Top Five Kids Electric Guitar Packages

http://bit.ly/pdlFJq Discovering music and aspiring to play guitar can be one of the most wonderful experiences of childhood. Playing music with your children is also an excellent way for parents and children to bond with each other.

The quality of the guitar can often be the deciding factor in your child’s choice to continue learning guitar or kicking it to the curb. You will want a guitar that is not difficult for your child to play. Choosing the right guitar to purchase for your kid can be a difficult task but with a bit of knowledge you can ensure that your child gets a guitar that will not cause them or you, any excess frustration.

Luckily for the parent there are a plethora of options out there in regard to purchasing a kid's guitar without breaking the bank. In this article we will be looking at five of the best kid’s guitar packages out there.

5. SX RST 3/4 Short Scale Guitar Package

The ¾ scale SX RST is a quality electric guitar designed for children. The RST Package is a great bargain at $99.00 for the guitar, 10 Watt practice amp, gig bag, shoulder strap, cable, and instructional DVD. The guitar features a dual cutaway body made from solid Alder. A sleek Maple neck and Rosewood fret board give this guitar stellar playability at an incredibly economical price. The guitar itself is light weight and contoured for maximum comfort. The GA-1065 Guitar Amp features 10 Watts of power pushed through a 5.5” speaker.

4. Ibanez Jumpstart Mikro Electric Guitar and Amp Package

The Ibanez Mikro Electric Guitar Package comes with the Ibanez Mikro Kids Guitar, an amplifier, a tuner, and cables. The Mikro features a 22.2" scale neck with relatively low tension, ensuring that the strings are easy to keep under control. The smaller sized body also makes it a great axe for kids. Coming in at around $180.00 this guitar package provides a quality instrument and amplifier at an exceptionally reasonable price.

3. Fender Squier Kid's Electric Guitar Package

A recognizable name and a recognizable axe at a bargain price. The Fender Squier Mini electric guitar is a ¾ scale guitar with a Stratocaster style body featuring a bolt-on Maple neck with a Rosewood fret board. This package comes with a Fender Tone Master Mini Amplifier. The amplifier is a single watt amp about the size of a walkman and produces an incredibly satisfying sound. The Fender Squier Mini package comes with the Tone Master Mini Amplifier, gig bag, guitar picks, guitar cable, and shoulder strap.

2. Epiphone Flying VeeWee Bullseye Zakk Pakk Electric Guitar Value Pack

Designed by the one and only Zakk Wylde, Epiphone’s Flying VeeWee Bullseye Zakk Pakk delivers a quality instrument and everything needed to start playing right out of the box. Aimed at children and beginners alike, the Epiphone Flying VeeWee Bullseye Zakk Pakk is a very capable setup and will not cost you a fortune. Retailing at around $300.00, the package includes a Marshall MS-4ZW micro stack amplifier that is able to produce very clear tones. It is the perfect practice amp for any beginner. The Flying VeeWee Bullseye features a mahogany body with a rosewood fingerboard. Twenty-one frets and an Epiphone 700T humbucking pickup will ensure hours of rocking.

1. Epiphone Les Paul Pee Wee Zakk Pakk Kids Guitar

The Epiphone Les Paul Pee Wee is another guitar made by Epiphone that is geared towards younger musicians. Also designed by guitarist Zakk Wylde the Les Paul Pee Wee features the classic Les Paul guitar body style and delivers that rich Les Paul tone. The Les Paul Pee Wee also comes with the Marshall MS-4ZW micro stack, a gig bag, and cords.

While the quality and ease of play of the guitar can make all the difference in the learning process, in the grand scheme of things it will ultimately be up to your child to continue pursuing music in their lives, and you should never force your child into music. By introducing your child to music at a young age you allow them the ability to create a lifelong passion that can enrich their lives for years to come.

Kids Electric Guitar Packs

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Malden Subhuman Guitar Review

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A macabre black paint job, a creature-inspired body shape and a sinister name don’t automatically qualify a guitar for employment as a metalworker. But if that same shady plank plays with the speed of the Malden Subhuman and incites high-gain aggression from an amplifier as the Malden’s scary-hot pickups do, then you have a weapon that’s ready to serve a darker purpose.

The Subhuman’s body and 25-inch-scale set neck create thick tones, which are punctuated by the edgy attack of nickel hardware. Fit and finish are excellent throughout, and the bound indian rosewood fretboard displays the same striping and open-grain qualities of the prized Brazilian subspecies. The narrow neck makes stretches easy, but its round shape means there’s always wood stabilizing the palm of your hand.

Malden’s Tesla VR-Extreme humbuckers deliver screaming high mids and a trashy “edge of destruction” crunch, and they quickly produce endless harmonic feedback from sustained bends. Both pickups split to single-coils when the tone knob is pulled up. Combine that with its dangerously slick neck and angry tone, and you have a guitar that is defiantly subhuman.

Malden Subhuman Guitar Video Review

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Vox Classic Plus AC50CPH head and V412BN Cab Review

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Here's a great review for those Vox lovers. I know I am one! For several decades Vox was pretty much considered a onetrick pony when it came to amp production, but the Vox AC30 was one hell of a studly stallion to build any company’s stable around. Since the dawn of the new millennium, Vox has introduced several impressive amp models to expand the company’s appeal beyond AC30 aficionados, including the acclaimed Valvetronix digital modeling series and the Custom Classic series, which adds modern features and flexibility to the timeless Vox sound.

