This £169 Guitar Is Fantastic! - Jet JS-400
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- In today's video, I look at a JET JS-400 guitar and blown away by how fantastic it is especially for the price tag of £169.
With a phenomenal spec sheet and build quality for the price, the Jet JS-400 S-Style electric guitar is here presented in Olympic White with Roasted Maple Fretboard. Jet guitars are inspired by classic high end guitars, and they really do look and feel much more expensive than they in fact are! The JS-400 is fitted with three ceramic magnet pickups in HSS configuration, resulting a hugely versatile range of tones. The bone nut and Roasted Maple fretboard are usually unseen at this price, as are the upgraded 2-point trem system and sculpted plate-less neck heel.
The Studio Rats are core band members Paul Drew on guitar/production/mixing, drummer James Ivey and Dan Hawkins on bass. They collaborate with singers and musicians to produce radio-ready songs.
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I just received mine in Surf Green. I bought it as a mod platform, but it really didn’t need anything. I put on locking tuners and changed the bridge saddles. It plays better than anything I’ve ever owned (Gibson, Ibanez, Kramer). New guitarist have it much easier than I did in the early 80’s. Hard to buy a truly bad one these days.
I was thinking of buying it for the same reason. What tuners and bridge saddles did you use? And how do the pickups sound?
@@sunburstshredder tuners are Guykers. The saddles are Kaish(?) 10.5mm. Both off Amazon. The height adjustment screws on the Kaish saddles are way too long, so you’ll want to use the originals from the guitar. Pickups aren’t bad! I wish the humbucker was a tad hotter, but that’s my preference. I might upgrade it one of these days. Wanted to drop one in with a chrome cover, but the pick guard would need to be cut on.
Your software is amazing. Every guitar that is ever played on this channel and every amp sounds exactly the same every time.
yeah, reminds me of John Cordy. If you've heard one of his intro noodlings, you've heard them all.
Got a seafoam green Jet 400 HSS last week and blown away by the quality. 5 out of 6 strings intonated, great frets and incredible neck. Very happy with the sound as well. Just dod a string change and good to go.
what's it like is it a nice guitar I was thinking about buying a jet guitar.
I've got a JS-400 and after playing my coworkers MIM strat, I honestly think the JET feels and plays nicer. These guitars are seriously underrated.
Agreed. Mine feels and plays nicer too. But the pickups are horrific. I’ll be trying different ones before potentially selling it
I’ve had a js300 for around a year and it’s easily as good as my Mexican Strat, and the neck felt a good as my USA Fender. They’re incredible for the money and fantastic platforms to build on/mod.
I have a JS450 - doesn't look like the pics, but it is so great, that I got the Jet HS Tele as well - love both guitars.
@@huginstarkstrom I was looking at getting the JT350 too but I got hold of a G&L Tribute ASAT instead. Great guitars though. There’s a French guy on TH-cam who has done some phenomenal reviews of the 300 and 350.
@@slawsonscot I have a G&L Tribute HSS - love the bass cut and neck feels great. It's my most modded guitar. In any stage of modification it sounded amazing with fresh strings and really dull after a week or three.
thanks for that are the pups any good ?🎸
If they had guitars like these when I was a beginner it would be great. The guitar I started off with as a beginner was unplayable and it’s a miracle that I stuck with it. So I got a job and got an American standard at the time. But when I was 14 they didn’t have good beginner guitars. It wasn’t that long ago either.
trust me, ... you had it easy kid.
As a beginner I had a 2001 Squier Affinity Stratocaster pack with the amp, strap, cable etc. That was surprisingly good and treated me well for many years. I wish I had kept it but it got pulled apart for parts and mods as you do and it must have disappeared somewhere along the line. RIP Black Strat
That’s nowt .I’ve sent back three fender vintera strats for being complete crap ,crap sounding pickups and poor back-bowed necks which seems a common problem on them ,I’ve had a second hand affinity Squeir for years and it’s been great .I’ve got a few Gibson’s which are ok .and a 1970 American strat which is great too .
