GearIT GST-200 SoCal Series Guitar- First Look

[@ltcm5052]

Also as an owner of this guitar I gotta say I’ve never been a huge fan of the idea of gunmetal gray/graphite color. But it looks absolutely amazing in person!!!! 🎸

[@ltcm5052]

Heck yes I recently got this guitar before I even saw this review. It’s one of my absolute favorites. One of the best deals I’ve ever gotten!

[@lumpodogge]

For the same price and discount, I can HIGHLY recommend the Gearit GTL-200 (especially in Surf Green). Great looks, very versatile and a great player after setup.

[@Earthshaker1965]

Love the color of that Gearit Strat.

[@glovefix850]

I really appreciate what you do; creating these great videos. But I have one constructive suggestion: If possible, record the guitar separately from your webcam microphone. That mic will pick up any acoustic strumming and makes the guitar sound awful when combined with the guitar amp. The two tones fight each other very badly. Might require two separate tracks upon editing your video, but it would bring huge value to your videos and channel overall. I guarantee it. Please consider.

[@birdman316]

sweet guitar brother! love the charcol metallic! i recently bagged a surf green GEARIT tele clone....super nice with the same "goodiebag" and gigbag.....

[@GiggleFits]

Great review I have this one and the Tele I gig with them both no issues. I love GearIT they are my main guitars and the only thing I did was changed out the tuners

[@BenjaminSmith-gm7gb]

I really enjoyed your review! This looks like a very nice guitar,, I really like the 2 point tremelo and split coil bridge pickup!! Very nice for the price!!

[@brooklynsoundgarage]

Always wanted an HSS Strat, got one of these and it actually plays incredibly well and sounds great! Heavy at 9 pounds but otherwise best $98 I’ve spent.

[@MitchHaman]

Hi Joe. I got the same guitar but it's blue. You got a really good deal. I bought mine back in December for $116 and that was a great deal. I did a good bit of tweaking(truss rod, string height, trem setup, cleaned the fret board and polished the frets, new strings, intonate) to get it to play the way I wanted it to but it does play good now. The only issue I have now, but have not addressed it yet (to lazy), is the high E string will get caught on a few of the frets. The single coils are not great, but I think the humbucker on the bridge is decent. All is all, after proper setup, it's a decent playing guitar for the money.

[@AJgeartalk]

Hey Mitch! Yes-decent guitar for the price! Hope you are doing well brother.

[@toddr2375]

Nice review, Joe! You have some serious GAS lately! 😁 I've been curious about that exact guitar, but prior to you, the reviews have been non-existent. How does the neck feel? How does it compare to other similar guitars you have tried? Thanks for taking the plunge and giving us an honest review!!

[@AJgeartalk]

Really like the neck Todd. Very similar to a Squier Classic Vibe strat "feel" in terms of thickness etc. Be well my friend.

[@rustyshackleford9557]

I love the neck and frets on these. , pre cut rounded fret ends. Med thin D shape neck. Not a fan of the electronics. Folks who keep their pinky on the volume and do a lot of swells may not like the taper. The humbucker has a lot of highs cut so I bet it is being affected by that 250 k volume pot.

[@CKS64]

Great guitar for what you pay. You want a custom guitar to your specs not in this price range. Thanks for reviewing it for what it is.

[@thebluesrockers]

Amazing for a $38.00 guitar. Looks like it's worth three to four times that. Thanks again, Joe.

[@bluwng]

Looks cool if nothing else.

[@zuperdee]

Personal opinion: The pickups are probably the best part of the guitar. They’re really not bad sounding. Everything else about it sounds pretty average.

[@j.powellnetwork]

Nice! How does it stack up against the Tease guitar?

[@AJgeartalk]

Less money than the Tease. Tease stock pups are better (Alnico 5). The GearIT has Ash body (a plus).

[@rustyshackleford9557]

I bought 2 of the mahogany version. The neck and frets are very nice. The pickups and electronics are pretty mediocre. The taper for the volume pot is not even and I am guessing by how much treble is rolled off the humbucker that everything is routed via 250k pots. The single coils are ceramic and pretty underwound ( 5k). Both guitars will get a 35$ alnico pre wired pickguard. The tuners on mine are fine. Heck of a deal.

[@AJgeartalk]

Yes Rusty. Agreed. I found the stock pickups to be very low output for ceramics.