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Full sound,Great Tone,Sounds good even when clean,SOunds heavy and Really heavy when distorted with no Noise at all !!

Nothing Extra special right ? the same old tremolo,the same old volume,tone and others.

played brothers axe as soon as it arrived home.didnt need to adjust any thing was perfectly well set yeah he did raise the pickup little to suit his sound,but that was his choice as for the setup,Flawles

no scratches,cracks or chips was nice and also smelled of fresh paint from it ,the pups also had plastic on em

pretty good value for alder body,the attractive headstock,the double locking trem,The EMG-HZ'z oh and the Jackson name :)

never had to deal with em

yeah 1 look and u know u want it ,anyday looks and feels better then those cheapass BC Rich Bronze range of guitars.

Hobbyist

Death Metal,Melodic Black Metal and Thrash

i think it sounds good i like the pickups alot sound better than actives...

the features are perfect i'm someone who can play any guitar i want and i choose this...it looks good and sounds good i'm going to try these h4s with 1meg pots but even as is they sound good people who think these are muddy mabye it's your amp/settings

every guitar needs to be set up to the way you play...it feels, looks, sounds and plays like a jackson

it's fine knobs and jacks mess up on just about all guitars get new ones if this bothers you...i love japanesse jacksons they're great...

at this price get two

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metalhead

death

For Me personally, this is perfect. I run through a Line 6 Flextone and its not muddy at all. It depends on your amp settings. I m sure Active EMG's or some Seymour Duncans would be better. However i am happy with the sound I get.

I am content with it as is. Sure a licensed Floyd Rose would be better, but still I cant complain. I dont have any issue with the Volume knob being so close to the Bridge pup. Its all cool to me.

I bought mine used, i got no manual, but its fairly cut and dry. No learning curve EXCEPT the LFR, thats a bit of a pain. As far as modifying the sound, I do that through my amp, so once again its all cool.IMO, its very playable.

SO Far so good. No loose anything. everything is tight and rockin.

I dont think its quite worth the asking price..maybe drop it 100 bucks, but overall its not to bad.

I give this a 10 cause its Jackson...lol. I have had no reason to contact them.

It feels wonderful to me, but that is really a personal choice. My main guitar for now, it does what I want it to do. Reaching the higher frets isnt an issue for me the design is set up for reaching those high frets so that works.The Color is cool, the weight and scale is perfect. Again this is just my personal opinion.

Active Musician

Rock/Metal

this guitar is awsome it has the passive emgs which i love you cant beat its tone its great for any kind of music

it has a great tremolo

the reason it gets an 8 is because the tremolo makes it hard to tune and change the strings

the neck is awsome it is a flat neck so its very fast playing and the inlays are really cool

great price even though i got mine for 400 and theirs is 500

i didnt get the guitar from this company but i got my case from them and the sales rep was a little snappy and rude

this guitar is sleek and i love it

in a band

meal blues and rock

The sound is a little better than most passive pickups I've heard. Still not as good as active pickups.

The most useful feature has got to be the body shape. I briefly owned a DKMG but absolutely hated the archtop body because it doesn't have a contour where you would normally anchor your picking hand's forearm, my arm got sore fast. The DXMG has a flat body, with a contour there, I love it. The most annoying feature is the reverse headstock. It looks cool, but it's not very practical. And considering you'll be spending a lot of time tuning the guitar trying to get the Floyd Rose set up, it would work better being straight up. I love the sharkfin inlays. The piranha ones on the DKMG looked dumb, the standard Jackson sharkfins are awesome. I also wish Jackson offered it in more colors, but the gun metal gray is pretty cool looking, and a little less boring that black.

I had to adjust the action right when I got it, but I was able to get it down without very much buzz. I rated ease of use a little low just because the Floyd Rose is a pain to get set up. Once you get there, and get it all locked down, it's awesome. So the 6 doesn't reflect this guitar necessarily, but Floyd Roses in general.

So far I haven't really seen any problems. One of the nut screws was off when I got it, but they never tighten them down at the factory so I guess it can be expected. I just put it back in and tightened it down.

You can get more guitar for your money with an Ibanez. For the price as this one, Ibanez has a nice quilt top with a nice matching headstock. However, nobody, in my opinion, can touch Jackson's necks. They're amazing. So if you want a pretty guitar, look at Ibanez, but if you want playability, get a Jackson.

Try to find a contact number for Jackson on their website -- you won't. But after some research you'll learn that they are owned by Fender, so you can just email them at their site and they'll help you out.

It's pretty sexy in terms of features, just wish they offered more colors. I would have loved to get it in transparent red.

Serious Hobbyist

Metal, Rock

sound was pretty good, if you want a heavy metal guitar. riffing was totally sweet on this.

emg hzs, 3-way switcher, it was all there. only when i tried it there wasnt a whammy bar.

this is the bad part. the only reason why i didnt really like this one is because the volume knob is located at a very bad spot for me. its located right next to the pickup. so, once you get down to about the 12th fret (and this was just the way my picking style is) i couldnt get any higher without hitting the volume knob and that either stopped me or turned down the guitar a lot. so yeah. try it first.

it seemed pretty well built.

yeah, $450 isnt bad at all for this. if i could play it, id probably buy it.

didnt have to deal with them.

it looks pretty sweet. the gloss black finish is pretty badass.

