Jackson DKMG

2003 24 frets solid carved top volume tone turbocharger 3 way pick up selector 2 humbuckers EMG hz3 basswood body flamed maple top transparent floyd rose licensed neck width 1 11/16" scale 25.5?

my review is simple, i have seen so many guys complaining about the pick ups, EMG hz, and it is very simple to say i prefer an EMG 81 85 set for that guitar. by the way i have seen so other dudes saying that the turbocharger is a noisy thing that cannot be controlled and useless pot. ive been playing for about 10 or 12 years and when i buying this,at beginning i thougth to use it only for metal, for a shred guitar, but suddenly i change my mind.
i check the pick ups at emg web page and i found that emg hz pick ups are 4 wiring, that means: can be isolated as single coil pick ups, so yo can try to customize your guitar with a push pull or miniswitch to have a plenty options.
the turbocharger dont seems to me a very useful weapon till i drive a bulbe amp,when you drive it with turbochrger, really screams and get a lot of harmonics coming out but it has to be at half way to get that kind of sound. i actually buy a push pull button from dimarzio in order to have splittin coil plus a 20db gain for my crunchy and clean riffs so at the end i have a very well rounded guitar for every kind of sound i have ever wanted. i think it dont deppends much what guitar you have, it deppends on how much options and sounds you can get from it. i hear for many years sets of pick ups emg seymourduncan dimarzio, and i have to say that this pick ups (EMG HZ) will do the job, for metal to blesy things, solid state to bulbe amps, humbuckers and single coils to mix and customize connections. if you own one try it to split your coils, you will be amazed of what you can get!!!! at least the only thing you can lose it is 15 minutes and $13 bucks

i am a second owner so no applies for me

its for a very long time many years. i use this thing without a back up for about one year. i want to buy another one so i can use for back up. you know strings can break when you never expect

never deal with them

i played for 10 to 12 years, almost metal. blues rockand amy kind of music that you can play for living.
if were stolen or lost i will buy one again and customize the same way.
i know there are a few guitar classics and an awesome collections of sounds and of course a better much better guitars than this one, but i have to say, this one it is not a very good one, it is a versatile one if you want it that way of course.

2004 Jackson Black DKMGFF, Floyd Rose, 24 Jumbo Frets, Flame Inlays, Bound Fingerboard and Headstock, Reverse Headstock, EMG-HZ Pickups Neck and Bridge with Active EMG TurboCharger (0-20dB Gain Control), Awesome Neck feel, Great features for the price. EMG-HZ's are ok but EMG-81's would make this a 10 for me so I put one in and it screams to high hell!

I'm a Shredder and this has helped me Shred even better then before. The neck is worth it alone in my opinion, very smooth. Like I said before the only thing lacking is in the pickup department. The EMG-HZ's are descent, the output is quite smooth but if you like that active high for squeels and crisp palm muting them throw some EMG-81's in there and your set. The turbocharger is descent when turned on about 25% or so, any more and the noise and feedback it creates is just getting in the way.

I have a Marshall JMC 2000. The Jackson absuletly rules with the setup I use. I couldn't be happier. The sound is very clean and crisp. I don't use any distortion pedals, just overdrive the marshall(boost the clean signal going into the amp) to get that extra gain and the active pickups in the guitar give it the best distortion I have ever heard. That's my opinion but I haven't had someone yet hear my setup and didn't proclaim it's greatness. I've tried different guitars with my setup and nothing has sounded as good. If you are into Blues or Jazz or Country then odviously this is not the setup for you but then you wouldn't be buying a jackson anyway.

The setup was pretty much perfect for me. Nice low action. It was setup for standard E tunning. One of the pods was a bit loose but that was easily fixed with quick adjustment. Overall it was great.

So far so good. Very solid guitar, great hardware. Nice oversize strap buttons so the strap stays put, why all other guitars don't have them is beyond me. I'm not a hard strummer so I don't have any string breaking problems or any of the other problems you get from flamboyant strumming. If I droppped it I'm confident it would be fine.

I haven't had any problems.

I've been playing for 9 years. I also own a BC Rich NJ Series Jr.V with EMG-81, Marchall JCM 2000, Ibanez 6 string bass, Ibanez Ex series, and an old classical guitar. I probably replace this guitar is lost or stolen. It is a great guitar for the price. The feel and playability of the neck is worth it alone. If it came with EMG-81's already installed that would make it perfect for me and save me time installing them myself! Overall it's the best impulse buy I have ever gotten.

