Jackson RR1

I never thought i would be writting one of these fucking reviews but the guitar is too good you need to know. The jackson rr1 is a monster of a guitar. The stock pickups are weak, very weak actually. but fit a pair of emgs and you are ready to go. This guitar oozes brilliance. It is one of the easiest guitars to play, i have reached new levels of my playing i never knew i had. IF YOU CAN AFFORD ONE BLUDY WELL GET ONE THEY ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it can become real noisy when the amp is set to extremes. I also use a kh2 relic and kh2 ouija guitar. those hold the gain fine but the jackson has too weak of a pickup.

I have the lightning sky graphic on mine and it is truly awesome. If you can afford the graphic then get it. The guitar just feels expensive and special. It is quite light compared to some aswell. The controls on the guitar are easy to reach and effective.

never gigged it, but seems fine so far

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I HAVE BEEN PLAYING FOR 5 YEARS AND HAVE A SELECTION OF GEAR. i USE A MEAS BOOGIE TRIPLE REC. IM SELLING MY OLD DUAL ONE ON EBAY, IT IS THE BALCK FACE CHROME CHASSIS ONE. I USE A SELECTION OF PEDALS, BOSS, FLANGER, EQ, COMP, CHORUS, NOISE SUPPRESOR, AND THE LINE 6 DELAY MODELLER. MORLEY TREMONTI WAH. THE GUITARS I USE ARE, JACKSON RR1, KH2 RELIC. KH2 OUIJA, ESP DIAMOND PALET 351D, PRS CUSTOM 24, IBANEZ JEM,IBANEZ SA160QM, GIBO CUSTOM, i HAVE ALSO GOT A REPLICA OF KIRK HAMMETTS MUMMY GUITAR COMPLETE WITH INLAYS AND GRAPHIC, ITS A KH 602 AND IT COST IN TOTAL OF #1000!!! DONT TELL KIRK THO!!

Don't know the year, but some mockers would say, "By the looks, I'd say the '80's, hur,hur!", a**holes. 22 jumbo frets. Currently, the pickups are a Seymour Duncan TB6 Trembucker Distortion in the bridge and a stock Jazz in the neck. Ebony fretboard,Alder 1/4-sawn neck for greater stablity, perfect pitched neck, the USA neck is just SICK!!!!!!!! Floyd Rose coolness, though currently I only have three block springs, so I can only use gauge 9-42 strings, bummer. It's got some handy wrenches you can post on the back of your headstock with I think, but I know it's real pearl,the Jackson logo facin' a crowd. Your grandma would be proud.

It suits my music style I guess in that it's a rock guitar. My music style needs a biting pickup in the bridge and a floating tremolo, heavy duty I might add, at least. I play it through my flat sounding, but great sounding Crate MX65R. T' add some distinctive high end sparkle, I just use my Maxon 6-band eq.. The only crummy sound from the guitar is the grounding buzz and when the tremolo arm is on, it causes an annoying vibration sometimes. The guitar acoustically, is rather slight due to it's body mass, I mean, compared to deep mahoghany. The guitar has great sustain nonetheless. Notes are greatly defined on bright sounding ebony. Using a Seymour Duncan Distorion trembucker in it's bridge and playing straight is not a great choice, though I loved this pickup when it was in my Jackson DKMG. The RR-1 benefits probably from a more bass producing pickup. I eq'd my amp with my Maxon graphic eq. and the sound is fuller. I like the USA made construction and hardware. I can't say enough about the neck, though! I dislike the none-to-deep acoustic sound, but I won't complain since I bought it for a mere $649! It needed a bit of work though, mainly the wiring literally needed to be stripped out 'cause, I'll be candid here: one of those Emg 81 lovin' mofo's wanted to do some jacked up work and I guess he got fed up and sold the thing and I bet his tone still sucks! Harshest thing to say about a guitarist? I think so.

See above, plus the wing corners are chipped hard.

I think now that I own a 'real' guitar, if you will, you should only be playing a solid guitar live, not a shoddy guitar. The one credit I can give to the previous owner is the staplocks he installed are basic, but are 'boomerang' shaped, hooking the strap nicely. I'd gig it without a backup occasionally.

