Jackson DX1

Im not gonna go too indepth with the features of my DX-1 because its not very important for the fact that I would not get this guitar again. It is a good begining guitar though, and I do like to play with it. It has 22 1/3 frets and about a 25.5 inch fretboard. It is a laminated top with a transparent black colour. There are a volume and tone knobs and a 3 way toggle switch. It has 2 passive Jackson stock humbucker pickups. There is a tune-o-matic bridge which is alright buti personally prefer the stop tailpiece. Its a fat neck with Extra Jumbo frets.

The type of music I play is not very well suited for the Jackson that I bought. Granted it is quite versatile but it doesnt have the high end that I prefer. I use a range of amps and pedals with it so that I could get a varied sound and range from it. It does produce some feedback but I beleive that is from the crappy stock pickups and the piece of Sh*t amps that I have been using lately.

The guitar was not set up well at all, guess thats my fault from buying at guitar center..Guitar Center=Crap, The pickups were not adjusted accordingly and i had to adjust them myself. There was a offset fret on my guitar which produced buzzing when I het my E string. There was some poor quality in the input jack and I again was forced to fix that.

It is quite reliable I have to admit even though it does have its flaws. The hardware is shabby but I can trust it. I have seen no problem with it when playing, after I fixed the factory problems.

Dont buy from Guitar Center.

I havent been playing long but I know what is a good buy and what is not. When I bought the guitar I made poor judgment but it has offered reliability when needed. The only thing I still dislike about the guitar is that the strings are too far off the fretboard, and I prefer then lower, I know you can lower the strings but it buzzez because the offset frets. Thats about all for the guitar, I do believe Jackson's offer decent guitars just not there lower grade series.

I own a 1998 DX1, made in Japan. The body is made out of basswood, and the bolted-on neck is of rockmaple with a rosewood fretboard. The neck has full binding, including the headstock, and the fretboard has sharkfin-inlays. Even the highest of the 24 big frets are quite accessible due to the cut-away heeldesign. The neck and fretboard have Jacksons typical wide-thin-flat profile; Not as thick as the USA Jacksons but not as thin as a Ibanez Wizard, or Wizard II for that matter. A good compromise to suit many players.

The finish is a beautiful snow-white pearl, protected by Jacksons gorgeous and sturdy polyester lacquer.

The DX1 came stock with passive Duncan Designed H/S/S pickups, wired up thru a five-way selector not operating any splits, a master volume and a master tone. I have since changed these out for USA-made Seymour Duncans, but will rate this category completely stock.

The bridge is Jacksons Floyd Rose-licensed JT580LP. It's pretty decent compared to a Floyd Rose Original, and good compared to other Licensed. It's got pretty solid sustain, and tuning is stable. If you, however, set it up for easy bar-action you start compromising the tuning stability.

Tuners appear identical to the ones found on the USA Jacksons, which imply that they're Jacksonbranded Gotohs. These are very good, smooth and secure, but do not matter all that much hence the nutlocks.

All in all the features are pretty basic for something built in Japan, but it doesn't feel "stripped down" at all.

This guitar completely stock had a solid sound, pretty much well-off allround. Cutting leads and solid rhythms, high-gain or chorused and clean, it all sounded pretty good. Especially considering it being a japanese model.

The DD-humbucker seemed, however, to lack a little muscle. This particular DD-model, the DD102B, was modeled after the Seymour Duncan JB but didn't deliver the goods the way it's big brother does. But that's only natural, so I swapped it out for a SD Screamin'Demon. This made this guitar come absolutely alive, with harmonics starting to pop out where it had never before. The more edgy tone of the Screamin'Demon made a good match with the basswood. The singles I swapped out pretty much for the sake of it, since they were actually holding their ground quite well against the real Duncans.

The sound stock was pretty full, considering the basswood, but on the brink of being dull. It gave a bit of a "flat" impression, but the bright Screamin'Demon made it all good.

I play 80's-metal and rock, and have always adored the playing of Phil Collen (Def Leppard) and Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi). The "mid-rangey" tone in this one definitely suits this style fine.

