OLP MM1

This guitar is a amazing guitar. Only paid 80$ for it [Was on sale at guitar center] Features a very smooth neck, perfect for shreading, and of course a whammy bar.

THIS GUITAR IS THE S%$#! You can play any kind of music on it. I'm a blues rock, and heavy metal player, this guitar is perfect for any kind, don't let the Eddie Van Halen body fool you.

There's only one tiny flaw in my OLP, and thats the tremolo. In is very creaky. But it dosen't matter that much. Thinking about changing the pickups to eastwood airline pickups, or maybe T.V jones.

This guitar is buil like a rock, I've dropped it a few times and it held up fine. I can honestly depend on it. I am trying to start my own band, and if we ever get famous this will be my signature.

I have been playing for a few years, honestly best guitar i have ever played. I would buy this again if smething happend to it. I love the body style, kinda reminds me of a telecaster. The day i bought this was at a one day only sale at guitar center. I played several other guitars including a epiphone sg and a solidbody grestch. I wish this guitar had better pickups though but thats okay

The features are the standard as already covered. I think the finish is an outstanding feature as well as the pickups. Every other guitar I tried out in this price range (Squire, Epiphone, Dean, B.C. Rich, Yamaha) was less impressive or of inferior quality. None even came close on the quality of the pickups or of the overall finish on the OLP.

I'm a weekend player and have been using my Dillion Tele religiously for the last two years. I must admit I didn't expect I'd like the sound of the OLP. I was very surprised. The pickups in this guitar are excelent, especially for the bridge position and this guitar will scream. It has a full bright sound with a slight warm taper on the high end. I have been playing with it the last two weeks and it's become like an addiction. I love the sound of this guitar. I'm playing through an 80's Peavey 4x10 tube amp with a blues distortion, and a few other effects. It's got no hum, buzz, or other annoying habits. It's quiet when you need it to be and as big and bad as you wanna be when you need it. I am impressed...

I bought this guitar from a friend who has 40 some guitars and assured me I'd love it. He is hard handed and had heavy strings on it and the action was terrible for my style. I just simply lowered the saddles and changed to a lighter string (E.B. Hybrid Slinky .09's)... ---Perfection--- It's easily as good a player as my $500 Dillion. No, it does not look like a $500 guitar should look. However, the quality is excelent. The saddles are better quality than any crap-O-Matic, Frets are very good, finish is durable, mine's used so it's got a little wear from use but will obviously hold up well long term. No noise from the vol pot, switch, or jack. All solid.
Obviously if you're a big whammy user get the Floyd Rose. This OLP stays in tune perfectly but I use it like a hard tail. I do not foresee having to upgrade anything but you could easily Frankenstein this guitar into just about anything you can imagine and it would outlive you. The only reason I didn't give a 10 for this category is that I think this model should be a hardtail since the Floyd Rose is available on the MM1"F".

I'm almost 40 and there is no doubt in my mind that I will be playing this guitar 20 years from now. I know that sounds ridiculous for a $200 guitar but I just can't see getting rid of it now. I put straplocks on it so I don't drop it when I get drunk and rowdy, I bought a new case for it since I can't seem to leave it at home, and I will be upgrading my crappy chrome guitar stand(that I was using back before high school) so it won't fall over. You'd think I was in love with this guitar...
Anyway, if I have to complain(and I always do...) I have one nit-pick. The stock strap buttons were solid but small. My strap is worn and the holes are slutty. I suggest putting straplocks on it. Although I suggest putting straplocks on just about everything(including the dog's leash) so you decide.

I dunno. I do know that my local guitar shop likes dealing with OLP better than several other of the manufacturers. His only comment was that "they're good with their products."

I've been playing as a hobby for 20 years and in bands off and on for 12 years. I own 6 guitars and regularly play a Custom Dillion Tele, a Dean "Boca", and a Takamine Flame top. I play through a Peavey 4x10 tube amp from the 80's or a Ibanez MIMX150H head on a Marshall MG412 Cabinet. I use an odd ball assortment of pedals, mostly Voodoo Lab and Danelectro stuff. This guitar sounds great through my setup. I love the pickups! Did I say I love the pickups? I can get huge crunch or warm and sticky licks out of my OLP. I love the pickups.(I promise I won't say it again)
I'm going to look for a second one for my son. He plays on a Squire Fat Strat that usually has more pieces on the floor than on the guitar. In fact I am looking at his volume knob on top of the PC monitor...strange. Anyway, go buy one!

