Buying Mistakes
Everything published on Viyolens under Buying Mistakes — reviews, buying advice and how-tos written for players and producers in the UK.
Common Evh Mistakes to Avoid
The mistakes that trip people up most often around EVH guitars, from hardware assumptions to tremolo setup order.
Common Dj Headphones Mistakes to Avoid
The same handful of avoidable mistakes account for most bad DJ headphones purchases. Here's what to watch for before you spend.
Common Ibanez Guitars Mistakes to Avoid
Buying the wrong Ibanez costs money or months of frustrated playing. Here are the mistakes people make and how to avoid them.
Common Audio Technica Headphones Mistakes to Avoid
The mistakes that trip people up most often when buying or using Audio-Technica headphones — and how to sidestep every one of them.
Common Ibanez Jem Mistakes to Avoid
The same handful of avoidable mistakes trip up Ibanez JEM owners again and again. Here's how to sidestep every one of them.
Common Tanglewood Mistakes to Avoid
The recurring, easily avoidable mistakes buyers make with Tanglewood guitars, laid out plainly.
Common Martin and Taylor Mistakes to Avoid
The same handful of avoidable mistakes catch out buyers choosing between Martin and Taylor. Here's what to check before you commit.
Common Bass Direct Warwick Mistakes to Avoid
Charlotte rounds up the Bass Direct Warwick mistakes she's watched buyers make again and again, and exactly how to avoid each one.
Common Gibson Sj 200 Guitar Mistakes to Avoid
From skipping the plugged-in test to bad storage habits — here are the avoidable mistakes that trip up Gibson SJ-200 owners most.
Common Yamaha Guitar Company Mistakes to Avoid
Most Yamaha buyer's regret isn't about the instruments — it's about avoidable decisions made before or after the purchase. Here's what to watch for.
Common Allen and Heath Mixer Mistakes to Avoid
None of these are about the gear being bad — they're all avoidable, and most cost people money or a bad night on stage for no good reason.
Common Left Handed Acoustic Guitars Mistakes to Avoid
The same handful of avoidable mistakes trip up left-handed acoustic guitar buyers again and again. Here's how to sidestep every one.
Common Steel Pedal Mistakes to Avoid
Because a steel pedal guitar is mechanically unlike anything else, it creates its own specific pitfalls. Here are the ones I see most often.
Common Epiphone Les Paul Mistakes to Avoid
Most frustration with these guitars traces back to a handful of avoidable errors. Here's what to watch for and how to fix each one.
Common Childrens Electronic Drum Kit Mistakes to Avoid
Seven avoidable errors that turn a promising children's electronic drum kit into a disappointment, and the quick fix for each one.
Common Fender Mistakes to Avoid
It's almost never the guitar's fault. Here are the specific, avoidable mistakes that actually trip up Fender buyers and owners.
Common Gibson Hummingbird Mistakes to Avoid
I love this guitar, genuinely — but that doesn't mean pretending people don't get caught out buying and owning one. Here's where it actually happens.
Common Evh Guitar Mistakes to Avoid
I once watched someone walk out of a shop over a five-minute misunderstanding with a locking nut. Here's where people actually trip up, and how to avoid it.
Common Cort Guitar Company Mistakes to Avoid
None of these mistakes are about Cort making bad guitars - they're about the assumptions buyers bring that the brand never actually made.
Common Akai Mpc Mistakes to Avoid
Plenty of people buy an Akai MPC full of enthusiasm and fall into the same avoidable mistakes. Here's what trips people up most, and how to dodge it.
Common Schecter Mistakes to Avoid
None of these mistakes are stupid on their own — they just come from chasing the wrong detail first. Here's every common Schecter buying mistake, and how to sidestep it.
Common Dean Guitar Company Mistakes to Avoid
The shapes are so striking that people stop thinking about anything else. Here are the mistakes I see most often, and how to avoid them.
Common Tanglewood Guitars Mistakes to Avoid
Most regrets after buying an acoustic trace back to one of these seven avoidable mistakes.
Common Dean Ml Guitar Mistakes to Avoid
The V shape and locking hardware create specific ways to get a Dean ML guitar wrong. Here are the mistakes I see most often, and how to sidestep them.
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