Yamaha ERG-121

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Nice chrome bridge, nothing particularly fancy, 22 frets. Gig back, trem (whammy) bar 10W amp, strings, strap came with it. Simple but very good.

I play nearly every type of music, ill play punk, blues, metal, grunge, anything. I play it through a zoom 505II multi-effects pedal and a Marshall G30OR CD 30W amp. It stands up to anything i play and offers unbelievable sound. Without the Zoom 505II it still sounds brilliant, with sharp tone from the bridge pickup and smooth rythm tone from the neck pickup. Can't believe it was so cheap!

Low action, very easy to play, black finish with chrome accessories.I play it more than 2 hrs every day and i've had it for about 8 months and it's still in mint condition. Still got the same tone + sustain as the day i bought it!

I've played live quite a few times with this guitar and it handels it very well. The hardware seems like it will last forever , no faults yet and i cant see any coming in the near future. No fretboard wearing and i play it a lot!

Never needed it, dont think i ever will.

I own a boston acoustic, i've been playing for about 1 1/2 years and i play regular live gigs with my band. We mainly play metallica and some of our own stuff, i play lead (the solos n stuff) this guitar is perfect. It's a lot better than fenders squire started pack, the tone is so good on this guitar.

Made in Indonesia, 6 string Ibanez/Strat mixture, without a scratchplate, shiny and black, goddam sexy! H/S/H config, 5 way selector and 1 tone and volume knob. Nice Chrome bridge to finish it off. simplistic but nice, if kinda evil looking. Dont know about the wood types, but the action is real close to the board without any buzzing whatsoever, and with the thin neck and low action it is a beast to play.
Comes with a standard tremolo, gig bag, tuner, strings and amp.

i play Metal (pantera, korn, metallica, slipknot and my own stuff). currentlly i run it through a GFX 707 and a marshall G50RCD, and trust me it sounds great, whatever tuning, either standard to dropped B. The humbuckers are fantastic for finger tapping and have a great sustain. Also sounds great clean. pickups are very sensitive, which may be a problem clean, but it depends what ur playing.
there isnt one part i dont like.

Action is great for a guitar that cost around 100 quid. pickups are nicely set, no problems with wiring, no humming etc. got this one as a replacemnt for the EG112 and it rules.

this guitar has been used for at leats an hour a day, often m,ore for the last 8 months. and it still plays as good as the day i got it. no rust on the hardware as yet, still nice n shiny. no problems with the strap as long as its not twisted. as long as the strings hold up to my shredding the guitar will easily withstand a live act. the body itslef seems a little easy to scratch but nothing easily noticable, no dents as yet.

never tried.

have been playing for 18 months and out of a EG112, squire strat and ERG121, the ERG121 rules in sound quality. proper distortion! the humbuckers, as they were from the box seem even better than that of an epiphone les paul, a mere #200 more expensive. Fretboard is fast and takes a lot to get dirty. no knobs have fallen off after 8 months of use and with decent enough attention i reckon it will last for at least 5 more years, or till i can afford a top of the range BC Rich

The Yamaha ERG-121 is a double cutaway, stylized super-strat body style with no pickguard. It has a solid, basswood body and bolt-on maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, 22 frets. The pickup configuration is Humbucker/Single Coil/Humbucker. One volume knob, one tone knob, 5-way selector switch and vintange trem bridge. Inexpensive, but decent chrome hardware. The finish comes in your choice of black, black, or black. ;) The guitar was purchased in January, 2002 as part of Yamaha's new "Gigmaker" Electric package. The package comes with a GA-10 ten watt (actually 7 watts) practice amp, a gig bag, string winder, Yamaha electronic tuner, string winder, 09 strings, nylon strap and a few picks. This is marketed as a "Starter Package," aimed at the low end market. Yamaha's marketing materials even tout the guitar and accessory package as something kids will enjoy without busting the parents' budget. But, with the exception of the basswood body, this is almost the same guitar as Yamaha's RGX series. This may be a low-priced guitar, but it is not a low quality instrument at all. The whole shebang cost $300 US, brand new.

I have no set style. I play everything with a discernible melody and chord progression, including blues and rock, pop, country, jazz and my own stuff. The long scale length, vintage tremolo bridge and H/S/H pickup configuration of this guitar provides a lot of versatility. The 5-way selector allows you to choose the neck humbucker by itself, the neck HB with the single coil, the single coil by itself, the S with the bridge HB, and the bridge HB by itself. You ought to be able to play almost any style of music with this guitar. However, we are not talking about top-of-the-line gear here, so there are some quality issues. For starters, basswood is not the prime choice of tonewoods. It's Ok, but that's it. The single coil PU hums when it's cranked, and the bridge humbucker sounds a little cheesy if you try to get a clean tone out of it. Crank it up and drive it out though, and you'll get plenty of crunch. I've been able to get throbbing bass out of it, clean rock tones, wailing blues and warm, jazzy color. None of these qualities stand out, though. This guitar does many sounds well, but none of them exceptionally. About what you'd expect from a lower end, stock guitar aimed at the mass market.

Factory setup was very nice. The action is low, clean and quick; intonation is right on target. It is very easy to play, with no fret buzz. I've gone over the guitar with a 4x reading glass. There are no visible flaws. Yamaha's quality control has always been exacting, and there is absolutely nothing poorly done with this guitar. It's not top-end, but it's not cheap, either.

