This guitar is made to feel 12 year old kids feeling hardcore, and to learn some chops. When they'll mature, they'll get a Jackson or ibanez etc. What's all the hate spitting about? You know that a 20 year old would never get one. About the high end custom ones, it's a different ballgame. However for the $ rather get a gibson
Actually First Act has been around for many years and started out building custom guitars only. They have a "youth series" of course, but they build some high quality guitars as their mainstay. I have one of the Garagemaster guitars (which has the same electronics as this model,W/ Delia styling) and the thing plays awesome. Excellent action and set-up from the factory and the thing screams harmonics . Those who put down First Act, have simply never played one.
I love first acts. Once you oil up the fretboard, and change out those god awful strings, they're great. And let's face it, once you're playing metal, everyone is gonna scream at you to get active pickups. So eventually you will, and this just begs for SD blackouts. Which will happen as soon as christmas is over. :)
He had to use so much reverb just to make the guitar sound partially decent. This guitar is a piece of shit, but a lot of artists are using their customs nowadays. Mastodon, Saviours, Converge. If you want to buy a first act guitar, get a custom.
i had a f.a. -i hated it-i busted it up...sounded like crap.i also found a 15 w. pratice amp in the clearance isle at WallyWorld for 10 bucks-no lie, now the amp was decent,and lasted 8 yrs.....
i found one of these in a parking lot. not strings, missing some shit at the bottom, but i got it fixed up for cheap. its a GREAT learning guitar. its fun to play .. and.. for free i cant stay anything bad about it.
i have a fender squier and an ibanez gio which are great guitars. these crap guitars come from wal-mart! i have an acoustic first act, and it is the worst guitar i've ever had. i'm gonna smash it one day. it doesn't have a good sound, and it probably has lead paint
@NukleheadMcSpazatron -smash the fuck out of it. i think these guys made chainsaws before they made music stuff-ALL their axe,s SUCK-i,ll wait till these go on sale for 40 $ ,then SMASH IT !
your best bet as a beginner is a used guitar from a decent company. you may spend a little more getting a quality acoustic used than a cheapo acoustic, but if your first guitar lasts you a lifetime of music, it was the right choice.
That.... kinda sounded bad.... But even to get a tone that decent out of a First Act, he must have been playing through the world's best amp. I hate this company so much. I started on one and even as a beginner I hated it. I don't like the "learn on crappy equipment and get something better later" philosophy. I think you're more motivated to play when your music sounds good.
FIRST ACT SUCKS EVERYONE. Even when I first started guitar, I knew not to get one. Anyone who thinks they are even the slightest bit descent, they are retarded.
@diceman1000 Really man, Your english is so well put with you calling me a douche on EVERY video. Your vocab is so much broader than anyone I have ever met man. These guitars are not articulated at all and can barely get anything from them. Im 17 man and Ive already done so much for myself. How many 17 year olds do you know are a Co-manager at a music store, teach lessons and have better language than an older adult. NOT MANY!
@MrGuitarcollector5 I do and FYI its really the guitarist not the guitar player. I have more than one guitar and on my firstact I would tear you apart. you're probably a garbage guitar player strumming in Drop D thinking you're heavy
@Rikusorakh1Prod Ok, I hardly play drop D, Im not much of a metal guy but more of the minor blues and 80s rock guy. I play E standard so your wrong right there. Im pretty sure that they dont make a shitty musician a manager at a music store, And my students would realize that I suck and dont know anything and I wouldnt give lessons. But im the opposite of everything you said so there. Go ahead and try to Tear me apart. And FYI, The guitarist and guitar player are the same thing.
@masterbeat04 Umm, I dont even like underoath but tim doesnt use first act. He has a gibson SG that he uses normaly. The other guitarist uses a first act. Its a "higher end" first act but I still wouldnt use it.
@MrGuitarcollector5 nope, he switched already i think... he threw his sg at aaron gillespies final gig with them... and he used a first act les paul...
i love dumbasses, i was at somones house and i saw a first act acoustic and i picked it up and was gona give a play, and the whole fuckin room full a ppl were yellin noooo! put that down thats dude mans guitar he paid alota money for it and its a nice guitar and such, hahaha!!! i never knew toys r us carried "nice" guitars. people have no knowlege of what a good guitar is. i can take a emptie tissue box and a paper towel roll and use rubber bands for strings and tell ppl its a nice axe! buy it!!
@dimebaghudson What guitar would you recommend dude? I got a piece of shit first act guitar. The only thing I'm gonna use the first act guitar for is the zombie invasion.
@souljadarko it depends on what you play like what style music. if ur into metal they make some good ltd guitars or epiphones or jacksons. i play a dean from hell, but your best bet is to go into your local guitar shop and play around on the guitars and ask the dude man what he thinks. your guitar DOES NOT have to be usa made to be a good guitar, half of the usa les pauls play and sound almost 99% the same as the over seas les pauls but in no way would i play this guitar int he video haha
oh man LOL, at around 1:14 after he tries to use the trem, he's talking and looking in the camera, and YOU CAN SEE IT IN HIS EYES. ROTFL he's thinking "....oh gawd...this guitar just sucks..."
lol i also noticed that the tremolo didnt do anything...i dont like this guy as a reviewer, he usually plays bluesy or indie shit when he reviews, particularly annoying when he's reviewing a high gain amp which is meant for metal and hard rock.
