Fender Starcaster Electric Guitar Pack with Amp and Accessories, Candy Apple Red

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Fender Starcaster Electric Guitar Pack with Amp and Accessories, Candy Apple Red
	Manufacturer: Fender Musical Instruments Corp. Customer Rating:   List Price: $199.00 Sale Price: View Sale Price Availibility: View Product Availability Available On:

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Solid-body Guitar With Maple Neck & Matching Headstock 22-fret Rosewood Fingerboard White Moto Pickguard 3 Single-coil Pickups With Five-way Switching, Chrome Hardware & Tremolo Bridge Sp-10 Guitar Amplifier Delivers 10w Includes Digital Tuner, 10-ft Guitar Cable, Gig Bag, Strap, Picks, Strings, Stand & Instructional Dvd Candy Apple Red

Product Details

• Everything you need to start rocking, including a candy apple red Stratocaster guitar and 10-watt Squier amp with 10-foot cord
• Classic Fender Stratocaster guitar for all styles of music
• Synchronous tremolo bridge for subtle shimmers or hard-core whammy
• Three single-coil pickups paired with a 5-way pickup selector switch; volume and 2 tone controls for wide range of tones
• Package also includes strings, picks, strap, gigbag, guitar stand, and instructional DVD

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Great Guitar Package!

Review Date: March 25, 2009

Reviewer: Marty from Clayton, Wisconsin

I am a bass guitar player, and own/have owned several bass guitars, including a Fender Mustang and currently a Fender Precision (Sting signature series). I have also owned a Fender Squier (6-string) guitar before. We ordered the Starcaster guitar package for my middleschool daughter. It's a great guitar with great sound; honestly, the sound is fantastic. And there are a lot of peripheral items included at a fabulous price. We've had no problems at all with the cord or amp, and the sound that little amp makes it really clear. Hit the overdrive, and you get a nice distortion sound. You can't control the amount of overdrive (it's either on or off), but for a beginner or for household use, it's perfect. The compact guitar stand is very stable for its size. A few other reviewers have criticized the guitar for string buzz. Well, you can adjust the bridge very easily. The package even includes the little hex-wrench needed to make the adjustment yourself. (Anyone that pays $100 for someone else to do such minor tweaking got ripped off ... you may as well pay someone to tune it for you.) If there is one drawback to the guitar, the edges of the frets are a little rough, something I've never encountered with a Fender product before. I find it noticible, but I wouldn't even call it uncomfortable. And certainly not so rough as to cut up your hands, as one reviewer exaggerated. One final note, the guitar not only sounds great, it looks beautiful as well. The candy-apple red color is rich and deep (slightly darker than the picture), and the finish has no flaws at all. I have no hesitation recommending this to any beginning or intermediate player.

Couldn't be happier with my purchase!

Review Date: March 8, 2009

Reviewer: Derek Krzanowski, Merrill, WI

I purchased this for my son's 10th birthday. I was of course very leery about the fact that the name is a play on the well known Stratocaster. I am no expert in guitars, to say the least, but I can confidently say this guitar "pack" is very much worth the money! My son was absolutely ecstatic! I've had several people play it that do know guitars and they were all incredibly impressed with what we got for the money. Also, we were a little worried about the red color for a boy but we were put to ease when we received it. The pictures on amazon make it look more of a bright red than it really is. It is a great color for a boy or girl. If my daughter ever decides she wants an electric guitar for her birthday, this is what I will be getting her.

BUY IT NOW!!!

Review Date: August 25, 2009

Reviewer: Steve Goolcharan, Clifton, NJ

Owned for 1 month. Comes with very loud amp, clear sound. Beautiful guitar. Fantastic for beginners. Comes with all accessories needed. If you are getting this, make sure to buy a new 1/4 cable, because the one that comes with is terrible. Also get better strings (Ernie Balls are my preference). It does require tuning and tremolo adjustments, so make sure to read guides on the net to figure those out.

Starcaster Electric Guitar

Review Date: August 29, 2009

Reviewer: J. Newsum,

I was looking for an inexpensive starter guitar and found a solid one with this product. The guitar shipped quickly and arrived in good condition. Previous reviews stated the frets are unfinished, I'm not sure if that was a past issue or people being nit picky as my frets are smooth and rounded off just like any other guitar I've ever played. The guitar is a bit heavy and the pickups aren't the best, but I expected this as the price of a strat jumps as the quality of the components goes. It is a well designed, very easy to play straight from the box beginner guitar. I would recommend this guitar to anyone looking for an entry level guitar for a good price.

Great for the Money!

Review Date: April 13, 2009

Reviewer: C. Walsh, Boston

I bought this as a birthday gift for my husband, who has always wanted to learn to play the guitar. He LOVES it. He's been practicing all the time. The DVD that it comes with, to teach you to play, is not quite sufficient to teach (the camera angle often times makes it difficult to see where exactly the instructor's fingers are, what cords he's applying pressure to, etc...). My husband plans to sign up for private lessons, but regardless of the DVD, the guitar is awesome!

