Lastly, you have a master volume knob for control. That’s it, so the Kramer Baretta Special doesn’t boast versatility. It is what it is. With the Kramer Baretta Special, that's exactly what you get: a guitar that's incredibly comfortable to play, whether you're seated or standing. Aswe expected, it is also considerably lighter – maple is a much denser and harder tonewood by comparison. Its deep warmth is offset by thesnappiness of the ebony fingerboard.

For tonewoods, it has mahogany on the body, which is a great tonewood for the price range. Mahogany is light, durable, and gorgeous-looking. At the same time, it offers a rich sound and fair projection. Also, it doesn’t help that the brand shares its name with an iconic and eccentric ‘90s sitcom character. If you are interested in receiving this coverage for longer than one year, you have the option of purchasing additional years of the Performance Warranty. The pricing is as follows: Sub-par tunning pegs won’t ensure your guitar stays on tune as you play songs live or record songs at the studio. Downside & Alternatives In addition to this, the Mahoganybody is shaped to fit comfortably against your torso, and gives you easy-access to every note on the fingerboard. No-Nonsense Voice

Being the Kramer Baretta Special such an affordable guitar, there had to be some cheapened features. And, unfortunately, Karmer saved the money by using sub-par hardware. Improving the hardware is up to you, though. You could take its awesome metal sound to the stage with better hardware, thus saving you the money a mid-level or professional guitar would cost. Fretwork is awesome on my blue one, very very good on the Purple one. The fretwork, is way better than my Brand new EVH 5150, The Kramer Baretta Special became famous in 1984, but Gibson stopped the production of the guitar many years ago.

This latest collection is certainly worthy of the brand’s heritage, with wild finishes and no options for fixed bridges. It is, after all, what Kramer were famous for – and they still are, looking how much the American-made originals go for secondhand. However, the hardware is not very solid, and so the guitar’s performance doesn’t stay on point. Hardware The Baretta Looks like a barebones Stratocaster guitar. It’s a minimalist style, nothing shiny or eye-catching. If you let down the snobery, its a great guitar. Not a great guitar for this price, a great guitar whatever the price.String height and intonation out of the box, in retrospect, were not great, but the action was pretty solid. The quality of the bridge is sub par. one of the length screws has filled threads on the upper 1/8th on an inch of the screw, so I'm not super sure how the convinced the screw into the saddle in the first place, but the saddles threads are now nearly stripped because of this. The chrome comes off the bridge very easily and there is something copper coloured underneath, probably copper or some alloy thereof, probably not red gold unfortunately. It is most obvious under the string height screws. This could be a function of me setting string height while tuned, but it is a little disappointing. It seems like the chrome should stand up to that. Overall, the Kramer Baretta Special has awesome metal sounds, with a hot output capable of giving presence to your solos, taps, slides, and similar. While the other instruments in this round-up have a flat 14” fingerboard radius, this particular model is even flatter still at 16”– which makes it incredibly playable. The addition of gold hardware also works especially well against this Alpine White finish.