I Found The Worst Guitar Product Ever

a little while ago I got an email or rather six emails from the same company called aeroband trying to get me to advertise their product the arrow guitar according to them the arrow guitar was a new way for people to learn to play guitar with Innovative technology such as silicone strings to reduce finger pain immediately when I saw what it was I told him that I do not think it's a viable alternative for anybody who wants to learn how to play a guitar unless they have some kind of disability like arthritis or whatever which is not how they Market it and especially for say a beginner who wants to eventually move up to a real guitar that's going to feel like Bob dwire and what I found especially awful was the price tag of $459 now after that rejection they proceeded to send me the same email prompt five more times four of which I told them to go pound sand like the first time and the sixth time I gave in and I said fine send me your arrow guitar or whatever but it's fully at your own risk there is no guarantee that making a video about it to begin with and if I do it's likely not going to be in your favor fast forward a week and there's an arrow guitar at my doorstep now this actually made me think that it can't be as bad as I thought it would be because nobody who isn't confident in the quality of their product was going to do that and you know what I was right it's not nearly as bad as I thought it is infinitely worse than I even could have imagined I hereby hatefully present to you the arrow guitar now I'll get to a lot more talking points in a second but for the time being let's turn it [Music] on audio connect right so it comes with some arob band branded pics so let's just strum a g-cord real quick oh there you go it already registered a note that I didn't play isn't that a good [Music] [Applause] [Music] sign [Music] [Music] [Music] hey I just need one second of your time to talk to you about something that isn't crap you know what isn't crap this walrus audio fundamental Drive pedal isn't crap in fact it's very very good and I happen to know that the next few people who go through the link in my description or to shop. 6 string. TV and buy one of my inspirational Donut Man t-shirts which are currently on sale for 17 a piece not only get to look shop as hell with that brand new and very limited six string TV merch but also enter a raffle to win one of these pedals not this one though this one's mine Link in description and thank you to walrus audio for the help so time to tear at a new one what does this hateful piece of garbage actually do well besides constantly registering notes that aren't being played uh you might have noticed that this fretboard quote unquote looks a little bit bit two-dimensional and that's because it is because what they've generously described as Innovative silicone string technology is six kind of string fragments down here for you to pick that constantly register open strings even though you're not strumming them and six kind of semicircle-shaped silicone strips of the same thickness glued to the plastic fretboard meaning that yes obviously bends on this thing out of the question and if you were wondering why I took sort of a Marty fredman approach to playing it earlier it is because this thing that is held on here by some magnets apparently has sensors in it that not only register every rest of your palm on top of it as a palm mute as opposed to you know with a real guitar a palm mute would be your palm resting on the strings and not on the bridge which is where it's supposed to go but also these sensors have a tendency to malfunction and register everything as a pom mute whenever this cover is placed on top of the bridge which it is supposed to be because these here are these sensors that actually register the playing so your hand on top of that would be detrimental case and Point open bomb muted I don't feel like I need to say this again but I'm going to anyway $459 oh but if you thought the agony ends here my friend then you are dead wrong because this is only the beginning because what I'm reluctant to call the headstock on this guitar has three buttons on it now let's get to the two round ones first those ones being the Capo minus and Capo plus buttons now you might think oh that's kind of cool because obviously I can't place a real Capo on these rubber strings that would just endlessly register it as that note being [Music] played so let's place our virtual Capo somewhere now the indicator of where the Capo is supposed to be will be these led side dots so um let's just click it three times that should be a capo on the third fret so now with they Capo on the third fret that means that these notes shouldn't register at all right apparently I was wrong about that excuse me and i' I've only been playing for a couple of years I'm not really sure how the whole Capo business Works yet my bad but there is also a tone button up here which switches between like three four five or so tones that each individually sound like they were made in the' 70s when synthesizers were just [Music] invented [Music] [Applause] p [Music] [Music] [Applause] Now by now you've probably caught on to how imprecisely it registers these notes and therefore how poorly it would perform as say a midi controller well that apparently is one of the selling points of this guitar which is weird because they simultaneously sell it as a tool for someone who's never held a guitar in