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Lyon Strat by Washburn used as bass and lead

My first electric guitar package was Lyon by Washburn, mind you Im a big fan of Fender Stratocaster and my dream electric guitar is a Gibson SG or an Epiphone will do.  After a long battle of searching online and reading reviews about guitar from Google and which music store online to buy, again from eBay to Amazon to Digital Village, etc., I finally decided to just go to the nearest music store in Southampton to look, try and then hopefully buy an electric guitar.

I tried a couple of shops which were adjacent to each other, The Guitar Store Online and then Becketts.  I tried to look at the guitars and was a bit shy to try one and because of my tight budget plus being the new
kid in town, I was really shy to test their guitar.  But then, I conquered my shyness and tried a couple, and finally decided to buy this Lyon electric guitar by Washburn,colour black bundled with gig bag, 10-watt Stagg practise amp, strap, 3 plectrums and 3-meter lead from Becketts.

The guitar is superb, double humbucker bridge pickup, and two single coil’s, 5-way toggle switch, 1 volume knob and 1 tone knob.  The action was fairly decent, but the sound or tone quality was rather brilliant.
The store was clever coz I didn’t realize I was using a high-end
amplifier, which is not the one included with the bundle, not the 10-watt Stagg practise amp.

After buying the guitar, I went home and hooked up everything and tried using the practise amp, the sound was just right especially on low volume, tried using the built-in overdrive it was decent but not imkpressive.  Tried it on clean tone, using the neck pickup and I was supised, it is rather performing well.  The one good thing about this practise amp is the MP3 input where I can use either iPhone or iPad to jam, as well as the headset output where it’s easy and convenient to jam in my room without disturbing others.

I then bought Digitech RP55 and it changed everything from the sound of the guitar to the sound of this 10W Stagg practise amp, it made it sound bigger.  I purchased this electric guitar multi effects Processor from Amazon.  No regets whatsoever about this Digitech RP55, small gadget but with big punch as they say.

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