Vox’s Classic Plus range further broadens the company’s offerings by providing an even wider palette of tube tones, including high-gain distortion as well as classic Vox chime and grind. The line currently consists of 50- and 100-watt heads and a 50-watt combo. I tried out the AC50CPH 50-watt head with a matching Vox V412BN cabinet loaded with four Vox vintage-style 12-inch speakers.

FEATURES

Whereas most products in the Vox line feature genuine Sixties styling, the AC50CPH head seems to take visual inspiration from another British legend—Hiwatt—right down to its white piping, recessed cutout control panel and chicken-head knobs. However, the knobs (all 15 of ’em) are white, allowing you to quickly confirm settings even across a dimly lit stage. Each of the two channels features its own separate three-band EQ section (bass, middle, treble), reverb, volume and gain controls for truly independent operation. Channel 1 also includes a tone cut control to mimic classic AC30 Top Boost tones, while Channel 2 offers a presence control and bright and fat switches to provide more modern sounds and flexibility. A master volume control is also included for overall volume level settings.

The AC50CPH’s rear panel offers a similarly robust and versatile selection of features, which include two parallel speaker outputs, an eight-/16-ohm impedance selector switch, an effect loop and a versatile direct output section. The effect loop is mono and features an on/off switch and a high/low level switch that provides +4/-10dB settings to match most outboard gear. The direct output features a level control that operates entirely independently of the amp’s volume settings (a truly useful feature that makes it easy to set ideal D.I. levels when connected to a recorder or mixing board and running the amp live), balanced XLR and unbalanced 1/4-inch output jacks, a ground-lift switch and a low-pass filter switch that cuts harsh highs and emulates the warm, rounded tone of a speaker.

Featuring two EL34 power amp tubes and four 12AX7 preamp tubes, the AC50CPH provides 50 watts of output. Because EL34 tubes do not compress as quickly and easily as the EL84 tubes in a classic AC30 circuit, the tones in the classic-voiced channel are not spot-on emulations, although they come pretty close, especially in the crucial upper mids and highs where a lot of an AC30’s distinctive “chime” resides. The power tubes really come into their own in the high-gain “modern” voiced channel where they deliver the crunch and tight bass today’s players prefer.

PERFORMANCE

Vox amps have always been great choices for players who want something with different personality than the typical tones of a Marshall, Mesa/Boogie, Fender, etc. The AC50CPH lives up to this reputation while broadening the tonal palette of the characteristic Vox voice (isn’t that redundant?). This is not a sound-alike amp with tones that you’ve heard a million times before but rather an extension of the Vox personality into high-gain tones that are ideal for metal and hard rock. This is particularly evident in the midrange and treble response above 3kHz where the AC50CPH exhibits almost three-dimensional brilliance.

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Channel 2 features EQ controls with different center frequencies than Channel 1 and delivers the gamut of modern distortion tones, from crunch to crush, although it doesn’t quite equal the massive low-end “woof” of some modern amps. Instead, it provides thick, singing midrange (especially with the fat switch engaged) that is better suited to soloing and precise rhythmic work than meat-head power chord bashing.

The Vox V412BN cabinet is a decent, affordable match for the AC50CPH head as it tames the highs somewhat and rounds off the midrange. However, if you can afford to spend a little more, I highly recommend trying a cabinet loaded with Vox Alnico Blue speakers or Celestion Vintage 30s, which produce more “hi-fi” treble response and tighter bass.

THE BOTTOM LINE

If you've always wanted to own a Vox amp but found the sounds a little too antiquated for your tastes, the AC50CPH is the perfect solution. It delivers crushing high-gain tones while still capturing the essence of that vintage Vox vibe. Vox fans couldn't ask for much more. Thanks to GuitarWorld for the report!
Source: VoxAmps.com

Vox AC50CPH Video Review

Review by GuitarWorld




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Washburn Vintage Jazz Box and Parlor Acoustics

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Washburn Guitars has announced a new Vintage Jazz Box archtop hollowbody, the J600, and two new additions to its range of Parlor acoustics, the R315KK and R321SWRK.

These guitars were on display at the NAMM show in January, alongside Stu Hamm's new signature Washburn bass, The Hammer.

The Jazz Series addition features a maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, spruce top, flame maple back and sides, gold hardware, bound f-holes and a Venetian cutaway. RRP is $1247.90, available mid-2011.

The Parlors are based on the R314K and R320SWR vintage models, minus the 'vintage' finish. Both feature mahogany necks with ebony fretboards and bridges, abalone rosettes and herringbone bindings. The R315KK has a spruce top while the R321SWRK boasts a solid spruce top and solid Rosewood back and sides.

R315KK RRP is $712.90, R321SWRK is $1,069.90, also available sometime in mid-2011. See Washburn Guitars for more.

Washburn J600 Vintage Jazz Box Guitar

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GuitarCenter Coupon - $20 Bucks Off

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