The rating is for the DX1 with stock pickups. With the real Duncans, it's at least an 8.

I'm running it thru a Zoom GM200 ampsimulator, looped into a switchbox for on/off-switching, into an late 80s/early 90s solidstate Randall with matching 4X12 cab. In the FX-loop of the Randall I have a Boss EQ and a Zoom GFX4 effectsprocessor. I tweak the Randall as fullrange/neutral as I can, as I use the GM200 as a preamp for more high-gain sounds. This makes the Randall essentially a poweramp in my current set-up, and the most interchangeable part of my sound.

The factory set-up I can't comment on, since I bought it from a shop which had given it a full set-up.

This guitar was solidly constructed, with the exception of some slightly sloppy soldering. Everything was proper, without any major flaws. The qualitycontrol of the japanase Jacksons were, and still are, very high.

My DX1 has withstood liveplaying well. It's not invulnerable lika a Tele, but tough enough. The finish has stood up good, with the exception of where my arm rests on the body while playing. It has lost some of it's pearl-effect there, and the white is turning a bit yellow. This might be able to fix up a bit with some polish and cloth. The black hardwarefinish is top-notch for being japanese.

The strapbuttons are, like on all Jacksons, huge. No need to worry if you have a solid strap.

I have depended on this guitar on some occasions, and it has yet to let me down. With new, properly stretched strings I would gig with it without a backup. I'd be terrified the whole show, though, considering the horrors of restringing a floating Floyd Rose on the fly.

I haven't had the reason to contact Jackson yet, thankfully.

I have been playing for seven years, and currently own just a Jackson USA Soloist besides the DX1. The Soloist delivers pretty much all I desire. I have, however, close experience of both other high-end guitars (Kramer USA, mostly) and most makes of japanese imports. The DX1, along with all japanese Jacksons, stand tall and proud in the sea of japanese and other asian guitars.

The Jackson DX-1 was made in Japan in 1997. It has 24 jumbo frets and mine had a blue tiger-skinned pattern flamed top. There is one volume knob and one tone knob, with a Duncan Licenced humbucker at the bridge and two Duncan Licenced single coils near the neck. A whammy bar was also provided and played at the licenced Floyd Rose Tremolo with a very reliable locking system.

I play mostly Metal (Metallica...Pantera...Fear Factory) and some rock and alternative. I found this guitar to have a very good bridge pick up but the single coil at the neck is slightly lower in volume and quite noisy espeically when my chorus pedal is turned on. My sound setup is Steve Vai Bad Horsie Wah/ Metal Zone / Boss Chorus / Boss RV-3. All my effects are played through a Marshall Valvestate amp. I get really good distortion and sustain with this guitar and some funky clean sound with the 2nd and 4th position. The frets have a great feel but the bridge needed slight adjustments. Overall I would definitely recommend this guitar if you play metal or any other deep stuff.

I liked every feature of this guitar except for the weak single coil pickups. I was planning to change those to Seymour Duncan Humbuckers but it was way too expensive. Other than that, I love the bridge and the tremolo. You can really get some nice harmonics (Dimebag Darrell or Eddie VH styles) going if you experiment with the whammy bar.

I wouldn't really need a backup when i am playing live. The only problem is that if you push the whammy / bridge too far back strings might snap. Other than that, this guitar is very reliable and I can really depend on it.

DUNNO anything about this category....never had to called them.

I have been playing metal for 3 years. The Jackson DX-1 was my 2nd guitar. My first guitar was a crappy-sounding Peavey Raptor. The Jackson is a way better sounding guitar and you can certainly get some Metallica / Megadeth sound going if you experiment with your settings. The only bad thing about the guitar would be the neck pickup which is very noisy, and you definitely won't get a warmth tone from it (I recommend you to change it). Overall this guitar is great, I love the flamed blue top, it really stands out to people when you are playing live!