The back of the box this thing sells in says that it includes a 'full size, professional quality guitar.' Ok, it is full-sized, but professional quality may be a bit of a stretch. It certainly plays easily enough to pass as professional quality. It looks good enough. But whether it's built well enough to take the constant abuse of professional play (both studio and live gigs) remains to be seen. Durability aside, the factory pickups are definitely NOT professional quality. Replace the pickups with something a little better, and we have a different story. A professional musician probably wouldn't take this axe on the road, except as a backup, an alternate tuning axe for one set, etc. If you only play at home or only intend to jam with friends, this is a great guitar.

Yamaha offers a limited lifetime warranty. I'll probably never need it.

I'm an intermediate acoustic guitarist. This is my first solid body electric. I was looking for a versatile, low-priced, solid-body axe to play around with and expand into electric guitar. After playing Epiphone, Fender and Ibanez 'starter guitars,' I was blown away by this package. It cost about $100 more than I thought I would spend (giving you an idea of just how low-end I was looking for). I could tell very little difference between this guitar and Yamaha's pricier RGX series. From a quality vs. price standpoint, Fender's Squier series isn't even in the same league. Ibanez makes a decent entry level axe, but the sound quality issues killed the deal. Aesthetically, this guitar is sexy and seductive. Yamaha's interpretation of the Super Strat style, the high gloss black finish and chrome hardware just look great. If you're just starting out and need a decent guitar at a decent price, the ERG121 is tough to beat. It sounds Ok. It looks good. It's priced right. The only thing that prevents this guitar from scoring a 10 is that it is a lower-end axe and it's not going to sound like a $1,000 Super Strat or Paul Reed Smith. The humming SC pickup and cheesy tone of the bridge HB are the only significant drawbacks to this guitar. If it were lost or stolen, I'd take the insurance check and get another one (and have new pickups installed). It's a good value.

The ERG121 is a guitare with 22frets. It`s solid with 1 Volume and 1 Tone Leveler, 5-way-switch and two Humbuckers and 1 Single Coile between them. You could choose them with a 5-way-switch. It has got a Tremolo which I don`t used, because I had to tune the guitar after playing with this. The accessories were a gig bag and a 3mtr cable and a tool to convex or concarve the nec.

The sound iss very good. I use it with a Hughes & Kettner thirty and a Zoom effect. I play all kind music (punk,country,hard) and I could play all styles with the guitar.

I had some problems with the switch, because it doesn't work properly after playing a year. But I repaired it with cleaning the switch. The other thing is the tremolo which I never used, because if you use it, you have to tune your guitar always. From factory it is a good guitar. I changed no pickups or so.

It`s easy to play this guitar. It`s ideal for beginners because it has all features which you use, and when you play some years you can buy a new guitar which has the features you only need. I missed no feature when I played the guitar. The guitar is also good as a second gutare with another tuning on stage or as a training guitare at home

I never needed Customer support, and that is the best costumer support which a company can ever give.

Overall it's a good beginner guitare and had all features which you need at first. It's a very good guitar for price I'd paied. So I would buy it again as a beginner or if I wouldn`t have the money to buy me Really good guitar. I played it over a year on every day and took it with me to play with my band.

Double cutaway, Strat-style body (but leaner, more comfortable), 22 frets, humbuckers at neck and bridge, single coil in the middle position, 5-way switch, 1 volume, 1 tone, vintage tremolo bridge.

I play it through a small Crate GX-15 practice amp, all styles of guitar music, I play punk, rock, blues, basically whatever comes to my mind.

The bridge humbucker gives a lot of power for distorsion (which is what I use it for), for clean sound it's a bit too "quacky", I think. Bridge HB together with the middle SC gives a good rock clean sound for single notes and also heavy chord play. Middle SC + neck HB is somehow best for clean chord play, it has depth, warmth, but also snaps if you hit the strings hard, so I pretty much like that setting (play it second most, next to distorted bridge). If you want even more snap in your clean chords (or maybe some softly distorted snap), take the middle SC on it's own, and it just delivers what you ask for (although the bottom end is naturally a bit weaker than with the HBs). Last but not least, the neck HB: it's best for soft blues sound, turn the tone half way down (actually one of the few cases in which I turn down the tone at all) and you get an extremely warm sound, which is great for single note play in blues and jazz style. You may also use the neck HB (with tone at 10) for clean chord play, it will then really make the floor vibrate because of it's massive bottom end, or play it distorted, if you want a bit more "tamed" distorsion than what you get from the bridge.

As you can see the sound of this guitar is very versitile and for it's price I think there is no competition in terms of sound quality (please don't compare this guitar to a 1000 EUR guitar and expect it to sound the same!)

Great action, very easy and comfortable to play (which is maybe the most important thing about a guitar). Black finish looks cool and solid.

Extremely reliable, as far as I can see. I'm probably not the best one to judge this, because I treat it with care, but read the reviews of the EG-112 (very similar guitar, only with SC at neck, which I don't like so much) to get an impression of the durability.

I played some other guitar in that price range in a shop and as far as I can see there is absolutely no competition. I also tried the Yamaha EG-112, which is quite similar but has a SC at the neck and a white pickguard, but I chose the ERG 121, because the neck SC of the EG sounds nearly the same as the middle SC, so it would be quite useless, while the neck HB of the ERG sounds just great and I wouldn't want to miss it. But try for your self.