GigMaker EG Electric Guitar Pack with Amplifier, Gig Bag, Tuner, Cable, Strap and Picks - Metallic Blue

Great set for my kid! it sounds awesome with the amplifier it is very loud for something that small! overall is great guitar!

This is one great guitar! As a beginner, I cannot claim to know much about guitars, but I did do my research. Yamaha make great musical instruments and this guitar is recommended as a great beginner guitar by several places, including About. The package has everything you need to get started. THE GOOD: The guitar - One great instrument. The build feels solid and not at all cheap. The strings are close the the fret board which is great. The tuners are very smooth and feel good. The guitar also has 3 pickups and 5 positions which allow you to change up the sound of he guitar from rock to jazz. Basically, this is a really good guitar. And it has two nobs for volume and tone. The Amplifier - This is a good beginner amplifier. It is small and has 15 watts. It has two channels: Clean and Dirty. Plenty nobs for us beginners to play with: gain, dirty volume, clean volume, treble, middle, bass. Also has a quarter inch headphone jack. Despite what majority might think, 15 watts is enough for just about anything you'll be doing. The 15 watts allows you to turn up the gain all the way up and keep the volume down and still have it sound good. The electric tuner - a nice little add-on for beginners. The DVD - great place as any to start. Goes over the basics and teaches several chords. Other - comes with extra strings :) THE BAD: The guitar - none at all. The Amp - the only bad thing with it (for what it is), is that the headphones jack is a 1/4 inch jack so most of us with 3.5mm standard headphone will either need to get new headphones or adapter to use it. But it is no big deal in my opinion. The Guitar Cable - it is one cheap cable. Mine broke after 4 days. I also noticed that in the dvd that was provided, the instructor didn't use the cable that was provided but a monster cable, which I found to be funny. You can get a monster cable for pretty cheap here on Amazon, so again, nothing too serious. Order one when you order the guitar so you don't have to wait like I do. The Guitar Strap - again pretty cheap. It is like one of those run of the mill nylon straps that you see. I am going to invest in a better one but this one will do for most. On a side note, and this is with all guitars. Invest in peg locks. They will prevent the strap from coming off the pegs on the guitar. When putting on my guitar the strap slipped off the peg, but luckily I was holding the guitar very firmly. Again, this is true for all guitars and not just this one. Bottom line: Great guitar, great package, great buy. I am happy with it.

I'm a newbie, and this is my only guitar ever. So I don't really have another comparable. But I'll say this: In terms of build quality and looks, this guitar is outstanding. The sunburst color is even better than in the pictures. It's rich dark shade of brownish red. Looks exquisite. The guitar was really out of tune when it arrived. So much so that the tuner it came with had no idea what I string I was plucking. So it wasn't able to help much. It was only when a friend of mine heard it that he realized how out of tune it was. He used his amp to tune the guitar. Since then, it's been holding up fine. I've played the guitar every day for the past three weeks, and have only had to tune it once. It sounds good (but much better when my expert friend plays). The amp is adequately powerful. Clean and Drive are all the effects I need. The learning DVD is very helpful to start with. I have recently purchased Rocksmith on Xbox in order to take me to the next level. This guitar was a great purchase and has given me something to look forward to. I've only had it for 3 weeks, but so far it's been brilliant in all aspects. I don't foresee ever outgrowing the guitar or the amp in this lifetime. Perhaps in the next, if I try to learn as a teenager.

Why did you pick this product vs others?: It really is a GORGEOUS color and guitar. I have had no technical problems with it so far. I’ve had it for a little under a week. The amp works well and the guitar plays well. I am just a beginner but it is a great beginner guitar for the price. definitely has some things wrong that i’m not seeing as a beginner but for me it’s working fine. The only thing is the plastic film on the base is peeling off as per the first picture. I’m careful not to peel it or pick at it but I’m just a little disappointed about that is all. It is a good price point so I understand that the quality is 100% great. But the guitar should not be peeling like this on the 4th day of me owning it. Beginners: Perfect set up for a beginner. Has an amp and cables and picks. Color: Beautiful gorgeous metallic red. It’s so pretty I can’t even describe it.