This with a set of fender noiseless pickups is so good. Might be my favorite guitar I’ve ever played.
Hey guys ! Lee: I like Suhrs too, but I played a few and never really bonded with them. So, I built my own: Fender alder body+parts, USACG roasted maple neck with SS jumbo frets, Hipshot griplock tuners and HSS pickguard fitted with 2 single Michael Landau Suhr pickups and one SSV+ in the bridge. Rock on !
I see where you're coming from. Sometimes the more expensive and playable guitars can make it too easy for their own good and somehow end up leaving you less connected than something more traditional that fights back a little.
With a good player and a good amp, any pedal or guitar sounds great
Great vid there are some incredible budget guitars around. I bought an Ibanez GIO GRG170DX 14 years ago still plays and sounds superb, much better than more expensive models I have. That's a great guitar for the money.
Nice video- enjoyed watching. Cracking s-type with sensible mods. Really good value BUT to throw in a little curve ball, the Fazley Phynica fsst720 is essentially exactly the same guitar (made in the same factory) but currently around half the price of a JS400. (Fazley model has more of a Suhr shaped head stock.) Worth a look.
"A guitar snob has been converted" - Awesome sentence and a great pleasure for me, cause I´m a fan of partcasters and other "cheap" stuff!!😅😅😅
It's "The Player" who makes the guitar. :)
Took a chance on Amazon. Got my Js-400 Sunburst today and I'm over the moon. Flawless beauty, plays like a dream right out the box (store does a setup before shipping).
I'm not fussy about mods etc, I play just for me :)
I put this on and bought one before you even started the video
you know when something in life is for you in life, and that guitar is for me🙏
Thankyou
Enjoy
Just bought this guitar in seafoam green. $199 US. Worth taking a chance. Looks fantastic. Thanks for the video!
Enjoy
I'm not a fan of strat shaped guitars, but... these jet guitar are pretty sweet. I particularly like js-400 in vintage yellow white version. Need to get one.
Sounds just as the s guitar should. Very nice. Looks lovely too
7:56 Back in 1977 when I was 15 years old the music store basically had Fender and Gibson with a few Hondo and Teisco sprinkled in!
My first real new guitar was a 1974 Fender Mustang, I eventually traded up to a 1977 Les Paul Deluxe.
It is amazing the quality and selection of guitars available these days.
I got jet 400 , feels and sounds as good as any strat. very happy.
I bought one of these Gem JS-400's just over a year ago for £129 after seeing it demo'd on Dave Simpsons channel and I thought it might make a good modding platform.
I couldn't believe how good it felt in the hand, the neck just feels wonderful, perfect fretwork and a rolled neck and it's a joy to play... go figure.?
I thought the pots were a little cheap & ineffective and I wasn't a fan of the tuners but the trem was really accurate and stable.
So what did I do?
First of all I changed the tuners and fitted a set of Gotoh Locking tuners (I've used these before)
Then I changed the pots and switches and improved the shielding with some copper tape. (BIG IMPROVEMENT in tone and usability)
I was going to change the pups and I purchased a set of Tonerider Fat 50's to do this, but so far I like the tone of the originals and I may, or may not bother.
LOVE this guitar... now I'm thinking of buying their telecaster.
I use Neural dsp plug ins and they're bloody amazing.
I have one, same model.
Absolutely love it as a modding platform to have some fun with.
There are unfortunately some things I don’t like about it starting with the neck it feels a little soft . My ring keeps causing dings on the back of the neck, which none of my other guitars get… I’ve lightly grazed the surface of the roasted maple treatment, unfortunately, it scrapes off easily. making me think this is more of a coating than an actual roasting process.
The tuners aren’t as bad as people think they are .
The two point trem system needs better saddles the block is big but it feels like Chinese pot metal.
And the humbucker pick up is way too hot for my liking . But the neck and middle pick up are perfect.
wiring is a bit cheap. The five way switch is cheap and the volume and tone pots are cheap. All that can easily be replaced with brand new parts for under $100.
