Synsonics Terminator

Features??? A built-in, ahem, "amp" is about all. One really cheesy pickup. Wammy bar, but spring was gone when I bought it. Made in China. 21 frets, if it matters- small scale. Solid top- solid paper! One vol and one tone-cut control. Neck is some sorta mystery wood- but get this- the fret board is non-existant! My nephew pointed out that the neck and fret board are actually one piece of wood.

Sound?? What's that, sonny? This thing makes SOUND??? Never mind my style- if I thought this doorstop suited my style, I'd have none. Impossible to get this paperweight to play clean and still be heard over the roar of a gentle breeze. If you crank this fly-swatter up, it distorts out the wazoo- fun for about 15 seconds. You can hook it up to an external amp, but with only one pickup, you get no variety whatsoever from the guitar.

Set up at the factory?? Come on! Bookmatched??? More like a book OF matches, which is the best investment anyone could make in this piece of firewood.

Well, it WAS reliable. I bought it to take on non-musical business trips- thought it would fit in my carry-on baggage, and I could mess around in the hotel room. I kept it stashed behind the seat of my pickup truck, and pulled it out when I wanted to dash off a riff or two. It was fun for that use, I must admit. Would I gig with it without a backup? HE HE!! I was ashamed to be seen playing it at all!

You'd think that since the company sold these roach-killers at every store from Radio Shack to the fruit stand on the corner, they'd be easy to get serviced, but I never tried.

I bought it for the uses stated above, and sold it (whew! Thought I'd get stuck with it!) cause it was actually pissing me off and making me not want to play- NOT the intent.

How strange... so this thing is made outta paper? HUH? Well, I got mine direct from the co. so I am not out much.. I got it for $29. A built in speaker, on/off switch, one vol. knob, a headphone jack, an input jack, one single coil pickup, speaker on the front of the guitar, very small scale guitar (not even a 3/4 size). I bought it at a discount; I wasn't going to pay more than $29 for it. IT'S A TOY, FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD!!!!! Some other person wrote in a review for it that he/she bought their's at a toy store. Hmm... So, Std. Strat tremelo... came w/ a bar, a 10'cord, 2 allen wrenches... The tuners? C'mon. What do you expect, Sperzels? The neck is strat thin, but the actual frets suck. Not installed well at all. The frets overlap on each side, giving it a pointy, sharp quality about it. Gotta file 'em down some. Other than what I listed, no addt'l accessories. MADE IN CHINA. IT runs off of one 9 volt battery, to power the cheesy built in amp. It did not come w/ a battery, nonetheless.

Strictly practice guitar. I might mess around on it. Get this, when I got it, I made an interesting discovery. The factory did not bolt the neck on properly, so when I took the neck off the guitar, I found that the factory did not drill the bolt holes properly. So now, I'm gonna fill the holes with a wood compound, sand it down, re-drill it down in order to install the neck on the guitar. XTRA WORK FOR ME!! I can't comment on the sound yet. With just one single coil, it won't produce any variety whatsoever. Do not care for the extra work I'll have to put into it.

Because of the neck situation, I'll give it a low grade. Otherwise, the nut will need adj., very poor quality wood ( Paper? They can't be serious). Very poor fret job. This gets a grade of...

Don't even ask.

Some snooty bitch answers the phone every time I call there. Obviously, she doesn't like her job, or needs a good fuck. Customer service sucks, to be polite. No warranty.

Overall rating... it's a joke; after I get done fixing it up and fixing it RIGHT... it might be ok. It was a factory 2nd closeout product, but still... I'll be able to take it out to the lake, the park, to the john, whatever... w/ a built in amp/ speaker, I'll be able to play whenever inspiration strikes, or whatever the saying goes... Maybe w/ the built in speaker, I can get some wicked feedback action going on w/ an amp as well. Or I'll just destroy the f**king thing. What a hunk of S**T!!

Built in amp, hey!

The sound on it (naturally) sucks, but if you plug it in to a good amp and set up some good settings on it, it's not too bad. What this guitar is good for though, is writing songs on if guitar is not your natural instrument. I have had this guitar since 1993, and I have written so many songs off it, and all I paid was $100. It does have some use.

It hasn't gotten out of shape at all! although one of the bridge saddles came off when i moved but it was easily fixed for only $3. no biggie other than that, it won't even scratch

It will last a while, unless you decide to smash it to death. i would never use it at a gig, never, and not even as a backup. it's just good for writing. It is reliable tohugh, i just don't think the sound is great enough. and it is light

15-year warranty comes with it, and it got fixed, quickly.

if it were stolen, i'd buy a new one it's cheap, and good for writing songs i just wouldn't use it as your main guitar the little things got some use after all but overall, for those who view it as a normal guitar...