their lives to learn to play it but also as a tool to program midi with which would make it a professional tool and I sadly have to inform you that it is no good for either of those applications especially not for that money you want a Midi Guitar buy a jammie buy a jam stick the jam stick is a little more expensive than the Jammy but that's because what you get is not just a mini controller but an actual guitar that you can plug into an amp as well as opposed to you know the JY which is just for Midi but it costs about as much as this thing and actually works has actual strings and is actually usable as a Midi Guitar but the arrow guitar does come with stickers better not waste these there you go now I'm a Rockstar this is of course not the arrow guitar's only groundbreaking feature though it also does this so it fits in the bin easier now all of that aside one of the things that immediately set off alarm bells in my head was the fact that this is a Kickstarter company the arog guitar isn't technically on the market yet it's still in its crowdfunding stage and they are already enlisting YouTubers to promote it and that is one thing that I'm never going to agree to in my life because look at the Boaz one guitar you'll recognize that name if you keep up with guitar news because that was a travesty of a Kickstarter campaign and while even public companies that already have products on the shelves at big box stores doing scandalous things is nothing new you're making yourself especially vulnerable to becoming the guy who advertised the next big Kickstarter Scandal by accepting these kinds of advertising campaigns now that is by no means accusing araban of anything because as you can see their product is very real it just shouldn't be still advertising a product that's still in its crowdfunding stage is and there is one more thing that I would like to compare the arrow guitar 2 which is this this is genuinely just my toy guitar from my childhood I got this when I was like four or 5 years old for some reason it's just remained in our possession ever since and I'm actually quite happy about that now because it takes a similar approach as the arog guitar except it does for like 15 bucks at Walmart now tragically I can't turn it on for you because it's had the assd of about 40 batteries in it over the course of the past 15 years but as you can see the approach is very similar it's got metal strings down here for strumming and buttons here for playing notes and if I recall correctly from my very early childhood this button here would have the exact same function as the tone button on the Arrow guitar in that it would switch between several early 80s midi sounding guitar tones each marginally worse than the last except this is a toy from like 2007 and back then cost like I don't know probably 20 bucks and this Abomination was created in 20203 and costs $460 and I haven't even gotten to arog guitar's own ads for this thing yet some of which genuinely feature real guitar audio dubbed over top of this thing because they are so aware that what they've created is landfill with a crappy speaker inside I gladly remember the river you and I the AO guitar is smart instrument it will help you build good habits which will play a real guar this video could have just been me playing back Those ads to you and you would have gotten the gist of it now objectively the worst part about this guitar is just the way that they advertise it on their Instagram page there are a few videos like I have arthritis and my step mom got me an arrow guitar and if you do have some sort of ailment that makes this piece of crap the only way you can musically express yourself because you can't press down on a metal string on a real guitar hard enough to actually create notes then you know what fine but that's not how they are advertising it they are advertising it as something that you should get a novice guitar player before actually getting them a real instrument as though using a real guitar after however long of using this thing wouldn't set them straight back to square one if this was $140 to $160 and being advertised as a children's toy it would be amazing because you know just as well as I do that as a five or six-year-old with no intention of creating real music and just playing with a toy you would have been stoked to get this thing but now parents are buying this for their child for 500 bucks because if you were born into such wealth that you had $500 toys around the house as a kid this is not up to standard for that price so they could have done the smart thing and said we have made a children's toy that might eventually spark interest in actual instruments for a small tiny toddler of child which I'm convinced would work because there is ample evidence of me as a child playing with various toy guitars and I am now a real guitar player but with this garbage product that doesn't even have a speaker powerful enough that it won't crackle and distort when playing back its own audio I genuinely think that you are better off just playing Guitar Hero so if anybody at arob band happens to be watching this I'm very sorry but this is completely on you

Channel: sixstringtv

Views: 563,191

Keywords: aeroband, aeroguitar, aeroband guitar, guitar, sixstringtv, six string tv, six string+sixstring, guitarist, metal, rock, music, bass, beginner guitar, electric guitar

Id: QSqL9FZb63Y

Length: 11min 37sec (697 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 15 2023