G7th Performance 3 6 String Gold Plate Guitar Capo - Groundbreaking Tension Control & Adaptive Radius Technology - The Perfect Capo for Acoustic Guitar and Electric Guitar, UK Designed Excellence

Why did you choose this product over others?:Had one before.String hold:Excellent.Clamp strength:Up to the user.

I love this capo, it's superb in every respect, and typical of the inventiveness of designers in the UK, I highly recommend it to any guitarist. I own other top brands of capo, one of which can suddenly disengages while playing, and this baby will definitely not. Ease of use, peace of mind!!

Excellent piece of kit

Beautifully engineered & designed – in your hand, you just sense its sheer quality. A quick squeeze action, and it is doing its job. Easy release too. The problem with many spring/clamp, or screw pressure setting, capos, is that they tend to over clamp – by applying far too much pressure, they pull the strings back towards them, causing tuning issues. This brilliantly conceived capo has definitely engineered its way around this problem. HOWEVER, while this capo applies just the right pressure on an electric, I do not think it suitable for many (or even most) acoustic guitars, where its string stopping pressure is too weak. Its strength with electrics is its weakness with acoustics. Hence ⭐ ⭐⭐⭐s . Just my personal experience. (Although other comments on here refer to the G7th Performance 3 applying insufficient pressure on their acoustics.)

Works well albeit expensive

If you don't want to read my narrative below, I'll start with a summary:-Pros:-i) Keeps guitar in tune better when in use than most of the others I have;ii) Sturdy build;iii) Unobtrusive and compact - gets less in the way of your fingers when using the lowest fret nearest the capo;iv) Minimal string rattle and maintains a reasonable tone, again in contrast to some capos I have;v) Doesn't seem to damage the finish on the guitar;vi) Very easy to use - just squeeze to put it on and use the release catch to remove.Cons:-i) Far more expensive than any other capo I've bought!ii) Can't be operated with one hand.#iii) Probably pretty easy to lose!I've owned many types of capo over the years. I've never been a huge fan of using them and would generally prefer to learn a song in a different key so it could be played without the capo and thus keep the bass notes as low as possible.This has not been much of an option for me lately, as I've been performing songs at a local pub and forced out of my comfort zone by having to sing the songs I'm playing, myself! I haven't had much time in between appearances and therefore found it useful to just use a capo so I can sing the song in question and make it manageable in my limited vocal range (when in the past I've been lucky enough to have proper vocalists to accompany and just played in the original keys). It has saved me having to re-learn songs in another key. I am not a good enough guitarist to just change keys on the fly.Until recently, I didn't realise that all capos are essentially not made equal! I know that it's often helpful to tune your guitar with the capo on rather than off, but didn't realise that some, like this one, are better at keeping everything in tune.It is very easy to put on and remove.It doesn't get in the way of certain chord shapes played at the nut-end of the neck as much as other capos I have. My Shubb is also very compact and similarly unobtrusive. I have a number of trigger capos and some of them can get in the way.This was considerably more expensive than the capos I've bought in the past, but as I've been regularly playing and singing of late, I thought it was worth splurging for the improved tone, minimal string rattle and maintaining as much accuracy of tuning as possible.Recommended if you're willing to part with the cash!

First one that arrived was damaged so I thought this capo was going to be all hype and advertising .. I returned it and got a new one arriving the next day, so I had a negative mind expecting it to not work as I play a resonator with a fairy high action .. it took me a few goes to get used to it, you simply press the capo down onto your strings and it locks itself .. it works a treat .. you just press and it holds, I’m really pleased with it, and you just press the lever to unlock .. someone said you need 2 hands to operate it, you don’t .. it’s easy with one hand as all your doing is pressing it onto your stringsI well recommend this capo, worth every penny and looks cool, and doesn’t get in the way

I thought this capo might be my "one size fits all" piece of kit but that wasn't the case. It's absolutely fine on my Telecaster - no issues at all. On my Yamaha FGX5 acoustic guitar however I'm getting string buzz on the 3rd and 4th strings, and when I apply enough pressure to eliminate that, it's causing the 6th string to go out of tune. I'm getting better results from my Shubb capo so I'm just going to stick with that and I have returned this item for a refund. On the plus side, it looks good, it's easy to apply/release with one hand, it quite discreet (doesn't get in the way) and it's great on my electric guitars. Unfortunately I'm a gigging acoustic player so I won't really be able to get the use out of it that I would want. It gets some great reviews from other people using acoustics so maybe I just got a faulty one?