MULTISCALE ON A BUDGET? G4M 7-String 529 Pro Review

[@rajderasari6713]

Really close to the Harley Benton Multiscale-7 BBB at the same price basically, that would be a nice side by side comparison!

[@trigea]

I have the Harley Benton R-457FFB It doesn't have stainless steel frets but its cheaper than this and didn't have any of the issues this G4M shipped with

[@daka4711]

I simply cannot get enough from the song. Simply great. 🤘🤘 Thanks fornthe honest review, Henning!

[@RaymondoGalfredi]

I purchased my first guitar/amp pack from G4M a decade ago as part of my mid-life crisis. I've been buying from them ever since and consider myself 90% satisfied. The last purchase I made was a headless model from the Harlem range. £150 plus p&p. Silly money for an instrument that works out of the box. Yes, you will be required to put in an hour's work on the frets and set up to make the instrument the best it can be.

[@mordtefpv5896]

Mmmm, how is the Headless? Was about to drop some money on one. Looks sleak.

[@RaymondoGalfredi]

@@mordtefpv5896 Not only no regrets on this purchase, but I think I may get another of the models.

[@Doomchild2XL]

"intricate" wäre so'n Wort für kleinteiliges Gefriemel. Mega Song übrigens! Jetzt habe ich direkt Lust auf Witherscape. 🤘

[@dezjoens4072]

„Musical context” … ich geh’ kaputt. Hammer - Hammer Song. Da haben alle gut abgeliefert. 💪🏻🤘🏼

[@shawnhockey4841]

Nice guitar you know I love my 7 string, still loving my white HB I bought from you thanks again ✌️🤘🎸

[@TheShrike616]

Oh what a twist! Well done.

[@nj1255]

I had no idea you knew Dan Swanö! Dude's a metal legend.

[@PooNinja]

I appreciate you using hand tools and not overpowering stuff with power tools. Its pretty, and the pickups sound nice. But you know me, I prefer have a floyd, i gotta have my flutters!

[@MashaT22]

I made sure to FF through the entire demo track! 🤣🤣🤣 (JK, it rocked! 🤘🏻🎸😎). Great review. I saw another Tele style model reviewed by someone else with a burl top that looked sick. Looks like it’s worth checking out for people who don’t mind doing setups and their own minor tinkering. They really should get better tuners on there as a stock option. Nobody wants to have to buy new tuners just because a company slapped on some metal resembling “Grover’s,” lol. The price point is irrelevant- they need to be functional for the instrument in this day and age. Lots of budget brands have great basic tuners that stay in tune. It’s no longer an excuse that it’s a budget guitar. which is easy to fix by getting a different reliable supplier like Guyker or Arctec (who makes the legit Grover’s in Korea and sells them to budget brands for less under their own branding). Most customers would rather shell out a few bucks more on a guitar for the assurance that they have great tuners instead of the hassle and expense of buying new ones to install. They also clearly need to add some tuner packs for reverse headstocks. I also agree about the logo. Is that a sticker? Whatever it is, it needs a major overhaul ASAP. Someone commented that this company was formerly the SubZero brand that change its branding recently. I never heard of SubZero, but they need to create a logo and image for themselves. Whether it’s a written branding or some sort of logo on the headstock, what they’re doing now will make people go elsewhere. Branding is very important to people, but even to those who don’t care, nobody wants to have a tag on a guitar that makes it look like it’s a warehouse guitar when the guitar itself looks and sounds great. Thanks for sharing G4M! Despite the criticism, which is all fair, it does have the potential to become some great budget guitars if they can address the problems.

[@-processdrone-]

The Sub Zero logo was perfectly fine, I have Baritone Sub Zero Paradigm. The same guitar is still available with the new logo and I have to admit I may not have bought it with that logo.... that's both weird , and a big deal.

[@digitalskins]

Reverse headstocks look cool until you try to find string sets at a extra long legnth. For anyone that buys this, StringJoy is all that will be long enough. I have the reverse headstock G4M baritone at 30" scale and StringJoy is all that was long enough. But I got it set up in drop F# and double drop D sometimes, super fun.

[@Burbund]

Probably shouldn't be that much of an issue on shorter scale? I only played 30" baritone with 4+4 headstock and never realy had problem with strings (mostly ernie balls)

[@rickyturner2742]

Finding strings isn't an issue. D'Addario and Ernie Ballsacks fit just fine

[@TheMirrorify]

30 might be a stretch but I have a reverse headstock 27" and it's fine with standard string sets.

[@rickyturner2742]

I bought the SubZero version, pretty much the same but the headstock has the same finish as the body, and it had locking tuners. As with your one, i changed out the tuners for locking ones from Axetec, no tuning issues now. And I've put an EMG 707 in. Tuned to A it sounds pretty damn good and plays pretty well. For just over £300 here in the UK I'm more than happy with it

[@Agrajag_Guitars]

Cool song Hening! 🤘

[@stefanhennig]

Thanks a lot for the honest and detailed presentation! But this whole business does leave me thinking if the (essentially good) fanfret idea is actually working out. There is not much gained from the low strings sounding better if the intonation is off, IMO.