What a crazy cool cheap guitar this is! I have two of these a red one with normal tremelo and a golden wood colour with floyd rose. Both are basically identical and botn play awesome!! Both my OLP's have maple fretboards and the stock pickups. These are two of my cheapest guitars and I play them all the time.

the sound is awesome! The pickups impress me to no end considering their price. They are ballsy, silky and get that high gain metal rawness. I use this with a Peavey JSX combo and various effects. It gives a beautiful range of tones flicking between neck, bridge and in between. You can go from almost a strat to almost a les paul which is what eddie van halen wanted in this design. The sound can be a bit tinny due to the cheap construction... it not a bad thing... but the pickups pick up any clanks and bangs the tremelo produces. Harmonics in this guitar are easy. Its a light small guitar too...it feel comfy and easy to play with and the longer Ive had them the better their style is in terms of looks. They have really grown on me. The sound is both rich, full and bright...maybe not as deep as Id like but thats also maple fretboard guitars for you. its seriously an awesome pice of equipment for the price!

I love the action and feel of these guitars. Very precise and easy to play, the standard temelo one I own hardly goes out of tune. Both of mine sounded superb straight off the shelf and I only had to adjust the action height a little to suit me. Honestly I can't flaw these guitars - I wish they were around when I was learning!

They are built pretty well although some of the hardware is cheap, particularly the input jacks. Those sort of things are easily replaced or upgraded but Id use a spare guitar if playing live. The actual guitar materials are well built though and will last. The natural fretboard finish gets dirty quick and is a little bit more effort to clean.

Never dealth with them...these are so cheap I wouldn't bother - just buy a new one!

Absolutely awesome guitars. I often take this to rehearsal because of the range of sounds I get. If I need a strat tone it does the job, if I need to play a neck HB les paul tone, it does it, and if I need to play shred van halen stuff it comes to the party wearing leather. When I rest it back in its stand it patiently awaits to be played again with a quiet elegance. Ive been playing 20 years and the two MM1's I own are played often and I use thenm frequently for recording. Great great great playing and outstanding value!

Simple guitar, 2 Humbuckers, One Volume know and all that. Its what i wanted! Lets face it, the electric guitar is one of the few items that was perfected in about the first 2 years of its existance, it borrow a little from the les paul but just does it cheaper.

Amazing. I have two of these guitars. One is a orange flame top with the stock pickups, this works great for blues, classic rock style stuff. The second is the odd, but awesome, mint green finish. This one i replaced the pickups with an EMG 81/85. Great metal guitar now. I've seen shecters, ibanez, epiphones, fenders that cost 4 times as much and are terrible. This thing is awesome

Both the setups were perfect on mine when i got them. However, be sure to play it in the store. One guy on here said he bought it without playing it in the store and he got a lemmon, i've also played some in stores and noticed the neck wasn't as nice as mine. I think if abused (like any guitar) the neck will warp really bad, so be sure you're getting a good one.

had one for 3 years and one for 3 days. Both have had no problems at all.

No idea...probably enver need it...for 90 bucks what do you want?

Excellent, this is a fantastic guitar and i would reccommend to anyone. A few snobs will criticize and say their PRS is better, but screw them...this guitar can be had for 100 bucks! Don't be a brand name snob and pick one of these up.

beautifully finished guitar with gorgeous curly maple. One volume, no tone control but a great short guitar. Other have allready listed all the speckd but I am astounded by this little guitar that cost 139.00 new!!!!(musicians friend had a sale on them)

Very impressive guitar for the money it's unbelievable. The pickups are plenty powerfull and have a nice tight sound. Very nice sound. You'll try guitars in a music store that easily will tripple this price and they sound like crap. I was very surprised and impressed

Mine was flawless. Binding, top, neck is a little chuncky but doesn't fell uncomfortable at all. Factory setup was pretty good. I lowered the action slightly but that's a personal preference. Guitar was ready right out of the box. A very pleasent surprise when buying such an inexpensive guitar.

seems to be built well but time will tell. Feels very sturdy and compact.

This was the most pleasent surprise of any guitar (outside my Parker nightflyM) right out of the box I've ever had. I bought based on all the posotive things I've read about it here and elsewhere. I own too many guitar to run down the list here but this is a GREAT little beater. I would never perform at any venue with it, too mant other much more gig worthy guitars available. But for what it is you could pay 4 times what this cost and get less guitar. One of (if not the best) guitars out there for the money, bar none. Please note this doesn't replace any REALLY good guitar but you can hand it over for someboby to jam with and never have to worry about it looking or sounding cheap. For the money the MM1 is a 10.

mm-1
purchased in late 2006
photo finish
I rate this catagory an 8 because of its stupid low price of $129.00