@MetalInstrumentals I would still give the epiphone the upper hand because it has a stop bar.... so better tuning stability, i used to have an epiphone sg special i put grover locking tuners on it and emg's and it was okay but the guitar still had some funky fat tones.... like this one sortof..... save your money and get something better. for about 250 you can get a faded g400 which are pretty decent... especially for the money
@brt927 i agree with you the epiphone sg special are bad but you can mod them and get good tones from them but its better to save your money and get an OK guitar
you guys do know that although this particular guitar IS NOT ONE OF THEM ,they do make high end boutique quality instruments also ,right?i live in minneapolis ,and there is a place in the burbs i love called american band &guitar and they carry them,serious as a heart attack,and these were american made also,you didnt think adam levine played that junk did you ?
@Macsk8ing Yo man, guess what? I got one. And I've replaced the Bridge pickup with an alnico Large slug 636 pickup, the neck with a fat tone fatbucker, the tremolo bridge with a double locking floyd rose, I wired a battery to the boost switch, and replaced the neck with a mitey mite ebony fretboard neck. This thing blows fenders out of the water, guess what? it cost less than the price of a shitty squier.
@MegaKoga Well, anything you do on that guitar, you can't take the brand off, so it still sucks, why this one? With that money you could of got a nice branded guitar like LTD or Jackson middle priced guitars, but hey, it's your money, not mine =)
@Macsk8ing you know, I actually hate jacksons. And LTD is a useless brand with limited selection. So, with that in mind, my custom does reign supreme. I'm taking it out to guitar center, and various shops. When I finish, I'll upload a compilation video, and you can see
@DeizelMassacre im not saying he sucks, i just hate ads. espically guitar ads. they have a beast guitar player play it and it sounds great, but unless you know what you're doing, you cant replicate that. thats why. but it is a beginner guitar after all.
Everyone has to eat. walmart wants to write me a check to do a review for some of their junk -just make it payable to my wife (plausible deniability!). oh yeah, i almost forgot. do you guys think you could send one of those Richard Nixon masks with the jun-first act? just throw it in the cas...my bad, they don't come with one?
@XFXHITMAN No it doesnt, but sadly music, like many other hobbies, is absolutely full of gear snobs that have lost sight of the point (If they ever saw it to begin with.).
I like the boost gain switch but it would suck ass through a good amp high gained pups and add that to the mix and to top it off a distortion pedal, feedback heaven is what that will do. or you can get a swedish death metal tone, ala dismembered or grave
First acts suck. You would have to change the string gauges to get heavy sound,change the pick, and I bet when you get it out the box, it's not evn tuned. I play metal and to me 3:41 to 3:50 is a lie.
@sabin3030 A tuned in guitar has more strain on the neck and in shipping the conditions are guitar are in vary greatly. Wood can shrink or expand with temperature and humidty changes and if there are drastic changes while the strings are tuned tight it can cause warping of the neck, which is why you should never ship a guitar in tune.
in my opinion for a wal-mart guitar, this doesnt sound bad at all. first act doesnt suck, they're just CHEAP. for a begginner register guitar, this bad boy can pump some sounds, compare it to a squier strat and think about it.
@bladecatcherX99 ohhhhh. well, im a bassist, ha. ive tried first act electric guitars, and they are pretty good if you play through a decent amp. but a first act AMP is a total piece of shit.
@hottaco11 They never WERE shitty guitars, man; that's just the perception people had (call it prejudice, shallowness, superficiality; whatever you will) because their best sellers & "biggest gigs" were as cheap but SURPRISINGLY PLAYABLE stuff that was available at Wal-Mart.
MY first impression was that I wished we'd had guitars this good for this cheap when I was a kid! The Kays, Normas, etc. you could pick up for under $100 back then were mainly "finger bleeders!"
@tburn66 But maybe they didn't! I've got an ME-951 that I've done back-to-back takes of the Free Bird project on my channel with that stays in tune surprisingly well; to say nothing of the fact that I've yet to achieve back-to-back "keeper" takes of what is still the world's only true 1-guitar arrangement of Free Bird on any other axe but the Wal-Mart cheapie that I scored for $40.
And that includes a Stratocaster, a Prodigy, a Patriot, & a Les Paul!
The body looks nice with the design but cmon did they get lazy making the neck. The neck looks fuckin cheap. The guitar still kinda sounds a lil shitty compared to other guitars. Id recommend a squier strat instead of this.
This guitar is Actualy a very nice guitar..It is great for Rock just the way it is. But yes if you want HEAVY Metal you could get a little hotter pickup.
It feels very comfortable ..and holds a tunning well.