[@Nawaldes]

Many caresses at your lovely cats.

[@Andy_Yates]

I did listen to the song and it gave me strong early-2000s vibes and I wouldn't accuse it of being nu-metal either. I am normally one that skips the songs, except for your last couple. It's a me thing because I just don't like power metal style singing. This guitar seems decent if you need a fan fret 7 on a very low budget. It needs a setup with those nut slots but it's still pretty decently priced. I don't think those pickups sounded good with gain, but thankfully they are a standard looking soap bar and can be easily replaced. I learned this week how difficult it will be for me to find replacement pickups for my LTD M1007-MS because they spec'ed a Nazgul/Sentient set with angled baseplates. You can't even buy an angled pickup from the Seymour Duncan custom shop because I wanted to try the new rail versions. This seems like a good guitar for learning setup and maybe doing light mods, but have a luthier or tech do the nut slots because not everyone will work on a fan fret nut if you mess it up.

[@pakiw2]

Same guitars was sold there as subzero, I think they changed factories and some legalities with branding, Long ago I bought an 8-string, fanfret, same finish, scale 25.5"-28", locking tuners. Only what I changed was pickups, because for an 8-string Chinese factories use 5string bass pickups :D. otherwise no problems there. for years it gets used on par with everything else (ibanezes,solars,dingwalls). What turned me in to buying one was funny branding, in the end turned out having good guitar.

[@TTergan]

Great music video. I don`t unterstand why a guitar test is included ;-)

[@spiraldrop4897]

Clean sounds are amazing....

[@kicsisziszi]

This is the first time when I really hear the difference in the same song w other guitar used. And this is a huge difference.

[@arzarkel]

Ich skippe die Musik nicht...aber wenn man (so wie ich) fast jedes Video von dir anschaut, kann man "Unite" mittlerweile rückwärts mitpfeifen - trotzdem geiler Song!

[@jarrodhroberson]

I honestly can’t imagine someone owning a seven string and not being able to do the set up themselves. My 13 year-old got on youtube and replaced the strings, including string gauge different on his Floyd Rose dinky j32 the first time buy himself and I found out about it after the fact. And it was intonate perfectl when he was done , he had lowered the action and it was really well set up from the factory

[@TheBanana93]

Well some of us over think and don't trust ourselves

[@shorerocks]

Henning, your workload is insane. Now go chill on the weekend. Ask Leslie. She will advise you correctly, I am sure 🤣. Anyway, great vid, as always. Cheers!

[@EytschPi42]

I don't have weekends

[@andrewmorgan1640]

My goodness, pretty good bang for the buck. And it has a Lelu Dallas Multiscale. Watched music three times. Chunken Planken!

[@brankotrcko3677]

Thumbs up for testing low budget guitar!!!

[@robertdonosobuchner3129]

Great video! This 7 string guitar is interesting. I'm still looking for a good 7 string guitar, but the guitars that I tried and that I really like are really expensive, like the Mayones 7 string fanfret duvell elite models, the blue morpho 7 string from Wreck Guitar or the yuma custom 7 string from Boxis Guitars.... Gear4 music in Mülheim, Germany, is not too far away from me, maybe it will be a good idea to try some guitars in this guitar store... I'm also thinking about to upgrade a cheap but good guitar with better pickups (Lundgren, passive pickups), locking tuners and maybe with new pots and wiring...to save money and to create my own 7 string guitar... A 7 string guitar comparison in the moderate price section would be nice. I also think it is necessary to have 2 or 3 seven string guitars at home to get all the different characters of a 7 string... There are so so many wonderful guitars all around the world and you only have one life.... 🙃

[@zvirb]

The heavenstock reversed sadstrings metal axe.

[@SearchingForTone]

I do not really get hung up on the logo of the headstock unless it looks like a warning label🤣Jonny From Budget Guitar Show had a nice Burl Top, they look like they do a decent job

[@caelenselke-minogue]

13:27 Yeah, you can't really expect any less from a made in China guitar. This is a case of the nut being too high and every budget guitar you buy will almost certainly need the nut height adjusted. Unfortunately only high end guitars will actually be set up properly as getting the nut height just right is very time consuming. Luckily, I actually enjoy working on and fixing guitars, so this wouldn't be too much of a gripe for me, but for those who can't be bothered, definitely a turnoff. 15:08 Yes, *however* this usually just mean you'll have to tweak some EQ or such. There isn't a big enough tonal difference between pickups for it to be impossible to compensate, especially with distortion. Either way, the tones you demoed were pretty killer metal tones.

