OLP MM4

Candy-apple red, S/S/H, tone/volume/5-way switch, no-name tuners, in a 4+2 config, that are very smooth and hold well. Whammy bar that I used for about a week. No problems and no surprises here.

This is my only electric, when I bought it I didn't have any pedals and the sound wasn't very variable. I got a digitech RP-50 a couple of months ago, and now I find it's suitable for just about anything (with the right signal processing). Still have the stock pickups in it, but I do have a problem with minimized output on the neck coil on the low E string.

Factory set-up was excellent for a guitar at this price-point. No apparent finish flaws, good tight neck joint, good fretwork. More like a Honda than a Hyundai. For this price, I'd gie it a 9, but...

I've had this OLP for a year now, and, to my surprise, have had no problems with anything. Tuners, switch, knobs, jack, strap buttons all still solid.

This is my second OLP product; I got the bass first (my first bass). I have four acoustic guitars. When I decided to treat myself to a cheapie electric, my positive price-performance experience with OLP (and the reviews here) led me to believe I could be happy with a mail-order guitar. Thank you to Harmony-Central and all the people who take the time to do reviews. (Just wish I could get a little more oomph out of that neck coil low E)

This guitar is made by OLP, a factory who make copies of famous brand's guitar, expecially Music Man Ernie Ball, in China. My own guitar is similar of the Silouhette but not at all. Two controls: volume and tone, and a pickup selector like the strat one.It has 22 frets but the neck isn't made in a good wood, is paint like rosewood, but I believe is maple, like the body. Pickups are two single coil (neck and central) and a bridge humbucker, that is very strong with a lot of gain, ideal for an overdriven sound, while the single coil on the neck has a great clean sound, like the Telecaster one (less good!). Body is a solid one with a double cutaway, painted with a beautiful shining dark red paint. The bridge is a model similar to the floyd rose one, with a good tremolo arm. I use always Ernie Ball Power slinky .11-.48 strings, probably the best for this guitar.

This guitar is perfect with overdriven sounds, expecially, with the humbucker, it sounds like Radiohead plaied with a Vox, and with a low tone (5 or 4) it has a bluesy sound! Plaied with the neck single coil, you have a rich shining sound ideal for the arpeggios in Beatles style. But it's able to attack you with a great metal or fuzzy distortion (Boss mt-2 or Big muff or turbo rat). I use it with a small Vox amp (pathfinder 22W) and some FX: A digitech whammy, a Lovetone Meatball envelope filter, a smallstone phaser (made by electro harmonix), a Boss DD-3 and for the distorted sounds: Boss SD-1, Boss OS-2, Pro co turbo rat and a Big Muff.
And with the right set-up you can have a sounds like the first Dream Theater, cause Petrucci used to play an ERnie Ball

The finishes are good even if is a cheap guitar, the only problem I think is the neck wood, because is painted and the paint come off with almost every bending.

It's a depending guitar, very strong. I usually play live and you could play drum with it! The bridge is perfect, it never detuning during a concert. But the neck...

I advice you to buy this guitar if you are beginner or Hard rock lovers. I bought it without know it, in fact I prefer the mellow sounds and now I play a Telecaster but the OLP Ernie Ball Silouhette is a guitar enough good for each kind of rock, expecially the hard one. ANd it's cheap!

2004 OLP MM4 guitar. Made in China, 22 frets, traditional trem, basswood body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, 5 way switch, 2 single coils in neck n middle and a humbucker in the bridge (Alnico magnets). Metallic red finish with white scratch plate.

Hmm I got this guitar for cheaps so I didnt expect too much. I use a Marshall Valvestate amp and plugged clean this guitar didnt sound all that bad. The pickups lack a little warmth and character but manage to produce some respectable clean sounds. The singles have a little noise but on mine the bridge humbucker was noisy as well. Fairly bright sounding guitar and with the bridge humbucker n distortion engaged we get some decent rock sounds. Not as full and clear as u would like but not bad still.

Guitar had nice low action, a little too low for me. Great playability. Very little fretbuzz and the trem was set up perfect. The intonation was a little off on mine which can be easily fixed. The nut needed a bit of lubrication as it went out of tune with just normal playing without using the trem. Build quality is very good. Much better than expected. Excellent feeling neck, a bit of excess glue near the nut, flat and even finish, nice metallic colour and solid tuners.

The tuning stability would worry me when playing live so I would most likely use this guitar as my backup. Solid hardware that wont rust very quickly and very good build quality and low weight make this an excellent guitar for the money.

Never contacted them. So wouldnt know.

Played for about 9 yrs or so, other guitars are Ibanez JS1000, Ibanez PGM30, Ibanez RG321MHMOL, Squier Korean Strat, Yamaha RGX112, Fender PBass lyte, Hondo Explorer copy and a Yamaha 12 string acoustic. If lost or stolen wouldnt really cry too much. May get another one cause the price is excellent for what u get. Wish it would have a pearl scratchplate as the white one looks a little bland.

