Thursday, April 21, 2011

Aria

Aria guitars are now available at Davis GMC. I know what you are thinking- oh... it's that second fiddle brand of the '80s you'd love to hate after buying your preferred brand name guitar. I played the XL Standard (above) yesterday & it's a very decent player for less than $200...

The Retro Classic fared as well, sporting a sub-$200 price tag like its XL Standard sibling, above. If you are on a strict budget, the Aria offerings should be considered.

17 comments:

naz said...

I love the looks on the retro classic. Weird shapes, i like. Those pickups are p90s right? Also like...

Did you give it a try too, bro? Wonder how's the balance when played sitting down?

Kerry Frost said...

Any Aria's equipped with double locking trem? floyd/kahler?

Anonymous said...

George Lynch played a couple of Aria Pro's in the early 80's, so did a couple of other working pro's. I played an all original ProII in a pawn shop once and it was pretty nice, kahler whammy, big frets, hot pickups, nice. My 2 cents.

subversion.sg said...

bro naz: yup, tried the retro classic- very good for the money. great balance all round :-)

bro Frost: yes there is- XL Deluxe & it's not even $300...

naz said...

i will surely get down and give it a try...

Anonymous said...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20197169@N00/377002287/

The retro classic is so Morisite. Definitely worth getting.

Somehow, many good items appeared in Davis recently.

Anonymous said...

That's it, I'm getting one of those today!!

subversion.sg said...

maybe i'll bump into you @ Davis later? :-D

reuel said...

the last aria i tried was so bad i swore it would be my 1st and last aria.

subversion.sg said...

+1 to the former gen of ARIAs. i encountered one with a super-warped neck & i suspect there's no truss rod in there despite the slot at the neck- yikes!!

naz said...

so to say, these are the newer version of aria?

Anonymous said...

Hey there Sub! I went down and picked up the delicious looking red DM-380 already, sent it straight to Mike for Tesla P90s, Pyramid strings and a proper setup. Just got home and admiring the colour. As usual, thanks for the heads-up! Hehe!

subversion.sg said...

bro naz: yes, these are the much improved ARIAs...

Anon- you are not the only one who bought an Aria today :-)

faiz said...
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faiz said...

how was aria DM380? can it sustain longer when playing with distortion or clean? can it return the original tune after using tremolo quite a while?

faiz said...

Is Aria Guitar model DM-01 available at Singapore?

subversion.sg said...

Not in stock in the mean time...