BEFORE I ordered this guitar I just couldn't BELIEVE that they could sell it so cheap so I inquired of other purchasers and even the seller. After relative assurances that they were actually selling the guitar for the advertised price I decided to purchase it. When the guitar arrived I was so THRILLED! I was like a freakin' kid in a candy store. Couldn't help but get on it immediately and start strumming....not knowing how to play, but I didn't care, I was enjoying MY guitar!!! I have been wanting a guitar for like....FOREVER! I just couldn't stop laughing for joy! I pulled everything out to make sure it was all there. Nothing was missing. I set it up and started to get down. Of course I had to crank up my Galaxy S4 to video the whole event.....my first ever notes played on a guitar, so when I get famous I can sell that video for a MILLION DOLLARS! I'm no guitar aficionado, but looking at it, strumming on the strings, feeling the frets..nothing was amiss. Because of some critical reviews I decided to take it to the local guitar shop to let the "experts" look at it. I told them to re-string and tune it for me and the repair guy told me those strings were fine. He did say it is still good to change strings on any guitar, even from their shop when you first buy it because you don't know how long the guitar has been sitting in warehouses, on shelves etc I told him to proceed with the re-stringing. Before he started though he plugged my guitar in his amp and started playing and said the strings sounded good already. I told him change the strings anyhow then I will know what fresh strings sound like so I can compare the sound to when I strum the poop out of my guitar within a couple months time period. Gotta learn these things at some point in time you know and of course you need some base measurement to compare other sounds to. After the repairer re-strung it and tuned it he plugged it into his amp again and started playing. I told him it was a inexpensive guitar I bought off of Amazon. He asked how much I paid for it and I told him $67. He couldn't believe it and told me my guitar sounded great! He said a lot of more expensive guitars don't sound as good as mine does, but the repair guy KEPT playing my guitar. What The....? GIMME MY GUITAR MAN!!! He was trying to enjoy MY guitar a little bit too much so I stuck my hands over the counter and he relinquished it. I left that store knowing I had bought a great guitar at a great price because I had gotten an unbiased, expert opinion. I highly recommend buying this guitar kit for anyone who wants a great starter kit.

I bought this for Rocksmith. Works freaking awesome for the game. What seperates me a small bit from other Rocksmith players maybe, is that I am around tons of Guitar players (who have been playing for 10 years) and I really wanted to get into it. I had never even held a guitar, but I wanted to learn so I could jam in a year or two with my friends and co-workers. They made fun of me for buying a beginners package saying how crappy the guitar will be. I was worried, but when I got the package I was relieved to see it was not a rip-off. The guitar seems to be built well and stays in tune (according to the game, which seems to be pretty accurate). The amp works great... unbelievably loud... to play it in my man-cave... I can only turn it up 3-5% or it is overpowering. It also comes with a single piece of paper that is like a cheat sheet for beginners for guitar with basic cords and such. However, there is a little fret buzz when you strum the Low E string. From what I googled on this, it seems this can be because of a bad "nut" on the neck... more than likley if I took the guitar to a Guitar shop and had them restring it and fine-tune the things on it it would be great... but thats $50. At first I could tell no difference between this Guitar and my Friend's $1,500 Les Paul (because I was/am SOOOO new to the instrument... any instrument actually) but have quickly started to see the differences. This Guitar seems to sound sloppy and loose and feels that way after getting a feel for the guitar in general(even though it DOES keep tuned very well). Nicer Guitars seem to feel more fine-tuned and responsive and hold notes longer. Playing this Guitar and a high-end one side by side (by someone who knows what they are doing) provides very different sound to someone who knows what to listen for. Simply put, this guitar is more than worth the Money... but once you get addicted to Guitar, which I have in the two weeks I've had it (I've played for probably 30-35 hours already)... I am already trying to rationalize reasons to buy a much nice (and more expensive) Guitar that plays "smoother". I give this product 5 stars because of the price. If its wasn't so Cheap, I'd never have gotten into Guitar... now I am addicted and see the benifits of a more expensive Guitar, and appreciation for the instrument.

The guitar and amp are ok for the price, but there were some significant issues due to the bridge being almost an inch misaligned on mine. I was able to redrill the bridge and fix the issues and the guitar is fine now. Would be nice if it were done out of the box. Regarding just how bad the bridge misalignment was, firstly the treble pickups were almost completely off the strings, so the guitar was producing high pitch noise at about half or less volume. Second, the bridge was set too far back so even when perfectly tuned, the guitar when fretted produced sound at about a half semitone off key. Sounded absolutely terrible out of the box. Perfectly tuned, it sounded like I was hitting the wrong fret. The bridge was so far back that the maximum adjustment on the bridge screws was still considerably off intonation. I redrilled the holes to align the bridge with the pickups and move it forward so I could calibrate the string intonations properly. It works a lot better now, and if this were the sound it had out of box I would give it five stars. It is perfectly adequate for an electric guitar. I still haven't perfected the intonation, but now the bridge screws are at least in the correct range so I can fine tune it. It would be nice if they used a intonation tuner to set up the guitar before packing, or at least did some basic quality control to make sure the bridge is aligned. I'd buy it again since I don't mind tweaking instruments, but my example was not a good guitar for a beginner. Too bad, the fundamentals are fine.