Review of Casio CTK1150 keyboards

Casio CTK-1150 Keyboards

This is a review of Casio CTK-1150 bought from Argos last Xmas for my boy. We ordered Casio CTK1200 because that was the one that was advertised on their site that's on sale. Casio CTK 1150 is no longer available in the market. But anyhow, this one the one delivered despite the one we paid for was the CTK1200. Called them and asked but they said that it's the same. When we checked the manual that came with it, they were right. There's only one manual for 5 types or series of this keyboards. Having said that, let's move on and review what the keyboards got to give us.

Out of the box, you'll get like 4 sets of manual in different languages. One songbook, which are the songs listed in the songbank of the keyboards. Also, the songbook is useful if you have previous knowledge on how to read notes and good in learning stuff by yourself. Apart from that, I think the songbook is not meant for beginners or kids. Although, there are categories inside the songbook as A, B, C, D which means that A for beginners, then goes Intermediate, Advanced and Expert. Music stand and power supply are also included.

Now the keyboards' design is very good, lightweight, sound coming from the speaker is decent. Can use 6 AA battery on this one. 100 tones, 100 rhythms and 99 songbank. Learning option which turns on and off Right or Left hand. Also learning chords options. No sustain option or sustain pedal connection. Not touch response. No reverb or hall button/switch. But there's transpose/tune option.

By the way, we bought an X-frame keyboard stand separately and we're please with it.

Lyon by Washburn strat copy vs SIlvertone Rockit SG Copy

Lyon by Washburn HSS vs Silvertone Rockit SG

I did this electric guitar comparison video because mainly I wanted to know the tone and sound difference between the two. So I can decide which one to use and when to use it. I used my Panther TEGA-10 by Hohner practise amp which I modified the speaker and changed the stock speaker into Celestion 15 Eight. During this video, the speaker was not break-in properly yet but after months of using it and cranking it up during gigs and rehearsals, the tone and the sound was pushed to its limits and yeah, it sounded great. In case you're wondering, I use it during gigs. Some lads are laughing at me because I am using a practise amp during gigs but this little amp, sounds great when it's mic'd up and it is so portable.

I was using my Zoom G1xOn so I can switch from clean tone to crunch and lead. As well as making use of the reverb from my pedal because this Panther TEGA-10 doesnt have effects on it i.e. reverb or delay.

Camera used was my Huawei Honor 7 phone.

Epiphone Les Paul Special vs Silvertone Rockit SG comparison

Comparison of Epiphone Les Paul Special vs Silvertone Rockit SG copy

This is a comparison video between Epiphone Les Paul Special and Silvertone Rockit SG copy. I was lucky that my friend Mike of Crossedwind lend me his Epiphone Les Paul Special. So I did a comparison between the two guitars. You'll be the judge of the tone quality on this one.

I used one amp on this and it's the BB Blaster BBG15 FX practise amp. It is tiny but got a good punch. It has effects on it, delay/reverb and the overdrive channel.  I used my HTC One phone to record this video comparison.

Silvertone Rockit SG copy modification

Silvertone Rockit SG pickup modification

Had to change the pickup on this one, because the old one squeals a lot and the feedback was unbearable during live gigs. So I put on Warman Zebra Humbuckers on neck and bridge. It's a cheap pickup in terms of price but the sound and tone it can produce is great. Also I put a foil on the pots and toggle switch because I thought that perhaps that's one of the causes of feedback on this guitar. But I think it was mostly the pickups, anyway, I still put foil just to be sure.

On this review, I was using Panther Tega-10 by Hohner practise amp and there's also modification on this practise amp that I did.  Plus I plugged the guitar on my Zoom G1xOn multieffects pedal just to recreate the sound of my Roland Cube Street. Because there's not much on this Hohner Panther practise amp. No reverb or channel selection. Just simple setting of Master Volume, Gain, Volume, EQ and that's it.

I used my Huawei Honor 7 phone to record this video. My HTC One got a better audio and video quality but I think this one works out well too. Not that far from HTC One.