Valencia 4/4 black electro classical nylon guitar vc104ebk retail price £149 bought £71 on eBay from Ebony and Ivory Ltd. Well packed. Double boxed with bubble wrap and plastic plus two balls to cushion the Valencia box itself. Guitar is inside Valencia labelled box and wrapped and well protected inside.
Out of the box, upon quick viscual check, it really looks good. Then I immediately opened the battery compartment and put the battery in. Then, after tuning the guitar, played a little and it sounded very good.
This time a thorough inspection: The headstock and body are done beautifully especially the gloss finish. However, the neck has sharp edges, the frets got visible glue stain or marks and looks cheap. The worst part is that it’s got a spot/scratch on the fretboard as shown on the video. Apart from that, it rather sound very good unplugged.
It's night time, so I had to get my ZoomG1xOn pedal and plugged this electro-classical using bypass mode and then plugged my headphones. I put it on bypass mode. It sounded superb pluuged in. It has built in tuners where you can adjust pitch. 3 band eq with presence and phaser. The builtin phaser though doesn't have any control apart from a button to press on and off. So you won't really hear a very distinct phaser sound but you can feel that when you press the button there's a change to the sound but not prominent and you can't adjust or alter it. I did try the guitar using a patch that has got reverb on in my Zoom G1xOn and it's beautiful especially turning the builtin phaser effects on from the guitar. Also I tried it on the Acoustic Simulation patch of Zoom G1xOn and it changed the character of the guitar, it's more crisp and it's like a pro guitar, the one you would use for gigs and stage performances. I think this could be a very good recording guitar or a project guitar for a certain song, album or music that you experiment.
Overall, this guitar is very good. If only they put more effort to that neck. A little more on quality assurance or last check before sending the guitar.
Here's the sound of the guitar:
Out of the box, upon quick viscual check, it really looks good. Then I immediately opened the battery compartment and put the battery in. Then, after tuning the guitar, played a little and it sounded very good.
This time a thorough inspection: The headstock and body are done beautifully especially the gloss finish. However, the neck has sharp edges, the frets got visible glue stain or marks and looks cheap. The worst part is that it’s got a spot/scratch on the fretboard as shown on the video. Apart from that, it rather sound very good unplugged.
It's night time, so I had to get my ZoomG1xOn pedal and plugged this electro-classical using bypass mode and then plugged my headphones. I put it on bypass mode. It sounded superb pluuged in. It has built in tuners where you can adjust pitch. 3 band eq with presence and phaser. The builtin phaser though doesn't have any control apart from a button to press on and off. So you won't really hear a very distinct phaser sound but you can feel that when you press the button there's a change to the sound but not prominent and you can't adjust or alter it. I did try the guitar using a patch that has got reverb on in my Zoom G1xOn and it's beautiful especially turning the builtin phaser effects on from the guitar. Also I tried it on the Acoustic Simulation patch of Zoom G1xOn and it changed the character of the guitar, it's more crisp and it's like a pro guitar, the one you would use for gigs and stage performances. I think this could be a very good recording guitar or a project guitar for a certain song, album or music that you experiment.
Overall, this guitar is very good. If only they put more effort to that neck. A little more on quality assurance or last check before sending the guitar.
Here's the sound of the guitar:
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