To be quite honest, this is a perfect beginner guitar, because right out of the box it plays well and you don’t have to fight it to get good tones out of it.
It’s also a great guitar if you’re thinking of building a Super Stratocaster on a budget. This guitar is around $200 at the moment and it honestly needs about $200 worth of parts so a total of $400 to get it to sound and play like a guitar well worth over $1000 which is really not bad. I’m happy.
I’ve seen rave reviews on these, but my experience was all but great. Bought the JS-400 with the rosewood board, and it had some problems. The frets where extremely gritty, the tuners were extremely flimsy and rattley, and the trem system just wouldn’t stay in tune as the knife edges were pretty flat. I fixed it all, but I needed to change the bridge and the tuners, and sand/polish the frets. Now it’s pretty nice.
Great video fellas. Having bought a Tele type at the full price of £165, I bought the JS300, listed by guitarguitar as used with a missing trem arm the thing is spotless. I paid a whopping £99 😂😂😂 ,Update I got a JS400 yesterday. So 3 great guitars for less than £450 total.
I love my Jet JS-400. I did also have a JS-300, but the difference is quite noticeable. The JS-300 is more traditional (square heel, front mounted jack socket, 3 controls, 3 single coils). I like the rounded heel, bridge humbucker, 2 controls and side jack socket of the JS-400. I believe Hal Leonard, the sheet music company are behind Jet.
They are awesome guitars for the money. I have the Jet js300 in sea foam green left handed and I can honestly say it's got a better neck than my Fender player series strat. Since I've had it I've played it more than my Fender. I'm thinking of getting the JS400 for the humbucker and the 2 point floating trem. Sounds great chaps. Thanks for sharing guys 🎸🎸👍👍
That neck pup sounded amazing. Ceramic pups always get hate so I've always stayed away from them. Been looking to buy a new strat, think I will buy one of these. I'm a tele guy but miss having a strat as I played them for years. Some bang for your buck there with the Jet, especially with the effort they put into the necks. Fender should up there efforts with the player series, took me a while to get use to my player series tele, the neck edges felt really sharp and uncomfortable in the hand compared to my FGN which was £100 cheaper.
Yep bought one last year! fantastic guitar, changed the pickups, they were a bit harsh for what I wanted, spot on now, quality!!
Hey I just bought one of these and while it's a great guitar, I'm also finding the pickups a little harsh! Just wondering what you installed instead and if you changed the pots or anything
@@vinnymurphy5994 I had some Fender noisless pickups lying around, used those! didnt touch the pots mate.
This is the third review I’ve seen that gives a great review on this guitar, bone nut, roasted maple fretboard, and great frets by the look of it. I would probably change the pickups to alnico, but what a price for such quality 👍
Thanks for watching!
Yep, I can also attest those are pretty awesome. Had the seafoam green for a while, amazing for the price, closer to a Fender MIM than to Squier Affinity. I'd just note that it does feel more super-stratty rather than just stratty if that's a concern. Didn't require any sort of attention, although the nut could have been cut a little bit lower. No tuning issues however with everything stock, solid sounds too.
Great for modding, although just for satisfying personal taste and not out of necessity ;)
Recently got a Jet Js300 when Bax music had them reduced,I had heard great things about them but I was still sceptical what it would be like at this price point.Well I am amazed how good it is and just love playing it.
I’ve seen nothing but good reviews about these guitars ,
I was looking at getting one of these, think you have made that choice for me. 🤙🏻
Cheap guitars doesn't mean bad guitars nowadays indeed. Some are c... but, just look to the the brand new 25th anniversary Harley Benton range of guitars ... they are just amazing, I just received the Strat HSS version of it, killer guitar for the price with ALL you can expect from a high end guitar (and I have some) : Locking tuners, roasted maple neck, two points synchronized deluxe tremolo system, stainless steel frets, push / pull coil tap, american alder body, matching headstock color, and ... a luxury gig bag that Fender doesn't even offer on a 5 times more expensive guitar ... and all this for 298 euros ... what is justifying buying more expensive guitars, out of wanting to having a specific brand name ? hard to find a good reason ...