Japanese. Alder body. Passive electronics.Turbocharger. DINKY (contemporary offset strat body.)Arch top. Black hardware. Binding.Pirhana tooth inlays (24 frets.)Cobalt Blue Swirl (graphic).
All in all, a beast a** guitar!!!

Only give a 8 3/4ths 'cause somebody out there could use a different neck pickup. Personally, I don't care.

I play a lot of dirty power chords on typically fast music. I'm a Jackson guitar user so there is no problem with the DKMG. I use a Crate solidstate amp with effects like an MXR Super Dyna Comp, Pro Co Vintage (reissue) rat, and a Maxon GE-06 Graphic equalizer. I only find this guitar noisy when I 'pull up' the Turbocharger. Maybe it's due to a weak battery. But, I have a Jackson DX10D Firestorm tricked out unit that doesn't create quite the same annoyance.

I like the tone of the guitar: it has a sweet high end the gives nice harmonics. I like the fact Jackson uses this wood on their guitars, it's good for leads and enduring sustain. The EMG HZ (see reviews)pickups provide clarity, but at sterile expense. To take care of this, I just run my Compressor at the end of the chain which mitigates the 'sharp' end, warming, as it were the overall unaudible tone, until the amp recieves it and 'shows' the tone.

The guitar doesn't have too many tones to offer besides hella crunch and more high gain harmonic crunch. I like the pickups abilty to pop off bright harmonics like nobody's business, but hate that mock active pickup tone some players like. I also like the archtop, that I didn't think I'd be into, but it adds some mass to the tone I think. Black hardware isn't my thing but, I could'nt pull this thing out of the box fast enough; let's just say my feet were involved in the extraction process! I originally bought this axe simply for it's paint job, but I really dig this guitar despite it 'hip' factor. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love a hip axe as much as the next guy or girl (that's why I choose Jackson guitars), but I'd personally scale back on cosmetics. Just an opinion.

The factory setting was as expected. I was looking to tweak it myself anyways. Everything is par, even the pots haven't gone scratchy yet. What's that...oh,yeah...WOW! Maybe there are scratches on the body, but I never really look for them when I buy an axe because it doesn't affect the playability. I'll give this box a '9' for factory setup.

You can gig this axe and I can't wait to stage it. The few girls staring at it(or me), the guys starin' at it (won't go there), and I'll just lap it up 'cause I love my axe. Everything seems good from the 'giddyup', but hard gigging and hard playing will test it's worth.
I don't know if I'd gig it sans backup, but if I was really confident and I feel I set the strings in properly, I may. Pretty tough axe.

No warranty. Let's just hope the guitar lives.

I've been playing for 12 years and based on the color and sentimentality (I get attatched very quickly), I may buy this axe again. Mostly I love it's dynamite playability, tone, and graphic (cobalt blue swirl). But I hate the 'active' pickup play and high tone when I kick in the Turbocharger (won't be using it much). I dislike the tiny inlays (I miss the sharkfins) and black hardware. I sorta compared it to my Jackson DX10D guitars, but I knew it was a bit different: a little 'bigger' sounding and more cosmetics (on a Jackson guitar...no get outta here!). I personally just wish mostly it had chrome hardware, sharkfin inlays and the Seymour Duncan Designed Distortion copies (or the real thing). If you like the looks of this axe and you're not to picky about the pickups and limited tonal selections, by all manageable means, buy this. It's a treat to play.

go to jackson's website...all the specs are there. the features are what they are...if i wanted other features, i would have used a different guitar.

This is by far my cheapest guitar, so I will keep that in perspective. Keeping that in mind, I'd give it a 10 when compared to other similarly priced guitars and given the sound i expected out of it. It does not sound warm or complex...i bought it for an 80's metal tribute band that is a side project and did not want to sink a lot of money into a guitar for a band that only play 2 or 3 times per month. check out the band: leatherpistol.com you can even hear mp3's where i used this guitar for everything. For what i need it for, it works well.