active musician

heavy metal, shred, blues, classical

The emg's are nice but could be upgraded to some better pickups. sounds average,

Having a floyd rose can be annoying but they're so fun,

A lot of people complain about that volume nob right next to the pickup, but actually that would be great for me because you can open up the back,take out that knob and put in a custom killswitch, it would be right in reach! Perfect, you could move the volume with the tone, put it inside the body at 10, or just drill a new hole

would definetly use a backup, seems like sometihng could go wrong

This guitar should be 400 because of the okay quality

never had to deal wit it

I dont really want this guitar sound wise, i want it because that volume knob would be the PERFECT place for a custom killswitch. i'm actually probly gonna go for the shecter c-1 fr because of those awesome active EMGs. but ya, if you like tom morello or buckethead you should get this guitar and add in a custom killswitch. All you gotta do is buy a $5 momentary on/off button at radio shack. then wire to seperate wires one on one prong of the button and the other on the other prong. then just take those to wires and wire one up to the ground on your jack input and one on the hot. it dont matter wich. then when you press the button you will get a short mute. and you can be a tom morello jr.

guitarist

metal, rock, punk, anything like that

I bought this guitar probably 2-3 years ago and I used to love its tone but then I realised how much treble My distortion had and how razor sharp/hissy it was so I revamped my sound and then this guitar just sounded soooo muddy, no clarity what so ever. Even on the bridge pickup. I sold this guitar recently because the sound made the guitar unusable

2 emg-hz's, floyd rose locking bridge, 1 volume, 1 tone, rosewood fingerboard, designed beautifully, feels quite comfortable just sounds muddy.

If you are familiar with floyd rose bridge's then you wont have a problem with this guitar, though if the floating bridge is new to you then it might take a while gettin to know how to use it.

Its worth what you pay

Its price has decreased quite a bit since I bought it, when I bought it the guitar was close to 900.00 with a case, now it sells for $500.00.

I have owned at 1 point in time 7 guitars, 2 of which were jacksons. my jacksons are the only guitars I have never had a problem with, nothing has ever broken on them so no need for support.

Had it, Didnt like the tone. Had to go.

Active Musician, Hobbyist, Rockstar

Technical Metal, Classic Metal

This guitar sounds very bad with the stock EMGs. The are very muddy and unclear. The sound quality blew my mind when I plugged it into my carvin legacy amp head ... but not in a good way. I recently swapped to dimarzio pickups and it sounds much better. You MUST swap pickups if you get this guitar.

It comes with standard rock guitar features; two humbuckers, a volume and a tone control, jackson liscenced floyd rose bridge, very comfortable body and a reverse headstock.

As mentioned in the sound section, the pickups are horrible. They sound very bad when you roll back the volume (basically turning to mush). These volume knobs also fall off very often no matter how many times you tighten them. The "fake" floyd is also very bad. The strings slip out of the clamps by the headstock if you dive bomb too fast or too far. They also slip if you raise the pitch at all with the whammy bar. The action on the guitar was set up TERRIBLY when I ot it. The strings were very low by the headstock causing buzzes at the first 8 frets, and so high in the upper frets that it is barely playable. If you wanna play a fast solo ... forget it.

This is the thing that bothered me the most about the guitar. I know I only payed $500 for it, but for that much money the set up should at least be decent. My first guitar (squier strat) was set up much better than this guitar. The quality control is terrible!!! The volume knobs constantly fall off, the action is terrible, the pickups just downright suck, the guitar goes out of tune with minimal whammy bar use, and one of the floyd screws in the back by the strings was stripped so I couldn't even adjust the thing.

The reason I rated it this low is because of all of the quality problems. To be honest with you, with the way this guitar arrived at my doorstep it should only be worth $250-$300. The quality is thast bad. I have played a <$400 Ibanez several times and it blows this guitar out of the water.

This is the only section that I will give a good rating to because I havn't had to deal with them!

All of my guitars (5) are black because nothing looks better than a shiny black guitar. The reverse headstock looks cool too.

Active, Gigging Musician

All kinds of rock+instrumal

The stock EMG pickups sound great and fits my style very well(metal and hard rock) Even with a crap zoom-30 amp this guitar sounds awesome and I can get very good dist/clean from the guitar. When I use my AMT-DU HAST distortion pedal it sounds even better and I can get classic metallica/megadeth sound. This guitar can get very good cleans and I play classic rock(i.e Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin etc) in my school's band and this guitar fits the style very good.

The guitar came with a whammy bar and few allen keys for the floyd rose. The LFR is good however an OFR would be way better.

It takes time to tune the guitar and learn how to use the FR but it's worth it. It's very easy to get good sounds out of the EMG's. The guitar has a fast neck but the bolt-on neck prevents playing smooth over the 19 fret.

Very good. The DXMG is made in Japan(which means the guitar is very dependable. The volume knob almost fell of the guitar but that's a minor problem.

This guitar is very good for 500$. Allthought there might be way better sounding guitars, I think it sounds amazing and it's very good for advanced and intermidate players.

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playing guitar for two years

Metal. Hard rock. Blues/rock

this baby comes with a thick lush tone but after you realize how mudy it CAN be you should get the emg 81/60 combo it makes this thing absalutly versitile from rediculously clean too they clearest heavy distortion you never even imagined.

no coil tapping but you don't need it has 3-way toggle 2 humbuckers therefore three choices in sounds with a master tone and volume too tweak it.however the tone has to be pretty much maxed out on treble to keep this thing clear on distortion, but like i said it easily but expensivly fixed by getting active emg pickups.

No learning curve except if your a begginer its not for you for the tremolo needs patience.

My knobs do fall off evrey once in a while but i can be very rough so i donno there,sit down with a guitar twice it's price and then you can appreciate this baby's qualities.

never had a regret.i paid hard eanred cash but this has to be my least regreted puchas ever.

no,proplems

this thing is sooooooo sexy in person oddly enough when you replace this things pickups to actives they do actually look diffrent i think the hz's are like a plasitc cover while the actives have a re really nice cover that looks similar but just beeter way better i find myself staring at this thing from across the room it creeps me out it looks so good.

7 years of practice

shred metal ,speed metal,alternative, blues.