All user reviews for the Jackson Archtop

This is a guitar you don't see too often. A lot of these weren't made because they didn't sell as well as some of the flagship models that Jackson has, but they're pretty cool guitars if you're into that kind of thing. The guitar features a spruce body, a mahogany neck with an ebony fretboard, 22 frets with dot inlays, a hard tail bridge, two humbuckers, two volumes, one tone and a three way switch.

UTILIZATION

This is basically Jackson's answer to the Gibson/PRS market. The one thing you'll notice about this is that the scale length is different. It tends to give it a sweeter feel, I found. The guitar itself had a very good weight to it, and it was beautiful to look at. The bridge on this isn't exactly my favorite in the world, but it works fine for what it was meant to do. It wasn't cutting up my hand too bad like some tend to do. The frets on this were pretty good, although not perfect. I found a few minor flaws that today's USA series wouldn't have. The nut could also have been cut a bit better, but it's not a huge deal. It wasn't binding, so there wasn't a huge issue.

SOUNDS

The pickups in this were Seymour Duncan 59s. The 59 in the bridge is a very sweet bridge pickup. It has a hot PAF kind of sound. You can get that real "woody" or "wooly" or whatever sound quite nice. It's one of Duncan's most organic pickups, I've found. It tends to be suited more towards blues and rock than metal, but it can do metal. It's not quite as tight as the other bridge models that Duncan has, but it is a little thicker as a result. The 59 in the neck is one of my favorite neck pickups ever. It has the perfect amount of bass and treble to really sing. The mids are slightly pushed back but not so much that it leaves you lost in the mix. The highs give you enough cut to be heard through dense mixes, and the lows give it that real thick sound that works awesome for legato.

OVERALL OPINION

These are real cool alternatives to Les Paul and PRS style guitars. They're not quite the same, but they do offer something unique that other manufacturers weren't totally offering at the time. The unique construction and tone woods gave it some character that you don't normally get, and the guitar was high quality enough for the price that you didn't feel bad purchasing one of these.

Jackson is a U.S. custom shop type trs rare because most manufactures, except custom order
22 frets
fixed bridge specially manufactured for the guitar
one volume one tone by micro
3 positions
NECK Mahogany
key bne
self-locking Sperzel meca
Saddle of flame table in 23 mm
It is required a guitar of this size



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UTILIZATION

Which is standard on this quitar is his unvarnished handle allows slip-free problem even with 2 liters of sweat in the hand
Start the form it Confre ergonomics typical enjoyable at any position
a default: the rope is acute mid trs (trop!) near the void which requires a little practice to get used to

SOUNDS

In three words:
-Versatility
Powerful
=-His slap
in short, it dja crunch and play on the volume and Tone offers a variety dj enjoyable as well who can do more can do less, the neck pickup is vraimen ENOORME, it provides a somewhat gibson / prs for blues and jazz is in direct competition with its rivals, try on a fender deluxe.
in the crunch is slamming, it invites almost metal riffs, but the grain is trs rock, you get sounds really INTERESTED RACS, and my VHT Pitbull combo 50W AC shipment of rock s ERV
for the lead or lead on ultra realizes it's a jackson, but Seymour add some warmth and heaviness, which I won compltement.

OVERALL OPINION

I do it again this choice without hsiter one second slow me down but the price, these are really bourgeois amricaines ... but it's worth it.
I could compare a Suhr, I had a PRS, Fender compare ... bin is clean in their accabit, it is not envy (except pickups simple)
saturated in extreme, well it Submitted, one feels that it is another level that SL1 for example (and even more from an ESP)
say that the mark which is the sounds the closest Vigier, but the ... the diffrence is subjective, and then she is more beautiful, right?