Reviews

SWAMP DIY Build Your Own Electric Guitar Kit - Sunburst Stratocaster Style

I built this to house some old 'Duncan Designed' pickups and a spare Gotoh vibrato assembly so I can't really comment on those parts of the kit. The body has a laminated top about 4 cm thick rather than being solid which is no significance IMO. The paint job is a two tone 'tobacco burst' rather than a sunburst. The back is plain black with no burst. The fret-board is some ebonised hardwood - not anything I would call rosewood. It feels ok though. Everything fitted correctly on the first assembly. I didn't need to do a full fret leveling just a little bit of a polish - for a start anyway. I finished the neck and board with raw linseed oil. A couple of the thin smears every day for a week. If you have basic woodworking ability and know how to set up an electric guitar, this kit will get you a decent playing instrument assuming the ceramic bar magnet pickups are acceptable to your ears. If you have no clue, then this is at least a fairly cheap kit to learn on. You won't have to do the body finish which can be difficult. Watch lots of guitar building videos! So why not 5 stars? No surprise that the supplied strings were total rubbish. Ineffably horrible. Like the cheapest junk from 1971. Worse actually. Sounded and felt awful. Impossible get stable tuning with this fence wire. So, put some decent strings on before trying to set up intonation, file the nut, neck relief etc. Like night and day. Probably not usable live or for recording unless you go to the trouble of shielding the scratch-plate and routs, or play in a paddock. But all Strats are a bit like that and nobody puts $700 Kinmans in a $160 kit guitar, do they.

23 June 2025

Saramonic WiTalk5 WT3S Full-Duplex 3-Person Wireless Intercom Headset System

Haven't fully tested it yet but straight out of the box it does exactly what it was designed to do. Came with awesome protective box too.

14 June 2025

SWAMP DMX Cable - 3-pin 110ohm - 5m

I ordered this as an 'instant pickup' at like 9pm, then rocked up as soon as they opened to pick it up. Good stuff, will be back.

12 June 2025

Empress Effects Midibox2 MIDI Controller for Empress Guitar Pedals

Plugged into my midi loop switcher via midi and then onto the Empress Effects Phaser, the midi box works flawlessly to send midi cc values to the Phaser. It will require you to send a parameter for every controllable knob or switch if you want the same results each time. Otherwise you will have patches that leave some settings not change from patch to patch. Passes midi clock perfectly as well, while also allowing you to turn on or off the Phaser from listening to clock.

9 June 2025

SWAMP 8U ABS 19" Rack Case - Extra Depth

Been thinking about getting one for sometime. finally did. Should have done when I first considered it.

28 May 2025

iSK CM-20Q Omni 360 Condenser Mic Microphone Vocals

I purchased 2 of these to record a wedding in a very old church with a pipe organ just metres from my position at the rear of the building. They did a great job into a Zoom F3. Covered the range from the pipe organ in full swing to the people talking at the front of the church. Now to start recording birds in the bush - the long term use for them.

25 May 2025

Foxgear ANUBI Series Modulation Box Multi-Effects Processor Pedal

I'm using this for my fiddle / violin. The pedal is easy to use and comes with an easy to follow 2 page manual. With a bit of tweaking / editing and saving the edited setting I'm getting a full, rich sound through my DV Mark Jazz Guitar amp. The full bypass switch means I can compare the raw and fx sound. The ability using the Main MIX selector is a feature as user can set the general Analog MIX of the pedal over the Clean signal that always passes thru the pedal without being digitally converted to preserve the quality. The selected Mix can be saved to the modified preset for ready access in future. Getting a good, warm amplified sound for violins can be challenging. Over the years I've tried numerous fx pedals and ANUBI is the first I've been close to 100% happy with. I haven't explored this for guitar use as I usually play acoustic-electric and like to keep my setup simple. My amps don't need fx augmentation for guitar.

20 May 2025

JOYO JF-38 Roll Boost Guitar Signal Booster Pedal

This is my second boost pedal and is the cleaner sounding of the 2. Probably due to the headroom given by 35db of boost, allowing me to turn my onboard preamp down to a lower and less distorted level.

19 May 2025

Artist REC350FTB Electric Guitar Rectangular Hard Case with Lock

Swamp provides quality products and delivery. Highly recommended.

