Vox SDC 1 Mini Guitar | Review | Nick Jennison

Designed for those who want to be able to play guitar where you wouldn't usually take a guitar, the Vox SDC-1 mini electric is miniature in size but gives you plenty of full-size benefits in a travel-friendly instrument. Nick Jennison tells us more

[@JTGrimes]

Phenomenal playing and excellent demo!

[@saepiumv3813]

Sold! Best review of this that I've seen. Excellent travel guitar.

[@larrycavallucci3258]

I have a grandson for whom I bought a Uke when he was 4, and now that he's 7, he's progressed nicely with the Uke, and does well with tempo with his right hand. NOW he REALLY wants an EG. The family was here for Easter, and I had him try out my Tele Deluxe and the Tele 40th Anniv models I have, full size, along with my PRS SE Custom 24. All three are just too big for him and had trouble forming a C chord with a 4-fret stretch. I'm gonna consider this model for him....thanks for the video....someone else in the family can buy him the REST he'll need! haha

[@floridapunkarchivist]

You will not regret it he’s the perfect match for this product

[@larrycavallucci3258]

@@floridapunkarchivist Wound up buying a used APXT2. LP $210. SP was $150. Store Mgr at Sam Ash sold it to me for $135 and through in a nice soft NEW Michael Kelly gig bag for Free, cause I had a Vietnam Vet ballcap on! My Luthier set it up, with new strings, and also had him put on a pick guard for me. Bought a capo for him too, and my Luthier threw in a Carvin youth gtr strap he had there in a box, for Free! I also bought him a Gtr cable. Someone else can buy him a small Amp! haha....They were here again for THIS Easter, and I gave it to him the day they got here. So now, I even think his 11 yr old sister will start playing it, as she's been playing a Yamaha P-45 digital piano we bought her when she was 6! While they were here, I was able to teach them some simple chord patterns in G. Also helpful they both know some music theory. Thanks for your NOTE!

[@floridapunkarchivist]

@@larrycavallucci3258 is life great or what? America fn rocks man!

[@benbrucato77]

I was thinking about one of these tuned up and using it to add depth for multi tracked quasi-orchestral black metal. Your demonstration of the modified Nashville tuning was really helpful to see what that might be like. Thanks for the video.

[@EdHanleyTabla]

best review of this little gem so far!

[@douglasw.7864]

I bought one early this year. Due to a shoulder injury, I needed something short scale. The quality is quite good for the low price. I use it through a Blackstar Fly mini amp.

[@GuitarInteractive]

Sounds like a good decision. Hope the shoulder is on the mend. 💪

[@douglasw.7864]

@@GuitarInteractive Thanks mate. So far so good 😎🎸

[@ourclarioncall]

Brilliant review , great demos , great presenter , great insight , great content !

[@rhymezgalore]

I get one tomorrow and im gonna learn how to play on it. Thanks for the review. Wish me luck

[@Newnodrogbob]

How did it go?

[@kevinnielsen1356]

Mine just came! Musicians Friend Stupid Crazy Deal of the Day, $99.- free shipping. Minor adjustments to a couple string heights, pickup height adjusted and it rocks. It feels like my mandolin to play, sounds like a rocker. It needs a precise touch as the strings bend super ez, a real blues machine. Great for developing precise left hand technique.

[@floridapunkarchivist]

Musicians friend had this as their deal of the day for $100 last week. Couldn’t pass it up and I’m glad I didn’t because it arrived today and I’m definitely impressed by the quality

[@kevinnielsen1356]

@@floridapunkarchivist Tiny Tim missed out

[@russk8091]

I just got mine today. Did you switch to lighter gauge strings? Seems like it would be easier to fret with 9s but I read that lighter gauge would go out of tune easier on a short scale electric..

[@johnkearney6835]

Great review...thanks and nice playing from the camerman too! I want one!

[@tomelwich49]

Excellent job Nick!

[@peterkloostra1835]

Ordered one to practice during my nightshifts at police research center:)

[@cafeadicto]

what about researchimg 🤣

[@newgravityfilms]

Superb review! Thank you!

[@Mark70609]

Thanks for the review Nick, I wouldn’t have considered this guitar for my son. I was thinking of the SquierJazzmaster Mini with humbuckers. I did consider a Fender Jaguar but it was expensive and too bright.

[@markplimsoll]

Great review of a wonderful guitar. I turned it into a Strat.... This is the ONLY inexpensive travel guitar - four screws and the neck COMES OFF to fold down. Fits in your backpack and in airlines' overhead compartments for carrryon luggage. I chiseled out a small section (it's routed for 2 pickups) and installed a modified (out of phase pickup) Strat style 3 pickup pickguard, and tune down to D, still experimenting with string sizes. A great guitar! ❤❤❤❤❤❤ 😮 Hope vox makes a headless version with a tremelo bar. 😮

[@ryanscutt8783]

Oh wow, you tune down on it? What gauge strings?

[@markplimsoll]

@@ryanscutt8783 I think I've got 11 on the high E string. I like an unwound plain G string gauge 20, but I just checked and it is wound. So probably a 22. Still messing around with it. I dropped it to D to match my vocal range, 3 octaves. Now I just have to learn to sing....

[@russk8091]

I just got one today. Seems kind of hard to fret. Any recommendations on gauge before I try 8s or 9s?

[@willybilly51]

Thank you for demonstrating the guitar. For me, the small guitar is ideal ... because I have had multiple operations on the gripping hand (Snapping Fingers) and can only play short-scale guitars. Since I've already tried several short-scale guitars ... it always failed because of the stability of the strings.. that should be better with the VOX? I will order the guitar one day and hope that I will find the one I was looking for?