(and the tremblo Does work ...I don't know why he didn't really use it?)
well, i'l leavea fast review for the curious and soon to be sad purchasers of this guitar..this guy playing..sounds amazing ona good guitar..atm, he looks like a douche, this guitar's clean tone..blows, its the normal sound a bad guitar makes, he's just trying to cover it with diminishing chords..not even that can hide the awful sound.distortion is shit..get better out of a milk bottle with a wire in it..this guitar as others have said..is a fail.i dont hear metal..i hear walmarts cash register.
since when has first act made anything decent?!?!?! tht shitsw trash you can get at fricken toys r us for 100 bucks honestly had one for my first guitar wat the hell is this! haha i need watever amp hes got if it makes a first act sound like tht i wonder wat itll do for my schecter haha XD
Impressions from this video: Guitar sound is decent, maybe a little muddy on mid-gain settings. Boost is a really cool feature. Clean sounds also decent. Definitely on par with, say, a Squier's tone. Whammy bar was probably not set up too well in the factory and should be adjusted to taste by the buyer. I've heard the neck is quite comfortable on this model as well.
I'm trying to be as objective as possible with this post.
funny last time i checked serj from system of a down sing and does not play guitar for the band so yeah i guess if you don't play guitar first act is the right choice.
@diehigher Well matt pike from high on fire and baroness has a custom 9 string first act and both guitar players of mastodon are noted first act users
this was my first guitar its not bad but the tremolo does suck. it is great for begginers like i was it can get someone started on guitar for a cheap price
Like others have said already, not all first acts a as crappy as the ones at walmart but that the fact that they are sold by walmart make me thing they are not serious about building guitars therefore I won't go so far to even touch one. You can only dress up a terd so much.
i have a first act guitar is shite i h8 it but even though my mum and dad got for me as a xmas present when some prick-ass twat in asda coned my parents top buy it for me saying its really good yeah BULLSHIT! IT NEVER STAYS IN TUNE!
I bet most of you "guitarists" dissing the First Act metal series can't even play adequately. It all depends on who's playing the guitar. You can make a semi low quality brand, such as First Act, sound good with even a medium level of guitar experience. So before you go dissing, practice, and then try it for yourself. Because of right now most of you are basing your opinions off of labels and people who think they can play. Just see for yourself.
But they play custom-build first acts, which are pretty expensive, probably around $1500-$2000 The ones that you find in wal-mart (this one included) are probably cheaply made. Some proof would show how faulty the tremolo is, look how much he struggles to use it, and it still doesn't work.
@themodernguitarist very true the wal mart ones are cheap but first act does make 1,000 dollar guitars that ive heard are pretty sweet as you mentioned
@DefyTheSilence Dude exactly. Most of those trash talkers are the type who put the tools before the talent, thinking the 1k+ rigs mom and dad buy for them automatically make their garage band pro.
This guitar is made to feel 12 year old kids feeling hardcore, and to learn some chops. When they'll mature, they'll get a Jackson or ibanez etc. What's all the hate spitting about? You know that a 20 year old would never get one. About the high end custom ones, it's a different ballgame. However for the $ rather get a gibson
letterbekmen 1 week ago
I was not expecting the shit that started up at 2:47. Makes me want a first act.
screechkid116 3 weeks ago
my first electric was a slammer hamer. my first guitar period was a no name brand classical with a warped neck
DRGK9 1 month ago
It was a first act blue les Paul body type guitar with a white pick guard. Lol there
ruletheglobe1 1 month ago
My very first guitar was a blue les Paul body type with a white pick guard. Lol still have it too.
ruletheglobe1 1 month ago
Hahahahahahahaha, metal inspired pick guard...
DimebagDarrellFan100 1 month ago 2
2:33 - Whammy bar fail Hahaha
JonathanMichaelSpain 1 month ago 5
I love how the whammy bar DOESN'T work.
TestedTwice 1 month ago
Actually First Act has been around for many years and started out building custom guitars only. They have a "youth series" of course, but they build some high quality guitars as their mainstay. I have one of the Garagemaster guitars (which has the same electronics as this model,W/ Delia styling) and the thing plays awesome. Excellent action and set-up from the factory and the thing screams harmonics . Those who put down First Act, have simply never played one.
dlflash56 2 months ago
I love first acts. Once you oil up the fretboard, and change out those god awful strings, they're great. And let's face it, once you're playing metal, everyone is gonna scream at you to get active pickups. So eventually you will, and this just begs for SD blackouts. Which will happen as soon as christmas is over. :)
MegaKoga 2 months ago
cheapo Bullshit, go back to making toy guitars!
tdude131 2 months ago
yea i bought 1 ........yea i regret it
Anthonythebest1 2 months ago 3
Shit, it's still a first act, shit crap. BULLSHIT GUITARS
Macsk8ing 2 months ago
Clearly first act guitars are perfect for that "my first guitar" I mean they're $50.... You cant complain about shit for $50.
Clesarie 3 months ago
I can put that boost switch in my ass and fart a heavier sound than that...
PoetryEmotion94 3 months ago 19
I came here to feel superior with my MIM tele. All the les paul videos got me depressed.
fenderkid6 3 months ago
Wow, I think I finally have found a tone better than Eric Johnson's!!!
Fluffypopcicle 4 months ago
Its not the guitar that counts,its the player...