15 May 2025

SWAMP DIY Build Your Own Electric Guitar Kit - JAG Style

Never checked out a guitar kit before & had a Jag idea in mind, so this seemed perfect. The kit has positives & negatives. The body is fantastic: light, well made, smooth. All the routing/drilling is accurate, neat & everything lines up perfectly. A+. The neck had some imperfections in the headstock area, but Swamp was happy to compensate me some $, so I’m happy. Later I noticed the 1st fret was significantly lower than the rest; too low to bring all the other frets down to match, so I had to pull it & re-glue it higher. Also the 2nd fret had a couple small dents in it. I would’ve pulled that one too but was reluctant because the board flaked a bit along the slot when I pulled the 1st fret, (whatever the wood is it’s quite soft; I dunno how it’d go with a full fret replace). The first 4-ish frets were inconsistent but after that they were fine; it looked like the installer needed a few go’s to get in the swing. The wire is not the beefiest, so after I levelled down to the dented fret they’re on the low side. In retrospect I should’ve returned the neck & asked for a replacement. The neck profile is quite chunky, which I like & it has a dual action truss rod, which is fantastic. The tremolo/tuners/switch/output all work great. Pickups are reasonable; bright & spanky, which is cool. The pots are tiny; I had some decent spares so swapped them without trying them, they might’ve worked perfectly fine though, so no judgement there. The bridge is very poor; the saddles wobble & buzz like CRAZY. The only way to make it stop is to screw them all the way to the end of their slot so they’re locked in place, but then intonation is out. I planned on using a different bridge for this project anyway, so once I figured out what the rattle was I didn’t mind. Not good if you want to use the supplied bridge though. Once assembled it turned out a tad heavier than I expected, but not overly so. I would happily pay a bit more for this kit if it meant the frets, fret work & board were a better quality. The kit has potential to be really good. I was told it was a new line so hopefully Swamp can improve future versions. I def think it’s worth them making the effort/investment. Cheers.

13 May 2025

Enya Nova Go Mini Carbon Fibre Acoustic Guitar

I read a lot of reviews for this, and was unsure. I figured for the price, it was worth the punt. Well, am I a happy little camper. Got it today and started playing. Staying well enough in tune for new strings, and intonation is decent up the neck (12th fret out by about 10 cent). The action looks a little high, but because the strings a for regular scale guitars, they are easy to press. I am just a cowboy chord strummer and the chords sound great. Any buzz has been caused by my poor technique. My son likes metal, and absolutely loves how well the strings bend. Resonance is amazing, and hammering strings is audible. It is kind of tiny, but totally playable, my son was playing around with Hotel California and it was pretty cool. Doesn’t sound like my Yamaha trans acoustic but its not $1k either. Definitely going in the camper trailer, and might even get another two for my boys, so we don’t cart large and expensive instruments down the Gibb River Road in July.

9 May 2025

Alctron MP73V2 Single Channel Vintage Style Microphone Preamp

Initial impression - built like a tank. Hefty weight, solid pots, no signs of a cheap manufacture yet. First test was running this preamp with the DI input into outboard eq straight into the line input of my interface. Instant analogue goodness replaced the plastic sounding HI Z inputs on any interface I have owned. I then routed my EQ through the send and return, which allows me to switch on eq before the output trans. Using as a mic pre is even better, sm58 in front of an amp, straight into the mp73 is my go to. I've worked in music shops pushing gear for 20 years, and I am honestly really impressed. Need to get two eq versions now, this baby is now a permanent fixture in my setup.

9 May 2025

Empress Effects ZOIA Modular Synthesizer Guitar Effect Pedal

Wow! What a powerful multi-purpose musical creativity device! There's a lot packed into this little pedal - it's a modular synth, a digital multi FX pedal, a sequencer with sampling capabilities, a midi controller, a generative synthesis ideas box, a sketchpad/groovebox... and much more. Basically it's a musical lego kit - you can connect together digital modules in various ways to virtually make whatever you want. You can create custom digital effects pedals, or control your existing ones (if they are MIDI capable), though it's an instrument in its own right and rightfully has a home both on and off the pedal board. Honestly if all you want is the standard plug and play effects chain on your board and nothing more, you're probably better off buying the built-for-purpose pedals (though I'm not saying you can't create those pedals virtually in Zoia, you just have to be willing to create the patch). Where Zoia shines is user customisation and creativity - I bought this both as multi-FX for my Bass and synths, as well as to use Zoia as its own instrument. I already use a Boss GT-1B, and this will sit along side it. I'm yet to dive into all the MIDI capabilities, but I'm excited by the possibilities. There's also a prolific online community uploading patches to Patchstorage, and maintaining an unofficial Zoia Librarian app, and I've seen Empress Effects jump in on chats on forums as well. I did a lot of research before buying, but it's the community and willingness of Empress to engage with customers that helped me make the final decision. In the box is included the usual manual and warranty info, some stickers, but also two trs to midi adaptors, and a 16GB microSD card which is great since so many products these days don't include extras. There is no power supply in the box - it takes a fairly common 9V pedal power supply (the specs are printed on the box) and it does not charge over USB (it has no USB port). I currently use my Boss pedal power supply and have just ordered a MyVolts ripcord so I can connect to a USB powerbank when I'm on the go. I think I've been long-winded enough, just wanted to add some thoughts as someone who's use case is both on a traditional pedalboard as well as a on the desk as an instrument. Thank you Swamp Industries for a seamless transaction and super fast postage! - A happy customer :)

24 April 2025

JOYO AC-40S 40W Battery Powered Acoustic Guitar Amplifier with Bluetooth

Bought this for personal practice and found the sound was clean enough for recording in the studio. Very good for the price and well made.