It suits me fine for blues and rock. At first I wasn't sure about the pickups but I was using a couple crapy cords. After replacing them with all George L's it sounds fantastic. I run the MM-1 into a Vox clyde mccoy wah - Boss CS-1 (T-von mod) compressor - Boss DS-1 (T-von mod) distortion (These Boss pedals now rule!)- Rockman chorus - Rockman echo - stereo into Crate VC-20 (jj tubes 12" Alnico speaker) Crate V58 The sound is simply amazing. If these pickups are shit then I guess I like shit pickups. I have been playing on and off for 40 years and these are great for the sound i'm getting and that sound is huge. As for clean sounds it is equally fantastic. I love the pickups! No dislikes here. I have some great guitars, 71 gibson SG, 85 contemporary Telecaster, Stratocaster, and several others that are sweet players. I have owned many high end new and vintage guitars over my 40 years of playing but now I can't stop playing this inexpensive OLP its unreal!

This guitar came set up well. I couldn't believe it as I usually take off the strings right away and have to do many adjustments on almost all guitars I have purchased in the past. Even the strings are ok for a couple days. People who complain about strings amuse me as all strings must be changed often. This guitar has no flaws unless you consider the photo finish. It looks ok I guess but I don't really care for it but its the playability i'm interested in. I use it in my studio as a player and that's exactally what its intended for. Its a smaller guitar and may look toy like but I don't give a rats ass when I hear it sing. This thing actually inspires me to play and it helps my playing alot. what the hell more can you ask for? When I play I smile big!

So far it seems like it can take abuse very well. Some of the parts are cheap but it cost $129.00 HELLO!!! I can aford to upgrade it when needed.

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I may have to purchase a couple more of these. Not sure if I would be as lucky to get great ones like this one but sure couldn't hurt to have backups. Its just a joy to play and if it were lost I would look for another. A great tool for free. Yes its a gift. I think some people who rated this guitar may be inexperienced or perhaps they did get bad ones but mine is killer and plays like a dream.

Not may bells and whistles here, but that's what I wanted. A plain and simple guitar at a great price.

I play through one of the new Digitech RP 250's, and sometimes an amp, and it sounds great either way! I think the pickups are very good for a "less than 200 buck" guitar. I definitely won't need to change them out. Good clean sound and great with distortion.

Not to good of a set-up from the factory. Strings way to high, frets unfinished and a touch of overhang on the edge of the fretboard and some buzzing. Once I gave it my own set-up it was great. Also, a rough job on the routing around the pickups. That would be my biggest complaint. I still can't complain for what I paid.

I think it is very well built. I don't gig, but if I did, I wouldn't doubt it. Very solid guitar

Never needed

I've owned this guitar about a month and love it. If it got gone, I would buy another one today. No doubt

Basswood body, Ernie Ball MM body, maple neck, medium jumbo frets, sealed die-cast tuners, chrome hardware, two humbucker pickups, 3-way pickup switch, 1 volume knob, vintage tremolo bridge, and no tone control knob. I give it a 10, because I love all aspects of this $200 guitar.

I really like the sound of this $200 guitar. The stock pickups provide
good clean and distortion tonality. The guitar sound is vibrant. It rings acoustically. I do plan on replacing the pickups with either seymour duncan or Genesis Mr. Brownie EVH pickups, but the stock pickups are very good. I just have money to spare after only spending $200 on this guitar. I installed Power Slinky strings (48-11) and the tonality
is great and the instrument stays in tune song after song.

The playability of this guitar, at least for me, is incredible. I've owned a Les Paul, a Music Man Steve Morse, and a stratocaster american deluxe guitar and the OLP MM1 plays the easiest. Not only is the neck perfect for my left hand, the action runs low without buzzing, and the string tension for my picking right hand is sweet. I bought a second OLP MM1 to use as my performing guitar, while I keep my three year old MM1 as my practice guitar, which I will continue to beat to death.

I have had my first OLP MM1 for three years with no problems whatsoever. I play the heck out of it and it still doesn't need a fret job. The stock tuners are good, but i upgraded them with locking tuners for ease of string replacement.

Never dealt with them and I doubt that I will need to.

I love this guitar! For me it is the ultimate guitar for playability. The stock hardware is very good. The stock pickups are great! I would strongly recommend this guitar to players of all skill sets. I would particularly recommend this axe to the guitarist that wants a guitar that is effortless to play.