MedinasGuitar 4 months ago
First act has 1 good guitar. Its the First Act ME 636 i believe. Its a decent guitar
TheRealSonicYouth 4 months ago
how much FirstAct paid you to try to sell that piece of shit?
i get to the conclusion that FirstAct guitars, SUCKS!!!
9410Chris 4 months ago
they retuned it every time there is a new take in the video...
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LOL at 2:27 he tried to do an artificial harmonic but that piece of shit guitar wouldn't muster it!
bullshitproof 4 months ago
this guitar has horrible sustain. u can hear it as hes playing. first act guitars are absolute trash.
bullshitproof 4 months ago
He had to use so much reverb just to make the guitar sound partially decent. This guitar is a piece of shit, but a lot of artists are using their customs nowadays. Mastodon, Saviours, Converge. If you want to buy a first act guitar, get a custom.
Zombie1990 4 months ago
omfg y does first act have to suck so much
gothomus0 5 months ago
you know that this sounds okay becuase of the amp..
marioman218 5 months ago
Placing a kitten in a blender makes a heavier metal tone
Dethnus 5 months ago
Piece of shit guitar.
Macsk8ing 5 months ago
I can't frakin believe THAT is coming out of a goddamn fisrt act. I am thoroughly impressed.
ThirteenPeeps 5 months ago
i had a f.a. -i hated it-i busted it up...sounded like crap.i also found a 15 w. pratice amp in the clearance isle at WallyWorld for 10 bucks-no lie, now the amp was decent,and lasted 8 yrs.....
tuuexx 5 months ago
i found one of these in a parking lot. not strings, missing some shit at the bottom, but i got it fixed up for cheap. its a GREAT learning guitar. its fun to play .. and.. for free i cant stay anything bad about it.
DracoC47 5 months ago
Oh god. As soon as he started playing the clean effect I cringed.
Bill Kelliher and Matt Pike use custom first acts. How the hell do they sound so good?
LeoXmayhem2 5 months ago
i have a fender squier and an ibanez gio which are great guitars. these crap guitars come from wal-mart! i have an acoustic first act, and it is the worst guitar i've ever had. i'm gonna smash it one day. it doesn't have a good sound, and it probably has lead paint
NukleheadMcSpazatron 5 months ago
@NukleheadMcSpazatron -smash the fuck out of it. i think these guys made chainsaws before they made music stuff-ALL their axe,s SUCK-i,ll wait till these go on sale for 40 $ ,then SMASH IT !
tuuexx 5 months ago
putting a condom on my schlong makes a heavier metal tone
PunkRocka25 5 months ago
a rubber band/tissue box guitar sounds better
john3luzny 6 months ago
I bet the majority of the people who have watched this video searched "First act guitar" just to talk crap about it...
(I did lol, first act sucks)
LegalJEP 6 months ago
never buy a first act guitar........ ever
MrGuitargod54 6 months ago
i bought this and i tried to play technologic by daft punk but, the distortion and volume was maxed out and the amp broke :(
renovawolborg 6 months ago
I'm going to buy this, then bring it to a high-class jazz gig just for kicks
WoWintosh 7 months ago
@tonyhighflyer911 BAAAHHARRRRHHAHLARAAHHAAHHHAHAH!!! lololololol XD ;D
andrewvanrhoberts 7 months ago
The first riff was terrible
LostMusicalMeanings 8 months ago
ok cual es la diferencia del tremolo y el wah
petermetal55 8 months ago
All pole worry about is the brand and type of guitar! JUST PLAY UR DAMN GUITAR
raynod256 8 months ago
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raynod256 8 months ago
I don't even play guitar and that sounds bad, especially the E string... Nice picguard though.
MrBlablayaya 8 months ago
por que no se oye el tremolo osea el whaa
petermetal55 8 months ago
@petermetal55 Porque es una mierda de guitarra. Y el tremolo y el wah son cosas muy diferentes, aunque si suena como "wa".
TheStrangerInTheRye 8 months ago
Why do people ahte these guitars so much?I have one and its perfect if you know how to play.
LostMusicalMeanings 8 months ago
So if i have a metal inspired pick-guard i will have an easier time playing metal?
HoudiniLogix 9 months ago 21
@HoudiniLogix ,if thats where you get your inspiration from..LOL.
Tscorp65 9 months ago
@Tscorp65 Gotta love first act guitars :D hahahahaha.
I wonder if they sell talent stomp-boxes?
HoudiniLogix 9 months ago
@Tscorp65 lulz
HoudiniLogix 6 months ago
your best bet as a beginner is a used guitar from a decent company. you may spend a little more getting a quality acoustic used than a cheapo acoustic, but if your first guitar lasts you a lifetime of music, it was the right choice.
stessaboi 9 months ago
That.... kinda sounded bad.... But even to get a tone that decent out of a First Act, he must have been playing through the world's best amp. I hate this company so much. I started on one and even as a beginner I hated it. I don't like the "learn on crappy equipment and get something better later" philosophy. I think you're more motivated to play when your music sounds good.
sharkhead7854 10 months ago
FIRST ACT SUCKS EVERYONE. Even when I first started guitar, I knew not to get one. Anyone who thinks they are even the slightest bit descent, they are retarded.
