I really like it. Maybe you can do a comparison with the Yamaha Transacoustic that does the same. Judging by this video I think I like the Yamaha's algorithms better, but it is hard to compare acoustics on multiples environments
I remember when they were outside of Toulouse and they used to build quality electric guitars. My buddy worked for them at the finishing station. It looks like they no longer make electrics though...
@@nickdryad I'm not sure, all i can see on the sticker in the sound hole is the address in France, but I can assure you it's a great guitar, so I don't care where was it made mine is a bit of an old model, T100A with red cedar solid top, it sounds, feels, and looks amazing
Update: I've had this guitar over a year now. I also have a Taylor 814CE and if I was forced to keep just one I would definitely choose the Hyvibe, it plays as well as the Taylor but offers so much more. I made a comment about performing with it and have since done so with a Bose S1 battery PA and this guitar. You can program this guitar for any song you play/sing and the effects are incredible with zero pedals. Even with pedals and my 814CE the Hyvibe just sounds better. The internal electronics transfer feeling through the top of the guitar and brings palm muting and slight thumps from your palm to a whole new level. I have a Taylor 12 string, Little Martin and a PRS with piezo, they all just hang on the wall now collecting dust. Hands down this is the best live performance acoustic for what I do. BTW, one drawback is the tuner doesn't work when the 1/4" out is plugged in, I have to use a clip on. I'm sure this could be fixed with an update but it isn't a game breaker. The tuner comes up but does not detect chords accurately while using the out.
@@catcancrunch7260 absolutely. You can also program/change the effects on the fly from your phone. You can adjust every patch as well to your liking. This guitar is a lot of fun and plays extremely well.
I just recently got the #30 model. So far, i like it even better than my Takamine that i couldn't put down! The guitar itself has a great sound, and feels great playing. My battery was dead when the guitar arrived, so it took a week to troubleshoot and get a new battery sent. (Originally they wanted to swap out the guitar, but I'm glad they sent a battery instead.) They were VERY responsive! Only now am i getting started using the electronics. When i first tried them out, I thought the effects were cool, but wasn't sure how much i would use them... Then i saw 2 videos: the first one was on the EQ and how that can be used with any/all effects, how versatile it is. The 2nd video was on the looper and how versatile that is. Now, i can't imagine NOT using them! Gotta say, i like everything about it. Money well spent. Now i just need an Aeros Gold Loop Studio and maybe a MIDI drum pad thingy, and I'm good.
After seeing your demo I was convinced. I just rec'd mine on Thursday (4/23) and am registering it in a moment. I just wanted to give you credit for the nice demo in case it matters. Thanks for a good job!
Waited for almost 2 months as it was BO’d, but finally got mine the middle of February. I haven’t even dug into all of its capabilities but absolutely love it so far! Even just as an acoustic guitar all by itself it is absolutely beautiful sounding and plays so nice.
@@wjb270 Yes! You can actually mix as many different affects as you want creating your own specific custom “peddles” and then name and save them. You can create as many custom “peddles” as you would like but you can only store six or eight on the guitar itself at one time, but if you have more and need to use them it is as simple as clicking a button on your iPad or iPhone :-) Currently I have 4 different custom “petals” set up using multiple effects. One of my favorite has a little bit of reverb, chorus, trim and echo and sounds so sweet for some of my finger-picking songs :-)
I bought one of these guitars about a year and a half ago when I saw your video. I LOVE this SO MUCH!! Maybe the best guitar purchase I’ve ever made! It’s so worth it and the folks who sell it are so nice and responsive. I have hours and hours of fun with this! If you’re on the fence…..JUST GET IT!
Few years later:DAW built in directly to the guitar,so that you can edit,mix ur music all within the guitar,the audio file will be uploaded to a sound cloud server and also available,just transfer it with the usb c cable
I was trying to find something to amplify my acoustic sound without an amplifier for Renaissance festival- I'm playing open air, no mic no amplifier, which is fine when I'm strumming, but you can't hear the finger picking! Then I saw this video, went to the web site, and they actually sell just the unit that you can install in your OWN guitar!!! Yeah!!!!