You know all the features by now, i give it an 8 because i think everything is great, dont need a tone or seperate volume controls just the photo finish, although it looks great, its still a photo finish and lets the guitar specs down a bit

I really like the sound of this guitar, it isnt great for heavy downtuned riffs but just for dropped D and rock n roll riffs and soloing is sounds absolutely great. I also have an epiphone flying V which has a price tag of double this guitar and i had to replace the pickups in that with a seymour duncan and a schaller because i hated the sound! but iam not touching these pickups! they are awesome!

Action, awesome although i put heavier stings on it, 10 - 46, as soon as i got the guitar and the inotation was as spot on as it could ever be, the neck on this thing is incredible, sit down and play one for a while and you will forget you are playing a guitar that has such a small pricetag. The finish is a bit weird in some areas of the binding but for the cost it is definantely not a worry and hardley noticable

it feels solid, wont fall apart although the finish might chip easily

never dealt with them, doubt i will need to

i have been playing 8 years, if this guitar was stolen i would buy another one, if it got badly damaged i would buy another one..you cant beat it for the price especially in australia, i chose it over an epiphone les paul because epiphone pickups are horrible and it would of cost me about a grand to get the guitar i want with an epiphone, or $395 for an olp :)

This is my second MM1. I gave a very good review of the first one I had. I got the first one off of eBay and it was excellent. This one? Not so good.

I got this new one because I really missed my first MM1. I expected this one be as good.. no way.

Features.. you can see it all in the other reviews.

Fantastic, as I expected. I love the pickups in the MM1's. I asked if you could just buy the pickups but they said they were designed for the MM1's only. Almost worth it to buy the guitar and gut the pickups out of it and trash the rest.

I never leave anything stock as far as setup. I don't even tune the thing with the factory strings. I pull the strings and go to work on every guitar I buy, so I can't comment on factory setup.

With that said, here are my findings...

After putting a set of 10's on it, I found that either the tuners are shorter than the old MM1 I had, or the headstock is set at a deeper angle. This causes the bass strings to have an excessive break angle over the nut. This is actually good if you don't plan to use the Tremolo. If you do, this angle makes it just about impossible for the strings to return to pitch.

I'm not talking about a cent, but like half of a note. If you use the Trem.. it's over. You have to re-tune. You can't fake it and keep playing, its just out way too much.

I of course tried all the tricks, lubrication, nut slots, etc.. So I just put five springs in it and flattened it down on the body and took the arm off.

Next part, the nut. The B and high E slots were way too wide. When you bend strings, they would actually slide back and forth in the nut. I fixed this with the old baking soda and super glue routine, but I hate to have to do that with a brand new guitar.

Now lets talk about the neck. I set strings 1-4 at 4/64", and 5-6 at 5/64". Normal height as they say. I got excessive string buzz on the D string at the 9th fret and the G, B, and high E strings buzzed excessively on the 12th to the 14th fret. And when I say excessive, I mean excessive.

So I had to do a very aggressive fret level on it, in fact, I did it four times to finally take enough off so it would not buzz. It actually plays and sound really good, as far as the fretboard now. But your average person is not going to have the recourses to do this themselves, and if you take it to a shop to do, it will cost you $125.00.

When I did the fret level, I found that at the factory, someone for some reason tried to spray an extra thick coat of Poly on the neck as a last measure. The problem is, some of it stared to crack off. When I pulled the masking tape off from the fret level, huge chucks of the stuff pulled off with the tape.

I then had to chip off as much as I could, because most of it was not sticking to the finish below. This left a huge level difference. I had to sand the thick finish down quite a bit so there was little perceivable difference in height between the lower and upper finish, then polished it so it was smooth. This was a big and irritating job.

Now, the Fretboard finish. It appears that on this neck, there is no finish on the fretboard. I feels like raw wood. I found it really hard to play this way. OLP said to use Butcher Block oil on it. I could not find that so I used Watco rejuvenating oil on it. It did an excellent job.

But the body and is in GREAT shape!

Since I've done a huge amount of work on this thing, and know it backwards and forwards, I'd say it's really well built, and it will hold up to whatever you throw it's way.

They are very quick to respond.

If you don't use the Trem, and you hand pick one out, you can find a great one. I made this one into to a decent player.

I still like them for a straight ahead rock guitar, or even blues, or whatever.

The photo film top is excellent. They do a really good job on the tops.

The problem is, for $79.00 more you can the MM1F with the Floyd Rose. The quality is much better, the Floyd stays in tune, and you can actually use the Trem. and it has a REAL flame maple top, not a photo film top. The top alone is worth the extra $79.00, and add the Floyd to it, it's that much better of a value.

That's why I have to sell my MM1. I bought the MM1F and have to offset the cost of the new one. I'd like to keep the MM1 because it plays really good now, but I still can't use the Trem.