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| Behringer iAXE393 USB Electric Guitar, White | 
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| Brand: Behringer
Category: Musical Instruments
List Price: $179.99
Buy New: $112.78 (On sale from $118.42)
You Save: $67.21 (37%)
New (9) Used (1) from $99.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 12281
Color: White
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 13
Dimensions (in): 41.9 x 16.9 x 3.7
You have a great song in mind and want to record it straight to your PC. You want all your amps and effects in your workstation so you can jam like you're in the studio or on stage. With the BEHRINGER iAXE393 USB-Guitar you're just a cable away. The high-quality electric guitar comes with a fantastic maple neck and its screaming tone sings through 3 single-coil pickups with 5-way switching. A built-in connector allows you to connect your headphones straight to your guitar so you can jam with you
MPN: iAXE393
Model: iAXE393
UPC: 689076475747
EAN: 0689076475747
ASIN: B000ILGKLY
Availability: Usually ships in 4-5 business days
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| Features:
| • | The ultimate electric guitar with built-in USB port to connect straight to your computer | | • | Electric guitar features a 22-fret maple neck, solid body construction, and vintage vibrato bridge | | • | Also features 3 single-coil pickups with 5-way switching and chrome machine heads | | • | Guitar can also be used with any traditional guitar amplifier | | • | Stereo headphone output lets you jam with your computer |
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Product Description
Got that song stuck in your mind, want to record it straight to your PC? With the iAXE393 USB-Guitar you re just a cable away. The high-quality electric guitar comes with a fantastic maple neck and its screaming tone sings through 3 single-coil pickups with 5-way switching and the software to get you started right away.
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| Customer Reviews:
 This Behringer iAXE393 guitar is not very good at all. October 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Behringer iAxe 393 is simply no good. The build is very under-par. In the playing, the guitar loses tuning far too quickly. To top it all off, after just two months, the very thing that makes this guitar special -- BROKE! I'm referring to the USB module. It now is no longer recognized by ANY system I plug it into. The driver installation software doesn't know when it's plugged in and when it isn't.
On Behringer's end, the Windows Vista driver is extremely poor. Everytime the device was unplugged and re-plugged, none of the programs would recognize it without re-installing the device driver. This was a very tedious and painful task. Tedious because there was no indication after rebooting that the device would now work properly. Painful, because it simply shouldn't be this way!!
The only pro to this device is the IDEA behind it -- that of a guitar built to interface directly with the computer without having to do some magic trick with cables, amps and adapters. But when the device breaks after just two months, of what use is it then? As a regular guitar? It loses tuning every half-hour.
The cons -- too numerous to mention, but here are the biggest ones: 1) USB fixture is faulty. 2) Device drivers are very unstable, especially for Windows Vista. 3) loses tuning after just one half-hour. 4) There are multiple reports of shoddy workmanship on the assembly line.
You would do well to do a LOT of personal reading on ALL Behringer models before making any purchase. Personally, I would avoid this one completely.
 Decent enough for the price, but that's not saying much. January 7, 2007
29 out of 29 found this review helpful
My review, broken into a couple of sections for quick reference.
Ease of use:
This guitar was extremely easy to setup and use. I was playing within about 30 seconds of opening the package without installing any software or drivers. I am using a MacBook Pro, though, and so I can't speak to the ease, or lack thereof, on a PC. It does include an installation CD for drivers and software, but I prefer Garageband and Logic's guitar effects. Also of note, this does NOT use a MIDI output, in case anyone is wondering. I didn't buy it with the expectation that it was, but I wasn't entirely sure. This means no using the guitar to play trumpets, pianos, etc. in Garageband or your favorite program.
Build quality:
Very poor. Just after opening the guitar I noticed several screws were loose and falling out. I tightened them as best as I could, but many were installed at odd angles which just made it feel like it was slapped together and sold without any quality control.
Sound:
Out of the box, the guitar sounds and feels awful. The strings just felt cheap and sounded very tinny. I replaced them with some others I had, and that helped out a lot. I would recommend that for anyone using this guitar, have a pair of your favorite strings ready to go to replace the crappy ones that come with it. The pickups were pretty well balanced on mine, with the exception of the high E, which has almost no pickup at all. I don't know if the pickup on that string is broken or what, but it is painfully obvious that it is missing in comparison to the others. I have to pluck it much harder to get an equivalent volume when recording.
Conclusion:
This guitar feels cheap, plays cheap, and is cheap. And it only costs $99. This is very much an instance of the "you get what you pay for" mantra. I wouldn't recommend this guitar to anyone who is trying to learn to play or in any way serious about recording. Having said that, it's a decent guitar for just messing around with in Garageband and will only set you back a hundred bucks. Mine has been banished to a closet and I break it out every once in a while when I just want an easy to way to lay down a quick guitar track. Don't expect anything special, and you won't be disappointed.
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