Electric Guitar- Spare Strings-Gig Bag & 10w Amp £50! [CLOSED]

m_will

thor wrote:

2. What is the best way to learn without signing up for lessons? Are there any good tutorials freely available on the web?

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You could try this site for free guitar lessons:-
Guitar Lesson World

Happy playing.

Luffy

All the guitar packages are sold out now oh well, might hit ebay up or something.

Prudent

Last time they sold out they got in more -just increased the price!

markwallace

A word of caution. I decided to investigate the hum level on the amp supplied with the guitar package, but didnt get that far! I was surprised to find that the single pole mains switch had been wired to switch the neutral ONLY of the mains supply, with the chassis mounted fuse permanently connected to live. I have reported it to my local trading standards. You may wish to have your amplifiers checked out by a competent electrician. Hopefully this was a "one off". I have photos of the wiring errors if anyone knows where I can post them.

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If you can wait for new stock or don't trust that amp wiring this lot do one for £59 though I imagine the 3w amp is rather poor.

http://www.gear4music.com/

Also look out for a Behringer VTone pack which is about £75 and comes with reasonable 15 watt amp

http://www.gear4music.com/index.php?sec=proddetails&pcode=GM108

I've no idea what Gear4Music are like.

thor

That 3 amp one looks ideal for me as I am not looking for loud sounds. Does the guitar itself sound like it is decent?

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With 3W amps you certainly won't get loud but it will sound horrible. I bought the Encore guitar mentioned on the Argos board which comes with a similar amp. Very nasty. You can't expect much with such cheap guitars but good for beginners, Mind you if you haven't got a decent Strat to compare it to you probably won't notice too much.

Flimber

markwallace wrote:

A word of caution. I decided to investigate the hum level on the amp supplied with the guitar package, but didnt get that far! I was surprised to find that the single pole mains switch had been wired to switch the neutral ONLY of the mains supply, with the chassis mounted fuse permanently connected to live. I have reported it to my local trading standards. You may wish to have your amplifiers checked out by a competent electrician. Hopefully this was a "one off". I have photos of the wiring errors if anyone knows where I can post them.

This is potentially very serious. Thanks for reporting it.

Mike.

biblejohn

If someone wants a better amp, i bought a brand new marshall one from a local guitar shop for about 60quid a few years back. It has loads of features on it, built in reverb, headphone socket and certainly is very powerfull - i seldom have it on more than about 2 on the scale which goes upto 10!

Just searching the net, its similar to this one which is £49..

http://www.guitarstrings.co.uk/cart/product.asp?key=51860

mjenn5

markwallace wrote:

A word of caution. I decided to investigate the hum level on the amp supplied with the guitar package, but didnt get that far! I was surprised to find that the single pole mains switch had been wired to switch the neutral ONLY of the mains supply, with the chassis mounted fuse permanently connected to live. I have reported it to my local trading standards. You may wish to have your amplifiers checked out by a competent electrician. Hopefully this was a "one off". I have photos of the wiring errors if anyone knows where I can post them.

I would be very interested in those pictures and will certainly be getting somebody to check ours out.

Thanks for letting us know