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Your cart is empty.Adding a must-have guitar to the Dirty 30's line, the Series 7 is an acoustic Single 0 with a sound that can't be believed for the cost. Chalk it up to our super clean Cross Lap bracing and top quality materials, the Series 7 packs a punch. The spruce top is striking beneath the Tobacco Sunburst finish, framed by vintage-style checkerboard binding. The bound sound hole and Harmon Ella stencil fretboard markers are both functional and stylistic. Both the Tobacco Sunburst and Matte Black models include bone nuts and saddles and ivory-button tuning machines. Whether headed out on the road or matching the vibe of an intimate session, the Series 7 is sure to be a go-to-guitar.
The Universal Won
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2024
Beautiful, sounds great but multiple problems may cost more to fix than cost of instrument. All fret ends razor sharp. Action way too high at bridge, Strings catch needs bridge and saddle work. Keeping it tuned to D instead of E until can find setup person. Does sound and look great but tough to play. No cutaway, 12 frets to body instead of 14. If can do setup yourself fine, but don't use truss rod, almost all problems will be in frets, fingerboard, tuners, saddle, bridge etc. I ruined my favorite guitar by trying to adjust neck with truss rod, and it broke the neck. R.I.P. 1979 Washburn Monterey
Bryan
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2023
This guitar was obviously damaged. It had neck repair done, and it was glued. It smelled like glue, and it plays like crap.
Michael Joly
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2022
I've been on a search for the best value, short scale, 12-fret parlor guitars. My two main criteria––are the bridge and saddle positioned properly so that the guitar's intonation is accurate at the 12th fret? How is the fret finish. The particular example of the Recording King Dirty 30 Parlor guitar has issues with both intonation and fret finish.Intonation: The bridge appears to be glued down too far back from the headstock. This makes the string length too long at the 12th fret, and yep, the guitar is flat, on all strings, by about 8 cents (average, varies from 6-10 cents flat). This could be corrected by taking a Dremel tool, file or X-Acto knife and open the saddle slot at the front side, moving the bridge forward, and putting a shim on the back side. But slot at the high E end is already pretty close to the forward edge of saddle and there's not much saddle material left to remove. The plastic saddle is already is molded with "string forward" position, so replacing the plastic saddle won't shorten the string length. So this guitar will going to play 6-10 cents flat without a lot of work.Frets––some of the sharpest fret ends I've ever encountered and a "gritty" lack of polish feel. This is fairly typical of guitars in this price range and I usually do a full fret level (Stew Mac I-beam tool), crown, polish to get the frets to feel like a professional instrument. This instrument would be no exception––there are 5 or 6 frets below the 12th fret that are high when checked with the Stew Mac "3 fret" gauge. These could be individually filed down but if I'm gonna do 6 frets I'd rather do all of them and do the job right.Nut––Was cut perfectly! A surprise.Summary? Not playable, for me anyway, out of the box and needs a lot of work. This is probably going back. I'm waiting on an Ibanez Open Pore 12-fret parlor guitar, it will be interesting to compare the intonation and frets of this Recording King to the Ibanez.Btw, the way I have a Gretsch Jim Dandy that I love, but it too needed a full fret level, crown and polish. Lovely player with D'Addario Silk and Steel 11-47 strings.
German Risco
Reviewed in Mexico on October 31, 2021
Preciosa guitarra y precioso sonido, sí suena mejor en acordes abierto y es perfecta y práctica para llevarla a cualquier lado.Todo el mundo habla bien de su estética
Jim, the Roofer
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2021
This is my 2nd purchase of a Recording King 0 parlor guitar. The QA was pretty bad on this one; 10th fret was way high, all frets had sharp ends & the action was too low. It took about an hour and a half to correct the 10th fret, adjust the truss rod and dress frets. This is stuff that should have been checked at the factory before shipping. Still a great sounding little blues box at a great price once it's squared away. But if you don't do your own guitar work, you may need to pay another hundred or so to get there.
mandy willis
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2020
I could not expect a better service. The staff were extremely helpful & went over & above the call for me. Really pleased with the product. This would be my only port of call for any other musical instruments & products in the future. Fantastic. Product Fantastic service. Well done.
Brian Chaplin
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2019
This is a great guitar for the money has a nice clean tone. This is made in the tradition of the 60s silvertones and Honer guitars. I play a lot of old time country music. And the sound is just what I'm looking for. If you play tRock or pop or newer country get yourself a Martin or Taylor. But for what I want its perfect. Like anything else right tool for the job.
Dringmann Gitarre
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2019
The Recording King 6 String RPS-7-TS Dirty 30's series 7 single 0 Acoustic Guitar Tobacco Sunburst : This guitar is excellent purchase for the money, This is a parlor size guitar with big sound , frets are great, tuners good, nice bridge, out of the box ready to play. Don't let the price make you think this is a poorly made instrument it is very well made. I play a lot of guitars and this is one of my favorites.
Chris
Reviewed in Mexico on July 29, 2019
Muy buena guitarra, solo cambie las cuerdas y suena muy bien
neal brettle
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 18, 2019
Nice sounding guitar
Running Carrot
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2019
the frets pop out easily and on there own. I've had mine 2 months and trying to figure out warranty nfo now and I'm kind of wishing I bought it from Guitar Center so I could just take it over to them today. i want it fixed because its very awsome. sounds great, easy to press strings down, looks cool, good size since I'm moving up, or on, from ukulele. So Im going all 5's except for craftmanship which is a 3.
John A
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2019
Guitar looks great, it plays just okay, it needs a setup out of the box. Strings do not look bad, stays in tune fairly well. It just sounds kind of cheap, not thin sounding, but basically cheap, almost like a toy in a way.It's not a toy, but I expected it to sound better.
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