Had to replace the volume pot 2 days after i bought it. I work for a Jackson dealer and we are also a dealer for their parent company, Fender. Had to pay for the pot out of my own pocket because i knew from experience (I've worked there for 15 yrs.) that trying to get a part from any Fender company has become nearly impossible. I've probably owned 20 or so Fender guitars and several amps in my day, so I find this to be sad and pathetic. Their parts department is the most incompetent I've seen in all of my years.

Pathetic. So far every allen bolt on the locking nut has rounded off and been replaced. Fortunately the store i work at still had Floyd Rose parts left over from the 80's; back when they made things more durable. Jackson/Fender did not have the part in stock anyways. The string lock block screws are a different story... these are a Jackson exclusive part. They have rounded off too. As to be expected, when I called Fender/Jackson's parts department from the store I work at, they did not have the parts in stock. Knowing them, they probably won't have them in stock for a long time or will lose the order (happens 50% of the time and pisses off a lot of customers). The least they could do is make the parts available to a distributor like Stewart McDonald. Has anyone at the company ever played a gig in their entire life? Don't they know that if a part breaks, it could render an instrument useless? Why is it so hard to keep parts in stock and deliver them in a capable, competent manner? It's a freaking screw! Granted this is a somewhat cheap guitar and things may break, but man...keep some damn parts in stock. The parts guy I talked to at Fender/Jackson told me to call Floyd Rose knowing fully that Floyd does not have this part. Floyd Rose was very helpful and told me to go to a local machine shop. I did and it cost $47 to get 6 screws made. Get your act together; it's been like this for nearly 2 years now.

I hate to give a low rating in this category, because I know and have met many fine and competent people who work for the Fender Corp. (Jackson's parent company) over the years. Someone at the company has let things go over the last few years, especially in the parts department. We have stupid measly parts that we order for $150 guitars that take 9 months to get in because they lose orders, ship wrong parts, or do not have them in stock. It seems they have lost any appreciation for the customers who buy their guitars. Maybe if they had to deal directly with the dissappointed customers themselves they would change things. Believe me, I've mentioned this to them, and nothing seems to be changing.

I am not some pissed off jackass...I make my living playing guitar and you would hard pressed to find someone that loves guitar playing more and works harder at it than me. Jackson probably didn't have any problems before Fender picked them up; but be warned, now that Fender owns them you cannot necessarily expect good service from them. Back to the guitar: plays well, very fast neck, stays in tune very well, decent pickups for being cheap. Built like crap, not versatile but fine for metal stuff, and you will get no support after buying this guitar...your dealer, no matter how hard they try, can't do anything for you if they can't get service from the manufacturer. For a cheap guitar, it isn't too bad, so I'll give it a seven. Parts will break, especially on a cheap guitar, and if I thought Fender/Jackson gave a crap about replacing these parts or their customers, I probably would have given the guitar a 9 or 10.

Not shure of the year, 24 jumbo frets 1 volume knob 1 tone knob and a 20db gain boost knob, Floyd Rose, locking tuners, thin wide neck. Not anything real out of the ordinary or not really any super special features on besides the turbocharger just your basic heavy metal setup.

Sounds Excellent. The guitar was obviosly designed for metal. The EMGhz pickups work very well with this guitar and I would not trade them out with anything. It does very well way up on the fretboard and keeps the sustained very well. I dont use the 20db gain boost as much as I thought I would when I decided to buy this guitar, it create alot of noise through your amp but its gain thats what it does, I use it some but only for a solo then I turn it back down, otherwise your sound is slightly muddier on the lower frets. The bridge pickup is probably the only one your going to want to use on this guitar although I do toggle up for some picking and backround sounds, it's a very rounded sound on the neck pickup.

Out of the box the action on mine was not as good as I had expected, !BUT! as soon I tweeked it I was blown away. very fast action and a great play(some of the fastest action I have ever had the pleasure to play). I did not encounter any flaws on this guitar whatsoever. My finish is the transblack finish and looks sweet.

I have had the guitar for about a year now and has held up extremely well, unfortunatly like all guitars you have to be very careful with the finish, I have a few good scratches on it here and there only noticable as you get close to it, but thats what happens when your going crazy at a gig. I have a backup jackson RR3 and fender strat with hotrails in it for gigs but I never use them unless I break a string on the DKMG. I would definatly gig with this guitar alone it has never failed to put on a good show.