Been playing 10+ years. If it were stolen or lost, I'd save up and buy a USA Dinky or SL2H. My fave feature is the neck and sweet sustain, oh boy! Charlize Theron giving a rubdown good!

I found a GEM! The very first (according to the serial #) USA RR1 manufactured in 1988. The color on the front is white on the lower wing half and black on the upper wing half. Then when you flip it, it is opposite on the color of the wings with the black and white running up the neck to the back of the headstock. I was told that it was a one of a kind color, but email me at scratchy003@aol.com if you have the same color scheme. Otherwise, it has a floyd, 2 h/3 way setup. I changed out the original jackson pickups to the standard RR1 Seymour config the day I got it when I was setting it up.

It is the most incredible sounding metal axe I have ever heard. I use a Marshall DSL 50 head with a Marshall 4x12 cabinet. It is perfect in every way and I have a 68 LP Custom and a DK1 with EMG's too. I still love the RR1 the most.

Being a 23 year old axe that has sat in the case with the original strings, it needed setup pretty badly. But, in 5 hours, I cleaned it, set it up, changed the pickups and oiled the little rusty screws and trem. The thing is immaculate with the fasted setup I have ever had on an axe. The neck and frets are perfect. I honestly don't think the thing was ever played. The guy who had it second bought it as an investment in 92ish.

Everyone needs a backup, but I am fully confident that this axe will do it all. When I am famous, this axe will be reproduced as my RR1 signature model.

Never dealt with them.

Hands down the best (and not close to the most expensive) axe I have ever owned. I WILL make this axe famous. It feels to me like I would guess SRV's #1 felt to him, etc... It plays like butter and I want to get another one as a backup, although I don't think that I'll find another so unique. If it were stolen, I cry like a baby and it would haunt me for the rest of my life. But I would get another RR1. On a side note, I had a Black 96 American Fender Strat and a Red 96 Gibson SG Standard stolen back in 98 and it still bothers me today and they were no where close to as one of a kind and meaningful to me as this axe.

2003 RR-1 USA series, 22 frets, V-T-T controls and 3 way selector, stock Semour Duncan pickups (bridge JB TB4 Humbucker/neck jazz SH2N Humbucker), alder body, quarter-sawn maple neck, metallic black finish, black hardware, Original Floyd Rose, 25.5" scale compound-radius neck, jumbo frets, shark fin inlays, comes with case, pretty much the standard RR-1 features.

The Rhodes Jacksons are definatly metal style guitars, but can fit well with other rock or hard rock styles. Personialy I use it for metal, I suppose you could use it for other styles if you are progressive enough. I play it through a Marshall JCM 900 50W Hi Gain Master Volume MkIII and a 4x12 Marshall cab with 75 watt Celestions, with distortion, eq, delay, and a few othere lesser used effects. Not much noise but like most guitars you will get some hum when you aren't toutching the strings or the pots. Even when I have the amp cranked and the effects on the noise is pretty minimal. This guitar has a much beefier sound then I expected, although it uses the same bridge pickup as the SL1 Soloist (I own one) and both are constructed from alder wood its way deeper sounding, maybe the body has something to do with it. Lots of sustain, easy pinch harmonics, the higher strings seem to be slightly brighter then the lower ones. There are many factors to getting a good sound, it may sound like crap through a crate, but any Jackson USA series will give you what you need for the guitar end. At any rate you should play it safe and try one out first since sound is such an individual taste.

I got this slightly used. The action was a tad high for my taste, but I like it to practicaly touch the frets so I can't complain to much. I re-setup every guitar after I buy it anyway, Probably ok for most though. Needed to lower the pickups a bit when I lowered the action. Every thing else was flawless. Not even a nick on the upper wing, I got lucky with that! My soloist has very minimal wear after several years of hard playing. The Floyd Rose rusts out abit over time, if you keep it clean and add a bit of household oil to the nuts it will last longer. Most of the hardware needs periodic tightining, no biggie.

