The Best Electric Guitars of the LARRY brand

Let’s go with a selection of the most valued Electric guitars for this brand. This is a selection based on different parameters such as quality, sales leader and positive reviews.

Guitar Larry Carlton S7 3TS

This guitar usually has a price around 474.00 €

  • Body: Alder
  • Bolt-on neck: Roasted maple
  • Fretboard: Roasted Maple
  • Abalone Dots fretboard inlays
  • 22 Medium jumbo frets
  • Scale: 648 mm (25.5″)
  • Fretboard radius: 241 mm (9.5″)
  • Nut width: 42 mm (1.65″)
  • Bone nut
  • Pickups: 1 S7 humbucker (bridge) and 2 S7 single coils (middle and neck)
  • 1 x Volume and 1 x tone control
  • 5-Way switch
  • White pearl pickguard
  • S7 2-post tremolo with steel block and stainless saddle
  • Sire Premium Locking machine heads
  • Chrome hardware
  • Colour: 3-Tone Sunburst

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Sire Larry Carlton S7 FM - Sound Demo (no talking)

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My most beloved guitar so far. I’m owning it for almost half a year now so guess I edit my review once again and add more details since I re-assembled my guitar from scratch not long ago.

Body and finish:
First of all this is very beautiful guitar. Well done sunburst finish, no cracks, scuffs, cavities, noticeable filler etc. Pearloid pickguard fits in just right.
Neck pocket is done extremely precise and all sides are very well fit. Neck fits in tight and there’s no gaps anywhere and absolutley no wobble.

Neck:
It’s a killer. Exceptional craft quality. Frets are all even, nicely rounded and well polished. Satin neck finish and laquer fretboard all together feels very smooth and high end. This neck alone make you feel like guitar is twice the price. You gonna love it.

Hardware:
Tuners perform very good, tuning stability is not an issue at all.
Bridge overall seem to be a high quality piece but with minor issue.
What I’m concerned by is tremolo bar (arm, handle). I absolutely hate if tremolo bar wobbles in slot even a little bit. With classic strat tremolo with threaded bar you can avoid it by using a drop of thread-locker. This one is my first tremolo with inserting bar and it wobbles just a little but just enough to annoy me. What I come up with is applying layer of self-adhesive foil tape over a bar part which goes into slot. It helps a little but doesn’t eliminate wobbling completely. Using setting screw doesn’t help much because this screw is located perpendicular to strings and doesn’t fix bar in direction that you’re actually using it. Noticeable drawback for me since it makes tremolo system feel very sloppy to light touches. I’ll sure find the way to resolve this but I guess it’s better to be done the right way from factory.

Electronics:
Electronics cavity is shielded with graphit paint. Pickguard is shielded with a small piece of aluminium foil. Pickups are not branded, middle and neck seem to be identical. Resistanse for switch positions from bridge to neck: 8.2 – 2.7 – 6.3 – 3.2 – 6.3 kOhms. In second position it splits humbacker and pair it with middle pickup. Potentiometers are branded as Alpha if that’s even matter. They used "vintage" not shielded cables under pickguard and shielded jack cable since jack cavity is not shielded itself. Jack cable is long enough for you to unscrew pickguard and flip it over (some manufacturers make them too short so you can’t do this without unsoldering things).
They probably saved on some electronics components but those perform just fine, wiring and soldering done carefull and secure.

Also addressing electronics, many people complain that volume knob taper on Sire guitars is different from some other guitars and they find it weird and confusing, some even see it as issue. This is probably because of their treble bleed circuit. You can remove it without any soldering tools by just cutting off some resistors/capacitors with pliers. On YT there’s guy Johnnathancordy coverting this in one of his videos. I myself fine with what they did there.

Guitar came in tuned and needed only slightest adjustments after long road delivery. Strings action and neck relief were up to my likings so I left them as is. Guitar was pretty much ready to play out of the box.

Comment:

The volume pot has a very, very odd taper on it; when you’re using the humbucker on distorted sounds, there’s very little difference in output between volume 1-2 and volume 9-10; the guitar won’t clean up as you lower the volume pot.