MrGuitarcollector5 10 months ago
@MrGuitarcollector5 oh look, the douche bag again...
diceman1000 10 months ago
@diceman1000 Really man, Your english is so well put with you calling me a douche on EVERY video. Your vocab is so much broader than anyone I have ever met man. These guitars are not articulated at all and can barely get anything from them. Im 17 man and Ive already done so much for myself. How many 17 year olds do you know are a Co-manager at a music store, teach lessons and have better language than an older adult. NOT MANY!
MrGuitarcollector5 10 months ago
@MrGuitarcollector5 I do and FYI its really the guitarist not the guitar player. I have more than one guitar and on my firstact I would tear you apart. you're probably a garbage guitar player strumming in Drop D thinking you're heavy
Rikusorakh1Prod 9 months ago
@Rikusorakh1Prod Ok, I hardly play drop D, Im not much of a metal guy but more of the minor blues and 80s rock guy. I play E standard so your wrong right there. Im pretty sure that they dont make a shitty musician a manager at a music store, And my students would realize that I suck and dont know anything and I wouldnt give lessons. But im the opposite of everything you said so there. Go ahead and try to Tear me apart. And FYI, The guitarist and guitar player are the same thing.
MrGuitarcollector5 9 months ago
@MrGuitarcollector5
Prove it.
LostMusicalMeanings 8 months ago
@LostMusicalMeanings How?
MrGuitarcollector5 8 months ago
@MrGuitarcollector5
Have you ever played a first act?
LostMusicalMeanings 8 months ago
@LostMusicalMeanings yes, yes I have. Many kinds because I work in a music store.
MrGuitarcollector5 8 months ago
@MrGuitarcollector5 haha! tim mctague used a first act, on stage and in the studio..
masterbeat04 7 months ago
@masterbeat04 Umm, I dont even like underoath but tim doesnt use first act. He has a gibson SG that he uses normaly. The other guitarist uses a first act. Its a "higher end" first act but I still wouldnt use it.
MrGuitarcollector5 7 months ago
@MrGuitarcollector5 nope, he switched already i think... he threw his sg at aaron gillespies final gig with them... and he used a first act les paul...
masterbeat04 7 months ago
@MrGuitarcollector5 First act was my first guitar and I got made fun of by one of my friends when I brought it to school.... haha
guitarman6823 7 months ago
i love dumbasses, i was at somones house and i saw a first act acoustic and i picked it up and was gona give a play, and the whole fuckin room full a ppl were yellin noooo! put that down thats dude mans guitar he paid alota money for it and its a nice guitar and such, hahaha!!! i never knew toys r us carried "nice" guitars. people have no knowlege of what a good guitar is. i can take a emptie tissue box and a paper towel roll and use rubber bands for strings and tell ppl its a nice axe! buy it!!
dimebaghudson 10 months ago
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diceman1000 10 months ago
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@dimebaghudson if you're judging by price and where they are sold then YOU sir have no idea what a good guitar is...
diceman1000 10 months ago
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@dimebaghudson if you are judging by price and place of retail then, YOU sir, haven't a clue what a GOOD guitar is...
diceman1000 10 months ago
@dimebaghudson What guitar would you recommend dude? I got a piece of shit first act guitar. The only thing I'm gonna use the first act guitar for is the zombie invasion.
souljadarko 9 months ago
@souljadarko it depends on what you play like what style music. if ur into metal they make some good ltd guitars or epiphones or jacksons. i play a dean from hell, but your best bet is to go into your local guitar shop and play around on the guitars and ask the dude man what he thinks. your guitar DOES NOT have to be usa made to be a good guitar, half of the usa les pauls play and sound almost 99% the same as the over seas les pauls but in no way would i play this guitar int he video haha
dimebaghudson 9 months ago
@dimebaghudson Thanks dude!
souljadarko 9 months ago
maybe that guitar is a faulty one cause i have one and the trem works well
franjul08 10 months ago
oh man LOL, at around 1:14 after he tries to use the trem, he's talking and looking in the camera, and YOU CAN SEE IT IN HIS EYES. ROTFL he's thinking "....oh gawd...this guitar just sucks..."
reaperpro 10 months ago
What a fail tremolo I agree with all previous comments
mrmcriff 10 months ago
lol i also noticed that the tremolo didnt do anything...i dont like this guy as a reviewer, he usually plays bluesy or indie shit when he reviews, particularly annoying when he's reviewing a high gain amp which is meant for metal and hard rock.
jw11432 11 months ago
Metal series guitar? There ain't no way that nobody is going to play no metal with that insane amount of twang (probably due to the cheap pickups)
WoWintosh 11 months ago
sounds like a cheap cheap cheap epiphone sg and i really mean CHEAP
MetalInstrumentals 11 months ago
@MetalInstrumentals I would still give the epiphone the upper hand because it has a stop bar.... so better tuning stability, i used to have an epiphone sg special i put grover locking tuners on it and emg's and it was okay but the guitar still had some funky fat tones.... like this one sortof..... save your money and get something better. for about 250 you can get a faded g400 which are pretty decent... especially for the money
or a cheaper esp ltd
brt927 11 months ago
@brt927 i agree with you the epiphone sg special are bad but you can mod them and get good tones from them but its better to save your money and get an OK guitar
MetalInstrumentals 11 months ago
The trem does...nothing.