I have a Lad Tramontane acoustic which is an older model and the quality is amazing, any Lag I've played has had tremendous build quality, brilliant sound and looks stunning. The Hyvibe looks amazing in my opinion and sounds pretty good too
Owned a LAG acoustic guitar for years with a piezo pickup inside the body and it’s been a fantastic guitar, great tone and build quality, I’ve used it either plugged in or unplugged for recording but this is next level, Wow 😳. Looks great for small venues when you don’t need an amp and studio work 👍
Hey.....why not!!!! Thats a very cool concept for the nowadays type players as being cool outa the box but I think older seasoned players would find it very fresh and eciting if they are not bound to the old ways thing.... Hey I'm a young 63 and dig it even thi I'm an electric dude...
@Logan Bodine That i'm sure is partly true but, I also have a nylon string Godin ACS-Sa synth guitar with a Roland GR-30. That makes some lovely sounds and thats part of it as well!! ;)~
I own a Yamaha Transacoustic LLTA, love it so much, I just bit the bullet on a HyVibe 30. Even if the novelty of the electrics goes out the window, it's Still a beautiful dread style guitar alone.
As a metalhead, never before have I been so interested in an acoustic guitar. Then again, alot of good metal pieces utilize an acoustic (a few later Death tracks come to mind, namely Symbolic, Voice of the Soul and Flesh And The Power It Holds) and it greatly appeals to my techie side.
I'm getting this for the option to just pick it up and have fun during parties, camping, beach etc. U read a lot of comments about performing with it and although you could for sure I don't care about that. I'm lazy and sometimes don't feel like hooking up etc. I'll definitely be playing a lot more now on the couch and at parties.
I think this is what they mean when they say the guitar chooses the player. I just had to order this. This will be my first acoustic guitar that isn’t a hand me down, that I chose to buy myself. It’s perfect.
Thx so much, Darrell...I recently saw an internet ad for this guitar, but the video wasn't very good quality..I been hoping someone would rewiew it. Again, thx...
Needs a removable 18650 battery and I’ll be interested, and 2 or 3 days of runtime... no way I’m gonna run dead and have to leave it plugged into a USB charger...
That's exactly what I didn't like about the acustic Tele and Strat Fender came out with..no removable battery! EVERY rechargable battery dies at some point in time. Then what? Where can you buy a replacement, and how do you get to it? Know one ever seems to know. I will pass on it, even if I liked it's tone, and I didn't.
Hi, the battery lasts 10+ hrs. You can play the guitar while charging (in the wall or with a portable bank)... but you are not likely to do this since the battery life is so robust. And yes, you can replace the battery if needed.
@@PainkillerDCXVI I had a Rainsong J1000 for awhile after I saw David Wilcox play one. No onboard effects, but that is the loudest, non-compressed acoustic tone I've ever gotten from an acoustic guitar. A FoH engineer actually asked me to turn down at soundcheck - I wasn't even plugged in to his DI yet. It was loud enough to keep up with the fiddles at the local Irish pub on Wednesday nights.
@@JonNewquist Nice that's cool, and I bet it sounded great as well its just that the loudest guitar that I own is a Martin 000-15m and I only play fingerstyle with custom lights. I don't really need it to be louder unplugged but I wouldn't mind that at all...
@@PainkillerDCXVI - yeah, I sold it because it was too loud. I have a Martin triple aught as well, it's about perfect with EJ-15s for a mix of fingerstyle and strumming. When I need to be louder or add reverb/chorus I plug in to my JC-22. 😁
Variax guitars are great, I have several Fugigen 700s, but if you use them to alter your tunings, you do NOT want to hear the strings. That's why I sold my 700 Acoustic. Even filling all the cavities with closed cell foam, it was still resonant.
Hey Darrell! Finally someone showcasing Lag Guitars. I bought a Lag T400j12ce Stage 12 string about 4 years ago from an older fellow in Portland Or. Had not heard of Lag at that time but I was so impressed by the quality and sound, I have since bought many more as gifts and such. These are excellent and I highly recommend. I will get a hyvibe in the near future just because. Thanks for the review and putting a spotlight on this brand.
