How Bad is Music Gear From Wish.com? 

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The most impressive thing here isn’t the song, as cool as it is, it’s the fact you actually received all your items from wish 🤣

That $37 pedal was actually pretty damn good

I have no idea why, but the "Thanks Baby" on the keyboard sent me into absolute hysterics.

I've got to say, the little amoon pedal thing isn't bad at all for what it is. I've heard things that cost way more, and sound way worse.... so

How can you not love a Thanks Baby keyboard? It's so bad it's wonderful.

I really have a soft spot for cheap and sometimes crappy instruments because you can make music with almost anything, no matter how low the bar. Play with it, record it, edit it and sometimes you don't even have to do much. Each instrument comes with its own charme. Yes, even the REALLY bad ones. All it takes is... accepting it for what it is and make the most out of it. Be creative. And you'll be surprised what you can pull off with very little :)

EVERYONE should own a pock-rock. I own one and it's fucking amazing for the price. You can get legit, usable tones out of it, it has a drum machine, a tuner, aux-in/headphones-out, etc. It even has a built-in noise gate! This thing would have revolutionised guitar in the 90s.

My favorite part is that the shirt design extends to the collar, but it's not even in line

I built my first guitar from parts I bought off wish, 2 years down the line it’s still my fav guitar and my stage guitar. I love it in its terrible way and yet it sounds good and I get asked where I got the pickups from all the time haha

Those "mics" for 6$ are really great for acoustic instruments. I've been using one of those for my classical guitar even in live setups and it's OK. The trick is that it's just a piezo element, not a real mic, so it's not that expensive to produce. Many electroacoustics use the similar elements, just in different shape.

$197 for an UNFINISHED guitar kit? I got a fully assembled beautiful flamed quilted maple top Gibson replica for sub $200, that's nuts.

Even though the bass strings failed to glow in the dark, did they provide you with the perfect musical experience?

The song sounded amazing! Awesome that you did it with all the cheap crap! I guess it's the player, not the gear.

7:46 the visual of “Thanks Baby” actually made me laugh out loud.

ammoon makes some surprisingly okay stuff. I bought one of their soprano saxophones, and it's actually good. I'll be the first to admit I won the cheap musical gear lottery with that one and it could have been an awful pile of junk just as easily, subject to who was working the assembly line and what kind of day they were having, but I'm happy with it.

That was actually a really catchy song. Good job finding a way to use that piano lol

7:35 when ancient samurai discovered vinyl recordings 🤣

The contact mic was surprising - I thought the clip was initially a condensor microphone and you were about to switch to the contact mic which would sound rubbish in comparison. The little multi-fx seemed pretty good for the money too

Cheap contact mics can actually sound pretty good. It only costs a few bucks to make your own if you already own a soldering iron, and you'd probably get better results. Just a piezo, a jack, some wire, and a piece of tape.

Watching you make perfectly outstanding music with this is like watching Steven Spielberg make Marcus Mumford's music video on his iPhone while his wife pushed him around on a rolling office chair instead of a million-dollar rig of cranes, trucks and dollies. Sometimes the magic is in the gadgets; but sometimes it's in the magician.

I was surprised and impressed by how that guitar sounded, and that multi FX was brilliant. I'd forgotten about those devices. I'll be buying one. Superb result of what you produced too.

I definitely love this concept ! I didn't think you were going to be able to do much with this stuff , and there you were knocking it out of the park with these toys that were being sold as instruments ! Bravo ! I definitely felt the same way as you about these products .

Loved the video! Just to offer some constructive criticism, although I really liked the song at the end (it gave me chills), it was mixed in such a way that the sound of the DIY guitar kind of overpowered everything else, so even while intently listening with headphones I struggled to pick out the other instruments. While in a musical sense it probably sounds better the way you did it, I feel that it could have been more satisfying as a finale to the video if the mixing had put the instruments on more equal footing.

Samurai "Thanks Baby" T-shirts are needed.

I love this video and I can't believe you made a really slick catchy piece of music with all of that gear. Great stuff.

Sam…you’re proof that an accomplished musician can take even the most lacking of music gear and make solid music with it. It’s the human making the music that matters most as opposed to the gear itself.

Some of the items were actually worth it like the pedal and the steel drum and the microphone was worth the price as well!

Nice jam at the end! The tongue drum actually sounded excellent, and even that cheapo Ammoon multi-fx processor sounded semi-useable. I think the lesson here is that if you're a good musician, you can make even the cheapest instruments sound great.

