Squier Guitar Packages

I bought this piece of shit out of a magazine for £180. It came with a strap, lead, video and a cheesy 10watt amp. er...... it was cheap and i was just starting out so i thought i got a good deal! Apart from that NOTHING! The cheap wood used in the construction(maple i think), the cheap ass pickup's. If you think that it could pass for a usa fender strat by covering the squier logo, your wrong because the cheap ass pickup's are more painful than getting your balls chopped off with a pair of rusty scissors. On clean there's no warmth or decent tone and when i'd switch to distortion and crank up the volume all you hear is SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!!! If i stood closer than 10ft away from the amp it sounded like it was going to explode! The action is too high so shredding and fast playing on a guitar like this is not an option! I hate the fact that you have to tune it every half an hour because it never stayed in tune. The tone knobs on the guitar do JACK SHIT!! The b string gave out a horrible twanging noise even if i changed it the day before! Cheap and poorly built. Worked fine for a month but after that EVERYTHING seemed to go wrong!! Strong though, it's bin dropped once or twice and the neck hasn't snapped off....shame. Even if your a beginner DO NOT buy this pile of crap! Go for a Peavey, washburn or even a yamaha. There IS alot better out there for he same price. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

i bought this thing at a local music shop for a little over 200 U.S. dollars. (california) when i bought this...i was a beginner who had no guitar playing experience at aLL. it looked good, construction was decent. according to some other poeple i've gotten lucky with mine, other certain people's strat packs had bunch of problems. but after i've played for a few months, now i realize squiers are crap. i suggest you go over to the "dislike" part of this review. FINALLY...the guitar sucks, the amp sucks (15watt fender frontman 15G). the pickups are horrible quality, i'm a huge hendrix fan..and with a squier, there is no way anyone can acheive the tone of hendrix's music (actually the guitar basically has no tone it sucks)...most of all..the fret job is so crap you have you stick your fingertip in to the fretboard when playing a note to avoid an annoying BUZZ..its like the guitar is holding me back from getting better (i just get super frustrated sometimes and feel like i want to poo all over the guitar). and like i said, i've gotten lucky with my strat pack my guitar had no technical problems you get what you paid for..and taht is exactly my point. the construction isnt half bad but its probably built in some sweatshop in Indonesia, what the hell can you possibly expect. im no racist but im just saying that at certain times you can be really disappointed with this guitar unless youre a beginner like i was. as long as you are just starting out..this isnt half bad actually. but i warn you..this guitar is only temporary till you get better. in fact im buying a real fender strat pretty soon. but if you do buy a squier and youre satisfied, hey whatever you know? good for you. i know i was for the first couple months of playing This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

I used the guitar for almost two years. I bought it when I started back up playing the guitar. During this time of exploration and trying to get back my chops while trying to improve from where I left off, this guitar served me well. It had enough tonal range for me at that point in my development. The 22 frets and decent action were adequate at that point. It even had a tremolo unit, which was cool. Unfortunately, I got to the point where the 22 frets weren't enough. The action and playability wasn't as good anymore. I didn't see the need to get it set up as I felt it was time to move on and upgrade to my current Ibanez. I didn't try many other models, because this is precisely what I needed at the time, a beginner pack. For the price, it did just the trick for what I needed it for at the time. There are much better choices right now for this price range (about $200), but to be fair, this was pretty much the right choice at the time of purchase.