Dean Guitars Cadillac X

22 frets, rosewood fretboard, Brazilian burst solid-top. The body is made of basswood, which other people find heavy, but I don't think so. It has a volume and a tone control for each pickup. Chrome hardware with factory Grover tuners. Tune-o Matic bridge with stop bar. Headstock is the infamous "V" by Dean. Two Dean zebra humbuckers. Maple neck.

I play a ton of metal, but play other things as well, and this guitar is great for it. People look down upon guitars that cost under a billion dollars for some reason, I think that is very stupid. Dean proved with this guitar that you don't have to pay a billion for a good guitar. This guitar sounds great in neck or bridge position, and isn't noisy in either. I play through a Marshall G50R with no pedals, just straight amp overdrive, and this guitar rocks hard.

I got the guitar from one of those shops that has guitars on the wall from 1970, and all of them are dusty. The intonation was way out of whack, but easy to fix. Aside from that, it was perfect. Beautiful guitar.

I would play live with this guitar, but I always have a backup no matter what I'm playing with. The hardware is rock solid, and it isn't a very heavy guitar, so the strap buttons are good. The Brazilian burst finish looks great, and I see no problems with it.

I have never had to deal with Dean, but I am sure they don't give many problems to anyone.

I have been playing for about 10 years, and I own a Fender Satin Strat and a Warwick Rock Bass. I would buy another one if this one were stolen, and it wouldn't cost me an arm and a leg! This guitar looks awesome, and it plays like these 800 dollar guitars that everyone seems to think you should own. I just hate the fact that EVERYONE that works in every guitar shop in town thinks this axe isn't worth the wood it is made of. It is a great guitar for the money. Dean makes quality instruments that I would recommend to anyone.

This is 2001 model, 22 frets, rosewood fretboard, Brazilia burst which is sort of tobacco sunburst, very beautiful. This is a solid top guitar, basswood, very heavy though not as heavy as a Gibson Les Paul. It has two volume and two tone controls which correspond to the Zebra pickups, and a three way toggle switch to select one or both pickups. It has chrome hardware with outstanding Grover tuners ( I always change my guitars to grovers, this guitar cam with them stock, very classy move by Dean. Stop Bar/Tune-O-Matic tailpiece and bridge.
The neck is pure Maple fine and smooth. The headstock is the coolest Flying V style which everyone that sees it loves. Dual Humbuckers that either sing in the neck position or growl like a Les Paul in the bridge spot.

This is a rock and blues axe straight out. That's what I play and you hear this guitar through my Mesa Boogie! I can't believe this guitar was as cheap as it was. It just shows that you do not have to pay 2 grand for a great guitar anymore.

The guitar did need some tweaking at the music shop to set the intonation and lower the action. I guess thats the difference between paying two thousand dollars and paying $250. For me I'll pay the shop tech $25 for a setup and keep the extra $1725.00 in the bank, thank you verymuch! But the things that count like the neck(straight and fast) the finish(beautiful) and the hardware (like Fort Knox) are all perfect.

This guitar is a beast. If you dropped it on your foot you would walk with a limp for a month. The strapbuttons are perfect. I expect this guitar to get more beautiful with time. I would gig with it without a backup for sure.

Everyone knows Dean Guitars are guitar player as well as guitar builders. there are none better. I can't see what would go wrong this guitar, it's perfect like it is, unless you drop it out a window it'll be fine forever.

I own a Gibson Les Paul Custom, And a Applause acoustic, and an Ibanez RG 760. I've been playing for 21 years. As far as anyhting I wish it had, I might have it coil tapped for a clangy single coil sound. I love the neck and solid feel (like my Les Paul) the only thing I hate is that I don't own two. I compared it to Hamer, and Epiphone Les Pauls, and the Ibanez Destroyer. All nice guitars but this one felt like MY Gibson Les Paul.

This is a brand new Dean Cadi-x.22 jumbo frets,basswood body but very solidly built,almost feels like alder to me.2 volume and 2 tone,3 way switch,2 dean zebra humbuckers,passive.Neck is maple,the cadi style is a les paul lower body style with an explorer fin which is definitely a classy design.Mine is jet black,and the finish is thick and shiny.Tune-o-matic all the way baby.Tuners are great of course.

This guitar fits my style perfectly because it is quite versatile.I use Randall amps.This guitar delivers from the bridge P.U. a nice,warm growl,very thick tone.The neck is more on the trebly sound but not to thin.I don't see the Seymour Duncan resemblence but definiately along the lines of Dimarzio distortions.I play metal,funk,blues rock.