Excellent tones and options. But the Manual says: "The battery provided with your system is not user serviceable", so this is basically an iGuitar, but without the market clout to guarantee a replacement battery ever comes. (EDIT: HyVibe says it is user serviceable see below)
they've been making guitars for decades, my first guitar was an acoustic from them, but not one like this, and these HyVibes' have existed for at least a year or two I think, and no one was talking about them, if anyone cares, the one that I have has great fretwork, the nut is cut perfectly and overall it's a great guitar BUT, I tried contacting them about it because this guitar wasn't bought by me, I was basically given it, so I tried to find out when it was made, and I don't remember when they got back to me, or even if they did
@@HyVibeAudio That is truly Awesome news! Is this possible by the user though? For example during COVID, shipping from Canada to US is very slow, and a user might wait a long time for you to do the servicing.
@@jimmyjames2022 definitely! It’s not something you’d need to do on a monthly basis...the battery life is quite good (10+ hrs) and the batteries are rated for a few years. Replacing them is easy to do, but requires some disassembly.
Don't know who invented it first, but Kepma introduced a transacoustic guitar 2-3 years back, Yamaha also offers a Transacoustic guitar, so it's not new per se.
As an acoustic guitar player I feel all you really want is reverb and chorus. I'd go for the Yamaha which is almost half the price, . Most of the effects are novelties which you probably woudn't use.
Umm it's not an acoustic guitar, Bob. clue #1: acoustic guitars never ever need recharging. clue #2 they never ever feed back. clue #3 they never ever play when you aren't touching them, It's a gizmo that looks like an acoustic guitar.
It’s not a gizmo that looks like an acoustic guitar. It is in fact an acoustic guitar with a gizmo. If you turn the gizmo off what are you left with? You guessed it, an acoustic guitar.
Yeah, maybe. And now you'll NOT buy it. Next year you'll write about MAYBE buying it. Yeah, maybe you need an acoustic. How can you even LIVE without an acoustic?! Are you okay? Really?
I don’t need another guitar but after watching your video I just had to have one. Ordered today for delivery middle of next week, can’t wait. Thanks Darrell.
What a great innovation! I know a lot of guitarist are afraid of change. But I think this would be beneficial to anybody. And it sounds great as an acoustic as well.
It's an interesting idea and seems perfect for acoustic jamming, busking or practicing. However, I don't think it would suit recording or gigging as outboard effects are much more sophisticated. It would be a nice guitar to have, but I couldn't justify the price.
I've got a guitar that plays itself, I don't even have to touch it, in fact there's no physical guitar at all (makes it really easy to store and transport) All I have to do is press Play and I get instant guitar sounds pleasuring my ears.
@@maxbeau5062 - The B and high E strings sound ridiculous when you play them at an octave up. That's why the 12-string models use the same pitch for those two (not octaved). It seems Steve's idea would be super easy for the company to add into a simple firmware upgrade... As you pointed out, the effect is essentially there already. It just needs the final tweak and it would be FAR more useful than the full string set at a higher octave.
@@WhiteDove73-888 - Wrong... Just wrong. I can't believe that you came in with an A-hole attitude without having a single clue what you're talking about. Confusing a chorus and a 12 string is like confusing delay with reverb. It separates the knowers from the posers... A chorus may trick YOUR ears into thinking it's a 12-string, but something tells me that it wouldn't take much to fool you... "Genius".
The natural sound of that guitar (to my ear) seems to be missing the warmth you get from an acoustic. All the bells and whistles can't make up for it. I see this as more of a novelty than the future of acoustic guitars.
This is kind of a mind blower. I wouldn't know what to think if I hadn't seen this and just ran into someone playing an acoustic that had effects like that...
Not a fan. Looks and sounds like a descent guitar, but I find the built in effects a bit cheesy. For that price I can get a really nice acoustic from one of the Godin family brands, with pretty good quality PU and one of their awesome Tric cases. There are lots of really small portable multi-effects units around these days that would give you much better sound, control, and options.
I played one of these years ago. Went back to the store to play it again. The interest died on my return to it. I didn't like it enough to buy it. I can see how people do like it, though. I do wonder how long the interest will last. I might live long enough to find out.
In my teens I was grossed out by the synthaxe. It sounded like a curse on musicality. This acoustic set up is impressive! It sound fun! Imagine busking with this rig!
