While I think the guitar was a pretty decent addition, and sounds pretty close to the real thing, the trumpet is nearer to an electric kazoo, and the violin is just... bad. I don't think the player instruments have ever sounded great - the notes they produce are too staccato, with no ability to fade or crescendo. And, as a result, certain pieces of music were never going to sound particularly swift. But... man... the bands lately that use some of these newer instruments just sound terrible. And I think a large part of that has to do with how alien the noises coming from their instruments are. Why is the sound sampling used so... 8-bit? Or midi file? It doesn't provoke feelings of nostalgia... but rather makes my character run as fast as possible out of earshot.