I did call the customer support once, and I did wait on the line a while but once I got through they were great, it seemed that my floyd rose was acting up but I was told to double check the string gauge and for some dumb reason I had slapped on a set of .010 instead of the good ol' .009 they were very helpful and glad to be of service to my dumb ass.

I have been playing for a little over three years and have been in the same band for a year and a half. We play speed metal and pretty much any other type of metal, ( Iced Earth, Slayer, Metallica, Warrent ect... I run the DKMG through a Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier and it sounds amazing, I also run it through my Marshall JCM 800 on occasion but I prefer my mesa for a much hevier hell rasing sound. I do wish that the gain boost on this guitar was a little better and I wish it had better sounds on the middle and neck pickup, but you cant beat this guitar for straight up metal and it is pretty easy to find this $900 guitar for less than $500 and thats a deal beyond beleif. If you buy this guitar it may not be your prized jewel but its mine, and I dont see how anyone could flat out dislike this guitar

trans black carved top superstrat - Laminate flame maple top on alder body - 24 fret - Really thin bound neck and reverse headstock (quality!) - comes with 2 EMG hz humbucking pickups which are awesome and an EMG - AB. An 'afterburner' circuit which gives you the option of an extra 0-20db gain! Mine has a floyd, which is OK, not amazing but does the job. This is built for METAL - it does it well.

its suits METAL PERFECTLY. Its such a huge, full sound, its light enough to chuck around too! :-)

I put it through a dual recifier, and also straight into logic (amplitube), it sounds great through both. A little nisy if you have it cranked but what isn't. (especially with the extra gain added! optional)

I am currently installing an EMG 81 (bridge) and an 89 (neck). Until these are i don't really want to comment on the versatility of sound. Stock - Its not so great. I love my jazz but it just doesn't have the subtelty to get away with a pointy headstock. We'll see with the 89.
Sound for METAL - AWESOME - best i've heard 10/10
for others - not so good - hence the 7

Very nice set up, was comfortable and easy to play. have had to adjust for BIG thick strings.

Finish was nice, all looked good. HOWEVER, the volume pot cut out occasionally, this is poor. It ended up that if you touched it, it would cut out. Very embarrasing at big shows! Other then that, excellent.

Its quite rugged, My belt seems to have completely FUCKED the back though, and a crack has appeared. (not sure how deep, doesn't look good) Little bits of paint have come off around the edges. This is concerning as offstage, i take care of it. Even onstage i chuck it around but it NEVER gets bumped, its just chucked around ME, not the floor etc.

Over size strap button - GENIUS. No more embarrasing guitar falling off incidents!

Personally, i would gig without a back-up, mainly cuz i tend to go through a lot of strings.

Not bad - seeign as Jackson are now Fender owned the staff have always helped me out when i needed it. 12 month warranty - jobs a good un

beenplayig 9 years, fairly well experienced - playedmany other guitars. For metal, this is my NUMBER 1 guitar. Its is just plain mean. Beats you in the face every time.

Favourite feature, oddly, uis teh oversize strap buttons, simple, but so effective. Gives you much more freedom live, when you don't have to worry about it coming off!

It'd be nice to have a slightly better bridge, lo-pro or something. Have played the string-thru. Very nice but i need to dive bomb!! :-)

This guitar rocks my socks off. I got this guitar about a year ago not sure when it was made. It was made in Japan. It has 24 frets 25.5 scale lenghth. EMG-hz pickups with turborcharger. I nice feature i rarely use it, but it can be used to go super distorted if you don;t have good distorion, or if you need to a little bit louder for a solo. I never use it because i have a BOSS gt-6 and i have all the tone switicng power i need. ROsewood fretboard very very fast i can't execute alot of my bands songs on my other guitars. It has a floyd rose bridge that i swear by. Jumbo frets only way to fly and Musicians friend included a case. But i would like to say that it didn't fit into the case at all until after about a month of shoving it in the case exspanded. anyway moving on...

I play hardcore punkish metal, ska, jazz, rock, u name it. But i mostly play really fast hardcore and this guitar makes my band. i have to use a noise gate to get rid of the feedback but thats justbecae of the GT-6 goes nuts otherwise.

This guitar came with really light strings and barely stayed in tune. I have to put on some 11's and get the guitar professional setup before i could really rock. My biggest complait is the volume nob it was to close to the strings. I have to take the nob cover off but still the nob it self gets in the way when trying to do fast palmuting on the high strings. BE WARNED OF THIS.