The set-up was good but i lowered the action a little bit more for my own personnel preference.I like my bridge pickup about a nickel thickness away from the strings,(aka bill lawrence web tip).Controls were tight,nice fretting job,no flaws period.When some people hear basswood they tend to cringe a little ,but let me tell you I had an Ibanez made from basswood and i hated it,it felt like cheap ply wood to me.But my Jackson dinky is Alder and is solid.My dean cadi is basswood and is feels just as solid if not more than my dinky,I am very impressed by the craftmanship of this guitar expetionaly for the price.Thats why I said almost feels like alder because it doesn't feel hollow and has some weight to it.Very strong very reliable built.Gives off nice tone.

You could definitely hit the stage with this instrument and the only worry you should have is breaking a string.The hardware is good quality and durable.My black finish is very thick and shiny.Strap buttons are solid but if your going on stage you need locks.Definitely dependable but you should always prepair for the worst so bring backup.

On and off about 15 years,seriously last 2 years,I use Randall amps,Dean Markley strings,Dunlop control picks,dod and digitech effects.If stolen I would buy again.I love this guitar because the value you get is just great.Tight construction,good versatile tone,classy design,ease of playability.Worth much more than I payed for thats for sure.Better than any ibanez i've played and the pickups actually sound good,better than most stock pickups.Look,I got this guitar because of all the great things I heard about Dean guitars,so I figured I'd try something out of their X series first.Glad I did because if this is their lower end models I'm dying to try their other series of fine instruments.Great value,great tone,happy with product.

This is a 1999 Dean Caddy X. Standard LP setup, 22 Fret, volume and tone for each p/u (2 humbuckers), 3 way selector, except it's a basswood body, and Grover tuners (I hate those Gibson stock tuners. It's Grover or nothing for me.) Two Dean custom design p/u's, designed to be like the Seymour Duncan Distortions, I believe. Rosewood neck, trans red finish, tune-o-matic stop tailpiece...the whole shabang, as it were.

I play mostly heavy (heavy) metal, with some stoner rock and jazzy-ness thrown in there. This guitar is perfect for it. It's really bassy, much like a Les Paul, but has a much-needed >umph< in the crunch section, much like an SG. The perfect combination, I say.
I play it throuh my Crate Blue Voodoo 60 watt 1x12 combo...which creates one of the most versatile tones I've ever heard. With this baby on the distortion channel, my Dean is brutal. Switch over to clean, and it sings like a mo-fo. My major dislike is the neck p/u. It tends to get muddy very easily with alot of gain, but I chalk this up to my sound (all bass, some mids, and some highs) and the 13 gauge flatwound strings tuned to B. But on the clean channel, that neck p/u sounds really smooth. Though I am thinking of switching to a mellower p/u, maybe a SD Jazz, or Gibson 490T or something.

When I got it, it was setup up perfectly for the standard factory guitar: 9 guage strings, low action (to me, standard to anyone else), that whole deal. For what it was, it was good. I immediately got myself a set of 13 gauge strings and filed the nut a bit to accomodate. I raised the action a bit, as well as the p/u height to match, and I was in business. Not much trouble, the hardest part was seting up the intonation via the tune-o-matic bridge saddles. Tedious, but not very difficult. I will not take any points off because of this, because I would have had to do this to any new guitar.

This sum-bitch is very reliable. This thing has been beaten, dropped, smashed, banged into the ceiling, and everything in between. Nothing has changed, other than a few dings. The hardware is solid, no rusting or eroding, no signs of wear yet. The strap button came loose when I used one of the plastic end straps instead of the standard leather, but it also did that to my other guitars...so it's the strap's fault, the dirty bastard.
I would not gig with it w/o a backup. Not because it can't handle it, but becuase I'm anal like that. It could definitely withstand probably an entire tour with a change in sound. Maybe falling out of tune or breaking a string, but nothing that would reflect shoddy manufacturing.

Dean has been very responsive to my needs. I have emailed them with spec question, website tips, and purchase info, and every time I received a quick informative response. Dean Guitars, I salute you!

I've been playing guitar somewhere between 2.5 and 3 years. I upgraded to this Dean after a year of playing some POS Ibanez GRX40. It was one of the best gear-related decisions I've ever made. The only thing I don't like is the bolt-on neck, but for under $300, I'm willing to compromise.

