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This is Osman here, a.k.a. the headless guitar player you bump into when you search for a guitar review on the internet! 🙂 In this article, I’d like to tell you solid reasons about why you should trust my guitar and gear reviews.
As you are already familiar with guitar and gear reviews online, there are tons of them but it’s not always easy to find the real ones. Why? Because they are mostly put out by people who have hardly spent time with the instruments and pieces of pieces of equipment. And I’m not talking about customer reviews.
Customer reviews are great, but most of the time and especially for the beginner, entry-level to mid-level guitars they are written by people who have just bought their first or second guitars.
Does this make customer reviews not legit? Of course not! In any business model, customers are the heart of everything, without them, no one can survive in this tough system.
But what about the reviews which are written by people who have spent countless hours on the instruments not only by playing a few minutes with each but unboxing them, playing and recording with them and testing them? Would you prefer these against customer reviews? See below 🙂
I have been playing the guitar since 1999 but until 2014 I had only played a few electric, acoustic, bass and nylon stringed guitars. This was quite normal for a bedroom guitar player but I always felt like I could only judge most guitars that I bumped into online by their appearance, their specs and how affordable for me at that time. Because it was impossible to try all of them in a local store.
But the reality is way more different than real life. When you have spent countless hours spent with instruments, you’ll find out that some instruments that look perfect do not function as they are supposed to be.
After I did my masters in marketing in London and having chosen a case study of Chapman Guitars, UK, I knew I was going to musical instruments industry direction for the upcoming years.
In 2014, I came back to my country and started working for the best and the first musical instruments online store in Turkey, MyDukkan! There we had over 20,000 musical instruments listed online and over 100,000 customers.
It had already been doing great but we kept receiving the same questions over and over again.
“Can you play Metallica with this guitar?“, “Does it stay in tune if you use the whammy bar?“, “Should I go for HSS or SSS pickups configurations?“, “Tuners really work?“, “Is it noisy on an overdrive channel?“
I remember having sold 20 to 25 guitars each day and we would open up each one test it cosmetically first then do a functional guitar test where we would check everything from string action, neck adjustment, electronics check up both on clean and driven sounds and the carton box content check…etc
While our guitar tests procedure kept going on, we decided to record electric guitar review videos where there was no talk but just playing as many samples as possible with the same amp settings and same recording setup.
This approach has been praised by many but also criticised by some people too. Well, I’m not the best player out there for sure and recording these videos in a row, sometimes 4 guitars per day are quite challenging and I would most of the times play the song samples very quickly.
But people would get bored with our reviews because I would play the same things most of the time and the amp settings have been always flat. We aimed to follow this approach because this way one can compare the sounds that those guitars produce in the same conditions and then decide which sounds best to THEIR ears!
Want to see how many people we have attracted to our shop with our reviews? Here’s a recent screenshot below…
In my opinion, this has been a great success and always happy and proud of it. During my service, I had already recorded over 200 electric guitar review videos in the same format as well as acoustic guitars, and audio equipment. Unfortunately, just some of them could be published due to the heavy workload.
I was also quite obsessive with replying to everyone no matter what. So during those 2 and a half years of comments, it was always me who, possibly replied to you! 🙂
When I was managing the whole YouTube account, I realised that most of the comments we’d receive came from many other countries that we were not able to ship any guitars to as the company could only operate within Turkey. This is the reason I have started recording all my experience in written format so any person from any country can have a look at the real results of the guitar tests we had done so far.
Remember the headless guitar player that pops up every time you searched for a guitar?
Well, this has been one of the most legit reasons on why you should trust my reviews. But I have more reason for you to trust my word!
After I left MyDukkan, I started working for Cangöz Müzik, which is a 60 years old musical instruments company in Turkey. There I was responsible for imports operations, localization of musical instruments, creating OEM products and many more. Some of the brands I worked with are GEWA, QS Music (Musik Meyer GmbH), Pirastro GmbH, Thomastik Infeld, Laney, ESP LTD Guitars, Nux FX, D’addario Woodwinds, Vandoren, Kurzweil, Ritter Gigbags, Conn-Selmer, Ludwig, Bach, Remo, GruvGear, Jody Jazz, GEWA, Ringway, Dörfler, Altamira Guitars, Admira Guitars, Rigotti Ets., Hannabach, Washburn as well as dozens of Chinese vendors.
These mean that there are not only dozens of guitar reviews coming up but also many more musical instruments and accessories reviews are being prepared too! I will never recommend musical instruments, accessories, audio equipment and related products that I would never buy for my own use. It’s been almost 20 years since I’m obsessed with music and spent most of my time and money on this. Hopefully, this website will be one of your best options to visit and get valuable and honest reviews of musical instruments and audio equipment! 🙂
Now I’m working really hard to prepare more reviews in order to give you more in-depth and real reviews of the musical instruments and accessories, audio equipment at the moment. It takes a tremendous amount of time and I really appreciate if you support me on this journey. Please follow me on Twitter and subscribe to my YouTube channel using the links on the top right. Really need it!
At the moment, I have Cort, Epiphone, Godin, Ibanez, Jackson, Schecter, SGR, Squire and Takamine guitar reviews as well as my favourite Chicken Picks review. You can also discover more stuff by using the top menu and please do not hesitate to contact me for any instrument, accessories, amps, VST plugins tests and reviews! Thanks for reading and looking forward to your feedback and support!