GamingSocks 11 months ago
lol 3;03
212Guitarguy 11 months ago
holy shit i am amazed!!!! this "guitar" sucks so fucking much...
92GuitarMan 1 year ago
this guitar sucks. i should know Because i own it. out of a 1-5 i give a -1.
felipeandjason 1 year ago
you guys do know that although this particular guitar IS NOT ONE OF THEM ,they do make high end boutique quality instruments also ,right?i live in minneapolis ,and there is a place in the burbs i love called american band &guitar and they carry them,serious as a heart attack,and these were american made also,you didnt think adam levine played that junk did you ?
jcedozer 1 year ago
A own a first act guitar and have to say much beter built than big brand cheaper end models. Good guitar if in a lower price range.
JWOwen95 1 year ago
Where can I buy this guitar?
MegaKoga 1 year ago
@MegaKoga Walmart, toys r us, don't even try to buy this crap bro.
Macsk8ing 1 year ago
@Macsk8ing Yo man, guess what? I got one. And I've replaced the Bridge pickup with an alnico Large slug 636 pickup, the neck with a fat tone fatbucker, the tremolo bridge with a double locking floyd rose, I wired a battery to the boost switch, and replaced the neck with a mitey mite ebony fretboard neck. This thing blows fenders out of the water, guess what? it cost less than the price of a shitty squier.
MegaKoga 1 year ago
@MegaKoga Well, anything you do on that guitar, you can't take the brand off, so it still sucks, why this one? With that money you could of got a nice branded guitar like LTD or Jackson middle priced guitars, but hey, it's your money, not mine =)
Macsk8ing 1 year ago
@Macsk8ing you know, I actually hate jacksons. And LTD is a useless brand with limited selection. So, with that in mind, my custom does reign supreme. I'm taking it out to guitar center, and various shops. When I finish, I'll upload a compilation video, and you can see
MegaKoga 1 year ago
@DeizelMassacre im not saying he sucks, i just hate ads. espically guitar ads. they have a beast guitar player play it and it sounds great, but unless you know what you're doing, you cant replicate that. thats why. but it is a beginner guitar after all.
XxZero97531xX 1 year ago
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i just got the first act metal me636 go to my video to watch the review
MrMetalbeast666 1 year ago
Everyone has to eat. walmart wants to write me a check to do a review for some of their junk -just make it payable to my wife (plausible deniability!). oh yeah, i almost forgot. do you guys think you could send one of those Richard Nixon masks with the jun-first act? just throw it in the cas...my bad, they don't come with one?
theguitarczar 1 year ago
I laffed through the whole video LLOLOLOL.
InFuriatedShadows 1 year ago
yep... buy this guitar and you can automatically play everything he can instantly... but only on this guitar... i hate guitar ads...
XxZero97531xX 1 year ago
the me675 has a beter sound even tho its cheaper
bud595959 1 year ago
Good cleans, but distortions a little thin... change the pups and bridge [if you want a nice bridge] and you'd be set
Kingddd333 1 year ago
the pick guard is very cool
HKDrider 1 year ago
@HKDrider it looks like a ballsack
BoxenstienMusic 1 year ago
you know for a crap guitar this dosent sound half as bad as i thought it would
XFXHITMAN 1 year ago
@XFXHITMAN No it doesnt, but sadly music, like many other hobbies, is absolutely full of gear snobs that have lost sight of the point (If they ever saw it to begin with.).
EmperorofCartoons 10 months ago
the floyd rose probably costs more than the guitar
CiviC092 1 year ago
i got the me675 exactly same w/o boost switch and a diff head its decent but nothing lik a ibanez xpt700 or a gibson les paul
bud595959 1 year ago
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u can here its not in tune at 2:31
jbulger666 1 year ago
u van here its not in tune at 2:31
jbulger666 1 year ago
I like the boost gain switch but it would suck ass through a good amp high gained pups and add that to the mix and to top it off a distortion pedal, feedback heaven is what that will do. or you can get a swedish death metal tone, ala dismembered or grave
carnicerodeperros 1 year ago
this being a custom shop its still first act... they're shitty company and wal mart got the company i took guitar lesson's at shut down.
PoppinDingy 1 year ago
@PoppinDingy Dude their custom shop guitars are amazing. Give them a listen.
