Product: Peal DC-20 Deluxe
Price Paid: USD 99
Submitted
05/05/2009
at
09:22am
by
jyre
Email: jyrez1<at>yahoo dot com
Features
:
10
Made in Korea. Shipped well, ontime, great deal. came with padded gig bag.
Good finish, I bought the bright purple cutaway body style. Decent woods, ok bracing, ok top. Not that great an acoustic sound.
Nice inlays, nice binding. frets are a bit wide, intonation slitely sharp, but holds it's tune while playing. 20 frets, slim neck. Decent action even up high. Good electronics, EQ is ok, nice built in tuner and has a 1/4" and an xlr jack. Don't use the interior acoustic mic, too much feedback when plugged in.
the piezo is the one, especially when plugged in loud. Sounds great loud.
Sound
:
8
Suits my folk rock and lead guitar styles, plugged in and through a digitech processor and a behringer 30 watt.
LOT OF HIGH END. EQ can take out highs and gain/presence/brightness some.
Great lead guitar. OK for strumming, great for power chords and sustain.
wide frets help fluidity
love the cutaway, wish it had one more fret.
great electronics
Go with medium guage strings, lites make it sound wimpy.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
7
out of the box it needed adjustments. new strings and a neck tweak. played it for several days and changed strings again. Now it holds it's tune well and the neck is right. weirdly balanced and only ONE STRAP KNOB on bottom
Tuning pegs ok, bridge is fine, pegs, etc. dead battery.
Reliability/Durability
:
8
Played out a few times, works great. Seems like a solid guitar after two months.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
10
playing acoustic/electrics for 20 years- now my rig is this dc-20, a line 6 pod and a behringer gtx 30 watt plus a digitech rp100
checked reviews first, 99? a steal. BUT - it seems they run out of popular models and hawk the lefty and odd color guitars to clear before re-ordering popular models in plain wood.
Jazz cutaway looks like a sweet deal too. I bought this purple dc-20 to find out.
This guitar plays well and the work is pretty good. For a hundred bucks its a sweet deal.