I gig with it and plenty of pro touring musicians use these live so I doubt you will have any problems. It seems pretty tough but I wouldn't want to drop it. The wings and headstock are notorious for being easy to chip, just try to be careful, and if you do chip it just chalk it up to giving the guitar character. The stock strap holders are wide, good for a soloist but I wouldn't risk not using strap locks on the v. Very dependable but I never play with out a backup, regardles of the Floyd.

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I have been playing for over 20 years, I also own a Jackson Soloist, a newer Gibson SG, and a 68 Gibson SG. Its a feels a bit different to play standing then a strat body guitar but it has great balance. When sitting it must be played like a classical guitar. It looks as good as it plays, I would love to have a custom shop 24 fret version like Alexi Laiho's from Children of Bodom, but that adds about 2 or 3 grand extra to the price tag. Jackson USA series in my opinion are about the best solid body guitars you can buy. They are a bit pricy but nothing compairs. You can find scratch and dent versions for about $800. I may change the setup so that each pickup has its own volume. Aside from that I am very happy with this guitar. What are you waiting for? Go get one!

USA built, Bought it second hand for $1200 on ebay amazing price, 22 jumbo size frets, volume, tone and 3 way switch. There are 81 and 85 EMG which sound incredible in any amp. Alder wood fret board. The paint is a clear white and black bevels. It has its origional Floyd Rose and locking nuts. All the hardware is black and the tuners are Schaller. The shark fin shape is a realy good style but is awkard to sit down and play.

I love metal and rock and this guitar is the best guitar for it. Its fast neck and floyd rose tremelo is perfect for fast solo's. I have a Fender Roc-pro 700 that produses a great sound but i am saving up for a Marshall avt150h and cab which will give the best sound ever. There is alot of veriety with the tremelo and emg's and can produce a great clean sound. I love the guitars sound and i canj't wait until I get my Marshall.

The action on this guitar was professionaly and the Floyd Rose's flat bridge gives it a realy nice feal which is great for dampening. There are no flaws to the look or sound of this guitar and it is my best guitar ever.

This guitar is to valuble to me to use it on stage but it would perform just as well as it does at home. The finish has not 1 speck that has worn away and looks stuning. The guitar is solid and would last on stage with no problems but the fins would be trouble if you performed on a small stage.

This guitar has never gone wrong and i don't think it ever will.

This is an amazing guitar but the stange thing is that i have never seen 1 like it or with as good history. The guitar is a Jackson RR1 PROFESSIONAL and i have not been able to find one that is a RR1 PROFESSIONAL. Just the standard ones. It also has alot of history, it was previously owned buy the guitarist of kid rock and has been used in a gig and is still in brand new condition but with emg's fitted. When i won the guitar on ebay i couldn't believe the price. If some one out there has another Jackson rr1 professional please contact me.

USA MAde, 22 frets, Neck-Trhu-Body, 3-way toggle, Sh2 & TB4 Duncans, original Floyd, Deluxe Case. Bought that one back in 1998.

Sound is amzing. No matter which amp you play it through, it's just amazing and much better than every guitar I've ever played.

The TB4s do a full, rich und ultrafat distorted Sound, yet always clear and easy and good to accentuate. The clean sound is great too, so you will have no probs playing acoustic stuff on it.

This guitar has tons of bass on it. When palm-muting a lot, you'll find nothing better.

TB4 actually might be THE metal Humbucker. I've tried several others on this guitar, including Duncan Distortion, Custom, Invader und EMGs81, but returned to the duncans, as they are not only high-outputting but organic-sounding and, as mentioned, the fattest of them all.

Factory-setup was excellent, no further adjustment needes.
Finish well made too, but be careful with the "wings" , as this guitar is very long and you might scratch off the finish when posing around.

Neck is ultrafast and perfect for soloing, it seems as if the guitar would play all fast licks by herself. Rhytm work and palm muting take a little time, until you get your right hand gets suited to the special shape of the guitar. Sweatbands sould be used live.