I don't know the year (probably made in late 1990's) but it was built in Japan. Has 24 frets, a really nice flame top (mine is blue) and has one volume and one tone control, five way switch, Single coils in neck and mid and a Humbucker in the bridge, the pickups are duncan design. Basswood body, maple neck with rosewood fretboard, with a Dinky shaped body (kind of a thinner strat shape), Other features are a locking Floyd Rose licensed tremolo and a locking nut, black hardware. I t came with a jackson hardshell case.

the bucker is great for Van Halen, other hard rock. The single coils are slighlty lower in volume, but they produce a really nice clean sound. The single coils hum just as all singles do, and the bucker is silent. The guitar is able to do everything from metal to CCR. The pickups sound great when you mix them. The 2 and 4 position create really nice clean sound, great for chords or single notes. The tuning is excellent with the Floyd. Exscept for the minor tweaking a guitar needs before everytime you pick it up, the tuning holds fine. Even dive bombing until the strings go flat can't knock it out of tune. I love the Floyd, and the guitar sounds very even, if you can understand what I mean by that. This guitar sounds very nice, and it is versatile, so whether you play CCR, Van AHlen, or Megadeth (like me), it should suit many styles.

Set up is fine, low action, no buzzes, gorgeous top on it. the black hardware also looks realy cool. The G string sometimes needs tuning, but you really can't notice until you use teh tuner and see it is out a bit, otherwise all the strings stay in tune well. The neck joint is tight and, as I said before, the finish is a stunner.

Very relaible, but I haven't changed the strings yet. I have heard that Floyds are pain when it comes to changing strings, but if you do it one at a time, it shouldn't be too bad. The guitar came with all the necessary wrenches, so minor tweaking/adjustments are not a problem. The strap always falls off at the worst time, but all strats seem to have this problem, just be careful or get the Dunlop straplocks. The guitar is reasonably quite(single couls are noisy, but the way they sound makes up for this) The bucker is very good, it has great bite, and if you mix it with the middle single couils you get a great clean sound. All three pickups are great for soloing. Personally, I would never gig without a backup, but this guitar seems solid enough that you could get away with it. It's versatility and the great tuning mean you can jam for hours on it. You don't need to switch guitars, it has it all.

Never delt with the company, I think it had a warranty of one year The whammy bar broke once (don't tell the store but it was my fault for dive bombing repeatably) but they fixed it. Good as new. i have never had any major problems (knock on wood) but I generally take good care of my instruments so I do not anticipate any problems.

I like the guitar. the store wanted 1200 for it, but I got em to go down to 850 with a case. It is a good guitar, and it is my main one right now. I really want an SG, but I would not get rid of this one. It is much too versatile. The guitar looks great and sounds great. I would buy another Jackson, though next time I would get a soloist or something in the $1000+ range, but that is a long way off. This guitar won out over Ibanez and Epiphone purely on sound, it sounds really grea. Once I got home I realized how good it looked. It's not cheap, but it is versatile enough to cover anything. I give it an 8 cuz $850 not cheap. The Floyd is good. Much better tuning than my Epi Sg and Aria Les Paul. If you have any questions on this guitar or anything(I use Crate amps) I would love to hear from you. I want a Marshall amp or a Fender Deville. Anyone with any info please contact me.

jackson professional dx-1 made in Japan 1997 24 jumbo frets oil finished bolt on bound maple neck with rosewood fretboard volume & tone s/s/h duncan designed pickups passive electronics basswood body (dinky strat) blak finish(solid) schaller low-profile floyd rose,jackson tuners & hardware

dx-1 is good for rock/metal even in drop tuning (I use drop-C tuning alot)I use Rocktron Piranha pre-amp alesis multifx and marshall valvestate stereo poweramp. It is very quit guitar even on extreme gain settings. brigde pickup sounds like Seymour Duncan 59'. rich and quite bright with sweet sustain. front and middle pickups sounds like normal single-coils. like the richness of the sound but there could be more low end growl

guitar was set-up perfectly in every way for normal E-tuning finish was flawless, (ofcourse it IS a JACKSON ;-)

DX-1 is good choice for your main guitar, it stays in tune even under stage lightning. I never trust any other straps than clip-lock style I depend on it 100% I never use just one guitar on gig because of Murphy's law.

never dealt with them/only Finnish importer.