My dad bought me this nasty thing about two and a half years ago with good intentions, but I swear I was mad when he bought it. This was my first guitar and If had to keep it as my only guitar I am sure I would have quit. It features a 3/4 or smaller size body and according to another entry the body is made of paper? I don't have it with me right now,although I still own it, I'm not so sadistic as to pass it on to somebody else, so I'm not sure about everything. I don't know where it was made, but it has 21 frets, with a straight maple neck, no slant at the headstock, cheap plastic nut, cheap open gear tuners that are supposed to be for an acoustic. I think it has a maple fretboard, but I'm not sure it even has a seperate slab of wood for a fretboard. There is one knob for volume and an on/off switch for the built in practice amp. Here is the real joke of this guitar, a guitar is good, an amp is good, therefore an amp built in to a guitar must be good, right? WRONG! What's even stupider is that the 3" speaker is mounted in the back of the guitar so the strings end up being louder than the amp. There are two jacks, one for output ,the other for headphones. This 'axe' (yeah right, more like hatchet) has one low output single-coil pickup and a fixed Fender style bridge. This one does have height and intonation adjustments, but its is next to impossible to get a string through the saddle, you have to bend the string and snake it through. The finish is a metallic red, it looks like automotive paint. Overall this guitar sucks, sure it has that awesome practice amp built into it, but that just doesn't cut it.

This guitar couldn't possibly suit anybody's musical style, except maybe somebody who's into the Backstreet Boys or something like that, in which a guitar isn't needed. I used the built in amp until I got some real equipment, if you turn the volume up and hold it in the most uncomfortable position, you can get enought sound out of it to hear it over the strings, and it even overdrives a little bit. The sound is really bright, but very low output, I plugged it into my Crate G40C and it made me want a new amp. The only rthing worse than hearing it acousticly, is hearing it plugged in. It almost sounds like it has a flanger on it or something, but not a good sounding flanger. I have this sick idea of putting a Duncan Duckbucker in it, sperzel tuners, graphtec nut and jumbo frets and making a badass little crapper out of it, but It's merely a joke.

This guitar wasn't setup at the factory, some strings were thrown on and wound up so they didn't flop around. I don't think the pickup can be adjusted, never tried, it looks like it's just screwed into a hole in the body The body is a regular strat copy, minus any contours, so it's not abnormal, except that its 3/4 or smaller size and the cutaway doesn't have access to the 21st fret, but that doesn't matter anyway, because the pickup won't pickup anything that quiet. The frets are cheap they are worn down after two months of playing and after about 2 year of not playing it, they are a ll oxidized. They really are pathetic, they have severe scratches on them from bending, the strings are harder than the frets.

Overall this guitar is actually pretty reliable, I wouldn't gig with it because it sucks and it doesn't stay in tune. The paint has worn of in one spot after four months of use, and it wasn't a chip, it actually rubbed off. I've never put a strap on it, but they are really small. I wouldn't gig with this as my backup, I might smash, but this is such a funny conversation piece.

I don't think synsonics has a customer support, never tried to find out, I don't think anybody buys these with quality in mind.

This guitar sucks, I've been playing for two and a half years, I wish my dad had bought me something other than this. If it were lost or stolen I would beat the crap out of the person who stole it for stealing such a piece of crap. I love the built in amp, its such a joke, I hat everything else about it. You can't compare this to anything else, it sucks too much. If you're even contemplating buying this, don't. The only way I would have another one of these is if I saw one at a rummage sale for $10 or less and then I would use on stage as a battle axe.

Don't know when the make was, the body was made out of some stuff that looked felt and tasted like paper, so I guess it was just pressed glued recycled paper or something. Black finish, two single coil pickups, built in practice amp, two volume, one tone, an amp on off swith, two jacks, one for the amp, and one for headphones from the practice amp. strat style headstock with crappy tuners that broke easily, body was very small, came with a height adjustable bridge no intonation though, and a vibrato style tail piece, bolt on maple neck with 22 jumbo frets and an ebony fretboard, made it taiwan, nic action nice nut.

Noisy and limited adjusting the pickups helped but play something really distorted through this thing and you'll be alright.

Finsih was nice paper body sucked for sound pickups could be changed out thaty would help allot. bought it used from a pawn shop so it was set all wrong this was my brothers first guitar and it scared him out of playing for a while because he thogh all guitar would be that way. it is very light light as paper HA HA. knocked the headstock on things all the time and it was alright.

no way I would gig without a backup, this would be my second backup behind my peavey strat, or maybe I would just destory it, don't buy this for your kid buy them something better like a Samick or something . GHowever this thing is built very well it will hold together but it is easy to break the strings with that vibrola unit if your not carefull. It also takes hal an hour to change all the strings. Strap buttons were nice but the strap was crap, would like to be able to adjust the intonation.

Really didn't want to have anything to do with them anfter having lived with this thing for a year.

Do not torture your child by buying them one of these, like I said buy them a samick or something it will cost you less money in the longrun and last longer. No way you could play this thing live unless you wanted to destroy it or something