I bought this guitar for the usb connection to my computer. But found it to be such a great sounding guitar, I take it with me to play for the band, and play it every Sunday for the Church singers. Mine sounded so much like the Fender Telecaster That a lot of people thought it was one. I took a case knife from the kitchen and ran up and down the side of the neck to remove the sharp edges of the frets, the only thing I didn't like, But the knife smoothed them out until I don't feel them anymore. LPK

I could not get the sound to come out to my earphones from the guitar, But I think that was something I was doing wrong.

I had been playing a Gibson Les Paul Studio model guitar. About 30 years old and liked it. But this guitar is so much liter. And when you stand on your feet for two hours with a guitar around your neck, You appreciate the liter feel of this guitar, and the sound a sustain is just as good.

Except for the sharp edges of the frets.

Best price I ever paid for a outstanding peace of equipment. Love it.

Haven't had to have any so far, and I have had this guitar for almost a year now.

I prefer the white one. To me it just looks more expensive. Just get the sharp edges off the frets and you have a perfect product.

played all over the Europe entertaining our service men, when I was in the Nave 1953 and 1954

Country & western swing and southern Gospel

Metal

Sounds nice. This is my first guitar, so I don't know what a high-standard guitar "sounds" like.

The USB feature is awesome for those without an Amp, but became useless to me when I invested in a Mixer and DI box. Sounds great hooked up to the Line 6.

Plug and Play.

Strings sound nice and holds up to the tuning factor. The only thing I don't like is the weak guitar strap that comes with it.

Great guitar for a budget price.

Haven't used it, but Behringer is great with support.

Saw it. Wanted it. Bought it.

Active Musician

Ambient/Electro/Alternative

This rating is based on playing the "393" thru the NI Guitar Combo lll virtual amp. The guitar seems to have pretty much the same tonal qualities as my Squier Black & Chrome Standard Strat, so I'm happy about that since I can blend it right in on other tracks of my recordings.

Behringers engineers did not play with a full deck of cards when they designed the USB connection for this puppy. In order for me to hear the guitar via external speakers, I not only have the USB cable plugged in between the computer & guitar, I also had to run a seperate stereo cable from the headphone jack, back into the line-in connector on the computer. This is Not Condusive to artistic freedom.

The "393" works well with the Combo lll amp. You'll have to experiment with the pre-sets though. There's a lot of raw sound that will require considerable tweeking to tame it down. At least for my personal taste.

1st off, the neck was misalligned to the bridge. The E-1 string was just barely on the 22nd fret, while there was a good 5/16" on the E-6 side. The volume control is scratchy. They should have invested another $15 to upgrade the machine heads. I don't think anyone would complain for the quality upgrade. The fretboard was so unsealed and grainy, it took three really well worked-in coats of "Black Majic" wet shine liquid wax to seal and smooth out the board.

Like they say, you get what you pay for

One thing Behringer has, is a really great Technical & Manual support site. I don't think I've seen any better than theirs. As far as talking to a real person? I have'nt a clue.

As far as I'd use it (studio only) it will cover a lot of usage for me. This is definately not a live performance instrument in it's current configuration.

Serious Songwriter/Musician/and Recording Engineer

Clasical Rock-Jazz Fusion

Sounds like a strat, granted an old noisy one, but a strat nonetheless

It comes with everything you need, incuding picks

If you plug it into an amp it's easy. The software is easy enough I guess.

It seems to be made well. So far so good.

For the price you can't beat it.

Hobbyist

Rock, Blues, Alternative

There's nothing special at all as to how this guitar sounds. If you've heard one poorly-made electric guitar, you've heard 'em all. I was using this product with IK Multimedia's Amplitube Metal, and there was better sound post-processing than pre-processed.

The only useful feature about this guitar is the fact that it interfaces with the computer via USB port. That's IT. Should anything go wrong with the USB module (as did mine), it's completely HOSED. As it turned out, my USB module broke right in the middle of playing it! And this occured only two months after receiving it. Now it can't be recognized by ANY system. Moreover, the drivers for Windows Vista, which were written after this device was released, are very poor. The drivers have to be reinstalled each time you unplug and re-plug the device from the computer, as any application that you use with it seems to forget that they're installed.