Thanks mate, amazing what you can do musically with a bit of knowledge and some talent thrown in.

Sammy has so much talent!! These vids never fail to put a huge smile on my face! 👍🏼

My whole pedal board consists of Joyo and Caline pedals from Wish. Also Pedal power supplies, microfone clones and such. Funniest thing is that the same items are sold by Thomann under the Harley Benton brand. BUT: I’ve used this equipment for around five years now at home, in studio and live situations and it never failed me. My other guitarist in the band likes to make fun of my „Chinese crap“ while pointing out proudly on his 2,000 € Line 6 Helix which he pays over two years and can’t operate properly. My stuff was free and it does the job very well.

This was truly remarkable. Fun nonetheless. Thanks Baby!

This was one of the most creative videos you’ve made in a long time! Props! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

The pedal sounds actually decent and there are plenty of effect options. Sounds like not a bad deal as something for a beginner or to take in travels Also I loved the music in the end!

Bro, only you could come up with something that sounds really good out of a bunch of wish stuff. I frickin loved it.

I’ve use that contact mic in a lot of projects and I always thought of it as the “expensive one” for my nice projects. You can go way cheaper.

At about 9:08 he sounds like the host from Total Drama Island Also: Happy Memorial Day

I don’t care how bad some of these products turned out to be, because the song you created with them totally slaps! The fact that you created such gold out of an assortment of sewage trinkets speaks volumes!

This is a great example of “tone is in the hands”

Back in the '80's we would take a $20 Barcus Berry contact pickup like that, install it inside under the bridge, add a $5 end pin jack and send them out the door for $50.

Awesome video and great jam at the end. Thanks baby!

Love these videos, entertaining and enlightening 👍👍. Thanks baby

“One of these things is not like the other.” When I was a high school freshman (in Houston, TX), Einstürzende Neubauten came to town. My often overprotective-but strangely open-minded-mother would only let me go to the all ages show if she could check out the venue (Phideaux’s if I’m remembering right) beforehand. On the afternoon of the show, I went down there with her for the approval process. We arrived during soundcheck. The guitarist was on stage using some sort of handheld device to get this crazy electronic buzzing/whirring/grinding sound through his amp. Intrigued, I approached him and asked how he was creating this incredible noise. He revealed to me a piece of “gear” that I was wholly unfamiliar with. My mother walked up just in time for him to say, “It is ‘wibrator.’” I was ultimately denied attendance. To this day, I believe it was the “toy” that broke the camel’s back.

Got that pock rock on a 50 cent deal on wish and ended up paying only like 8.50 for the thing plus shipping. It is really awesome for the price.

Awesome vid man! Keep it going, I would def subscribe for stuff like this!

Some of the budget brands are definitely better than others. Aklot, which made your tongue drum, and its parent company, Kmise, are very well regarded as makers of "budget" ukuleles. I have a solid-top tenor ukulele, an all-solid concert ukulele, and a 16-string lyre from Aklot. No complaints about the ukuleles. I'm not sure the strings have ever fully stabilized on the lyre, but I probably haven't spent enough time with it.

That guitar kit was quite expensive, you can get those for like $60..

You should do a video where you mod that guitar into a very playable and good sounding instrument. Better tuners, nut, electronics, pickups, fret dress and polish. Possibly also stain the wood and do something with that head stock.

gotta luv sammy's sense of humor. keep doing a great job.

Diggin' that Dano bass!! Their "Tuna Melt" tremolo is legendary, and yes I own one. Great video. I love really cheap stuff!

That fuzz was pretty cool. That drum set wasn’t that bad..same for the multi fx. The tongue drum was neat too.

Bro when u put on the shirt and said “the sizing is completely f*cked” I couldn’t stop laughing 😭😭😭😭

I haven't watched you in a couple years and it's awesome to see you have grown from 200,000 followers congrats bud 🥳

That was a lot of fun! The song at the end very much had a Walk Off The Earth vibe to it, would love to see you partner with them to create cheapest gear song!

I've heard so much about Samurai Dad.. Would love to see him on the channel someday..

Thank you for doing this. I’m always second guessing my wisdom in refusing to buy these products. And I’m like “but WHAT IF?”

Dude, this is one of the more fun gear videos!! And also gives a good advice to starting musicians - just start playing and don't give up! And as you prove in your playing and composition - The human brain is the most amazing musical "gear" in the Universe! God bless you!