I've used this one now for 3 CDs and about 40 gigs, and still it is in great shape. I had to replace the tremolo screws, because they corroded through excessive sweating :( This might be the only flaw, but you'll have that on every guitar (also if the screws are labelled "non-corroding" - they are never and will always rust!)
Strap buttons are big and solid, but i've replaced them with Schaller SecLocks as everybody would do.

Live, i used this without backup guitar, and i never was in need of one. If you play sober, the strings (if not too old) won't brake ;)

Tremolo is OK. but It won't stay tuned if you use the trem a lot. If you don't use, you can put the guitar aside for a month, pick it up and it still will be tuned.

Fretboard (ebony) still in perfect shape, undestroyable.

7 years old now - still a great guitar.

Never tried, never needed.

Overall, it was the perfect decision to buy this one - well, i should have taken one with locking bridge as i don't need tremolos and detuning is heck of a work.

This is not just a great Metal axe, blues and jazz are great to play too, also acoustic stuff. Of course, you won't enter other than a Metal stage with a guitar shaped like this.

If it's gets stolen, i'll put a great reward online or smash the thief's face. This is one fine peace of guitar building.

Same as the rest really floyd etc.. thru neck.. but mine has emg pickips rather than duncans.
22 frets
red with black bevels
The neck is not as thin as i thought it would be.

The guitar sound i have with my rr1 and emg's is very very tight and clear, but a little airy a lot or the rr1's have an airy tone to them but i like that as it cleans up the distortion.
I play very fast very heavy metal like children of bodom, slayer,corpse,etc... thrash black death prog metal and country lol
It suits my style great its fast and the neck is the best neck ive played on better than soloist, ibanez jems, prs, gibson and miles better than the gbson flying vee.
You can hear it in action at WWW.RE-BIRTH.CO.UK it was used to record our 2 albums.
It is a little noisy at times but i am running it through a mesa boogie dual rectifier head and cab on about volume 6-7 at practice.
The sound is quite bright and airy but like i said tight and precise.
It is not the most varied sounding guitar the clean sound is very bland but as i hardly use that it does not bother me.
nothing i really dislike about the sound other than poss a little bit too bright and a little too dull clean.

Well what can i say they are built amazing!!!
Seriously awesome work jackson amigos
The set up was bog standard ... good for jackson... unlike gibson set ups YUKK!!!!
The only guitars I have played to rival it is custom shop usa bc riches and maybee some usa deans ie.. time capsule series.

This guitar is fine live and we play very fast and very heavy.
The hardware is generaly good but you get the floyd rose alan keys rusting a bit after a few months of live work.
The finish is flawless if only it was black with gold bevels!!!
I use it at gigs without backups all the time it never breaks strings if it is set up right and always has people saying ... wow man nice axe.

dunno really cant comment..
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I have been playin for about 5 years now i own a couple of other axes.. Ibanez rg 550 and a strat but this rules the roost.
If it were stolen id skull f"%ck the person that took it and insert both prongs up there ass, i would buy another one or maybee an esp explorer.
I wish it was black, had a free beer vending machine in it somewhere and maybee a couple of sexy naked sweedish nuns, but that aint gonna happen so i guess i like it a lot lol
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2004 model US made. All features mentioned earlier.

It's lot brighter than I expected, lot brighter than my SL2H. I got RR3 with same pickups and orig. Floyd. It sounds darker than RR1. This RR1 sounds so bright on neck so some would think it's thick sounding Strat.

The factory set-up is low, so low that srings were buzzing little bit. Truss rod was too tight and the hex key included didn't fit. The neck is FAT and wide. It's lot bigger than on my Soloist. According to Jakcson's web page, the neck dimensions SLs and RR1s should be same. Big minus, over 5 per cent difference. Well time will tell wil my hand accustom to it

Finish is really great, no flaws.

7 , -3 points for the neck

I think this guitar is built to last forever, but who knows how does it. Well after ten years I could say how much the harware will last. I got SL1 1990 model and its harware is still excellent.

Floyds have tendency to break strings sometimes when you don't expected it, so wouldn't use it without backup.