China, 2002. This one was in a Guitarport pack and came with strap, cable and Guitarport. I basically got if for free, as the pack was cheaper than the Guitarport itself. I downloaded firmware and software for the Guitarport and it was up-to date.

The guitar is very small and handy. The frets seem a bit small, making it hard (for me) to play the high notes.

I don't amplify it... weird, eh?

Hmmm. I seem to have a picking problem. Could be me, but my pick somehow finds it's way to the pickups all the time... That makes it hard to play. The action was pretty cool. The finish was in order.

Here's a thing... The neck is a bolt-on. The guitar body is cracked in both sides of the neck. That's pretty bad.

I oughtta call CS to find out if they'll cover the cracked body. I doubt that it'll last forever.

I got a handful of guitars, mostly Fenders. This OLP guitar has come in handy in a couple of cases, but I have rarely played it. Most of it's life, it has spent in a Fender hard case. I wonder how the body would then crack... Beats me.

Rosewood neck S-S-H pickups, 5 way switch, diecast tuners, classic trem. Metallic red finish Made in Chine ERnie Ball licenced. 25.5 inch scale

I play everything. I teach guitar and wanted a work-horse that I wouldn't care if it got knocked over and dented, etc. the stock p.u.s were fine, but I had a Schaller humbucker lying around so I istalled it and it was wild. Now I need a high output single for the neck. The sound is good, not boingyu or muddy. the singles are only normally hummy. at my studio I put it through a Boss Metal Zone (the kids love it - Crazy Train dead on!)

the workmanship was pretty darn good.. just a \few years ago China was bad news - guitarwise. Now it's pretty impressive. When I get a new axe, it take it apart and put it back together just for the sake of it. My only gripe was that the nut was really bindy...it must have been set up for 9s, and the 10s really got jammed in the nut slots if I bended the strings (forget using the tremolo) I filed them down alittle and the nut eventually got broken in - but I'll probably get a better nut one day. All the hardware was pretty good quality.

This thing seems like a real work-horse,,,nothing on it gives me any reson for concern. Gig? what gig?! I'd take it to Siberia and back. It's solid.

Don't know! Don't care. It's a guitar not a computer.

I've been playing since I was 14 (that's 28 years ago) I've owned everything once (ES 335, Melody Maker (my old favorite), Ibanez strats, Peaveys (they're solid like tanks), all kinds of amps - mostly solid state (My Classic 50 was too heavey and I couldn't read the controls on the top!) I like the Boss Super overdrive, Ibanez TS9, and the Boss Metal Zone for metal tones. great axed for the money...I'm still going to change the neck p.u. for that biting SRV thang.

Made in China, not sure exactly when, but 2002-2003 is a good guess.
22 frets, rosewood fingerboard, maple strat size neck, solid basswood body.
5-way pickup switching, generic stock H/S/S setup with vintage style tremolo bridge.
Stratstyle body, but smaller and somewhat more offset
Stock sealed tuners, work fine.
IN the guitarportpackage it comes with a cheap strap that broke after two weeks, a short, crappy cable, a pair of crappy headphones and fitted with Ernie Ball 9's.

Suits my curent style of music fine. Mostly 70's style medium rock. Overdrive/distortion on, but not noisy.
I started outplaying it through a Levin Retro 30R, and it sounded just fine, add to that the OD-tone of a Sansamp classic, and you have aprettydecent setup. My amp has now broken, so I only have teh Sansamp straight through the PA, and it still has some bit, at bit muddy, but the dear holds up quite well

The single coils settings have some hum, but not enough to disturdb you while you're playing. And how hard is it really to switch to a hum cancelling postition?

All in all it's fine. It's not an american deluxe strat exactly, but you'd be hard pressed to find a better sounding axe in this price range.

Setup was alright, after a while I got some buzzing I still haven't sorted out, but that's sort of to be expected what with moving between locations with different humidity and all that

The pickups seem a bit uneven. The humbucker has a considerably higher output than the singlecoils, so switching between them mid song might be problem, but that can of course be adjusted with a simple screwdriver by simply lowering the humbucker relative to the single coils.

Sadly, I have to say that within the six months I've owned this guitar, I've had to replace the tone pot and the nut, but seeing as noone else has mentioned any such problems, I'll just write it down to bad luck.

Other than that, I can find no reason to complain. The finish is alright (though I hvae noticed some micro scratches above the bridge where my right wrist, adorned by a bracelet, rubs against the guitar)

Haven't the faintest really. The tone pot was fixed under store warranty (I think) and the nut cost pocket change and I replaced it myself. I haven't had any contact at all with OLP or their Swedish wholesaler.

I've only started playin electrical guitar the last year (almost), so this is my first own electric, but I have a steel string and a classical guitar too, which I've been playing on and off for some ten years now.

