Jackson Solid Body Electric Guitars

I bought this guitar from good vibrations. i needed an agressive to satisfy the metal-head in me guitar and i hated my Epiphone les paul gothic. I got this guitar 2nd hand for $1500. I own an Ibanez s series and it is mellow. mellow looking, mellow tone. this guitar is the polar opposite. it looks like the spawn of satan and has a sound to match. the floyd rose tremolo unit is great, and the low action is perfect for spewing death metal riffs. it has screaming highs and growling lows (thanks to the EMG pickups its loaded with) and pinch harmonics are a dream to execute. Never ever attempt to play mellow music on this guitar. its would be like getting satan to go to church. un-distorted, the sound is just above average. distorted however, it excells. There is no pickguard, so if you arent careful you may scratch the paint. the black colour shows fingerprints easily. aside from this the guitar is so sturdy you could knock an elephant out with it. Bottom line, this is the perfect metal guitar. divebombs, tapping, palm muting. the guitar practically does them for you. If you are a die hard fixed bridge fan, get a gibson, otherwise, this is all you really need. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

I got this Guitar at my local Guitar Center. I traded in an old squier and LP knock-off towards it. With my trade in, I got $200 off the $499 price tag. I loved the look, and couldn't resist after playing it. First off, the look! It has a blue transparent finished flamed maple top. It also is explorer esque, but with a meaner look. Plus, the pickups are great, compared to other stock pickups I've heard. I'm not a really big fan of floyd roses, so that was a little turn off. Plus, after I got it home, the tuners didn't work that great, but they work fine now. It's a little neck-heavy, too. that's about it. It seems over-all, pretty good quality. Nothing has fallen apart or anything. Just that liuttle problem with the tuners, but it seemed to fix itself. I love the guitar, thought about putting a four, but the only substantial problem with the guitar is that it's neck heavy, and that's not even that big of deal if you have control when holding it. Love the guitar! This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

I bought this guitar at a local pawnshop for $160 (after trading in my old First Act guitar). It has a metallic red finish and looks awesome! First off, as I noted, it looks really good. The fretboard is nice and smooth, and the guitar generally looks built to last. For metal guitarists, it has a very good metal tone (it sounds twice as mean as my First Act did with regular distortion!). There are only a couple of things I don't like about this guitar. My first problem is a very minor one that really doesn't effect the guitar itself too much. I just wish that the guitar had the standard, cool-looking Jackson inlays that most Jacksons have (unfortunately, it seems this guitar was made as a stripped-down Jackson). The other problem I have is that the pickups can sound muddy when you try to get a clean sound out of them, especially the top pickup. This may be due to my amp (which is a crappy First Act practice amp; hopefully I'll get a Behringer or a Line 6 amp so I can see what this Jackson's really made of), and it seems that adjusting the tone button helps somewhat. The guitar is well-constructed and great-looking as well. Only problem is with the pickups, as I said above. Hopefully different pickups or a different amp can help to fix that. Overall, this is a pretty good Jackson for a beginner guitarist who likes metal, and for the price you can't go wrong. This guitar has assured me of the quality of Jacksons and makes me hope that I will continue to play them in the future. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

I got this guitar in timmins at the music store there and i paid 475,00$ taxe in. THis guitar is awsome weither your playing blues, punk rock, heavy metal, this guitar sounds great when played any style of music. It also has the best colour in the world RED. Well, there isnt very much anything i dont like about this guitar exept if your playing with extra light stings they will tend to snap more than often so make you it as heavier stings on it. The paint on this guitar is down right awsome. I even dropped it and i picked it up with not even a scratch. Its very well made and has a great finish to it and has a sweet rock style to it. Well overall this guiar is great! its a great guitar at a great price i highly recomed you guys to look into this one. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

I bought this first hand in guitar village for 200 pounds, i bought it as my first electric guitar. i like this guitar because it is easy to play, and i think it is good value for the money i paid. the problem i found was that the cheap pickups gave LOADS of feedback when ever the gain was turned up above 1 or 2. Personally I think the quality of this product is good, considering the price paid. I dropped it and it didnt even go out of tune. i think this is a great guitar for someone buying their first guitar. It may not be the best thing for someone who goes out playing in gigs though. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

I got it from Ostenak's Music for $959.00 (including hardcase)Canadian. I bougbt it because I've been working off a squier for a long time and decided it was time for something different. This guitar overall is a blast. The shape is killer, the sound is pretty nice too. The slim neck is awesome to play on and the jumbo frets make plenty of playing room as opposed to some guitars I've played with no room at all. I do not the like the fact that it isn't a sitting down guitar, because a lot of the time I sit down to give lessons and such. Also the bridge is a bit confusing at first and takes a bit of work to keep it in proper working order. And lastly this is mainly a soloing guitar, if your a chord player I don't recommend this for you. Overall the guitar is built beautifully. The paint job is great, the neck is amazing to play on, everything just feels right with this guitar. there are no genral problems I had except with the bridge. If your a sit down guitarist, don't like soloing, and have never even heard of Rhoads don't bother spending the money.If you love to solo and are a loyalist to the great Randy Rhoads this is the guitar for you. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

