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Ready to play right out of the box!
By: Scotty S.
Submitted: 11/30/2023
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Great service, great no interest payment plan, great instument, not just an instrument but an investment.
Sounds great over a PA with enough umph to carry through the sound on stage and leed the way. Thanks AMS
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Great baritone, especially for the price!
By: John Elmore
Submitted: 10/5/2022
3 people found this review helpful.
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Guitar looks good, sounds good! Buzzed just a little but on arrival. Minor setup and no more buzz. Electronics sound great!
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Excellent Baritone
By: BPJ
Submitted: 9/20/2022
1 person found this review helpful.
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I will admit, after seeing some of the negative reviews here I was a little worried about purchasing this guitar but I went ahead and did and couldn't be happier. It is a great sounding guitar and has excellent quality control. My only minor complaint is that the on board tuner isn't the most responsive, but I usually use a clip on tuner or pedal tuner so at least for me that is not a deal breaker. Also, if you want to tune it below B to B I would buy heavier strings as the string that come on it get a little flabby when down tuned.
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Great baritone sound!
By: Marcy
Submitted: 9/26/2020
3 people found this review helpful.
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Unbelievable sound from an affordable baritone guitar!
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Crap machine heads ...
By: Floyd Flanigan
Submitted: 8/21/2020
3 people found this review helpful.
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Absolute piece of crap. Crap machine heads. Won't hold tune. Fret buzz out the wazoo. Trimmed the bridge bone and adjusted the truss rod, even put on a new set of Elixer nanoweb baritone strings (because the ones that come on it could be used yo saw lumber) ... still an absolute waste of my time and money. The only reason I haven't returned it is that my girlfriend threw away the box and packing materials. I cannot believe, after three consecutive amazing guitars/experiences with AMS, they'd sell crap like this. 2 perfect Martins and a perfect EVH Exotic, then this piece of crap. I think it's beneath the reputation of AMS to continue selling these garbage guitars.
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Completely Agree: Unplayable
By: H61
Submitted: 11/4/2013
25 people found this review helpful.
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A previous reviewer said that the guitars he received were unplayable and that he had to send both of them back. The problem he experienced was strings buzzing/fretting out. I had the same, but opposite problem: The neck had a twist that made the lower strings extremely high off the fingerboard and the higher strings so low that they fretted out as they approached the 12th fret. (The G string also fretted out at the seventh fret.)
I have no idea how the guitar sounds, for it was impossible to play.
In regard to finish, I would say that the guitar would be attractive to lovers of high gloss, but, to me, the gloss seemed much too thick/heavy.
American Musical was superb in regard to the return process for this guitar, so there are no complaints in that regard--none, whatsoever--but this model guitar would appear to be one to which caveat emptor applies.
This guitar was made on a bad day at the factory.
Unplayable.
Don't know.
Terrible, possibly the worst I've ever experienced.
Fine.
If you put this guitar on a stand, it will stand up well, I'm sure. Otherwise I would say that this one was, for all practical purposes, DOA.
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Really wanted to like this. I must have gotten the duds.
By: Bobbo from Huntington Beach, CA
Submitted: 9/23/2013
2 people found this review helpful.
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I like the possibilities that this guitar offers but the TWO instruments I got were both un-playable. The first one had a completely unbalanced pickup and both instruments had so much fret buzz I couldn't play either.
I don't know how dependable this instrument is - I haven't been able to play it.
Both instruments were unplayable. I brought them up to pitch, relieved the tension on the neck and by the time I got it to a point where it didn't buzz - the action was so high that it didn't play in tune anymore. I brought it to my tech and he confirmed what I thought ~ this guitar has a massive hump where the neck meets the body. It would need a lot of work, with fret level and crown in order to get this to even a playable place.
The low B string was making a farting noise when amplified. The other 5 strings were noticeably lower in volume.
The tuner worked great.
Terrible. When I tuned it up the strings were completely on all the frets. I could not play it at all. AT BEST - I got it to play first position chords but I couldn't go above the 5th fret before it started buzzing out.
It looked awesome.
Won't find out. I sent BOTH of them back.
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Badazz Baritone
By: Steve from Knoxvegas
Submitted: 1/31/2013
1 person found this review helpful.
This is a very well crafted instrument.
I've only owned it for a month but expect it will last a long time. Excellent build quality.
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I would highly recommend this guitar to anyone in the market for a baritone.
Excellent playability.
Rich lows and bright highs.
Flawless.
A little buzzy but cleared up after a few days.