitar is equipped by 11 or 12 mm demo strings (a kind of change-me-ASAP) and 9v. battery in the battery socket so you can try the instrument immediately. The bad thing - I prefer 10-50 strings, thinner fingerboards and less distance from strings to frets so I could play almost nothing. Fortunately the only person who heard it was myself. The other unexpected thing for me are two dots on the seventh fret. I used to have only one there and two on 12-th. (See picture)The good feature is a big piece of red wood in the middle of fingerboard and deck (they are performed as a solid wooden massive), it helps to prevent deformations and make the fingerboard more strength. Also you can find an anchor rod key in the case pocket and this rod is really works! So you can tune the fingerboard in some range. But, unfortunately, you have to remove a decorative plug to take an access to it and it's attached by three screws. Really I couldn't make the guitar more convenient for my playing style by myself due to some constructive features.The next strange thing are guitar picks. The same layout is used by Aria in their silent guitars and perhaps was inherited from spanish-style nylon string instruments but... Why don't they use an electro-guitar picks??? It would be much easier to rule the strings and to have an standard nut... But... We have what we have. I attached the picture as well. The third and the fourth strings are pressed to the fretboard and little by little wipe it. The other consequence of this odd idea that the nut has obviously hand-made gaps in order to force strings to be on proper places (picture).The fret bounds have got sharpen edges and should to be polished to avoid discomfort during the playing.I brought the guitar to workshop I know (they tuned my Washburn some years ago) and asked them to improve the guitar for my playing manner. They have seaming frets on the fretboard, polished their bounds, changed nut totally and repaired a production defect on bracket. Also they have tried to change piezoelectric transducer but rolled back these changes. Now I have got an guitar that is extremely more convenient for me in comparison with initial one. I've attached pictures with new nut and seaming frets with my turtle as well. The good idea is to add a mount for a guitar strap at least in order to protect the heel of the guitar during transportation but it's for the next time...And now about playing experience. From my point of view the best style for this guitar is finger one, especially after “refactoring”. The sound is “poor but clean” with exaggerated treble and someillegibility in high-medium so when you're playing chords by mediator some of sounds from second and third strings can be masked by the first one and basses. Basses are ok, more or less, anyway you can easy increase it by bass handle. The much more difficult thing is to increase the middle-high tone. The other side-effect of exaggerated high frequencies is parasitic sounds that are produced by your hand during chord playing especially if you're using “muffling” of strings by your palm (sorry, I don't know this specific term in English). Usually it's hidden when you're using combo or cabinet but quite distinctly in your headphones at night. That's why masters tried to change the piezoelectric transducer but he didn't found anything more acceptable due to specific of modern transducers on the one hand and specific of guitar preamp on the other. So this guitar needs a good equalisation if you want to play from stage. The other things that can improve the sound a bit are a guitar processor or a kind of special devise that imitates an acoustic guitar deck volume. But the last one costs the same money with this guitar so the idea to buy them together looks pretty odd. The “echo” effect of this guitar is a kind of “funny story” soon than a real helpful thing. But if your name is Elvis and you're playing in the begin sixties you might be impressed. Perhaps. In all other cases please use an any of outer reverberation you can find.The last thing that I'd like to notice is a method of attachment of arcs to the deck. The consequence of the using of the folding principle unlike other models leads to unstable behavior of whole construction when you're trying to use bands, thumb of your left hang or some othertechnique like that with some additional strength not in the “plane” of your guitar. I don't want to say that the guitar folds away but you can feel some “backlash” in your hands and this can be a kind of a nasty surprise. The electronic is switched of by pluging of one of jacks (Line out or headphones) and swiched of by unplugging. Don't leave plugged guitar aloneSo the miracle did not happen. I spend additional 77 dollars for tuning, refactoring and repair and I have got an instrument for midnight toilet playing, trips and short sets in crowded noisy clubs. And I will never use this instrument for recording or attentive listeners. Amen

This is a great idea as some of the others are outrageously expensive. Haven't bought one yet but a friend did and I was impressed. A good acoustic pre-amp with a parametric eq would round out the sound. Ifcost is a factor, try the Behringer ADI-1 Acoustic pre-amp. Have used one for years and you can get one on Amazon for about $30. I would suggest getting the Behringer power adapter also for about $10. The oedal cleans up the highs nicely but eats batteries. Still it's the best parametric eq for the money. Even the casing is metal

As a hemodialysis patient, I spend 15 hours a week in "the chair." This guitar is Perfect for my needs. Now I can be productive and practice at dialysis.