EmperorofCartoons 10 months ago
Ehh i think im gonna stick with my Les Paul stuido over some junk
dlschien 1 year ago
First acts suck. You would have to change the string gauges to get heavy sound,change the pick, and I bet when you get it out the box, it's not evn tuned. I play metal and to me 3:41 to 3:50 is a lie.
sabin3030 1 year ago
@sabin3030 A tuned in guitar has more strain on the neck and in shipping the conditions are guitar are in vary greatly. Wood can shrink or expand with temperature and humidty changes and if there are drastic changes while the strings are tuned tight it can cause warping of the neck, which is why you should never ship a guitar in tune.
wendyheatherwood 1 year ago
in my opinion for a wal-mart guitar, this doesnt sound bad at all. first act doesnt suck, they're just CHEAP. for a begginner register guitar, this bad boy can pump some sounds, compare it to a squier strat and think about it.
sasukeuchihalb 1 year ago
@sasukeuchihalb this isnt a wal-mart guitar, this line i believe is between the walmart guitars and their custom shop
bladecatcherX99 1 year ago
@bladecatcherX99 ohhhhh. well, im a bassist, ha. ive tried first act electric guitars, and they are pretty good if you play through a decent amp. but a first act AMP is a total piece of shit.
sasukeuchihalb 1 year ago
@sasukeuchihalb yeah their guitar's are decent, i know this one sounds like my $99 Squier... but true, their amps are a disgrace for human ears.
Arvak777 1 year ago
@Arvak777 damn right!
sasukeuchihalb 1 year ago
Floyd not working? xD
imhere8888 1 year ago
metal players dont look for this tone they shot this tone in the face and get some fucking emgs!!
kalmahman48 1 year ago
@kalmahman48 EMGs are too cold for my tastes... passive gets a more crunch and real sound
Kingddd333 1 year ago
shit this guitar would be perfect for acdc because it totally captures angus young's sound, thin and extremely cold vintage!!!! AKA like shit!!
kalmahman48 1 year ago
i like how first acts arent shitty any more, they are just made for something you wanna jam out on without spending a shit ton of money.
hottaco11 1 year ago
@hottaco11 They never WERE shitty guitars, man; that's just the perception people had (call it prejudice, shallowness, superficiality; whatever you will) because their best sellers & "biggest gigs" were as cheap but SURPRISINGLY PLAYABLE stuff that was available at Wal-Mart.
MY first impression was that I wished we'd had guitars this good for this cheap when I was a kid! The Kays, Normas, etc. you could pick up for under $100 back then were mainly "finger bleeders!"
jeffpace60 1 year ago
bet they had to stop and start to tune it ;)
tburn66 1 year ago
@tburn66 But maybe they didn't! I've got an ME-951 that I've done back-to-back takes of the Free Bird project on my channel with that stays in tune surprisingly well; to say nothing of the fact that I've yet to achieve back-to-back "keeper" takes of what is still the world's only true 1-guitar arrangement of Free Bird on any other axe but the Wal-Mart cheapie that I scored for $40.
And that includes a Stratocaster, a Prodigy, a Patriot, & a Les Paul!
jeffpace60 1 year ago
Ive always said an elevator smells different to a midget.
spudzdad1 1 year ago 17
ive always said that first act guitars are what 2 buy if your bored and want 2 fuck around with a guitar
guitargod1598 1 year ago
i hate first act guitars, but i like the blue LED on the boost switch
nwilson59 1 year ago
ewwww
DylonIsTehName 1 year ago
2:35 wtf? no surprise there lol
randommoosebrains 1 year ago
Scratchplate/pickguard looks really nice... body seems ok too... Neck = No. Just no.
Kingddd333 1 year ago
The body looks nice with the design but cmon did they get lazy making the neck. The neck looks fuckin cheap. The guitar still kinda sounds a lil shitty compared to other guitars. Id recommend a squier strat instead of this.
santanaincubus 1 year ago
It's definately the best sounding First Act I've ever heard....but it's still a First Act....
Draco12002 1 year ago
@Draco12002 best sounding? Ha! There are custom us models that sound really good
Kingddd333 1 year ago
@Kingddd333 As I said, the best I've heard. If you could find a video demonstrating one of their better instruments, I would definately look into it.
Draco12002 1 year ago
@Draco12002 But it is really good for the LOW END first acts X3
Kingddd333 1 year ago
uh the whammy doesnt work at all. and First Act stuff is just shitty.
Darkone2365 1 year ago
mine is ME4002 ROCK one... its awesome and it only costed me $34.99
AviationRocks100 1 year ago
Paul looks like Michael J. Fox .
WOB1010 1 year ago
Why would someone give a "Review" on the sound...When we all can hear it right now?
This is a slicker feeling more solid Feeling guitar than many High dollar Guitars I have played.
WOB1010 1 year ago
I like how he used the whammy bar and it didnt work
joeydabomb7 1 year ago 57
@joeydabomb7 i have this guitar and my tremolo works Great
franjul08 1 year ago
@joeydabomb7 quality guitars
aigmeyer 9 months ago
This guitar is Actualy a very nice guitar..It is great for Rock just the way it is. But yes if you want HEAVY Metal you could get a little hotter pickup.
It feels very comfortable ..and holds a tunning well.
(and the tremblo Does work ...I don't know why he didn't really use it?)
WOB1010 1 year ago
"Metal" series...hmm, really?
