Optek Music FG-421 Fretlight guitar

Strat-style guitar
One-custom humbucker/two single coil set-up
Maple neck includes patented Advanced Polymer Fretboard and the world's only built-in LED learning system.
Chrome hardware
Fixed bridge with fully adjustable saddles
Two-way truss rod

Guitar includes:

- 10 ft. Fretlight USB cable (Y connection for the Fretlight Dual Footswitch)
- Fretlight guitar software installation disk which includes:
- Fretlight Studio™ software
- Free Fretlight interactive videos (Beginner 101 and 201, Intermediate Sampler lesson, Advanced Sampler lesson)
- Fretlight Owner’s Manual
- Truss rod and bridge saddle wrenches

The free Fretlight Studio software includes:

- 5 free built-in Player songs plus 5 more free Player songs when you register your Fretlight guitar
- 10 built-in Video Riffs
- 120 plus stylized progressions to solo with
- 120 plus interactive text based beginner to advanced lessons
- Access to over 40 free downloadable Fretlight Video Riffs

UTILIZATION

The guitar itself is pretty bad. Honestly. It feels very cheap, like the quality of most people's first guitars. The LED learning system works like a charm, but the quality of the guitar detracts from it.

SOUNDS

Eh. This guitar doesn't particularly sound good. It's like a pawnshop special in terms of the quality of the pickups and sound-producing electronics. It would sorely benefit from some good Duncan or similar aftermarket pickups. I never swapped mine out because I felt the overall package of the guitar was lacking in quality.

OVERALL OPINION

The rating of 7s overall is a compromise. The learning system would be rated a 10, but the guitar itself is not that good. It has the same type of quality as a $150 Squier - the workmanship is inexact, the paint isn't incredible, the hardware is cheap, and the pickups are crap. So, given that this is a learning system, as well as a guitar, I average the two qualities together to make a level of a 7 for the review. I wish I could try the higher end models that Optek offers, so I could see if they meet the quality standards I feel the learning system deserves.

- Made in the U.S.
- Strato conventional LEDs with a system for the discrete active when you plug the guitar on PC / MAC
- The handle of the guitar has the particularity to have a layer polymre covering a system for the single diode. Otherwise, the guitar looks and sounds like all her little sisters strato other brands that fall within that price range.
- The learning technique is effective A veritable - In addition to a bank give enough UNESCORecords provided home and to display on all the guitar scales, chords, or grids of improv by music style, it is possible to display Dedicated Guitar Pro & noon on the handle. I confess to not be a handicap, however, I am a super excited! And, it would be difficult to learn and have fun faster ...

UTILIZATION

YES - Now I'm not a pro. I have a level of beginner-intermediates; And ergo perfect for me. Having learned about the traditional strato my beautiful brother, I do not see any diffrence notorious ...

SOUNDS

I am still in love with the sounds of Classic Rock 70's and Gun's style / Scorpio ...
By definition as a stratovolcano quite versatile, the Fretlight sounds good in all styles, at least for someone like me with small anne guitar at your fingertips.

OVERALL OPINION

It's been a year since I'm back and forth with a friend who has bought in a while, I finally come to me in DCID acqurir one - (I even bought 2 Hoping that my girlfriend put it as well - may be my mistake lol).
The report price is good quality - the only problem is the shipping costs that double the price of the guitar.
The system is light invisible if it does not plug the guitar to a PC - even his nose glued to the strings ... The instrument is primarily a strato traditional with a twist making the difference for people like me rvant to play Hendrix in 2 weeks and type of blues improvisation easily with friends ...

I do it again without hesitating that choice -