All user reviews of 4/5 for the Jackson DK2M Dinky

The Jackson Dinky DK2M is a great mid level superstrat guitar that is designed to offer an exellent shred guitar with the signature Jackson playability at a price that won't break the bank like some of the higher end models might. It features an alder body, a maple neck and fretboard with 24 frets, black hardware, a Floyd Rose licensed locking tremolo, a pair of Seymour Duncan humbuckers (Jazz and JB) and a simple volume/tone/pickup switch layout. This guitar is not one of the super cheap Jackson JS models made in India or China, but rather is one of the nicer midline models that's made in Japan, so you're getting a good guitar for the cash.

UTILIZATION

The design of this guitar is pretty ergonomic overall. The body has that nice superstrat shape and the whole guitar is reasonably light too. The neck has a great fast feel and the thin profile is perfect for shredding on. The upper fret access is great on these guitars as the neck joint has been modified from the typical Fender design to facilitate access to the top frets.

Getting a nice sound out of this guitar is pretty simple overall, which is helped by the good quality wood and the Seymour Duncan pickups, which are almost the same as the ones used in the USA Select Series guitars. The tones are quite good for lead work and can even sound good for rhythms as well.

SOUNDS

The tones out of this guitar are pretty good overall. It's definitely designed to sound best for brighter shred work, but when used for things like cleans or lower gain tones, it doesn't sound too too bad. I don't find it has the sparkle of a Fender or similar, so the cleans are more of a modern processed kind of sound rather than an organic type of clean. The distorted tones are very bright and clear sounding. This is ideal for all kinds of lead playing from sweep arpeggios using the neck pickup and fast alternate picking or tapping using the bridge pickup. It sounds cool for rhythm work too, as the pickups have a certain tightness that works reasonably well for rock or metal chord work.

OVERALL OPINION

All in all I think the Jackson DK2M is a great buy for anyone looking for a reasonably priced entry into the superstrat world that has the looks, feel and tone of some much higher priced instruments. It comes in at about $600 new which is great because of the quality that is put into this. If you're looking for a guitar that combines flashy Jackson looks with a feel perfect for shredding topped off with great tones from the Duncan pickups, give the Jackson DK2M a look, it is set to shred!

Jackson has been in a bit of a slump the past few years after Fender bought them out, but the newer experimental models they're releasing are pretty cool. This guitar has the following specs:

Alder body with flamed maple veneer
Bolt-on maple neck
Binding
12"-16" Compound radius
24 jumbo frets
Black sharkfin position inlays
Two humbuckers
3 way switch
Master volume, master tone
Jackson licensed floyd rose

UTILIZATION

The guitar is put together fairly decently. I noticed that the edges of the frets aren't quite as beveled as the upper models tend to be, and that's fairly common on these kinds of models. The binding is done nicely, and I didn't notice any issues regarding that. However, the biggest issue I have with this guitar is that the floyd rose that they put on this is pure trash. It's one of those really cheap pot metal ones. Over time, it won't hold like the real deal will, so I recommend replacing it with an original if you're going to keep this guitar. The Gotoh is a nice alternative as well. You'll not only get a stability benefit, but you'll also get a nice tonal benefit as I honestly feel the original floyds sound better than some of these cheaper licensed ones.

SOUNDS

The guitar has real Seymour Duncan pickups installed in it, and it really helps make it stand out compared to some of the other lower models in the Jackson line up. The JB in the bridge is a very love or hate pickup, but it's been the staple of high output pickups for the past 30+ years. It has a bitey treble and somewhat loose low end, but it lends itself to being a great "jack of all trades" pickup. It can do everything from blues to death metal. The Jazz in the neck is pretty interesting, but I find that it can be a bit bright and "clean" sounding for leads. It works nice for cleans, but under gain, it's somewhat synthetic sounding. I find that these work best in guitars like Gibsons or something with a big slab of mahogany to help support the treble spectrum that the Jazz has.