The volume knob was dead within the week i got the guitar and the other two knobs make scartchy noises when i moved them but i never do so its okay. Now that this stuff is fixed the guitar is strong.

I tried to custom order my guitar is 7 string form and u can't get the phone number to talk to jackson anywhere on the webpage. !!
i tried to fill out their custom order form and they watned 4,000 dollars for one more string rediculoous..q

I have been playing for almost 5 years now. I own crazy amounts of gear own my own home studio. But i play this through a BOSS Gt6 into 80 watt solid state marshall combo unit going into a marshall 4X12 1960 cab. SOUNDS KILLER@!!! I also own another jackson "professional" i think its custom i got it used at a local rip off music store named STARRS music. And IT just doesn't play like butter and its stock jackson humbuckes don't cut it for tone. Buts its close jackson is a good brand. I also play a shitty washburn and a horible epiphone. But they are just for guests. Except my Ephiphone gibson model has single coils so it rocks for SKA stuff.
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Hmmm, OK. Jackson DKMG, Japanese made, presumably 2003. I got it April 2004. It has a flame maple top over ash, I believe. Mine is in the not so common amber sunburst, which is drop dead gorgeous. I've seen the other finishes too, and they look great, the see thru black being especially nice also. Basic dual humbucker with a 3-way switch. It has three knobs: volume, tone, and EMG turbocharger. The turbocharger is pretty cool. It uses a 9V battery to provide an adjustable gain boost when you pull the knob out. Granted, gain = noise, but hey, nothing's free in this world. The neck is a nicely grained piece of maple, with rosewood fretboard, piranha inlays, 24 jumbo frets and standard Jackson tuners. Neck is bound, fretboard, headstock and all. It has the Jackson licensed Floyd and locking nut, all hardware in black. For the price (which has increased from $530 to $600 recently), this is a great sounding, playing and looking guitar.

I play mostly speed metal and shred, and this guitar does that very well. I would say the pickups aren't the all time greatest, but they are pretty good. I was surprised by the resonance and volume of this guitar unplugged. The archtop body definately contributes to tone, with a nice, round upper midrange resonance- kind of "plucky" sounding. The guitar has decent sustain, a great crunch tone, and will pull out those Zakk Wylde kind of harmonics easily. The EMGhz in the bridge sounds great, while the same pickup in the neck position is less inspiring. Between the two, you can get anywhere from razor sharp sizzlecrunch to fuzzy mud. The turbocharger does a good deal to enhance the "frying" sound with the bridge pickup and makes the guitar squeal and wheeze much better. The same gain boost applied to the neck pickup just creates fuzz at the expense of clarity. I might swap this setup for dual EMG 81's at some point.

Well, the fit and finish was great, but the setup was awful. I'll start with the good: The neck is super fantastic. I love the shape. It's flat, thin, and fast. Neck construction is top notch, from the binding to the choice of woods, just beatiful and a pleasure to play. The body was well done with a nicely faded sunburst, buffed out to a brilliant shine. The neck pocket is super tight, and attention to hardware installation was good. Nothing crooked, loose, or marred. As of now, the guitar is setup well and plays great with low action and properly adjusted neck. Hardware is good, quality stuff with nice, durable black finish.

Now the bad: Plastic covers on back of guitar are too thin and undersized, looks funny, as they aren't flush with back or tight with the edges of the control/tremolo cavities. Finish has a couple runs in the clear coat that were mostly buffed out, but could be found on very close inspection. Factory setup was like they never even tried.

I'm going to give a high score here for two reasons. One, this guitar is WAY better than most in its price range for overall build quality, and two, any guitar you buy should immediately be restrung and setup to your preference anyway, factory setup aside.

Overall wood construction is very solid, and finish seems durable enough so far. Can't forsee mechanical trouble, or any hardware issues. One thing that bugs me is that they put an active boost circuit in, so you'll be changing a battery now and then, but the covers attach with ordinary wood screws. Threaded inserts or a pop-open battery compartment would have been a nice touch. I know it won't be long before I strip out the cover screw holes, as ash is pretty soft. Electronics are cleanly done, but not with the best components. You could expect a pot to fail in a couple years, maybe. Certainly, I'd expect the push/pull pot for the turbocharger to take a dump before too long. I would have no problem trusting this guitar for a gig, although I replaced the factory strap buttons with Dunlocks and I would NEVER go without backup.