This review is based on the package deal for the Yamaha Pacifica and comparing it with others like the Fender Squier both comparable in price and performance. If you’re looking for the best package, you should consider all options. Both the Yamaha and the Fender are awesome packages and as a package, they are both a draw. The Pacifica comes well packaged including a paper sleeve over the strings for protection. This guitar is a tad bit thicker and heavier than the Squier Affinity by Fender yet has a smaller body. Like other models, Yamaha provides a tapered front and back for comfort. The Pacifica is not as rounded at the edges like the Squier Affinity. The Pacifica body is shapelier with a longer extended horn and more robust center curves. The less rounded edges of the Yamaha make it easier to play sitting down as it hugs the legs better and doesn’t slide down like the Strats. The Squier Affinity is a more rectangular shape with less pronounced curves and a smaller horn traditional for a Stratocaster. Both are beautiful to play and to look at so this is a real draw. The Pacifica does something the Fender Strats don’t do. The humbucker on the Yamaha actually responds to the tone control when the switch is in the position 5 setting. You can really boost the highs with a 10 tone setting using the HB position. Even at setting 4 where the middle pickup and the HB both are active, there is a noticeable treble boost with the maximum tone setting at 10. The Fender Stratocasters have an extra tone control, one for the neck single coil and the other for the middle single coil. Neither tone control on the Strats work with either the single coil bridge pickup or the HB because Fender feels the proximity to the bridge where highs are naturally accentuated and the nature of the HB pickup doesn’t need a treble boost. The Fender Strats have the bridge single coil pickup angled down at the high E string so the treble is boosted only at the treble strings since the contacts with the treble strings are closer to the bridge. Yamaha defied the wisdom of Fender and simplified the tone control to only one control to handle all three pickups simultaneously, including the HB. Hats off to Yamaha since the treble boost is always a welcome advantage. The 15watt amp is perfect for the job. It is not a professional grade amp but more than suitable for home. It is the most compact and equally powerful amp as any other in a package deal. The Pacifica package is a superbly crafted package you will be glad to own. I am an avid Yamaha fan and this Pacifica will not disappoint. As an owner of a Yamaha piano and two Yamaha acoustic guitars, none, including Fender comes close in my opinion to the quality and sound of Yamaha. Yamaha unlike any other make detail their priority. The metallic blue is as beautiful to look at as it is to play. This package except for a low quality cable is everything you will need. Remember the Swiff Audio wireless transmitter and receiver for less than $80 will resolve the cable issue and make playing this guitar a real pleasure.

This is a great beginners electric guitar package. It comes with a lot of accessories, so you don't have to shop for them separately. A guitar stand instead of the case would have been more useful. But eventually you will probably need both. The electric guitar seems pretty good. I'd like to think Yamaha mean quality no matter the price. The amp is adequate. Small to expectation should reasonably match its size. It was nice to get all this for ~$340. I'm happy with it and can upgrade individual things later.

Works great, sounds great, everything included to learn to play. Guitar, Amp all as advertised. Tuner works also. Playing "stairway to heaven" well... sort of sounds like it. Happy for my first electric guitar.

I spent a lot of time researching the right guitar to learn to play as an adult. This one came highly recommend. The box arrived with most of the top missing - UPS said to contact them if anything was missing. Everything was in the box and was well packed - no damage. The guitar came out of the box ready to play and I followed the DVD instruction on how to tune. I even learned my first cord right away. The guitar is easy to play, feels good in my hands. I've had not issues with the cord that came in the box but I did order another one based on reviews. I also ordered a guitar stand. The amp is perfect for my home use I haven't explored all the sound options yet. Update - After walking by the guitar in my living room for 6 months I finally moved past my fear of being a beginner and picked it up. I've been following along with YouTube videos and learning how to play blues guitar. I took the guitar to a musician friend and he was very impressed by the out of the box set up and quality of the guitar. I am still using the cord that came with it, no problems to report. This is a great set up for the price.