OVERALL OPINION

I recommend getting one of these, but if you do get it, replace the floyd with something that's better. Either the original or the Gotoh should fit right in without a problem, but you might want to confirm that on discussion forms before just buying and trying to install it. I also recommend buying used as you'll get a much better deal.

Violin:
Alder-COPR
Bolt-24 boxes
-Maple neck with maple fingerboard wide and flat
Pink-floyd

Email:
-Seymour Duncan TB-4 bridge
-Seymour Duncan SH-2 to handle
-A volume knob, one tone and a three position switch type Start, knobs and switches perfectly placed

Very nice shovel Jackson signed and made in japan: p
Only slight downside, the licensed floyd whose painting of the router is not tip top.
Failure of the series for which I refer to the manufacturer Cheaz: /

UTILIZATION

The neck is super nice, very flat, suitable for large and rythiques Shred, I never had as good a handle in the hands of that is a real highway, it's very annoying when you are e found, a nsuite have to play a les paul <img class="smiley" src="https://fr.audiofanzine.com/images/audiofanzine/interface/smileys/icon_mrgreen.gif" alt="mrgreen" /> , Weight not important or too low, you can feel it on us without dislocating the shoulders for all that, classic games as standard authorized access to the latest frets about right without being that of sg, the floyd is not super , fixation of the stem is unscrewed from below (I remove the back plate to tighten or remove the stem), but for the price just can not be perfect, fasteners straps are very good, to hell with ugly straps locks She has never taken down.

SOUNDS

So that's where it will bleed, I start to play a blank, when buying a vacuum sound was relatively average, but over time it became beautiful, reflecting the quality of wood which the princess is made, I branch, and then is happiness, I first see what sent by the sh-2 (race) in clean, enough but not too bold, tone knob very effective, it is sublime , a rich, delicate, lightly smacking, very good for the picking, arpeggios, or agreements relatively mild j'enclenche the crunch, the microphone output level quite low, a very slight crunch, a small amount blues the tone knob to for a more slamming is sublime, a chouilla stratabound, it takes the guts, a little chubby and a wonderful sound Bents, I go into overdrive, a etit AC / DC and the grain be really , a delight, we never tire of it, then I type in a little metal distortion, ca tent very well the road condition to manage his sound, so micro, rather round, slightly fat and slightly slamming.
I go into micro chvalet, a Seymour Duncan TB-4, whose reputation is well established, it is very clean in slamming, incisive and bold, for the funk is a very good condition to the tone at max, very bluesy crunch is also good, but more incisive, heavy, clean in it tends to quickly cruncher for something delicious, but with a bit of distortion we start soon on a small riff with a lot of the muscle zztop and energy, with a very large distortion the guitar reveals his soul, I think she is possessed <img class="smiley" src="https://fr.audiofanzine.com/images/audiofanzine/interface/smileys/icon_mrgreen.gif" alt="mrgreen" /> It sends the wood, sound super powerful, muscular, fat, rich, and incisive, harmonics that come out very well, a wide vibrato, and dive bombs, ca sends very clear, the ah do well provided they are specific, it's a bit harder than a scratch on a tom with a slightly less long sustain.
The middle position does nothing more, its a fairly rich and full, a configuration that sends in all areas, but never as good as one of only two microphones.
Assets:
versatility, quality of metal that look good harmonics.
Minimum:
Lack of light sustain.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it every day since Christmas I tried some 08 ltd ec-1000 aquérir before, I much prefer the incisiveness and the muscular side of alder, this choice I would do a lot of times s' he needed was a sublime scratches, some finishing details and the quality of floyd leave may be slightly to be desired, but at her I have not found any scratches below the € 1,000 that can even compete with, so he put an Ibanez Edge Zero tremolo and you have an extremely good scratch, has completely the opposite of a les paul, which can offer a couple of scratches extremely complementary (ask Randy Rhoads what he thinks ), I fell madly in this scoop, I can be stumbled upon one of the best guitars in the series, because it really sends, the other scratch my group has an Epiphone Les Paul Ultra is in the same range price and absolutely no comparison.
I commend the firm Rican jackson for this little gem made in japan.