Picked up this guitar at Haight Ashbury Music Center (their Sunnyvale, CA store) last week. Plays great. Good action and hardware, but what makes it different from my other guitars is that it comes from the factory with the "Sustainiac" active pickup at the neck. My new DK2S Plays great. Good action and hardware, and it comes from the factory with the "Sustainiac" pickup at then neck. This is a very cool gadget! Creates awesome controlled harmonics/feedback on demand. The only problem with mine is that it is defective and needs warranty work. When the sustain mode on the Sustainiac pickup is disengaged, what should be a clean sounding guitar tone sounds slightly overdriven and staticy. This is likely the preamp built into the curcuitboard. I guess the more technology a guitar has them more stuff there is to go wrong with it. I'm really looking forward to playing this thing really loud one its repaired. All in all very good construction, with the exception of the electronics defect. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

I was interested in a Guitar with a lot of bottem end but with balanced highs as well. By reccommendation I went to my local Martin dealer expecting to spend $ 1000.00+ to get what I was looking for. (especially Martin)....HOW WRONG! I played every Martin from the DM to JM to the D-35. Very much to my surprise, the DX-1 had more bottem end, a better balanced tone, longer sustain, a louder projection, and a better fret action feel. Try this.... Don't look at model numbers, price or the fancies at your martin dealer, just play the martin line. YOU WILL choose the DX-1 over the rest..PERIOD! The best part....$ 500.00 !!! I was interested in a Guitar with a lot of bottem end but with balanced highs as well. By reccommendation I went to my local Martin dealer expecting to spend $ 1000.00+ to get what I was looking for. (especially Martin)....HOW WRONG! I played every Martin from the DM to JM to the D-35. Very much to my surprise, the DX-1 had more bottem end, a better balanced tone, longer sustain, a louder projection, and a better fret action feel. Try this.... Don't look at model numbers, price or the fancies at your martin dealer, just play the martin line. YOU WILL choose the DX-1 over the rest..PERIOD! The best part....$ 500.00 !!! Honestly...........NONE!! It's a Martin!!! Any questions? Blind test this against the Martin line. Unless you just want to spend $ 2000.00 for fancy pearl inlays and decorations you can spend $ 500.00 for a better sound. After all, how many of us will ever get our picture taken, for the world to see, playing a guitar??? This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

In the middle of December 2003 my good old Ibanez RGR565 from 1994 retired from her heavy duty by spitting out the whole Floyd. Due to other damages she had suffered before, I decided to replace her and her RG550 sister. As I actually play in a doom-metal band, I thought the time was right to get some extreme shape. The first guitar that came across my way and met my taste was a B.C.Rich Beast NJ. Great Outfit ! But the U.S. Version is unaffordable for me an the NJ is nowadays made in Korea (in ancient times it was Japan). I tested it and it's nothing but firewood. No tuning possible, badly ballanced,and so on. REAL CRAP, GUYS ... Thinking back I remembered the Jackson Warrior I had seen once in a ROADSTAR-catalog(R.I.P.), checked the internet for actual models, and found the WRMG. The cheapest price I found for this babe was at jm-musikland in Erfurt, Germany. It was 690.- Euro I ordered the warrior on 30th december and finally got it on january 17th (f... amateurs, next time I better import it myself !) Great license Floyd by Jackson, always stays in tune and as it is a low profile it perfectly meets the feeling I'm used to from my former Ibanez LoPro-Edge, though the Jackson appears a bit worthier. The EMG_HZ Pickups are subject to a lot of discussions on the web, but I really like their clear sound. Could be a bit more agressive for my taste but they don't have to, cause my VoodooValve is able to make them sound like hell and has done the same with weaker pickups. The binding fits the neck perfectly, the strings were so low (without hitting the frets !) that I had to heighten them in order to make playing legato style, especially the pull-offs, more secure. Of course this is a question of taste. Last but not least the warrior features these incredible piranha inlays which are my favourite inlays from now on. Do I have to say more ? No, cause this is a true JACKSON, so never mind the "made in japan" sticker. It's packacking is to light. The guitar is in great danger of loosing her life before her virginity. The Guitar itself is just stunning and if there was something I disliked I wouldn't have bought it. Poor people who buy crap and after that post about it here. Just write: "I was not able to buy a good guitar because I was to stupid (or lazy) for research." (I must admit I have seen another WRMG with black forest colour and beeing held against the light the finish showed some small waves , but as that babe wasn't my one, who cares...) I have always been playing guitars in this price category. They have served me well and there have been some nice pieces amongst them: Gibson SG Standard, Gibson Explorer Reissue, Gibson Flying V '90 (all had to leave cause they had no Floyds), Jackson Dinky Rev. Japan, Ibanez RG565 and RG550 and some more... The Jackson WRMG Warrior clearly beats them all !!! I recently tested an USA made Warrior and the quality was not too different. Of course there was some sort of expensive and exclusive feeling to it but by far not enough for a price difference of 1000.- Euro. The playability is due to the eytreme x-shape not (as some could suspect) worse, but better than at the average strat body. One could easily reach a 28th fret if there was any. I should tell you guys to instantly sell your old lady and get this beauty, but as I dont't like the whole world running around with my guitar, I don't, hehe. Get another Jackson Model, it won't disappoint you. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

