Fretlight FG-621 Wireless Electric Guitar (White)

Pros -1) It is a real guitar you can play with an amp2) the fret edges are comfortable and smoothCons -1) the guitar is way overpriced: the fg-621 wireless fretlight guitar sells for about $400 USD and has two upgrade options ($100 each) with progressively better pickups known as they "players" upgrade and the "pro" upgrade. I bought the "pro" upgrade for $600 USD and received a guitar that is on par with the most basic entry level guitars sold at chain stores.2) It is a cheap Chinese guitar with abysmal quality control. The "pro" model had neck issues (warped and incorrectly set), there were glue and tool marks at the nut and on the fingerboard. The bridge was not a strat style fulcrum tremolo as expected, it was an incredibly cheap pot-metal fixed bridge.3) i immediately returned it before even trying it out, and the specialist on the phone said i was "picky" and admitted that all of the guitars were "sadly" made in China and were entry level.4) so after i initiated the return process, i decided to try it out since i had it... and it did not even work! The app downloaded beautifully on my Galaxy S8 and ran smoothly. I had no issues connecting the app via bluetooth to the guitar, but (and this is a big but) the fingerboard would not light up! Despite the phone and app telling me they connected to guitar, and telling me the lights were on, they never worked.5) the app has wrong theory and is therefore unreliable. The app seemed cool even if i could not light up the guitar because it shows numerous scale and chord shapes on the fingerboard. But, as i went through familiar shapes, i noticed huge errors. The A major chord/arpeggio showed notes ABC#E, which is an A major(add 9), not an A major. Further, all other scales and appegios in A, inclduing A minor, dominant, minor 7, 9 and more, all showed only the notes AC#E.In all, this guitar is only a great buy for those with an obscene amount of disposable income who want to gamble $400 to $600 on a $100-$200 entry level guitar that (maybe?) lights up. Established guitar players with any standards ay all will be sorely dissapointed.

I had high expectations for this guitar, and it is for the most part. But I do have a few issues with it. #1 is the price. I understand the price of the technology. But $599 is STEEP for this guitar, it seems to be okay quality but not quite in line with Fender. Slightly under Mexican strat quality in my opinion. The frets are horrible, they need to be polished. It is not anywhere NEAR setup out of the box. They could have at least spent a FEW MINUTES trying to set it up, but all the saddles are even, the neck is not where it needs to be truss wise, and it could use some polishing and shaping on the frets. I'm not anywhere near a professional guitarist, I can barely pick a few chords. But I know enough to know they just slapped this thing together. They spent some money building the light up fretboard. But everything else was just slaped together.The pickups are cheap, the pickguard is cheap I don't care for shinny plastic it could have just been plain. The knobs are cheap. The back of the neck is cheap. The tuners will not stay in tune.Color selection is horrible. Black, white, red, sunburst. They bought cheap ready made strat bodies in basic colors to save money. At least sell me something decent to look at.This guitar should have been $299 and I would have appreciated every bit of it. But at $599 I expected more.Amazon did not have this product. I purchased it from Sweetwater Music. They did not have the color I wanted (white) so I bought the red one. They were also out of sunburst. I could have at least gotten a 10% off or something for that, but no I paid full price.. I would have waited, but they weren't expecting anymore in stock and he was telling me if I did order it could take weeks for Fretlight to have them available.It did not come with instruction book, which I thought was odd. You kind of have to figure things out. It has a little card attached to the tuner that gives an overview. But I was expecting more.... I mean I understand the concept. Hook up to app, fretboard lights up. But they could have given you some kind of guide, or dvd or software or something.It doesn't come with anything. No picks, no bag or case, no tools, no care supplies, nothing. At least my Strat came with a tool kit, soft bag, bumper sticker, a booklet and a cloth. These cheap bastards wrapped it in a foam wrap, threw the guitar in a box and sent it on the way.Beware if you are an Android or Windows user. This guitar was meant to be used on Apple devices. At the time of this review, most of their content is not available on on Android.I've seen prototypes of product designed to this same thing with your current guitar, I'm hoping it gets finalized and available for the retail market soon because I really hate the feel of this guitar. When you've had a Fender or Gibson it's hard to settle for something that feels like it came from Walmart.