BackyardAirsoft2010 1 year ago
well, i'l leavea fast review for the curious and soon to be sad purchasers of this guitar..this guy playing..sounds amazing ona good guitar..atm, he looks like a douche, this guitar's clean tone..blows, its the normal sound a bad guitar makes, he's just trying to cover it with diminishing chords..not even that can hide the awful sound.distortion is shit..get better out of a milk bottle with a wire in it..this guitar as others have said..is a fail.i dont hear metal..i hear walmarts cash register.
anbuwolff 1 year ago
i think the pickups sound like shit to be honest, if you switch them it would be great
therealrene 1 year ago
most buzzing guitar ever lol hahahaha
GuitaristEliKing 1 year ago
Yeah, there's absolutely no crunch in those pickups. "Metal series". Yeah right.
Kingddd333 1 year ago
0:22 Devil horn those pickups. Fuck yeah.
Kingddd333 1 year ago
First Act = Fail Act
Sk8erbakerskater 1 year ago
since when has first act made anything decent?!?!?! tht shitsw trash you can get at fricken toys r us for 100 bucks honestly had one for my first guitar wat the hell is this! haha i need watever amp hes got if it makes a first act sound like tht i wonder wat itll do for my schecter haha XD
tjbwhatshisface 1 year ago 2
@tjbwhatshisface Apparently their custom shop guitars (like the ones Brent Hinds from Mastodon plays) are pretty good. Their picks are also nice.
Digitbig 1 year ago
@tjbwhatshisface You obviosly don't know anything.
firstactfan 1 year ago
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@tjbwhatshisface you obviously don't know anything.
firstactfan 1 year ago
Can anyone tell me if those are real songs he's playing? BTW, Youtube should be renamed adtube.
Axelwolf98 1 year ago
Garbage guitar.
RUSHisCOOL69 1 year ago
Impressions from this video: Guitar sound is decent, maybe a little muddy on mid-gain settings. Boost is a really cool feature. Clean sounds also decent. Definitely on par with, say, a Squier's tone. Whammy bar was probably not set up too well in the factory and should be adjusted to taste by the buyer. I've heard the neck is quite comfortable on this model as well.
I'm trying to be as objective as possible with this post.
lauscho 1 year ago
funny last time i checked serj from system of a down sing and does not play guitar for the band so yeah i guess if you don't play guitar first act is the right choice.
diehigher 1 year ago
@diehigher Well matt pike from high on fire and baroness has a custom 9 string first act and both guitar players of mastodon are noted first act users
CHICKMAGNET66666 1 year ago
I had this first act guitar that was almost identical to a les paul but slimmer. I gutted it and put emgs in it and it sounded pretty bad ass
S3CT10N88 1 year ago
this was my first guitar its not bad but the tremolo does suck. it is great for begginers like i was it can get someone started on guitar for a cheap price
PX917 1 year ago
Like others have said already, not all first acts a as crappy as the ones at walmart but that the fact that they are sold by walmart make me thing they are not serious about building guitars therefore I won't go so far to even touch one. You can only dress up a terd so much.
diehigher 1 year ago
@diehigher hey first act has guitars that get up to 21000 $ freakin serj from system of a down plays one'
punisher666ism 1 year ago
First Act = Fail
CiviC092 1 year ago
So... does that tremolo bar do ANYTHING?
joejoe3011 1 year ago
i have a first act guitar is shite i h8 it but even though my mum and dad got for me as a xmas present when some prick-ass twat in asda coned my parents top buy it for me saying its really good yeah BULLSHIT! IT NEVER STAYS IN TUNE!
666Napalm666Death666 1 year ago
Can anyone tell me what is the tab for 1:20?
Axelwolf98 1 year ago
what a piece of shit
bakerXderek 1 year ago
I bet most of you "guitarists" dissing the First Act metal series can't even play adequately. It all depends on who's playing the guitar. You can make a semi low quality brand, such as First Act, sound good with even a medium level of guitar experience. So before you go dissing, practice, and then try it for yourself. Because of right now most of you are basing your opinions off of labels and people who think they can play. Just see for yourself.
DefyTheSilence 1 year ago
@DefyTheSilence yeah i like people who diss first act but mastodon plays them and they sound fucking greast
CHICKMAGNET66666 1 year ago
@CHICKMAGNET66666
But they play custom-build first acts, which are pretty expensive, probably around $1500-$2000 The ones that you find in wal-mart (this one included) are probably cheaply made. Some proof would show how faulty the tremolo is, look how much he struggles to use it, and it still doesn't work.
themodernguitarist 1 year ago
@themodernguitarist very true the wal mart ones are cheap but first act does make 1,000 dollar guitars that ive heard are pretty sweet as you mentioned
CHICKMAGNET66666 1 year ago
@CHICKMAGNET66666 Finally, somebody who knows about their Hot US customs that proffessionals even use
Kingddd333 1 year ago
@DefyTheSilence Dude exactly. Most of those trash talkers are the type who put the tools before the talent, thinking the 1k+ rigs mom and dad buy for them automatically make their garage band pro.
EmperorofCartoons 1 year ago
I wish I could play this well. I will in the future with practice, but not right now.
mechaghostman2 1 year ago