Dude you are something else, your touch and tone is beautiful 😮I’ve never heard you sound bad 😅 I’d love o hear you live do you have any videos😊?……lefuj ☮️❤️✨
I have one js 400 as well, I am super satisfied with it. I sold some of my other guitars because this guitar just absolutely beats them all in playibility.
Ugyanígy jártam 😀
I have that exact same Guitar and Love it! The neck is to die for................................ It is by far the one with the most tuning stability out of all my Guitars (incl. Ibanez and PRS SEs), very impressive. I changed the Pickups once to some Dimarzio/Wilkinsons i had laying around, just to put the Stock ones back in, they are quite good! I added some 30 EUR Locking Tuners and changed the Trem (although its fine as is) to a Wilkinson one i had just laying around. Great Guitar............................and NOT only for the price - puts more expensive ones to shame!
In interested in getting this model. Can you say whether the neck you have is a satin or glossy finish, because I really want a satin neck
@@joshb7326 Satin!
@@Worlds_Worst_Guitarist That's awesome, I going to buy one, apparently the early models have the gloss but the new models now all have satin
Love the guitar, love the tone and Eric Ten Hag is an amazing guitar player.
I got something out of this vid, I just ordered one 👍 beautiful looking, well made guitar apparently going from my research after watching this 😜
I have only bought 2 expensive guitars (for my budget ), a Fender strat player series ltd edition in ferrari yellow (£700 plus extra £140 for the fender hard case) and a Gretsch 5230T (£459 plus another £139 for a Gretsch case)..all my other budget 6 guitars are 4 Harley Benton's (D-120 acoustic, ST-20, Fusion-II and a DC-450 vintage), last 2 are a donner TC-100 and and Eastcoast st1 and love them all 😍 (all stored in HB gig bags)
Thx for this brill review. you sold the JS-400 on me, your fault the wife is going to give me her 'really you bought another guitar' rolling her eyes🤣
errr, i didnt get those eyes when i bought her a new motorcycle 🤔😂
new sub for you guys..loved the vid 😍🤘🤘
I love watching Lee’s gear. He’s so practical. Paul, would be nice to know what you’re running your guitar through as you always have amazing tones regardless of the axe used
Cheers Gary, we were using the tonex pedal.
@@TheStudioRats thanks Paul sounds amazing. I keep wondering about getting the tonex. With the hype on nam now I’m torn. Sounded great on this video though, well done
@@TheStudioRats As a beginner, you use the tonex with monitors? Which ones?
This is absolutely true. I have the same guitar Lefties. A green One. It is very good.
What bridge, pickup, and tuners did you upgrade to??
Please give details!!
The js400 looks the business! Cheesy logo but otherwise seems to be very good for the money! Thanks for sharing!
I got one partly on the strength of this video, and I’m really enjoying playing it as an alternative to my US Highway One. The “excuse” was to have a humbucker at the bridge, but they really are surprisingly different in both feel and tone, while quality wise being in the same ball-park. The stock pickups sound just as good as these ones, and although I’m going to change the humbucker for a Rolling Mill, it’s not at all necessary. The tuners were pretty poor I do have to say, but I always fit Planet Waves locking ones anyway which were a direct swap using the same screw hole. As others have said, with build quality this high, it’s a great platform for upgrades, but, apart from the tuners on mine, it really does cut it out of the box.
I have to the say that guitar sounds and looks like a custom shop. Seriously👍🎸you can always change the pups if you want really impressive
I've got two Jet guitars the basic Strat and the slightly more expensive tele. I changed the pups on the strat to texas hot rods and it plays great and now sounds excellent. The tele I had to do nothing to and it's wondeful. If you like guitars buy one, or two or three...
I just found a T style 300 series at a small music store on a visit to my hometown and I’m returning this weekend to get one in a color I can handle. The only one they had was pink, and I can’t do pink. I haven’t bought a “cheap” guitar in at least 20 years,but I feel like I would be stupid not to buy one of these for $200! It plays better than a lot of $500+ guitars! I’m not sure about the pups and electronics but for $200 who cares? It played excellent. Literally excellent. I would have bought it right then had it been any color except pink.