Figuring out the driver issue is not easy. The Behringer website takes you for a real roundabout when it comes to Windows Vista drivers for this device. The company does not do a good job when it comes to customer service. As to the driver installation, the user needs to know the difference between regular USB drivers and ASIO drivers. Although the driver installation program will take care of all of that, the end-user may become a little confused when it comes to the inevitable device failures later on down the road.

Behringer has a lot of wonderful, beautiful words to say about this guitar, but the truth is that this product does not live up to them. There are lots of tiny little inconsistencies in the build of this guitar that definitely give the detail-oriented person the idea that they've got sleepers on the assembly line.

Even though this product costs closely around $100, points are deducted for the fact that it doesn't work right. It would be a crime to pay for something broken, and this product tests those limits.

There are lots of typographical errors in the manual for this product, not to mention spaghetti web page links that make you dizzy when trying to get to the right support pages on their website. I have never received any response from the customer support staff relating to this product. I did read once that a guy reported that he was told that Behringer was waiting to see if Vista was "the next big operating system"... But I can't say too much about that because that was his experience and not mine. I will however say that due to lack of response, I'm very unwilling to deal with this company again.

Ehh... no "sex appeal" at all. The product is as plain-looking as they come.

Composer

Alternative, Diagonalist

The USB cord could be longer, it's about one meter long. But you can easily get an extension. Probably the next stage will be letting go of the cord whatsoever by using Bluetooth and battery power? A traditional amplifier outlet provides great backward compatibility with antique devices such as amplifiers. You will not have to worry that the guitar will not work without a comp. The attached software is plainly bad. The installation guide is horrible, it did not install properly in a default mode on my mac powerbook. It took me a week to find some time and call the customer support- who were actually quick in solving the problem. The software it can only output the sound back to the guitar's phones jack and can't export the sound directly to any other device such as speakers. However, a previous comment that it

Hobbyist

The soft ware is bad. Haed to work. About half the soud are a car reck. I sold in a week for 35.00 buck. JUNK!

no ONE PICKED UP THE PHONE. A5 because it rang.

hobbyist

rock

This guitar sucks right out of the box... Have an up to date dell computer. installed the software that came with the guitar. has a SERIOUS latency/sampling problem no matter what latency input/output or sampling rate i tried them all and then some... my sound card is good cause i use it for other recording stuff and never had a problem with anything other than Behringer.....

Its all good in theory the concept but i guess you get what you pay for...

Bought this for my son.... I am electronic inclined and computer inclined but i cant see how someone with no knowledge or little computer knowledge to be very disappointed.

you get what you pay for

havent returned it back yet but will be...

It sounds alright with headphones, but there is a lot of buzzing in the background when i use speakers.

The features are good, the usb option is very nice.

It is so easy to use, just put the CD into the computer and install the driver and you are ready to play.

It is pretty good but the edges of the frets were sharp, and the high E string broke on the first day, also I had some difficulty with the wammy bar, the threads stripped and it is hard to get in and out.

Great for the price.

Haven't used it.

Looks nice, and the usb port is well hidden so it still has a good appearence.

Begginer

Rock

Sounds great to me. With included NI Guitar combos it sounds fantastic.

Wish it came with a separate electronic tuner.

Included NI Guitar Combos was fairly easy to use after getting it configured properly. When using it the sounds are fantastic.

Everything was perfect except the ends of the fret bars all had sharp edges.

Great for the price. Not a Fender, but does the job for me (play for personal pleasure only).

Have not dealt with the Behringer directly.

Looks and feels good. Easy to play. No vices found yet. Similar in design and look to others on the market. Not a "gotta have", but more a "glad I have".

Hobbyist

60's surfer, country, soft rock

it sounds good for the price, so i'd say good value, but compared to the higher end, you can def. tell the difference

i love the usb feature, it makes it sooooo much easier and the amp hookup sounds pretty decent

its easy to tune, and holds to it i got great sound from it and the software was difficult at first, but then was easy

like before, its good for the price it does what its made to do

its an amazing guitar, and the features are awesome

behringer has by far THE BEST support ever

it looks sleek and sexy i love it

Screamo, Hardcore, Hard Rock

comes with enough items. the bad part is,if your a beginner you will sooner or later need to buy an amp.

price is good if you have a budget. beginning guitar players will love it.

one look and i knew i wanted it. sleek and sexy.