Description
Review of the LyxPro 30 Inch Electric Guitar and Starter Kit for Kids
The LyxPro EGBK30PN is a 30 inch electric guitar in pink with three single coil pickups, a tremolo bridge and a maple neck, sold as a starter kit with a 20 watt amplifier, a digital clip on tuner, six strings, two picks, a shoulder strap, a cable and an instruction book. The listing aims it at novice and intermediate players aged roughly nine to twelve.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- 20 watt amplifier with a real control set. Gain, bass, treble, volume and a grind control give a young player something to experiment with rather than a single volume knob, and 20 watts is generous for a kit at this size.
- Headphone jack and AUX input on the amplifier. Between them these cover silent practice and playing along with music from a phone, which are the two things that keep a child practising.
- Digital clip on tuner included. Many kits leave this out, and it is the accessory a beginner needs first and uses every session.
- Three single coil pickups with volume and tone knobs. Three pickups give a range of sounds from bright and thin at the bridge to warm and round at the neck, which is more variety than a single pickup kit offers.
- Instruction book included, which gives a child somewhere to start before a teacher is arranged.
- Battery operated tuner, so no separate power arrangement is needed for it.
Cons
- The description specifies a premium rosewood fingerboard while the specification table lists the fretboard as maple wood. These are different materials with a visibly different appearance and a different feel, so the point is worth confirming before ordering.
- The listing describes the guitar as three quarter size in the title yet also claims the 30 inch scale is “the same scale as an adult’s full size instrument”. Both cannot be true. A full size electric runs to around 25.5 inches of scale on a body around 39 inches long, so the 30 inch figure here is the overall length.
- The back material is given as “phoenix wood”, which is not a standard tonewood name and identifies nothing useful.
- The listed weight of 13.37 pounds covers the packed kit including the amplifier, not the guitar.
- A tremolo bridge on a small budget guitar is the most common source of tuning instability, because the bridge pivots and the strings have to return to exactly the same position.
- No spare strings are included beyond the set fitted, and a beginner will break one.
Detailed Product Description
The guitar is 30 inches overall, which places it in the smaller bracket sold for children. The neck is maple, a dense and stiff timber that is standard for electric guitar necks. The fretboard is where the listing contradicts itself, and since a rosewood board is open pored and darker while a maple board is sealed and pale, the difference is obvious in the hand as well as in the photographs. How sizes match to ages is covered in the guide to what size guitar for a child.
The pickups are three single coils in an S-S-S layout. A single coil is one winding around magnetic poles, which gives a bright, clear and slightly thin sound with more detail than a humbucker but with a susceptibility to mains hum. Three of them with a selector give the range of tones associated with this style of guitar, from bright and cutting at the bridge to warm at the neck.
The bridge is a tremolo unit, which lets the pitch of all six strings be lowered by pressing an arm. It is fun and it is also the main reason budget guitars drift out of tune, because the bridge must pivot and return precisely and cheap nuts and saddles rarely allow it. Many players simply leave the arm out.
The amplifier is rated at 20 watts with a built in speaker, a headphone jack, an AUX input and controls for gain, bass, treble, volume and grind. Twenty watts is more than a bedroom needs and gives some headroom for a school hall. Why the wattage figure matters less than most buyers expect is set out in the guide to guitar amp wattage for home practice.
What Comes with the Product
- The 30 inch electric guitar in pink, right handed
- A 20 watt amplifier with a built in speaker, headphone jack and AUX input
- A guitar cable
- A battery operated digital clip on tuner
- Six strings
- Two picks
- A shoulder strap
- An instruction book
No gig bag, case, capo or stand is listed, and the amplifier’s power supply arrangement is not described.
Who It Suits
This suits a child of roughly nine to twelve starting on electric guitar with nothing at home. The amplifier is the part that lifts this kit above the usual offering, since a headphone jack and an AUX input make practice both quiet and enjoyable, and that combination is what determines whether a child keeps going.
It suits less well a teenager or an adult, who will outgrow a 30 inch instrument quickly, and it suits less well anyone who wants the thicker humbucker sound associated with rock and metal, since three single coils are built for a brighter, cleaner voice. Worth comparing are the LyxPro 36 inch electric kit, the ZENY 30 inch kids electric combo and the Donner 30 inch kids electric kit. The wider selection sits in the kids and junior guitars section.
How to Maintain
Wipe the strings after each session. Nickel steel strings corrode from skin oils, and children’s hands are rarely clean when they pick up a guitar.
Coil the cable loosely rather than wrapping it tightly around the amplifier. Cables fail at the plug, and tight wrapping is what causes it. A dead cable is indistinguishable from a dead guitar to a nine year old.
Remove the tuner battery if the guitar is being put away for a season, since a leaking cell will ruin the unit.
Tips and Recommendations
Use the headphone output for most practice. It removes the volume question entirely, and a child who can practise at any hour practises more. The other approaches are set out in the guide to quiet guitar practice options.
Keep the gain and grind controls low at first. Distortion masks buzzing strings and half fretted chords, which feels satisfying and slows progress, whereas a clean sound makes every mistake audible.
Buy a spare set of strings early. Beginners break strings, usually the thinnest one, and a guitar with a missing string tends to get put down and left. When a set needs replacing is covered in the guide to how often to change guitar strings.
Product FAQ
What size is this guitar?
Thirty inches overall. The listing calls it three quarter size, and its claim that the scale matches an adult full size instrument does not fit that description.
What is the fretboard made of?
The description says rosewood and the specification table says maple. These are different materials, so the point needs confirming with the seller.
Is an amplifier included?
Yes, a 20 watt amplifier with a built in speaker, a headphone jack, an AUX input and controls for gain, bass, treble, volume and grind.
Is a tuner included?
Yes, a battery operated digital clip on tuner, along with an instruction book.