[@robertolira9843]

Great video thank you, as I am looking for a travel guitar this is helping me to choose. However I am now torn between the Vox and the Blackstar. :(

[@lokispeicher8103]

This kills the Blackstar ...esp on tone...

[@robertolira9843]

@@lokispeicher8103 You right just received my VOX and I extremely happy. Although had to change strings to ErnieBall 12-54 to keep in tune to standard tuning .

[@markplimsoll]

This is the ONLY inexpensive travel guitar - four screws and the neck COMES OFF to fold down. Fits in your backpack and in airlines' overhead compartments for carrryon luggage. I installed a modified (out of phase pickup) Strat style 3 pickup pickguard, and tune down to D, still experimenting with string sizes. A great guitar! ❤❤❤❤❤❤ 😮 Hope vox makes a headless version with a tremelo bar. 😮

[@NatureSoundsandSights]

sold me on it with the Nashville tuning, did you have a particular set (off the shelf)?

[@TheAkd89]

Bru-TAL.. I want it

[@weemankyle]

how would you say this would compare to the blackstar travel guitar? im torn between the two

[@oddnoobswe1977]

Let Shaq play this

[@keiferneverland5501]

Where can I purchase this ??..

[@unknownjustus09]

The mini guitar i have if u tune it to standard it's about unplayable because of tension, it's not a vox.

[@robertolira9843]

great video. As a beginner I though I would buy this guitar direct from VOX. I have spend a all afternoon trying to tune it and not having much luck . I think being a refurnished unit, it has come with wrong strings. Quite disappointing .

[@GregRickard]

did u stretch the strings first?

[@GregRickard]

Ultimately you could put locking tuners on it.

[@robertolira9843]

@@GregRickard Hi thanks for reply. Yes did all I could. Eventually change to Ernie Ball 12-54 Gauge no problem and stays tuned.

[@sebastionhawk5565]

NICE! ONE important question...where is it made?

[@peterkloostra1835]

At the back of the headstock (at least mine) it says China (printed very small) But who cares, they brought us Corona and that seams to do very well.

[@dickati]

Did you have any tuning problems with standard tuning? I have my Samick mini guitar tuned to open G because the guitar couldn't stay in tune with standard tuning. I believe this to be a common problem with these mini guitars.

[@DutchEddie]

Not if you use 11 or 12 gauge strings and maybe replace the tuners.

[@dickati]

@@DutchEddie Thanks. I'll try 12's and see if it helps.

[@DutchEddie]

@@dickati OK, good luck. Check the intonation, because of the heavier strings.

[@Phoboss32]

In another official video they highlighted the special designed tuners to hold the tune. Even bendings shouldn’t be a problem.

[@dakshcreativity1435]

What is the price in india

[@user-hv4qu4zx8s]

maybe I haven't seen enough footage but kids with extraordinary guitar skills still use normal size guitar~

[@zoeherriot]

My daughters hands just don't stretch far enough to form chords on a normal guitar.

[@chrisrockyou]

it would be great if Vox can made a version with upper pickup, it is unplaybale for jazz/fusion/neo soul guitar becoz the mini guitar is small and therefore its sound is thin if only hv a bridge pickup, only an upper pickup can help.

[@lokispeicher8103]

There's a chamber routed out for an added neck pickup underneath the pickguard

[@markplimsoll]

This is the ONLY inexpensive travel guitar - four screws and the neck COMES OFF to fold down. Fits in your backpack and in airlines' overhead compartments for carrryon luggage. I chiseled out a small section (it's routed for 2 pickups) and installed a modified (out of phase pickup) Strat style 3 pickup pickguard, and tune down to D, still experimenting with string sizes. A great guitar! ❤❤❤❤❤❤ 😮 Hope vox makes a headless version with a tremelo bar. 😮

[@loraljohnson]

For $200, it is not that much smaller to travel with. And, when you have a professional reviewer playing a toy through a modeling amp, it is going to sound good. Besides, if you are going to remove a neck to travel, just buy a Fender Squier guitar and take it. At least you don't have to get used to a very small scale neck just to jam.

[@markplimsoll]

Travel standard is 22" but the squier neck is 27". Maybe diagonal, but that uses up more space in backpack bc not alongside. This is the ONLY inexpensive travel guitar - four screws and the neck COMES OFF to fold down. Fits in your backpack and in airlines' overhead compartments for carrryon luggage. I chiseled out a small section (it's routed for 2 pickups) and installed a modified (out of phase pickup) Strat style 3 pickup pickguard, and tune down to D, still experimenting with string sizes. A great guitar! ❤❤❤❤❤❤ 😮 Hope vox makes a headless version with a tremelo bar. 😮

[@Truthinshredding1]

:D LOL

[@YahwehShalom-ve1nz]

What a fake negative guitar sound !!! Rather you dont see it yourself? Make sound like - surf guitar rock cool positive joyfull - for workout fitness sport drum.n.bass styles etc not for drugs!

[@duster71]

Dude you need a haircut,it's 2023.

[@GuitarInteractive]

Let me guess, you're an old bald dude, that's played the same four pentatonic licks for 30 years. Am I right?

[@Theylieohio]

@@GuitarInteractive Lol I’d say you’re right on the money!

[@50mmnikonainikkor55]

@@GuitarInteractive That must have struck a note. 👍

[@arturoestrada9441]

Nah, let it hang gloriously, I'll keep mine long as long as I have hair