[@musicsurfandrats]

Sounds really good to me

[@dmanfelds]

I recently bought one of the cheaper G4M 529 7-strings (the non-pro) and let me tell you - when it comes to the extended range there's no better value for money. Sure, there's issues with tuning stability and the guitar has to be set up but this is a sub 200€ instrument. And it often is the case that even more expensive instruments come badly set up. I couldn't be any happier with my 7-string. The value for money is insane

[@kaekayyy2554]

listened to the song and it was pretty good man, keep up the great work.

[@moontheloon1969]

I have a 12string acoustic , nut cut perfectly, far more playable than £600 tanglewood i have,and a no quibble shop too deal with

[@Horseffect]

i saw the G4M Baritone during the Unboxing, do you make a video for this guitar as well?

[@EytschPi42]

yes

[@jfiore07]

Badass.

[@dreamsinmusic]

🤟Unite! Yeah

[@breevwhyman2985]

- Sir That is a great guitar indeed Gear for music are one of the few company's doing a low price HEADLESS guitar at 149.euro.......... THOMAN stopped all of their super quality low price headless models......by Harley Benton As far as i know many thanks

[@vasotoe]

Unboxing cameo 🤣

[@Rickysaur]

Dan!

[@michaelrock]

Is it better than the Harley Benton 7 string multiscales? because some models are cheaper than this one.

[@dmanfelds]

It is 😉

[@kalidesu]

They have 5 string bass offerings for the same price as well.

[@robjobse5162]

These guitars used to be under the Subzero name, which had overall better specs and a way better logo

[@andreknippschild1105]

Ein Vergleich mit ner Harley Benton FF7 wäre interessant...habe selber eine (299,- Euronen) und gestern eine JACKSON SLATX 7 QM (knapp 1000,-) bekommen, die heute direkt an den Shop zurück geht, weil : die JACKSON ist so billig verarbeitet und klingt so unfassbar schlecht, wie es die Harley Benton eigentlich bei dem Preis sollte (tut sie aber nicht, für die HB würde man woanders mehr als 1000,-€ bezahlen)...von daher fände ich einen Vergleich zwischen HB FF7 und der G4M sehr spannend....

[@-processdrone-]

One day someone is going to have to explain to me why every plastic covered pickup I've ever heard has no top end sparkle. I can think of no reason in physics why this would be the case, but my ears tell me the same thing every time. I'm listening on studio monitors and it sounds like it's producing nothing above 7kHz!

[@alexts4920]

Harley Benton R-457MN - Yeah yeah, I didn't exist and definitely was not reviewed by you Henning!

[@alexts4920]

Also I rewired pickups at mine HB and it became very precise! So if anyone is looking for it as precise djent guitar, change pickups, and it will become that good!

[@mordtefpv5896]

Tune \\m//

[@EytschPi42]

Not so easy

[@mordtefpv5896]

@@EytschPi42 Lol, Dude, i meant What a Tune,,Brit Slang Sorry.

[@Horseffect]

fun fact regarding the cheap logo / name: the former name of the Gear4music Inhouse guitars were "subZero". They changed the name and the logo a few months ago to this G4M sh** (the models are the same, just the logo changed)

[@dinonuggies2276]

Why would they do that? SubZero always sounded way more badass than they actually sounded lol

[@Horseffect]

@@dinonuggies2276 I agree, but I don't know why

[@michawee]

Can’t wait to listen to grandpa rock on a djent guitar

[@dinonuggies2276]

Its weird cause he has tons of experience with metal but still does this. It kinda makes me wanna make a channel reviewing vintage reliced guitars, but tuning them all to b0 9 string tuning😂

[@EytschPi42]

well aren't you nice... I played 7 Strings in 1990 and there was NO djent around... Open your mind!

[@Hyperlink1337]

dan swano is not a name i thought i would see on a budget guitar review video

[@jacobbockover1628]

Ive heard much on youtube but in very unfamiliar with this brand in the US

[@thewonderofyou1]

I bought the single cut spalted maple guitar and it's the worst guitar I've ever bought. Bodged neck joint, dead frets. Binding was terrible. It was sent back immediately. I'll never use them again

[@caelenselke-minogue]

Bro is dripped out something different

[@stevekirkby6570]

Very cool looking BUT doesn't play in tune = shite.

[@Horseffect]

They (Gear4music) still do not offer a set of locking tuners for this guitar so good luck ordering 3 sets of 3x3 tuners

[@Broccoli_Highkicks]

These used to be called Subzero, or something. Don't know why they changed it, probably for tax purposes or something. But yeah, why on Earth anyone would sign off on that headstock logo, I have no clue - that just looks terrible. None of their current models really appeal to me enough to buy one, but if I was going to, I'd probably put a sticker on that logo or even just sand it off...

[@damoefb6487]

I bought one of the 27” baritones recently and it’s decent, especially for the money. The first thing I did when I decided I was keeping it was put a piece of black electrical tape over the logo and it looks so much better.

[@rossbalch]

Living in New Zealand these guitars are never worth it due to the shipping unfortunately.

[@jamesonpace726]

That's too many little problems, buh-bye....