Does anyone own one of those Rogue electric sitars?

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MF has them on sale for $230.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=home/search/detail/base_id/88591

I've been looking around at used Coral electric sitars (BIG $$$), and other brands of new electric sitars (around $500-$750) to use for a few retro '60's songs, and I want something that sounds like the Coral (ala "Cry Like a Baby" by the Box Tops), but I don't want to drop a huge amount of $ since it's not going to be used for more than a few songs.

Whaddaya think?
 
I have never had their sitar but I have their dobro and it is not bad. For use once and awhile in the studio Rogue can get you by.....
 
Try to score a real sitar. I got one off the dutch ebay for 70 euros :)
 
Halion said:
Try to score a real sitar. I got one off the dutch ebay for 70 euros :)
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how is your advice different than telling someone who wants to buy an electric guitar that they should buy an acoustic instead?

i don't mean to suggest that your advice is bad, i'm just playing devil's advocate.
 
Here's a link to a song that I found that a guy recorded using a Rogue electric sitar :



It's got the Coral vibe to my ears...
 
One of the models on the much-maligned Line6 Variax guitars is a Coral sitar, but those start at about $500, I think, unless you get one used. Line 6's site has only one sitar sample that I could find...
 
my2cents said:
how is your advice different than telling someone who wants to buy an electric guitar that they should buy an acoustic instead?

i don't mean to suggest that your advice is bad, i'm just playing devil's advocate.
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You're right, it's not much different. But I could image someone wanting to buy an electrical sitar because they can't afford/find a real sitar. The goal is virtually the same. This could very well not be the case however.

The difference between an acoustical and and electrical guitar is much greater. I think any electrical sitar player will dig a real sitar, while hardly every electrical guitar player will dig an acoustic.
 
Halion said:
You're right, it's not much different. But I could image someone wanting to buy an electrical sitar because they can't afford/find a real sitar. The goal is virtually the same. This could very well not be the case however.

The difference between an acoustical and and electrical guitar is much greater. I think any electrical sitar player will dig a real sitar, while hardly every electrical guitar player will dig an acoustic.
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good points.

i'm not sure if this is true across the board, but it seems like sitars are WAY easier to find these days than they were ten years ago. i see them pretty frequently in random places these days. i'd imagine they're pretty easy to find online, too.
 
I decided to buy one, and ordered it this morning. After my ASCAP discount, it wound up costing $218.49, delivered. :)
 
Too Cool!

Well, it arrived today, and I'm REALLY impressed. All I had to do was tune it, and it was ready to go, right out of the box. The strings are nice and low, the action is smooth, and the intonation is WAY better than I expected.

I plugged it into the clean channel of my little Roland Cube 30, and the 60's tunes just started to flow! ;) "Cry Like A Baby", "Paint It Black", "Green Tamborine", "Monteray", and "Do It Again" just oozed out of the thing! :cool:

It's really comfortable to play too... nicely balanced, light weight, sits on your leg without sliding if you're sitting down. It has solid-feeling volume and tone controls, a VERY cool black-and-red crackle finish (like the old Corals), nice maple neck with a rosewood fretboard, fat frets, three clean "lip-stick" single coil pickups (they look like the Danelectro lip-sticks to me) including one for the 13 sympathetic strings, an interesting body shape, and THE electric sitar sound of the 60's.

It's definately a cool instrument IMHO... I'm more than satisfied with the "bang for the buck" perspective too, and it adds another interesting color to my musical pallette. I give it two thumbs up. :)
 
This thing is a blast to play! I just played some tunes to my wife, plugged into a teeny Marshall 9v "half stack" clipped to my strap... what a hoot! :)
 
Very cool!
I've been wanting a Jerry Jones Sitar/Guitar for the longest time and maybe this Christmas Santa will bring me one.

I don't consider the Sitar/Guitar a sitar emulation,rather a completely different instrument unto itself.So for me buying a Sitar is not even in the picture.
 
Hey Kid Klash(or anyone else),how about an update?I'm about this close >< to buying one of these things.
I've been wanting to get the Jerry Jones version,but for a one trick pony,it would be nice to save a little cash. :cool:

I dug the mp3 you posted,it really got me wanting one of these.
 
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