i tried it out today at a music ahop near me for about half an hour everything is great. The shape is nice looking and easy to use and its not top heavy like the gibson/epiphone flying vs. The pickups are smooth because its only 2 humbuckers. my ibanez s370 has 2 humbuckers and a single coil and i dnt need the single coil and i find it so easy to use playing a guitar with just 2 humbuckers. the neck is great and so is the tremelo system. Nothing. i read a review where someones bad points were all about the floyd rose and the fact it didnt have a tone knob. for the tone knob youve got one on your distortion pedal use that. for the floyd rose? it takes a long time to restring it yes but the advantages are vast. BRILLIANT tremelo arm system. You will barely ever have to tune it after youve restrung it so the strings stay at the same tightness so it takes about 4 months for me to break strings sometimes. It takes a long time to restring and tune but its worth it because it lasts a HELL of alot longer than a normal bridge. And yes its ont great for playing sitting down but then play standing up it keeps your practiose for concerts better. brilliant as long as youve got a good gig bag or hardcase (i reccomend the hardcase) Brilliant guitar need the money and im definately getting it This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

I recently picked up the DK2FF in Calgary AB for $860 CDN (I talked him down from $950 because it was boxing day), probably about $600 US. I had been planning on stepping up from my Epiphone Les Paul to a Gibson Studio but the Jackson really caught my eye. It has an awesome fire fingerboard inlay and jumbo frets that are really fast. For starters it looks great, the flame inlay is really unique. It's really fast, great for metal or punk, and the highly polished frets are really comfortable. The sound is pure, and the humbucker gives great sound on my Roland Cube-30. The floyd-rose is also alot easier to tune with than pegs, and it stays in tune well. Sounds amazing in all styles of music, but if you're playing metal then I would definately recommend a Jackson. The only available colour is black, though it's still a great looking guitar. Also, it doesn't come with the allen-key required to replace strings, which is very frustrating because its not a common size. Great quality finish, and it's very sturdy as well. The maple neck and alder body give great sound and feel really solid. This guitar is one of the best I've played especially for the price. If you're looking for a great sounding, original guitar, grab the FF model. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

Got this crazy axe from the local music shop for $995 Canadian Dollars. Mine is Cobalt Blue in finish. Go to www.jacksonguitars.com for complete specs. Super slim neck for all you shredders and players with smaller hands, low profile slick looking pirahnna inlays, pointy inverted headstock, tunomatic bridge, low action, not too heavy, nice natural rockwood maple neck, carved top alder body. The only thing i don't like, well, actually hate is the EMG-Hz passive pickups with the active 20db gain turbocharger. Absolute garbage, but maybe it's because i'm comparing it with my other guitar with an EMG-85 and 81 pickup combination. If you really care about sound (which you should since it is MUSIC that you're playing) then prepare to upgrade pickups. It seems pretty solid to me, i've only had it for a month so time will only tell. I'm very pleased with the construction of this axe as it has a style of it's own. Paritcularly the carved top and carved out grooves in the concave of the fin portions of the body, not to mention the back of the axe just underneath the area of the bolts for the neck. Don't worry about room in the back for a battery if you want to go with active pickups, it already has a space for one. Nicely made. Bottom line is: If this is your first guitar, it will do you just fine. You will have a nicer guitar than most entry level guitarists. If you're somewhat experienced, than you're probably looking for features other than the price tag. This guitar is very affordable and the best feature and the main reason why i made this purchase is because it has a super slim neck, i don't think it could get any thinner. This axe has great flavour and quality construction wise. Electronics is a different story. Plan on investing on better pickups if you know what you're doing. This review is complety subjective, I play metal so if you do too than i can tell you that the stock pups have no crunch, no bite, no output not to mention noisy. They do the job for rhythm and rock in general. I've read some reviews saying that these pickups are good for playing metallica, megadeth, pantera,etc. Simply not true. I would rate this a 5 based on construction but gave it a 4 since the review is for a stock unit as a whole (what you get outta the box). Hope this review is useful as most others for this make are completely misleading, and even still I had managed to make a fine buy. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com