The shirt is hilarious & the song amazing. Keep on keepin on brotha🤘

That melodica is cool, I used to have a very similar one that we actually used on stage quite often. I also had a glock I paid $35 for at a Cracker Barrel restaurant that did an entire tour with us. We would just mic it up as if it was a standard set of bells.

You should wear this t-shirt more often I think, in rehersals, gigs, concerts, everywhere 😂😂

Hands down the most creative video I've seen in years. That t-shirt kills me bruh!! You wore it the whole time! I bought one of those red pocky guitar effects processor from wish and it is a cool little gadget to noodle around on at home. That keyboard didn't even have an led screen did it? Was it a sticker?

Thanks that was brilliant and informative cheers.🇬🇧

That multi effect is surprisingly serviceable, sounds better than both a zoom and a digitech that I used to have lol

It’s awesome how amazing musicians can make low quality instruments sounds great

That truly is a super neat and catchy song though man, nicely done!

Man! That Shirt!!! I laughed a bit when you showed the design, but I was DYING when you put it on. Pure gold, dude.

I have a waldman go-fex, which is basically that PockRock pedal but with a different brand, and i can say it's absolutely worth buying if you're practicing guitar

The worst part is I know that that first kit is like $120 and he got scammed. Granted, it might be showing Canadian, but still. Also, that little effects box is actually well reviewed and sounds pretty decent. But also, that contact Mike is very cheap to home make because it's just a piezo disc connected straight to a jack with a bit of double-sided tape on it

The keyboard was absolutely hilarious! What a great laugh. Thanks for putting this together.

Omg, this was hilarious and your tune made me very happy too. Thanks Sammy G! ✌️😌🎸

Gotta say his mixing skills are very good, his sense of space in the song is great

I laughed so hard when I first heard the sound that crappy piano made lol And then you describing how terrible it is made me laugh even harder

Thoroughly entertaining! Awesome video

That solo lick you made around 11:11 was sooo sweet

I remember Fluff reviewing the pock rock as well some years ago and being similarly impressed by the quality and the tones he could get out of it. It's been sitting in my wishlist since then.

“Thanks Baby” just absolutely killed me

The Hamster Dance is always a welcome trip down memory lane, especially in kazoo 😂

The little red guitar effect is awesome!!

I hope Sammy knows he has to wear the guitar shirt to his big event in San Diego later this year.

I bought a Klon Klone on wish for something like $36... It's actually not bad. Unlike that keyboard which actually is bad.

The Tshirt though hahaha you looked so funny in it and even worse the Neck doesn't line up with the rest of the guitar neck class video btw Love it keep up the great work

Amazing musical arrangement bro ❤️

You probably made that stuff sound 100% better than anyone else would have. Thanks for putting so much effort into the final mix.

I bought a looper pedal from Wish once. It did nothing except quiet my signal to 5% of it's usual volume.

Awesome song at the end 🔥🔥🔥

Nice melody! Towards the end I really heard the influence of mid-60’s Japanese contemp music. You really worked some magic on that junk that NO musician would ever “wish” for! 👏🏻😂 Bravo! Haha!

I bought a guitar on Ali Express from a brand called NK. I think I had seen the brand on RU-vid being reviewed. For a $250-ish strandberg knockoff, it was actually pretty nice. I've sold it since then (super light headless guitars are not my jam it turns out) but it proved to me that there is functional--even nice--gear out there for pretty low prices.

And once again, evidence clear as a day- music comes from us , not instruments. Great work SG.

loving that you immediately went for the robin hood rooster tune soon as the kazoo hit your lips

Super fun video, well done!

I like the reverb, honestly

0:47 That's actually just vibrato with an extra r.

hey Sammy the song on this episode rocks awesome job buddy

That's a good song mate! Cheers from Nova Scotia!

0:53 "Clitoral suc"

I ordered a shirt that said it was "eastern sizes" and if I want "western sizes" I should order 3 times my size. They were out of 3xl so I grabbed the 4, and it fits fairly well. I'm assuming your shirt was ordered in "eastern sizes"

that little red multi effects thing is actually phenomenal!

The pocket multi fx is actually really solid sounding hahahaha. The fuzz and the trem stood out

Loved the video. Only criticism: That piano was clearly marked as a kid's toy, so to call it an instrument is a bit of a stretch, I think. Still, I enjoyed all the weird instruments that you don't normally come across, like the kazoo, melodica and steel drum. Nice!