This is a dual-hummer Les-Paul type axe, purchased at MusicMakers for $369. I'm not sure about the pickups; they're uncovered Duncans, I think. Problem is, you get these guitars just handed to you, without so much as a brochure or owner's manual. The fingerboard's rosewood with medium jumbos. I had it set up with DR PureBlues .09's.
One thing I do NOT like about this guitar is the upper strap button, which sticks out 1/2 an inch from the back of the neck. It has to be here, since there's no "ear" to attach it to as there is with most guitars. This causes it to lean away from your body. If you want to see the fingerboard when you play, you have 3 options: (1) set the strap real short and high, BB King-style. (2) get used to playing while looking at the back of the neck, or (3) bend over with your spine in a "C".

I play blues and just eclectic improvising in the style of the Jimmie Vaughan camp. This guitar works OK for that, but of course it's not a Strat. It's very quiet, and the sound is nice and balanced anywhere you play on it, after a good setup job. The tone pots don't do much of anything except roll off the highs. I play it with a Peavey Bandit 65, a Boss CS-3 Compressor-Sustainor, and a Danelectro FabTone.
The one problem I have with this guitar is that even with a major setup job, there are too many "hotspots" on the fingerboard, just places where it screeches and buzzes. 99% of this doesn't oome through a cranked-up amp, but if you're playing unplugged, or perhaps trying to play a very quiet, clean, guitar-only, delicate solo piece, these "hot spots" will screech like a tortured pig. Most of this happens in the 10th-14th fret area.

The setup was awful. Half of the strings aren't centered over the pickups poles; some of them just flat miss them. Sigh. The pickups themselves are loose and wobbly. The output jack got so loose it actually fell out a month after I bought it, and the pots were pure crap - I had them replaced.
The tuning pegs are supposed to be Grovers, but a couple of them are so loose you can practically breath on them and turn them. The nut slots were too tight, and "squeezed" the strings when you rotated the tuners. These were filed out a bit, which helped.
The wiring was completely grunged up as it came from the factory; you never knew what you were going to get when you flipped the pickup selector. You might get the pickup you wanted, or you might not.
The fingerboard and feel is really quite good, and with some good setting up this guitar is quite easy to play. The only thing to mention is the neck/body joint. At this price, of course, it's a bolt-on, and under the upper frets it's about 4 inches thick.

I've never played gigs, but I wouldn't take this axe to repeated gigs without a backup. It's just not up to the quality level of a gig instrument, even though it sounds fine tonally. Occasional performances would be OK, but if you're a 5-night-a-week slammer, I'd say take a backup.
The finish is quite nice. Mine is a thick, smooth and glossy black. Strap buttons are secure.

Dean has quickly responded to a couple of my emails, and have always been nice and considerate. Warranty? What warranty? The rude, pimple-faced brat at Musicmakers who shoved the register receipt across the counter at me said to keep the receipt - that was my "warranty." Sigh.

I've been playing on and off about 20 years, just privately and jamming with friends. Most of my earlier playing was in acoustic and classical. After about a 5 year break from guitar playing, I got into electrics. Of course, living in Austin, TX, where the streets are practically paved with guitars, I've heard a zillion gigs, so I'm pretty familiar with that scene, even though I've never gigged myself.
I didn't know much about electrics when I bought this one, and I wish I'd brought an expert along with me. I traded in a $500 classical for it (buries face in hands, sobs uncontrollably).
If it were stolen, no way I'd buy this axe again - I wish to goodness I'd bought something like a Mexican Tele instead. You have to remember, if you want a solid-body, Les-Paul-type dual hummer sound, GET A LES PAUL, don't get a $350 lookalike. This guitar is OK, but that's all it is. "OK." Like I said, it's a "K-Mart Les Paul."

Model : Dean Cadillac X Controls: 1 volume and 1 tone control for each pickup Pickups: pasive dean doble coils Wood: i dont know but they are not good ones for sure Body Style: looks like a les paul but with a cut in the top neck part Included accessories: A gig bag, strap,cable

I play almost anything, from heavy to soft rock, to popular or pop music. It doesnt have enough power for heavy is not clean enough for chords music, and is good enough for soft rock.

The finish of this guitar sucks, the jacks comes loose and the pickups broke in the first two months. the bringe had to be tune, and the neck too.

You can only hold to this guitar if you put it in a cabbin, to have people to look it up, but if you realy want to play, you will need to get new pickups, have the brige tune, and the neck fixed.

I havent tryed to get to the company i guess i will be to mad to talk to them

Dont buy this guitar if you can avoid it. if you want to have a advice in other guitars related to price or get to know what do you need for what you want email me. montesa78@hotmail.com