Come to think of it….. I just might buy a few?
Ha! They're by Westfield, my first acoustic guitar was a Westfield back in 1995.
I got the JS400 from the first batch, replaced the single coils with Iron Gear pups for personal preference, stock are ok, but an experienced player will probably do a pup swap with most instruments, stock Humbucker is fine for me, neck is superb, as good as guitars I've spent thousands on, only niggle was the trem springs, after a few months, cheap fix, had this over a year, no other issues and it has been gigged and played a lot, honestly, these are great, like any guitar, get it setup, tuners are ok, not had any issues, but at this price easy mod to upgrade to locking tuners, these might be inexpensive but they are not cheap guitars. I have expensive guitars, but use this one quite often, would I buy another expensive Fender strat, probably not, this does that Job, for beer money, its crazy.
Dave Simpson persuaded me to buy one a few months ago. I'm never off it.
Btw great to see Lee on the channel!!!
Also did Lee just buy it blind online or try it in store first when he got the jet guitar
nice playing
These guitars look almost identical to the Schecter S type guitars wonder if they are made in same factory? Korea I think?
Looking forward to seeing this. I bought this guitar last year and love it. I did change the Humbucker to an Alegree P90 though.
Excellent! Good avenue for new videos! Best Regards and Best Wishes!
Many thanks
I can confirm, as I own one, that these guitars are awesome (non just for the price). I own a S300, as well, same thought.
At the beginning, you play a theme that comes up from time to time in other videos. It would be nice to do a quick tutorial to share the theme, chords etc.
Happy with my JS-400 too !
Being the bridge pickup is bitey and bright it works well in the quack position with the middle without doing the split thing
Great guitars 👍
3:46... One of the Best "Panorama" 😅😅😅
Fantastic video, do you remember the Humbucker put in the bridge, is it a Dimarzio Paf 59, thank you.
It’s a Thornbucker
@@TheStudioRats Thank you, thank you very much.
Hey, great reviews. I just got one of these today but I'm finding the bridge pickup a little bit harsh. I was wondering what you swapped it out for?
I’ve just ordered a special edition JS300 - purple with pearloid pick guard
The snob has left the building… good on you Lee.
Hahahaha!
@@Adventuresingearland , hey Greg, I tried looking up your channel and couldn’t find it. I typed in Ad i Gl and nothing came up. ???
Hi Mike. Take a look for Walrus Audio Fundamental. Enjoy!
@@Adventuresingearland I've just subscribed. I'll soon watch your fine selection of... ummm... video.
@@jeffcookdotau Good man, Jeff! More to come of course, however I wanted to get the first one out and ‘break my duck’ as it were.
I’m the meantime, how good does Paul make this Jet sound?!?
Another Britt, doing a guitar review with all sorts of his own merch in the description! Yet no link to the guitar, is this some kind of trend over there?
It seems the Bridge is also changed on Lee's Guitar? What Bridge is it?
Amazing what you can get for your money these days. When I was a teenager in the mid 70's we'd go to Woolworths to look at the Jedson guitars..and nobody had a real Gibson or Fender. People I knew aspired to Shaftesbury Les Paul's (early japanese copies) and for the price you paid for them now you could get a PRS SE or some other high quality guitar which are much better.
I mentioned about a year ago that it might be a good video if you got a cheap guitar to see how good you could make it.
I'm digging Lee's hair.
Amazing playing as usual ! Can you tell me what the new trem and tuners are ?
Bridge is a gotoh 510. Tuners were just generic ones I found on eBay for £30. Cheap, but totally fine.
@@Docksidestudio1 Thank you so much from Montreal Canada !!
Was just looking at these yesterday but there were no reviews on the site. They sell in Canada out of British Columbia.
What locking tunners were put ?>
Did you change the humbucker pick up? Ive never seenJet's with black and white humbuckers. Thanks.