Jackson has been in a bit of a slump the past few years after Fender bought them out, but the newer experimental models they're releasing are pretty cool. This guitar has the following specs:

Alder body with flamed maple veneer
Bolt-on maple neck
Binding
12"-16" Compound radius
24 jumbo frets
Black sharkfin position inlays
Two humbuckers
3 way switch
Master volume, master tone
Jackson licensed floyd rose

UTILIZATION

The guitar is put together fairly decently. I noticed that the edges of the frets aren't quite as beveled as the upper models tend to be, and that's fairly common on these kinds of models. The binding is done nicely, and I didn't notice any issues regarding that. However, the biggest issue I have with this guitar is that the floyd rose that they put on this is pure trash. It's one of those really cheap pot metal ones. Over time, it won't hold like the real deal will, so I recommend replacing it with an original if you're going to keep this guitar. The Gotoh is a nice alternative as well. You'll not only get a stability benefit, but you'll also get a nice tonal benefit as I honestly feel the original floyds sound better than some of these cheaper licensed ones.

SOUNDS

The guitar has real Seymour Duncan pickups installed in it, and it really helps make it stand out compared to some of the other lower models in the Jackson line up. The JB in the bridge is a very love or hate pickup, but it's been the staple of high output pickups for the past 30+ years. It has a bitey treble and somewhat loose low end, but it lends itself to being a great "jack of all trades" pickup. It can do everything from blues to death metal. The Jazz in the neck is pretty interesting, but I find that it can be a bit bright and "clean" sounding for leads. It works nice for cleans, but under gain, it's somewhat synthetic sounding. I find that these work best in guitars like Gibsons or something with a big slab of mahogany to help support the treble spectrum that the Jazz has.

OVERALL OPINION

I recommend getting one of these, but if you do get it, replace the floyd with something that's better. Either the original or the Gotoh should fit right in without a problem, but you might want to confirm that on discussion forms before just buying and trying to install it. I also recommend buying used as you'll get a much better deal.

Jackson has been in a bit of a slump the past few years after Fender bought them out, but the newer experimental models they're releasing are pretty cool. This guitar has the following specs:

Alder body with flamed maple veneer
Bolt-on maple neck
Binding
12"-16" Compound radius
24 jumbo frets
Black sharkfin position inlays
Two humbuckers
3 way switch
Master volume, master tone
Jackson licensed floyd rose

UTILIZATION

The guitar is put together fairly decently. I noticed that the edges of the frets aren't quite as beveled as the upper models tend to be, and that's fairly common on these kinds of models. The binding is done nicely, and I didn't notice any issues regarding that. However, the biggest issue I have with this guitar is that the floyd rose that they put on this is pure trash. It's one of those really cheap pot metal ones. Over time, it won't hold like the real deal will, so I recommend replacing it with an original if you're going to keep this guitar. The Gotoh is a nice alternative as well. You'll not only get a stability benefit, but you'll also get a nice tonal benefit as I honestly feel the original floyds sound better than some of these cheaper licensed ones.

SOUNDS

The guitar has real Seymour Duncan pickups installed in it, and it really helps make it stand out compared to some of the other lower models in the Jackson line up. The JB in the bridge is a very love or hate pickup, but it's been the staple of high output pickups for the past 30+ years. It has a bitey treble and somewhat loose low end, but it lends itself to being a great "jack of all trades" pickup. It can do everything from blues to death metal. The Jazz in the neck is pretty interesting, but I find that it can be a bit bright and "clean" sounding for leads. It works nice for cleans, but under gain, it's somewhat synthetic sounding. I find that these work best in guitars like Gibsons or something with a big slab of mahogany to help support the treble spectrum that the Jazz has.

OVERALL OPINION

I recommend getting one of these, but if you do get it, replace the floyd with something that's better. Either the original or the Gotoh should fit right in without a problem, but you might want to confirm that on discussion forms before just buying and trying to install it. I also recommend buying used as you'll get a much better deal.