Memphis Strat Copy

OKit looks like a strat( duh) has s/s/s pickups with a five way selector switch, 1 volume, two tone knobs,22 frets, black finish with a white pickgaurd, wierd tuners.It doesnt have anything impressive, but that tool sticker livens it up...........

Oh god the sound blows distorted..........imean sure it would be ok if the tone wasnt so deep and bellowing, its like having a bass pickup on the guitar.And the tone knobs help 0%.The bridge pickup is higher in tone, but seems flat?dry? a combination?And it just gets deeper as the pickup position gets higher.When in a postion that activates 2 pickups the noise is fine, but in any other it kills.Sounds very bluesy, when clean its nice for a blues riff.DO NOT DISTORT IT *?`~.?*'.TONE TO FUZZ......AND NOTHING BUT FUZZ.How i got it is interesting...see i went to my freinds with the old harmony guitar i refer to in many many reviews, with my dod pedal,and i brought some comics he wanted that i didnt read anymore.So his amp was broke and i played his acoustic.Low and behold in the corner of his room is a white guitar.NO after brushing the dust it was a brown/gray.No another brush reveiled its black.So he gave it to me for the comics, beings his amp was broke(and it was obviously not used).The tremelo is ok, doest put the strings out of tune THAT quickly.

Action sucks, frets buzz at certian areas.i bet witha new set of pickups, and some neckwork/replacment it would be nice, but with those improvements i can buy the new amp im looking at, and it wouldnt even be the same guitar.Im selling it.Its nothing personal,well yeah its really personal.Id be pissed had i bought this with money.The tone is stuck at mud-up-to-your-eyebrow level.

Well its been proven to withstand dust and thats about it.I wouldnt use this at a gig for anything..................unless i got a new guitar from some1 feeling sorry that i had to play live with it.

Never even heard of them, didnt buy it, not tracking it down.

i tried it with allmy pedals, all my settings, and all my knowledge of guitaring i gathered in the last 2 years and god this sucks.I did compare it wth another guitar, the one shoved up someones ?$$, but that tone was still clear compared to the mudd this puts out.

Late 80's Memphis Strat copy 22 frets 3 single coil P/U's 5-way switch, etc... Exactly like a Stat but Plywood. Came with Gorilla Amp.

Well, it doesnt sound all that good, but for $100, you wouldnt expect it to. It sounds good enough for someone who doesnt know better (ie, a beginner... it was my first). All pickups sound mediocre.

Again, the setup is npt very good. The guitar is playable, and certainly good enough for a beginner, especially for the price.

As stated above, the guitar is sold plywood, so its quite strong. If you dont use the trem it stays in tune fairly well. The pickguard will break upon the guitars first imact with the floor however.

Come on now... you know better.

Its a guitar... Its cheap... and it works. Mine was eventually disassembled in the name of curiosity after finding an 80's Fender Strat hidden in the closet of my local shop for $150. I still have many of the Memphis peices. A good deal.

This silly piece of excrement was constructed in the sad, dank, alleys of hong kong, probably by young, underfed children. "ha ha! these kids produce hundreds of low quality guitars for pennies a day!" This firewood has a plywood cutout body, a "maple" neck and a cracked rosewood fretboard. The neck loves to make like a german brautwurst and the body resonates like a shotgun and a garbage pail. Three pickups, i'd bet the magnets were stolen off of mama's deep freezer. Average 6 screw tremelo bridge, but watch out, those screws are as steadfast as convicts out an open door. The tuners are great as well, the sad aluminum and tin foil gears are covered by those annoying tent-shaped tuning covers-they do about as much as Bill Gates facing the y2k. I got a pretty good gig bag, though, and i use it to store my dirty socks in.

If you play green day, this guitar is fine, because you probably turn the gain and distortion up all the way on your silly little 10 watt crate. If limp bizkit's your style, this, too is a good guitar simply because tuning and sound quality is not a major concearn. If you're going to be stevie ray vaughn someday, at least get a squire strat or something quality. even a yamaha pacifica is a better guitar, and yamaha makes lawnmowers.
The Memphis is a pretty quiet guitar, if high yeild warheads are quiet. the five way selector does about nothing to change the sound, I think all the pickups are exactly the same. The bridge one is reasonable (REASONABLE), but again, somebody messed up when choosing the pickups. I'm not mad, i feel sorry for little johnny chang who works in a guitar sweatshop for 20 hours a day.
What kind of sounds does the guitar make, huh? Remember the movie pie? it sounds like some sort of shrill electronic scream, "Shut up! Shut up!" Give yourself a lobotomy. No variety,the volume knob does nothing. 1-2-3-4 are really quiet ass, then 5-10 is like nuclear ass.
My girlfriend once said, "I could shoot myself repeatedly in the head and call it music." Indeed.

The action is actually surprisingly good. The tremelo doesn't bend out to badly, exept when you try to use it. As i said earlier, the neck makes like a sausage when the temp is over 65 farenheit. But that's ok. Actually it really isn't. The finish is as nice as any mex strat, just an average sun-ass burst.
Yes, yes the wood is VERY VERY poor quality, but what do you expect from the nether regions of cheapland? The tuning pegs don't come loose unless you try to tune the guitar. Then the screws strip out and everything goes apeshit. Whee. The jack will never stay put, and i've gone on many a magical treaure hunt trying to find the screw and nut.