I dare say you could sort this by fitting a different volume pot, but, it’s a lot of effort to go to to fix something that shouldn’t be there in the first instance.

Well-made guitar, with great features, but this one issue was enough for me to return the guitar.

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Guitar Larry Carlton L7 GT

This guitar usually has a price around 459.00 €

  • SC-Style
  • Body: Mahogany
  • Top: Maple with flamed maple veneer
  • Neck: Mahogany
  • Fretboard: Ebony
  • Neck type: Set-in
  • Neck profile: C
  • Fretboard inlays: Trapezoid
  • 22 Medium jumbo frets
  • Nut: Bone
  • Nut width: 43 mm (1.71″)
  • Scale: 627 mm (24.7″)
  • Fretboard radius: 305 mm (12″)
  • Pickguard: Ivory
  • Binding: Ivory
  • Pickup: Alnico 5 humbucker with chrome cover (bridge), Alnico 5 humbucker with chrome cover (neck)
  • 2 Volume controls, 2 tone controls
  • Switch: 3-Way toggle
  • Bridge: TOM style with aluminium stop tailpiece
  • Hardware surface: Chrome
  • Sire Premium Locking machine heads
  • Colour: Gold Top

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SIRE Larry Carlton L7 GT

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I purchased this guitar with quite high expectations as I had previously purchased a Harley Benton sc550 with emg pickups in tobacco sunburst which I am very happy with indeed.
To be honest I am very picky when it comes to fit and finish of all my guitars and if I’m not happy I’ll either send a guitar back or move it on.
This Larry Carlson single cut is one of the most well put together instruments I have ever owned. From the binding to the beautiful deep gold top it is a complete stunner. The neck is a pleasure to have in the hands having rolled edges and flawless fretwork with not the slightest roughness at all, the rear being Matt finished enabling swift movement around the fretboard. It was obvious to me from opening up the packaging that it was a premium instrument. I love the headstock too, a lot of headstocks on these type of guitars look awkward to say the least but not here, it looks in keeping and stylishly finishes off the classy looks of this instrument. Action was a little high ( not unusual for shipped instruments of this type) but that was easily adjusted down to my liking via the bridge adjustment.
The ebony fretboard is smooth and feels nice to the touch.
Sounds are typical for this type of guitar and are of the classic rock genre going through to jazz and clean Lp tones to delight any guitar player. The design of the heel of this instrument makes for easy access to the upper frets an improvement from the original LP.
To finish I am delighted with this offering from sire. What more can I say for 500.00 gdp delivered, this guitar completes with instruments three times its price and in a lot of ways surpasses them. Weight is 7lb 11 oz which is quite lightweight which was just what I had hoped for. Just brilliant. It seems to me that Indonesia are producing instruments now that equal the quality of the Japanese manufacturers which is quite surprising. Service from Thomann was very good indeed, Thankyou Thomann.

Comment:

Guitar arrived not long ago so it’s mostly my first thoughts on it.

Finish comes with some minor blemishes here and there. You can find them mostly along binding, small masking/painting issues and things like that. But those are fairly pictured on photos provided by Thomann so if you look carefully you’d know what to expect, it’s nothing too scary.

Neck joint and satin neck finish. Those two things totally got me. It’s firendly and comfortable, nothing gets in the way closer to higher frets and satin finish is smooth and pleasant. I preferred these features over anything else that Epiphone provide for the price.

Humbackers here are quite transparent. I still prefer my S7 stratocaster for clean sound but L7 holds very well too. On other hand those humbackers are quite nice on crunchy end.

Overall this guitar didn’t hit as high as S7 did for me but I feel satisfied with it. I’d personally say that Sire could achieve better quality if they get rid of binding around fretboard because it’s their weakest spot here. But I guess it’s something that people look into Les Pauls and that’s why they gone for it, it’s understandable.