IF it were stolen/lost I probalby would replace it with the same guitar as long as I couldn't afford to move up the price/quality range.

I love that it's so easy to play, and that it behaves so well, it follows orders properly, so to speak. I hate that It really doesn't like the trem being used, though I haven't tried it yet with the new nut, so I'll hold my verdict on taht point since I never got round to doing anythin about the problem before replacing the nut.

When buying, I compared it to a Squire Strat (not a fat strat I think), an Epiphone Les Paul (can't recall exact type),and an Ibanez SA260, also an HSS strat style guitar (don't think it's sold in the US though). I chose the OLP because the price was right, to be honest, the Ibanez was teh better guitar, but costed some $100 more that I didn't have, and it was the guitar taht I felt best suited what I wanted to play

There's really nothing I miss on this guitar, simply because I don't expect it to have anything else. It's a strat style guitar with a humbucker in the bridge, and as such it has everything you could ask for (althiug some people might complain about the lack of double tone pots).

All in all an awesome guitar considering how cheap it is (guitars are much more expensive in Sweden thatn in the US, so don't be surprised if you get an enormous price if you convert what I pad for ti to U$D), and a great beginners guitar for those who are willing to spen more than a months leisure budget.

made in china
22 frets
vol/tone/5-way
s-s-h configuration

this guitar suits my music style perfectly. i play all kinds of rock and i also use it in a jaz band. i play through a digitech rp300 and a fender stage 100. you can get some really awesome sonuds out of this thing. very bright. i dialed in any sound i wanted. i might switch out the bridge pickup and put something with more output, but its not really necessary.

the guitar was set-up great. right out of the packaging, i plugged it in and it was awesome. there was a little sticker on the neckplate that left some goo. i got it off witha rag. does that count as a flaw?

this guitar feels really solid. i havent had it for very long, maybe 3 months, and nothing's gone wrong yet.

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been playing for almost 3 years. would DEFINITELY buy again. got lucky and snagged this thing at manufacturer's refurb.

Nice feeling neck, decent pickups, feels ok.

Good Sound. The 3 pickups give a wide variety of tones.

Surprisingly nice. the pickguard is cheesy looking...but what do you expect for such a low price. Overall it's pretty good

Seems well built and sturdy...we'll see

I emailed the support people and within 5 minutes I had a response and they sent a new nut to replace the original. The guy who owned it originally had strung it with some Medium guage strings and it was sloppy when I changed it back to 9's.

Really FAST and pleasant too.

Overall, It's a great starter guitar for my 13yo.

Its inexpensive so I don't worry about dings, stickers, or whatever might happen. But, it's also a decent instrument that you don't feel guilty about giving a new player.

Would definately buy again.

2003 OLP MM4 Fat Strat Copy
Made in China
22 Frets
Solid Baswood Body/ Maple neck
S/S/H Pickup Configuration

I was all set to buy the MM1 Axis based on the tons of glowing reviews
here, but I prefer the S/S/Hum set up. It's much more versatile. You
can go from a "S.R.V. Little Wing" tone to "Highway to Hell" with the flip of a switch. The pick ups were amazing, no need to change them.

The action was a little high, no problem to adjust though. The tremelo
needed to be tightened, again no problem. No flaws that I could see

Just got it.

No need.

I played this thing side by side with my Mexi Fat Strat. I would
say the Fender is a bit heavier and more solid but the OLP
actually sounds better and is more responsive. The feel of the neck
on tne MM4 is way better. For 1/3 the price I sold my Fender and
kept the MM4

Made 2002 in China, 22 frets, solid top, 5 way selector with volume and tone, s/s/h passive pickup configuration, maple neck with basswood body, red sparkle paint job, Strat style body and trem, cheap (good) tuners. My girlfriend wanted to buy me a birthday present so I told her I wanted a Line6 GuitarPort. The stand alone GuitarPort was $169.00 but Guitar Center was running a special that included the GP with this guitar for $199.00. I almost broke my arm pulling her wallet out. Also, included throw-away strings, strap and headphones.

First order of business was to install 3 extra trem springs (for a max total of 5) to stablize the bridge; essestially making it fixed. Next came the flat-wound 11's with a a proper setup. Now this cheap fucker sounds like a monster! The pickups sound superb for Chinese. I prefer the bridge humbucker but the middle and neck single coils are not bad.

Better than expected setup from factory but is not applicable to my situation due to major changes in setup. However, the guitar did respond well to my setup and is holding it. It crossed my mind that the neck might fold up with the 11's but thats a chance I'm willing to take.

This guitar is the backup.

Don't know and really don't want to.

I've been playing for 20 years and still suck. However, I play to decompress after a tough day and really don't give a shit. The GuitarPort is fantastic and I would encourage everyone to try one out. Of course you need at least a $1000.00 PC to run it. I have my PC, stereo and GP all rigged together and am the envy of my poor friends who come to visit.