If the wires don't break, tyhe guitar will keep on running. Surprisingly, it doesn't break down once you've got it running. It sounds like a walkie-talkie in a sawdust machine, but it plays. the hardware will last through the next nuclear war, simply because it's so awefull and heavy. If you duct tape the strap on, the buttons are great. otherwise, just find some bigass screws, the wood doesn't hold a screw too well.
No, no i would never use this guitar in a gig. Ever. Well, if there was ten seconds before i went on stage, and my other three axes had been completely melted by a nuclear fallout, well that's another story.

I dunno. The guitar's generic. Like those Rock Axes they sell at Wal Mart. If it breaks, i'll make it into a clock or something.

all in all, i have one thing to say. ass.
I played this through an ampeg v-2 tube stack and it was god awefull. I played this through a mesa boogie dual rectifier and it was god awefull. I played this through a crate G-60 and it was goed awefull. Get it?
in all my years of playing, i have seen one worse guitar. it was a teisco del ray (maybee) that had been "overhauled" by a band called the Sweethearts. Somebody had painted it blue with tempra paint, and it had NO truss rod. It had homemade pickups and the cord was an integral part of the guitar. When the Sweethearts came onstage, the guitarist didn't like the sound of that souless piece so he smashed it over his knee and broke the neck clean in half. Yehaw.
Thus ends the sad and strange tale of the Memphis Stratoshitter. Please, do not buy this guitar. Buy a Harmony or an Aria, or even a Hondo for GOD SAKE!!!!! Jesus god man, listen to me! BUILD YOUR OWN GUITAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you.

I'm not sure the history of this guitar I bought it used cheap and I can't believe the sound I can get from it. The guitar looks essentially like a fender, with staggared poles on the three single coil pickups. It's got one volume and two tone nobs and a 5 way pickup selector. Judging by the look of the guitar it's probably a 70's maybe early 80's but it still works. The neck is real thin rosewood, and very comfortable, I actually prefer it to the more expensive models because it's easier to fit my hands around it and play fast. I guess there are 22 frets it's essentially a standard start copy in every way. The tuners are enclosed, the bridge is a standard tremolo bridge. The guitar itself is a cool pearl/cream color with matching yellowed pickups, very cool.

I really like this guitar, it fits my music style (Alternative, classic rock, clean stuff mostly), the clean channel sounds so good, the distortion is well a little too distorted, the high strings ring a little piercingly when you pile on the fuzz but the clean channel matches that Fender tone. The diversity of the sound is pretty incredible, I can get rich full sounds in the first and third positions and a bright as hell sound when I switch it to the fifth position. I can't say enough about the clean channel, I play my friends Yamaha pacifica regularly (I'm not sure which model but it's got a humbucker at the bridge) and the clean sound is ten times better. I feel like I picked up a 1000 guitar when I play it clean. The distortion is not the best I admit, my friends Yamaha is much better in that respect, but the memphis strat rocks for power chords (avoiding B&E strings give it a rockin' sound).

Like I said I bought it used and in pretty sad shape (it looked like it had been stored in a musty old garage for at least 5 years but I cleaned it up and now it looks great) so there's a little bit of fret buzzing when I drop the action super low but I can get it pretty low (not quite to the fender - no strings - feel but close) The finish is well done, it's certainly withstood all the hell it must have been through in the past and even for the year or so I've had (I can't tell you how many times my crappy backup strap has slipped off and the guitar has gone crashing to the floor.) I really like the color, it's a brilliant pearl shinny color and the matching yellowed pickups are a nice touch. I can't tell the wood quality through the finish (no chips). Some times I have noticed that the guitar cuts out everynow and then (it could be the cord I don't know). I messed around with the pcikups a little to get a better sound but I found that it was fairly easy to get the sound I was looking for.

I haven't had a problem with the guitar, for the price it's a rock, I wouldn't trust it live (at least not at a payed gig), but then who takes an $80 guitar to a gig.

never tried, don't know if they still exist.

I've been playing for three years now, and I know I'm no expert, but I have messed around with expensive guitars that friends own and with really expensive guitars in music shop, and I've never found anything near this price. I only have this guitar and two accoustics (you can tell I'm not a metal guy) I plug into a bullet reverb amp and can get a suprisingly good sound from it (much better than those damn crate practice amps) I really love the sound the guitar makes in the clean channel, this is my favorite feature, although I'm also very fond of the sound diversity. I wish that I had known about the fret buzz, it's a pain in the ass because I want to drop the action as low as it will go but alas i cannot (although I must admit that the neck is fairly bowed and in need of a truss rod adjustment maybe that'll help things) Overall I think this model (not sure which one it is) is the best for the money anywhere (where you gonna find a $80 guitar that sounds like a fender). The necj is really cool, I haven't found a guitar with a neck like this, it so thin and so fast, I can grip it so much easier than any other guitar I've played.