Warranty on Jacksons by Fender. SUCKS

I've been playing on and off over 20 years. I got mostly Jacksons and this was obvious buy

If it were stolen, I wouldn't buy it again. I would finally buy something else, ESP, B.C.Rich perhaps.

This V-shape is really confort to play sitting or standing and the body is very balanced so I don't need to hold neck for going down. Only thing I hate about this guitar is the fat neck. I admit it is fast to play, but ...

Before I bought my SL2H, I was going to buy a RR1, but it was gone.

I think two vols and one tone would be better setup for the controls.

This my second Jackson I bought after the Jackson Guitars were sold to Fender. My sincere opinion is that the quality of Jacksons is going down as the guy at the local music shop said ober two years ago. My RR3 got twisted neck and it was sent to Fender, who returned it and said there is nothing wrong with the neck. Ok it's made in Japan, but I wouldn't expect any quality problems with the US made RR1.

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2003 USA Made 22 Extra Jumbo frets, Seymour Duncan Humbuckers, 2 tone, 1 volume, 1 3-way selector. Alder body, maple neck, ebony fretboard, binding on headstock and neck, pearl sharkfin inlays and inlaid jackson logo, neck-thru body, ORIGINAL Floyd Rose Tremelo, Metallic Black Finish on body, neck

I play metal.....plain and simple. Lots of string skipping, scales, etc. Thrash, speed, pretty much anything that is a challenge. I'm playing currently through a MESA Triple Rec, and a rack configuration that consists of a Rocktron Intellifex, DBX Noise gate, KORG tuner and of course a Furman power conditioner. I also have a Boss EQ pedal in the loop to further customize my sound. This thing kills through my rig, the highs dont punch out as much with the passive pickups, but theres plenty of "chug" when i need it.

As soon as i opened this bitch up I fell in love, once again Jackson lives up to its name. The finish looks like it could last a lifetime of touring, hardware is the same. All in all, its built like a tank, you just gotta watch the wings, takes time to get used to, but you'll know how far it sticks out. Guitar also came with a perfect set-up. We play in a drop C tuning, and thats exactly how it came, action was also flawless.

As mentioned above, this thing is built like a tank. Finish is nothing short of amazing. I have absolute faith in this guitar that it can stand up to the test of the road. Has large strap buttons, so im not worried that the strap will slip. I can depend on this thing to stand true, but....it also has a Floyd, which is no good if you break a string during a show (God forbid). For this reason, and this reason only, will I take a backup. This is a good idea for any guitar with a Floyd setup.

Have not dealt with Jackson yet, I also own a 2002 SLAT-QH, which is the last Jackson production year before the takeover by Fender, and i've had no problems with that axe except for the gold plating on the bridge, which is starting to wear (of course). I have however, questioned the custom shop for a quote on a custom RR-1, and the reply was very quick, considering the volume of e-mails they must get.

OK, everyone else has raved about this guitar, so there is no need for me to waste half a page to write up about this stunning piece of gear. Even though it is a fender made Jackson, and despite the negative feelings people have towards the buyout (myself included), this guitar really does deserve the Jackson name on it. I've played RR's from the pre-fender era, and this feels no different. I also see no flaws/issues with the guitar, and to play this thing is a dream, hell you can let your fingers do all the work and the notes punch right out. If you are in the market for this guitar, and have taken the time to read up about this, i'm sure you'll find many others with a similar opinion to mine, which is no coincidence. These things are made to shred, plain and simple, and thats all there is to it.

Made in USA, 22 fret, neck thru guitar, floyd rose bridge, 3 way toggle switch, 2 humbuckers, maple/alder body, maple neck with an ebony fretboard.

Just what you'd expect.

Simply stunning, I changed to an emg 81/85 set up and I'm blown away by it's capabilities, although the stock pick ups were quite nice through a marshall stack.

It came out of the factory perfect, the paint job is so bright and vibrant without a flaw. The action was the best I've ever seen on any guitar.

This guitar is built to last, nearly indestructible!

Haven't tried for customer support, no need for it with a guitar like that!

A perfect guitar for a decent price, how much more value could you ask for?