14 April 2025

SWAMP Piezo Contact Microphone Pick Up

I wanted to try amplifying an acoustic string instrument (similar to a banjo). I had this on the skin near the bridge and it worked well. Not a bad for the price point. Had this going into the effects unit. Pretty lucky to have picked it up in the Swamp sales recently. Would recommend. Pretty fast delivery and good service.

13 April 2025

Testimonials

Wow thats was quick!

Greg Upton

9 November 2022

Placed an order yesterday afternoon at about 4:10pm using Australia Post eParcel Express and it arrived at my door in Newcastle at 1:10pm today! So quick and efficient as usual from Swamp.

Excellent service as always

Craig Ramsay

27 April 2022

I purchased an ICM dual wireless microphone system for a community singalong event for which I was tasked with doing the live sound in April 2022. The package arrived promptly and performed perfectly straight out of the box. Noiseless and super clear for both spoken word and singing use on the night. Super easy to set up and worked faultlessly. Cannot fault this product at such a reasonable price. As Arnold Schwazenegger said, "I'll be back!" Cheers Craig Ramsay Exit, Stage Right

Extremely fast and Extremely Helpful

29 March 2022

The guys at swamp industries are amazing! Was accidentally sent a faulty item, which is extremely rare judging by the reviews of the item and the guys over email. I reached out to them with my issue and they were back to me first thing in the morning and had already set up a replacement to be sent to me and personally checking that it works fine. Absolute amazing service and great price!

10/10 for customer service

16 December 2021

In a time when customer service can be frustrating, infuriating or just nonexistent I was thrilled that a phone call was actually answered by a real human being! Not only that, but they were very helpful, very patient, very knowledgeable, polite and they went out of their way to help me. I changed my mind about the colour of the guitar so I called back. No problem, easily fixed (no sighing or impatience). On top of that my parcels arrived in Melbourne from Sydney 2 days later. They took the stress and hassle out of buying online. Thank you. So many businesses could take a leaf out of your book! Keep up the great service it really makes a difference!

Daniel. Geelong

10 December 2021

Swamp team. Legends. Before purchasing a small PA. I had so many questions. Johnny and the team were more than willing to help answer any questions. Subs, speakers, poles, speaker stands, lighting tree, rack units with other audio gear and im set. Cheers guys. Highly recommend this company and employee's Dan.

Can’t ask for better service

27 November 2021

Purchased power supply came doa contacted the team @ Swamp Best service ever had a new unit sent out the same day with return post paid for the old unit to be tested Quality Act Will purchase again Thanks guys Mark B

Musician Focus

28 October 2021

Whether it’s been instruments, cases, or recording gear the knowledgeable staff at Swamp have always ensured I received what I needed at a very reasonable price. A pleasure to do business with. Richard

Enhance nova U

24 October 2021

My Enya nova U had an issue with the electrics. I contacted Swamp who requested that I return the instrument and it was replaced with the new Enya pro tenor. I have nothing but praise for the company and it’s employees in the way they handled my query and happily recommend them. Thanks Swamp. I am now excitedly playing my new instrument.

Excellent Service

6 September 2021

I can thoroughly recommend doing business with Swamp Industries. Recently ordered a Cymbal stand which arrived promptly but there was a fault with one of the tubes. Contacted Swamp about issue and was put at ease with positive information on how to return the item and they would send out a replacement saspo. Replacement Stand arrived just a few days later . Completely satisfied with their friendly and prompt service.

Amp stand

21 August 2021

Great fantastic service. I purchased an amp stand from SWAMP and found it was faulty. I called them straight away and the matter was solved in a matter of minutes. They sent a new one out that day and didn't even want the faulty one back. Very professional company, great customer service. Would recommend SWAMP 100% Cheers Brandon

Great quality

29 July 2021

Ordered a Mandolin strap, great quality and does the job perfectly. Was the best price too!

Banjo soft case back pack

20 July 2021

What excellent service and quality and price, I ordered a banjo soft case so I could carry it on my back to busk and gigs, I ordered over the phone and bang it was on its way -quality amazing, over the moon with these guys great to do business with I highly recommend, Banjo Bob

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