Never dealt with them

Primarily, I'm a bassist with over twenty years experience, but I've played guitar for about 6 years total, so I'm decent and know what I'm talking about. I also own an Ibanez S470DXQM, which is an equivalent guitar to the Jackson in price and features. Frankly, the Jackson is prettier, the neck is better, and the binding and fretwork much cleaner than my Ibanez, which is no slouch by any means. The Ibanez does have a more stable tremolo, though. If my Jackson were stolen, I'd get another, no question.

2003 Japanese built w/ 24 frets, solid body, volume, tone, boost, with 5-wat switch. EMG pups, floyd rose bridge... yada, yada, yada!
Lots of goodies but the biggest disappointment beside the Boost(noisinducer)were the electronics. I'm not saying the EMG pup's were dissappointing. In fact, they are much the oppsite. The switch, jack, pot's and solder points were dismale. I had the jack break about 3 months after I bought it. I then popped it open to replace the jack and was shocked at the shotty work done on the inside. Not a hard or expensive task to complete. That was what was funny. The are the most inexpensive companents on a guitar, and you would think that Jackson(Jap)could afford the extra $20-$30 in quality guts. The wires were junk along w/ the soldering job. I scrapped it all and started ffrom scratch.

The sound is great for about any style of music but it has a very dark side made for the hard stuff. Pumped through my Marshall 1/2 stack and Line 6 POD XT there isn't anything that this guitar can not do. All like on the sound... no dislikes!!

Action from the store was terrible! I had to set it up correctly and then it was AWESOME. One of the lowest action guitars that I own. Everything else was an A+.

The guitar is very well built and can withstand live playing and the hardware is top notch. It will take years of playing to cause it to go into the shop. Unles you are talking about the electronics wich were poor. The strap buttons are solid but would recommed that anyone throw on a set of Schaller strap locks. Better safe then sorry!!
It is a very dependable guitar but only the foolish would gig w/o a backup.

Never had to use customer support

I have been playing for about 4 years and this was the second guitar that I bought. I also own a Jackson RR-1T, 2 Kramer NighSwan's, 2 Kramer Baretta's, and 2 Kramer Strikers. I also own several amps, tone boxes, and wireless gear.

The guitar is a very well rounded guitar that plays extremely nice. It is very heavy like the LP's but unless you are onstage for several hours, no big deal!! The worst thing about this guitar was the electronics as mentioned above.

If it were stolen, I would probably upgrade to a Jackson Soloist but that would be a lot more $$$(Duckies).

You know the deal, EMG-HZ, Turbocharder electronics...

It sounds like it should without the "Turbocharger", i.e. you can get some metal out of it, nice and chunky and good high end for harmonics. The reason I gave it a 6 is because EMG obviously didn't pay too much attention to their "Turbocharger", which they should re-dub the "Noisecharger". Even with 20dB gain you shouldn't hear that much noise, given a decent operational amplifier. I'm not sure what they are using for an internal amp, but I'm very sure that it's not high-end. Even a TL082, which is a cheap 8 pin dual op-amp would perfom better than what they have in there. I know because I've built several 20dB filter circuits myself. Not very impressive here, but that's just a decision made by Jackson, not a product that they themselves produced. Excellent guitar, but EMG needs a kick in the ass or maybe their engineers need a wake up slap.

Setup was good, the only thing I don't like about it is that the strings are too close to the edge of the fretboard and slide off the edge too easily. Other than that, this is one of the best/easiest guitars I have ever played.

This thing is rock solid. What else can you say? And for everyone bitching about the Floyd-Rose, what do you expect? Try playing a Fender Strat and tell me which is better.

Never dealt with them, but I'll go out on a limb and say they can't be all that bad, look at the fine piece of equipment they put out here. (Aside from EMG's "Noisecharger")

I have been playing for 17 years, mostly blues/metal/alternative.
If it were stolen, I would probably get another Jackson, but I would check out their other models more closely.
I love that it's so easy to play, the action is very low - good for speed and it has jumbo frets.

** Nice guitar ** I would recommend this guitar, but not the components from EMG.