That looks very similar to the Sire S7... I suspect they've come out the same factory (I also think the make Cort there too - but don't quote me on that.)
Is this the first time that you've actually met Lee in the flesh?
Cool video. I really want a JET, but I can’t justify paying more than the asking in shipping. We need to find a way to get these to the States without all the costs
Jet have a USA reverb shopcapparently
@@aussiephildan440 They do, they’re $350, but they’re shipping from the UK and the shipping is around $300. I can find a decent Strat for that.
@@DBroce whoa, that is a bit rough. Hopefully jet can solve this issue soon
JET have US Reverb shop, I think its 25 USD shipping inside USA.
I just looked on Amazon they are 225
very cool lee. im looking for one now lol
When He says "bonkers", I listen. This is a great sounding HSS strat, period.
$199.00...."bonkers plus"!!
I'm wanting to get one but I don't like really bright white it looks bright snow white in the picture in site but it looks nice and a off white in your video are all not made the same colour are some abit off white ?
Of all the Asian budget brand guitars I've bought (knowing some degree of rehabilitation would be required) this one is the only one that needed a set-up only out of the box. At spec, .012 neck relief and 4/64ths string height, all there was to do was play it.
It's worth saying: Everybody else, Firefly, Squiers (including plenty of CVs,) all the other poorly named Chinese vendors will send you an instrument the needs fret and nut work, an heroic set-up, pickups on either side of mediocre, and the cheapest of them will have finish blems or weird tiger stripe wallpaper under the 1/4" clear poly and all sorts of whatever.
Not this one. Change the trem to gig. Swap electrics and wire to your taste if you want to but you don't have to. Hope Jet can keep it up.
Hello. Could you tell us the brand and model of bridge pickup replacement please? Thank you.
Awesome video thanks! I've also recently picked up a JS 400 and am upgrading it like Lee. I'm looking for a new trem and noticed Lee has also upgraded his. Does anyone happen to know which one Lee has used here / which ones might fit the JS 400?
A little late to the party, but I’m fairly certain it’s a Gotoh 510
A little bit of a snob ???? dude you are the king of snobs
I’d wear a T-shirt that said it.
Khm....Jet Guitars are from SLOVENIA, not Slovakia. Great video, cheers guys.
Thanks for the info! If they replied to any of our emails we might be better informed.
I want one of these. (Available in the states?) I doubt it, nothing this good ever is. I really like this 2 knob setup rather than the standard 3. I've always felt crowded on a Strat because of the placement of the top volume knob. LOL, I sink the middle pickup too.
They have USA Reverb store.
@@MrLoompi Cool, thanks
Wow sounds great, nice playing ! Do you know if fender pick guard fits the jet ?
I've heard they don't
Is it possible to change the whole pickguard of the guitar for a fender pre-wired pickguard ?
Yes, it’s possible. However, the screw holes won’t line up, meaning you’ll have to redrill.
I have a question, the guitar colour looks like in the photos of JET web?
Have you changed the tremolo from floating to decked?
I just bought a jet 350
Telecaster Custom £299.50. It’s absolutely amazing for the money, like a top of the range Fender in terms of sonics and playability. Cheap Chinese labour obviously keeps the price down.
Whats the bridge been changed to? It doesnt look like the original that comes standard.
What was the Bridge pickup replaced with?
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Just bought one of these and it’s such an amazing guitar! What amp are you using?
we used an axefx3
It is made in the same factory where Fazley guitars are (Bax house brand) same specs, same everything but they're 20-30% cheaper
that guitar sounds great, i don't know how they make it for that money. Fender should be worried.
The amp or whatever you use is the key
Shame we didnt hear the neck pick up with distortion, hoping to hear the Hendrix SRV sound.
He ain't the only one who pick bashes the middle pickups...
just bought js400 yesterday same color lefty ..love it so much really good guitar for the price.. do you replace all the pickup (HSS) or just the bridge and do you change the trem with gotoh 510ts ? thanks
What Bridge pick up was fitted to replace original??? Sounds great is it a JB?
no it was a Suhr Thornbucker