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Guitar Larry Carlton S7FM TBK

This guitar usually has a price around 515.00 €

  • Body: Alder
  • Top: Flamed maple
  • Bolt-on neck: Roasted maple
  • Fretboard: Roasted maple
  • Abalone Dots fretboard inlays
  • 22 Medium jumbo frets
  • Scale length: 648 mm (25.5″)
  • Fretboard radius: 241 mm (9.5″)
  • Nut width: 42 mm (1.65″)
  • Bone nut
  • Pickups: 1 S7 humbucker (bridge) and 2 S7 single coils (middle and neck)
  • 1 x Volume and 1 x tone control
  • 5-Way switch
  • Ivory Pearl pickguard
  • S7 2-Post Tremolo with Steel Block and Stainless Saddle
  • Sire Premium Locking machine heads
  • Chrome hardware
  • Colour: Transparent Black Burst

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Sire Larry Carlton S7 FM - Sound Demo (no talking)

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I bought this guitar after seeing a lot of good reviews online and I thought of giving smaller new companies a chances, as at first I was decided on the Nick Johnston HSS, but since that wasn’t in stock, I ordered this guitar. When it arrived, I noticed the 16th fret was higher than the other, which obviously resulted a lot of dead notes. I returned the instrument and got a new one which has some weird stains under the lacquer layer on the fretboard. I mean, I know it’s not a Fender Custom Shop Master Built guitar, but it’s also not a 200$ guitar. I was expecting more care when it comes to QC. I also own a Sire V3 Marcus Miller V3 and that instrument is flawless. Needless to say I am trying to get my money back from Thomann, return the replacement guitar and get another brand.

Aside from the QC issues, everything looks and sounds good. The pickups are decent, the pots aren’t noisy, the tuners hold really well and everything feels pleasant. If they fix their QC, it’s undoubtedly a very good mid priced superstrat.

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Ive been looking for a strat for a while about three years lol ive had american and mexican ive had custom shops i have also had so many super strats i have lost count and i never keep them EVER lol. So i caught a promo for these on a well known you tube channel so i pulled the trigger on this i unpacked it with the usual feeling of "i hope this one works" i have to admit it looked beaut the finish on the neck was custom shop material the finish on the body is okay but this neck is a beautiful thing the locking tuners work really well and to my surprise it stayed in tune even after some serious shredding and diving lol i am lucky enough that i can try almost every guitar that hits the market. The pickups are a bit bright for my taste but for £550 (mexican strat money) i can afford to swap them out i have found my EXCALIBUR I honestly cant believe it and i dont think anyone who buys this wont believe just how amazing this looks and feels it feels like an old familiar friend BUY ONE johnm

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Guitar Larry Carlton L7 TBL

This guitar usually has a price around 459.00 €

  • Body: Mahogany
  • Top: Maple with flamed maple veneer
  • Set-in neck: Mahogany
  • Fretboard: Ebony
  • Fretboard inlays: Trapezoids
  • Neck profile: C
  • Scale: 627 mm (24.7″)
  • Fretboard radius: 305 mm (12″)
  • Nut width: 43 mm (1.71″)
  • Bone nut
  • 22 Medium jumbo frets
  • Pickup: 2 AlNiCo 5 humbuckers with chrome cover (bridge and neck)
  • 2 Volume controls and 2 tone controls
  • 3-Way toggle switch
  • Ivory pickguard
  • Ivory binding
  • TOM style bridge with aluminium stop tail piece
  • Sire Premium Locking machine heads
  • Chrome hardware
  • Colour: Transparent Blue Burst

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Sire Larry Carlton L7 TS - Sound Demo (no talking)

