Kramer Barretta Infinity Sustainer

Well the whole idea in this guitar is to have an amazing amount of things at your command. I absolutely love everything about the sutainer being an 80`s style shredder things couldn`t be more perfect.

This guitar sounds amazing. i play it thru a crybaby, carl martin plexitone distortion/overdrive(which by the way really rocks) and a boss ME 50 pedalboard for all my modulations and delays..etc and then into my Marshall jcm800(the best amp in the world). Whith this rig the guitar really screams and with the sustainer on...welcome to 80`s metal heaven. But the ONLY problem which isn`t really a problem in my case is that it needs like many other guitars to be played thru a good amp preferably a tube amp. This is why i gave it a nine instead of ten but if you play thru a tube amp then look at it as were it a ten!

The neck feels really nice and smooth just the way i like it. The guitar is basically perfect the only thing i had to do was adjust the string height and spring tension but i do this to all my guitars so no biggy.Damn that floyd rose trem is sweet!

This is going to be my main guitar for the rest of my life and i will play it to all my shows intill the day i die. I actually love it so much that ordered it in all the colors so i have 2 backup guitars! You have to have a backup guitar to a gig but only based on the mere fact that if a string broke it would take way too long to change the string because of the floyd rose.

I`ve had no problems at all!

I have been playing since i was 11 and i am 17 now watch out for a band called Riot Fear(my band) we are just recording the demos now and are on the run towards stardom. If this guitar was stolen i would find the guy who stole it i would punch him so hard that he wished he was never born, tie him to the back of my pickup drive to grand canyon and toss him out over the edge.

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I couldn't tell you how it sounds.

Bad finish. I give it a 2 because the other 90% of the guitar was actually painted.

Fickle.

The most exceptional example of poor quality control I've ever seen.

I didnt even get to try it out. The battery cover screws were reamed beyond removal.

The paint was missing in some areas.

This is my objective review. Your better off buying a guitar from Sears.

If you really want info on this product, you may as well visit the musicyo.com website. You'll find pretty much eveything you need to know there.

A couple of things I will add tho. The back of this guitar looks like someone went mad with a router, but once you've checked underneath the electronics covers, you'll realise why. The sustainer circuitry and batterys are pretty well squeesed in there. Not to mention the excellent shielding of the control cavities.

The metallic red finish I have looks quite a bit darker than the pinkish effect on the website. It looks quite good, but I'd have preferred the black :-S

Nice Floyd Rose, but I hate that fiddley arm adjuster screw... D'oh!

Since I could only buy it online, I didn't know what it sounded like AT ALL... So I figured, it's pretty damn cheap... I'll buy the thing, and if it sounds crap, I'll rip out the sustainer, bin the pickups, and use the Floyd Rose on another guitar...

BOY was I surprised. The Kramer doesn't have a distinctive tone to it (The way Gibsons always sound like Gibsons, and Fenders... you get my point...) but instead it is capable of dialling in a number of different tones.

By turning the volume down and selecting the bridge/mid combination, you have a near perfect thinnish Stratty sound, but flick the switch back, and roll on the volume, and you have some serious grunt. The pickups sound pretty good, but I'd have preferred to have seen the sustainer housed in a humbucking pickup.

Excellent sounds for the price!

The guitar arrived on Christmas morning, care of Santa himself ;-). Straight out of the box, the guitar was pretty well set up. The sustainer was the big feature here, so immediately I plugged it in, flicked the switch and hit a note... The phrase I'm looking for here is summed up by the Spinal Tap 'goes to 11' man himself... You COULD go away and have a bite to eat...

The sustainer is truely excellent, but it either tends to 'click' as you turn it on, and with the guitar being so well routed, the pickups send out a thump, OR if you do it slowly, it loses signal for a second - a la Les Paul switch.

Floyd Rose is pretty stiff, but I'm leaving it with 10' gauge strings to get the best sustain.

The controls are a bit weird, being slightly forward from the bridge, so diving for the volume control can often leave you stuck behind the trem arm... eek!

Looks well built, but I won't be gigging it as a main guitar. The control cavities are pretty big stress points, and I wouldn't fancy the guitar breaking in half! :-)

Batteries last a good long while for me, and I use the sustainer for a good 30mins each day... better buy rechargeable batteries tho!

Music Yo....... giant faceless corporation? YUP. Their phone number for customer services is in New Zealand... Good luck if it all goes wrong... :-(

Mine turned up 10 days after ordering (Holland to Ireland), so not bad delivery times.

For the price, and the hassle, this guitar is the best I've ever bought. I have 2 Ibanez guitars, a strat, a PRS and a handful of acoustics, but I can tell you now that although they are truly excellent guitars, they have little niggling things about them that I'd love to change, and annoy me because they're pretty expensive items... :-(

This Kramer is really incredible value for money, and when you consider that it comes with a great sustainer gizmo, a Floyd Rose, and nice P/Us, you can't beat it with a big stick. Buy it for spares if you want, but you'll be playing it for a long while before that.

2001 made in Korea
24 Frets
Laminated, Hard Maple Top
Pickup config. S/S/H
Kramer "Floyd Rose" Licensed Trembar
Gotoh SG Tuners
Elliptical, Slim-taper Neck
Infinity Sustainer Driver
5-Way Pickup Selector
Master Volume
Master Tone
Sustainer: On/Off
Feedback Mode: Fundamental/Harmonic
Low Battery Indicator

Metal-Head / Lynch, DMartini, Diamond Darrell, Hammet
I'm a soloing nut-case
Marshall, Line 6 Amps
I tune down, the sustainer works well for dive bombs and aggressive feedback
The bridge PU is muddy, dont try to move it closer to the strings, the sustainer PU will cause to much feedback
Also you need to turn the sustainer intensity down while soloing or it will sound to muffled
Thinking about replacing the bridge PU with a Semour Screamin', dont know yet

Had to tune down
Pickups set fine
I set the action a bit lower
I opted for the Metalic Black and it looks nice, very clean
All parts and accessories included
Nice case

Its solid, should last for awhile, unless I go nutz and set it on fire like I did with my Jackson RR, Doh!!!

Very nice people

I have been playing for 15 years
I have owned all metal guitars, Jackson, Kramer, Charvel, Ibanez
Most of my guitars are high end, $1000-$3000
I was hoping to get a Wayne Charvel DMartini "French Guitar" ($1999) for my B-Day but my woman lost her job so she bought me this
The neck is no where near my 80's Jackson's, or Ibanez Jem, S-Series, but I find that the new Jackson necks/PU's suck too.
The sustainer rivals the Jackson PC-1 which is $1500
Heck, for $400 you cant go wrong, but you can definatly feel the difference between this guitar and a $2000 Jackson
I will probably monkey around with it for awhile then put it on Ebay