Love It!

Review Date: December 27, 2008

Reviewer: Michele Ryan, Brooklyn, NY United States

I bought this pack in candy apple red and midnight blue for my twin, nine year old boys, for Christmas. They love it and so do I. The service was quick and easy. The guitars are well made and all of the extras that come in the pack are good quality. I was going to buy this in my local music store and it would have cost me a lot more money for lesser quality items. We are happy!

Great Guitar and Customer Service!

Review Date: January 6, 2010

Reviewer: Belinda Hart, Ivins, UT USA

I bought this for my 10 year old son for Xmas and he loves it!! It is made well, true to the Fender name and all that came with it was great. The DVD is a great tool for those who never played before. By the end of the day, he was playing two familiar songs very well. We had a problem with the cord going from the guitar to the amp. At first all we had to do was jiggle it a little and it would work, but then it stopped working all together. I called Fender, thinking that I would get numerous recorded messages and never get anywhere. Well, I was totally wrong!! After about a six minute wait I talked directly to a customer service rep,who was so nice, who promptly wrote down all my info and a new cord is on its way to us. Incredible, absolutely incredible!!!

Great beginner guitar set

Review Date: January 11, 2010

Reviewer: C. Christenbury,

My 14 year old daughter has been wanting to really lean how to play the guitar after playing all the Guitar Hero games. This set had everything she needed, a brand name that made her feel like she was getting a great guitar. Friends who play in local bands recommended this and her teacher said it was a nice guitar to learn on. She has practiced every day since getting it for Christmas so it must be easy to use. It has a beautiful red metallic color finish too and the white pearl is so pretty

more than great

Review Date: January 28, 2010

Reviewer: Lamike, Shreveport, Louisiana

This was better than we expected... Free shipping was very fast, about four days during the holidays! Great! Good sound and plenty of extras.

I LIKE THIS ELECTRIC GUITAR

Review Date: February 4, 2010

Reviewer: Christine K. Mitchell, MAKAHA,HI,USA

I LUV THIS ELECTRIC GUITAR BECAUSE ITS REALLY A GOOD STARTER KIT AND YOU CAN'T BEAT THE PRICE.MOST ELECTRIC GUITARS ARE SO COSTLY BUT I HAVE LEARNED SORD OF A LOT IN JUST 2 MONTHS WITH THIS ELECTRIC GUITAR THAT I HAVE NOW.I LOVE THE COLOR OF THIS ELECTRIC GUITAR.MY 1967 MUSTANG WILL BE PAINTED THE SAME COLOR AS THIS ELECTRIC GUITAR.THE ONLY THING IS THE AMP HAS A BUZZING ANNOYING SOUND BUT I WAS GOING TO GET ANOTHER AMP ANY WAY BETWEEN A 50 WATT-100 WATT AMP SOMETIME SOON SINCE I'M GETTING PRETTY GOOD WITH THIS ELECTRIC GUITAR.THE FACT THAT I'M LEARNING ON MY OWN IS AWESOME BUT THE ONLY SAD THING IS THAT NO ONE IN MY FAMILA(FAMILY) PLAYS AN instrument LIKE HOW I DO MOSTLY EVERYDAY...BY THE WAY I LIKE THE TEACHER THAT THIS ELECTRIC GUITAR CAME WITH BECAUSE HE'S REALLY A GOOD TEACHER INFACT THE BEST INSTRUMENT TEACHER THAT I EVER HAD... -CHRISTINA

Fender Starcaster Electric Guitar

Review Date: February 10, 2010

Reviewer: M. Wiehler,

Bought this for my son for Christmas. Excellent starter guitar package. Could not be happier. Beautiful Guitar, my Son loves it. Great quality and value for the price. Would definately recommend it.

Great Fender Guitar

Review Date: April 19, 2010

Reviewer: R. Gilbert, Illinois, USA

Beautiful guitar. My 12-year old son truly enjoys it and his 23-year old brother even sneaks some time on it. It has been outstanding for the price! The amp is enough to get comments on "turn it down," and he even takes it outside to enjoy it louder. He has two acoustic guitars and this is his first electric guitar for only a reasonable investment. He now enjoys taking it to lessons and even the instructor wanted to play it! Highly recommended for a beginner.

Awesome guitar!