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I’m an enthusiastic amateur who plays mainly at home. My other main electric guitar is an American Stratocaster and I was looking to widen my range without breaking the bank. Following a bit of research it looked like it was going to be either an Epiphone or the Larry Carlton and although I’ve only owned it a short time, all the signs are I have made a good decision.
Firstly, it is thing of beauty and if it didn’t make some nice sounds it would probably be worth the purchase price as an ornament alone. The finish is absolutely top notch with a perfect blue green flamed maple top blending in a complementary fashion with the stained timber back and neck. It really looks good.
It’s quite a heavy guitar but not excessively so as its what you would expect with mahogany and the reward is how it resonates so beautifully. Indeed it makes an impressive sound without an amp. The neck is absolute perfection, slim with a satin finish and the ebony board has an easy action and looks great. The frets are the best I have ever encountered.
After the guitar was tuned for the first time, it stayed in tune with very little adjustment required. I presume this is partly down to the locking tuners which look good and work well.
I’m still trying to work out how to get the best out of the pickups and whilst they are both very good and even exceptional for the price of the instrument they are not quite up to the standard of my strat which lets not forget would cost about three times the price. Whatever the case, it’s easy to make a nice sound particularly employing the neck and middle position.
So there you have it. It has a relatively short scale which suits me because I’m not exactly a giant. When you consider the package as a whole, the spec and quality of finish, it is genuinely mind boggling how the manufacturer can do it and still make a profit. So well done them. I suspect as word gets around they may well start to sell pretty quickly and so they should.

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Guitar Larry Carlton L7 TS

This guitar usually has a price around 459.00 €

  • Body: Mahogany
  • Top: Maple with flamed maple veneer
  • Set-in neck: Mahogany
  • Fretboard: Ebony
  • Fretboard inlays: Trapezoids
  • Neck profile: C
  • Scale: 627 mm (24.7″)
  • Fretboard radius: 305 mm (12″)
  • Nut width: 43 mm (1.71″)
  • Bone nut
  • 22 Medium jumbo frets
  • Pickup: 2 Alnico 5 humbuckers with chrome cover (bridge and neck)
  • 2 Volume controls and 2 tone controls
  • 3-Way toggle switch
  • Ivory pickguard
  • Ivory binding
  • TOM style bridge with aluminium stop tail piece
  • Sire Premium Locking machine heads
  • Chrome hardware
  • Colour: Tobacco Sunburst

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Sire Larry Carlton L7 TS - Sound Demo (no talking)

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Great sound for a nice price, however, the guitar came with a lot of scratches and after less than a month the cream binding and paint are chipping away. I have also asked Thomann to round the frets and they did a wonderful job rounding them but they never cleaned it after and all the extra stuff is not stuck to the binding and won’t come off, honestly disappointing.

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Guitar Larry Carlton T7 FM TBL

This guitar usually has a price around 499.00 €

  • Body: Alder with flamed maple veneer
  • Neck: Roasted maple
  • Fretboard: Roasted maple
  • Neck attachment: Bolt-on
  • Neck profile: C-shape
  • Inlays: Abalone Dots
  • 22 Medium jumbo frets
  • Nut: Bone
  • Nut width: 42 mm (1.65″)
  • Scale length: 648 mm (25.5″)
  • Fretboard radius: 241 mm (9.5″)
  • Pickups: T7 humbucker (bridge), T7 humbucker (neck)
  • Controls: Volume, Tone
  • Switch: 5-Way
  • Bridge: T7 2-post tremolo (Steel Block and Stainless Steel Saddles)
  • Hardware surface: Chrome
  • Machine heads: Sire Premium Locking Tuners
  • Colour: Transparent blue

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Guitar Larry Carlton S7FM TBL

This guitar usually has a price around 515.00 €

  • Body: Alder
  • Top: Flamed maple
  • Bolt-on neck: Roasted maple
  • Fretboard: Roasted maple
  • Abalone Dots fretboard inlays
  • 22 Medium jumbo frets
  • Scale length: 648 mm (25.5″)
  • Fretboard radius: 241 mm (9.5″)
  • Nut width: 42 mm (1.65″)
  • Bone nut
  • Pickups: 1 x S7 humbucker (bridge) and 2 x S7 single coils (middle and neck)
  • 1 x Volume and 1 x tone control
  • 5-Way switch
  • Ivory Pearl pickguard
  • S7 2-Post Tremolo with Steel Block and Stainless Saddle
  • Sire Premium Locking machine heads
  • Chrome hardware
  • Colour: Transluscent Blue

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Sire Larry Carlton S7 FM - Sound Demo (no talking)

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