Have you seen the "Tonewood Amp"? its and amp that adheres to the back of any flat back guitar and use the same vibration technology. Please if you can do a review it will be awsome!
I have the Tonewood Amp and I love it! The effects are too much out of the box, but with a bit of tweaking, and after that to my ear, they sound more natural and usable than this. Plus I use it on all of my acoustics. The only thing this seems to have better is looping. Tonewood can do it, but it requires a phone hooked up with an app, it’s not loud enough and kills the battery. Overall I’d still choose the Tonewood.
@@joebloggs8636 Completely different? It's like a built in Tonewood Amp. The Tonewood Amp allows you to use it with your own acoustic though, not limited to Lag product.
Thanks Darrell for showing and illustrating a very gorgeous beautifully, sounding acoustic guitar. I at one time in my life had a 12 string guitar non electric but is one beautiful sounding acoustic. But I love the harmonics of the 12 but would love ❤️ to get my hands on now the beautiful guitar
your covering an demonstrating to us / me. Again, Thank you 🙏🏾 for this during this pandemic. Stay safe and hoping your family and friends along with rest of get through this to continue the your inspirational teachings on these instruments electric and acoustic. Be blessed 😻🤘🏾
What don't you like about them. Got their "travel" or 3/4 guitar as a gift - new though it appears to be a '21 ie 3 or 4 years old. Store owner tinkered w it a bit & seems set up good - sounds good too but am thinking of returning it.
@@roblogosz1 the quality of guitars does not reflect the price. They can look cool but the construction and fit/finish comes off as cheap. There are far superior guitars you can get in similar price points.
Hey Darrel, just want to say you are doing a great job. You and maybe one other are my favorite gearheads I really enjoy watching. Always thorough and interesting. Keep it up brother. I'll be watching.
Darrell... thanks for the info.. I do solo work and I will be looking for another guitar and will look into this and it just like fun to see what I can come up with. thanks again 🎸🎶
This guitar has something of a marketing problem. It's interesting and novel, but the effects quality isn't there and neither is the volume. You can't perform with it and you can't record with it. You could get a battery-powered Roland acoustic amp and even a bargain laminate-top acoustic-electric guitar and you'll sound better because the amp is just so much better at what it does than the guitar's own soundboard. But this guitar that has no professional application costs a thousand bucks. It's the perfect campfire guitar, where nobody cares about the finer points of quality and all that matters is that it's just plain fun. What do you think is a good price for a guitar that is best suited for that situation? A grand? Or maybe four hundred, if you're feeling spendy?
I think the ability to drag the thing around any part of your home or anywhere else without worrying about plugging anything in, or carrying an amp is a value worth considering over an acoustic with a pick-up. The issue becomes the sound quality, it's so poor that any of that added value is removed and then some. Personally I did not like the sounds, even the obnoxious metronome I found cheesy.
there are already chinese cheap guiter with this pickup system, the problem is the volume as you said it cannot even be used as a street artist sound box, you can also just order the pickup on alibaba and DYIl
@@JonNewquist I agree. $500 at most. I love the concept and from what I can tell, I like the guitar, just not the price. It just wouldn't be on my radar at all unless it was half the price. I would like to see it's innards...lol.
True, this is a campfire guitar at best and I would have ethical problems to pay more than $500 for one. Put a pickup + effects system like this (but of a better quality, this one produces way too glassy sounds) + a good sized battery (to last at least two drunken nights) onto an Orangewood Oliver Jr., sell it for $350-$400 and you'll have a killer campfire guitar. I'd buy two in a heartbeat :D
I’ve seen a lot of these types of guitars with built-in effects, lava me, the Yamaha acoustisonic, But none of them are as well-made and have as many affects as this does, Even the Tonewood amp doesn’t have a looper, I’m definitely going to be buying one of these guitars
Cool idea. My only concern would be with the quality of the guitar itself. Tonewood does this and it can be added to any acoustic guitar with a pup and preamp. So, if I want wireless chorus, delay and/or reverb on my Martin D-18E, it only costs $250 to add the effects unit.
Funny, funny thing is I was thinking Darryl never does reviews of acoustic guitar and it would be curious to know what he thinks about the variety available, and what do you know, the next notification that I get is this! Wonderful!