Review Date: June 13, 2010

Reviewer: Miguel A. Gonzalez, Houston

Wow, what a great bundle for the price. The guitar looks even better than the pictures here on Amazon! I impressed my girl with it, even though I am not that good of a player yet! Guitars do bring in the chicks! The little amp is that comes with the pack is great for a basic sound. It is loud enough to play your own little gig in a small room too. I can't wait to start playing it well. It taked a lot of practice, so if you are a person that loses interest in things easily, don't bother picking up a guitar, you need PATIENCE and DEDICATION. The strings it comes with are cheap, so buy some better ones. They snaped with a week's play, but I was playing about 5-6 hours a day. Strings are cheap, so it is no big deal.

Best guitar I ever bought...and I threw most of it in the trash!

Review Date: March 5, 2009

Reviewer: James B. Hansen, Los Angeles, CA

I bought one of these at Guitar Center on sale for $149.00 and just gutted and stripped it down to nothing, throwing away everything but the body and the neck (I saved the original neck and tuners for another possible project guitar in the future). Anyway... First, I bolted a 2005 JV Fender Strat maple neck with vintage Kluson tuners to the gutted body using the Starcaster neckplate and bolts. Then, I replaced the bridge with a Fender Custom Shop '57 reissue tremolo bridge and tremblock. After that was done, I installed three 500K CTS pots (Vol. Tone 1 and Tone 2) in place of the junk I threw out, and then converted it from a three single coil pickup design to dual humbuckers! I bought a black aftermarket 3-ply HSH pickguard and put in all DiMarzio pickups: Super Distortion in the bridge, a PAF in the neck and a DiMarzio DP119 Class of '55 single coil in the middle. Best thing about it: hardly any routing was necessary! The body comes from the factory ALREADY routed for a bridge humbucker!!! Now I have my own custom designed Strat--setup the way I want it, with the bridge and pickups I want, the neck I want, and in the end it cost me LESS THAN HALF of what I would have paid for a new U.S. made Stratocaster--and I have EXACTLY the guitar I want! In fact, if it hadn't been for the expense of the Strat neck I wanted, This guitar wouldn't have cost me $350 That's what you do with this guitar! You build your dream instrument, man! I did.

Great Start For A Beginner Guitarist

Review Date: July 16, 2009

Reviewer: Black Sheep, Arkansas

I read all of the product reviews before buying this guitar and finally decided it would be worth the risk. And I was right, it was worth it. The shipping box came with a few dings in it, but the product is packed very well. There was absolutely no damage to anything inside the box. As a beginning guitarist, I think the product is excellent. The little amp seems to have a lot of volume and good tone, and the guitar is very well made from what I can tell. It sounds good, feels good, and plays very well. And contrary to everything I read, the frets are not sharp on the ends. In fact mine are beveled and smooth. I do however have two small complaints. It seems like everyone has either the red or starburst colors, so I opted for the midnight blue. Well, it's midnight alright. It's so dark, that you need a really bright light or sunlight just to be able to tell it's not black. And then it looks more of a dark purple than blue. My second complaint was a buzz from the 5th (A) string at the 6th and 7th frets. All the other strings played well, except this one at this location. I adjusted the neck three times and retuned the strings three times and now it seems to be fine. I'm sure if you're a master guitarist that has owned some really nice guitars you could find a lot of fault with the Starcaster. But for my money and level of experience, this was a great buy and a fantastic start on learning to play the guitar. I'm sure I'll out grow this one and move up some day in both quality and price, but I'm also certain I won't ever regret having started out with this guitar. Would I buy it again. Absolutely. Would I recommend it as a good "starter" guitar for the price. Absolutely. FOLLOW-UP APPROXIMATELY ONE MONTH LATER....... Okay, It's August and I've had this guitar for almost a month now. I practice/play every night at home and I am EXTREMELY pleased with my purchase. I've read all the reviews about bad electrical components, cheap strings, sharp frets, piece of crap amp, etc., etc. but I have to disagree. I either got the ONLY perfect Starcaster that was made, or some of these other folks are just a whiny overcomplaining bunch that no one could satisfy. - "Bad strings and strings breaking".....I haven't had a single problem and I play EVERY night. - "Tone knobs don't work".....Both of mine work just fine. - "Will not stay in tune".....The ONLY time mine has been out of tune is when I adjusted the neck. I check it EVERY night before I play/practice, and it's ALWAYS in tune. - "Tuner breaks after a couple of uses".....Have used mine about 25 times and it's working fine, plus I've never replaced the batteries. - "Bad pickups".....I have played along with several online tracks and the sound out of my Starcaster has matched the sound from the professional tracts almost perfectly. I could go on but I think you get the point. For under [...] this is a REALLY good deal! Don't you dare think EC or BBK would find it their guitar of choice, but for a beginner model or home practice guitar, the one I purchased and received is awesome! And again, I was only slightly unhappy with the color blue, but it's beginning to grow on me, lol. I hope this follow up helps, and I hope as I said earlier that I didn't get the ONLY good production model made. (I seriously doubt that's the case.) I'm really enjoying mine, and hope you enjoy yours too. ~ Black Sheep