Great for any style of music, me personally I'm into metal, and it's perfect for it. Its got a nice harsh sound using the right setting, this guitar can do anything you need it to do. Best Guitar I've ever owned.

The turbo emg pickups are great especially if you need an extra boost when you are doing a solo.

The body it great I see nothing bad with this guitar, I would buy another if something happened to mine.

Great guitar, well worth the money.

Haven't needed to talk to them yet. Everythings has been great with this guitar.

the curve of the body is beautiful, smooth lines and a beautiful archtop perfect if you wanted to get it painted, brings out all the colors perfectly.

Metal

The sound on this guitar is amazing, but i have been using a humbucker single coil configuration for a long time and to switch to a dual humbucker setup was a drastic change for me. But, after playing it day in day out I have gotten to like the dual humbucker sound a lot. The EMGs are awesome pickups that don't make ANY noise AT ALL. GREAT FOR METAL

This guitar has a Jackson Tremelo on with Flayd Rose Patents. The guitar stays in tune no matter ho badly you abuse it. The pickups are awesome, and Best of of the neck is the best neck i've ever played.

The neck is very smooth nad very nicely finished. The fretboard is very playable and there is no unfinished fret or anything.The body is very nicely finished with a glossy finish. I could ask nothing mor from Jackson on this guitar.

It is a very good price for the quality of guitar that you get. None better for the price.

Luckily I have not had to use them because the guitar is flawless.

The reversed Headstock is the coolest thing i've seen and the body is a very nice rendition of the strat.

Avid (i want to play in public) Hobbyist

METAL. Hard Rock, Classic Rock, Blues, METALLICA,

Great metal cruncher! Sounds great with the turbo engaged OR off. The clean sound was very warm with great sustain. My practice amp is a Crate FXT65 and it and this guitar seem to be made for each other. The combo of the two have a great tone in my opinion. I play mostly old school metal like Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Ozzy, Scorpions, blah blah ALL METAL, etc. This is the perfect guitar for my variety.

Got a nice custom case thrown in for free.

Overall seems to be a very high quality instrument. One problem I had was I noticed that all the pots switches were loose. So far I haven't noticed anything other than that.

Pretty good. Would've saved tax if bought off the web. I wanted a little more personal experience with this guitar.

So far haven't needed to use it yet. I'll give a 10 anyways.

This is a one sexy beast. It's a BEAUTIFUL Dark Green (Black Forest). It's got a FAT fret board It looks black until you shine a light on it. Gorgeous. Chicks dig it (especially my wife) It makes me look thinner when I play it! LOL!!

Hard Rock/Heavy Metal

Very nice tone with the EMG pickups

EMG turbocharger cannot be beat

Great construction, great materials

Can't find a better guitar for any cheaper

Bitchin'!!!!!!!

METAL!!

I had a DK2 and this guitar sounds much better with the EMG pickups.

20 decible boost!

hobbyist

HARD ROCK, METAL

this guitar is awsome when it comes to playing punk, dangerous when it somes to playing metal, and deadly when it comes to playing rock. this guitar is loaded with two EMG-HZ humbuckers and has a 20db knob for that extra punch when u need it. this guitar is made of rock and heavy music. it played out all the gibsons and fenders at the store i bought it from, and for a great price too.

extra jumbo frets 20db knob for extra distortion 24 frets 3 way switch an more...

well built. sadly, ive dropped it twice hard, and it still works perfectly. the knobs became loose every once an a while though

its definately worth it. don't waste your money on any other guitar

no problems

i have the black one, and the reverse headstock pointy headstock on it gives it a diferent look kinda sexy look. and my girlfriend finds me too sexy playin it cuz she loves it so much. the sound is hipnotic too.

metal, death metal, rock, punk rock

THis is my first guitar it looks nice. It would be cool if it sounded better. Maybe with different pickups.

The turbocharger produces alot of feedback when it is turned all the way up.

The factory set up is not the best. The strings seemed to come a bit on the high side. A nut was loose and one of the pickups was ultra close to the strings.

This is my first guitar so I am not sure if it was worth it or not but it seems ok after you get it set up to your tastes. Would be nice if it came with a case.

never had to just got it.

i have it.

hobby

everything

EMG-HZ is one of the worst pickups I've ever heard/owned. This guitar could have a way better sound if it was made of mahogany and had a decent pickup. It looks as if it was made for metal, but doesn't sound like that. I hate it's licenced FR - it kills this guitar's sustain along with bad pickups. I wish I had an DKMGT, but normal ppl wouldn't trade their guitars for this one :D

I HATE: EMG-HZs, it's afterburner (which btw, worsens your tone and adds enormous amount of hiss), floyd rose type of bridge, top lock screws that I had to change after two string changes, 3 potentiometers (I only need the volume pot). Its sound isn't as chunky as the sound on any guitar that has normal tune-o-matic bridge. This basically means that with more wood in your guitar you get better tone. This guitar had some of it's wood removed for that !@#$&* floyd rose in the front and back.

You can't get decent sound out of this guitar. Jackson, why did you have to make such bad guitar???

Metal parts tend to disintegrate. Hate the fact that the guitar is made out of alder. Hate the fact that the neck is made of maple (it's obvious that i like mahogany :D). You can't play normally because that volume potentiometer is right under the bridge pickup and I tend to turn it while playing, leading to total loss of volume. Bolt on neck for 800 euros??? Madness.

This is the most expensive guitar in the world, regarding it's quality/price. Beside the fact that it's made in Japan, nothing else is good on it.

Can't say. I live in Serbia. 6000+ kilometers to get to the factory :D

I want an DKMGT! With active pickups, without the afterburner. I can even get on with the bolt on neck. This is rubbish.

7 years

Metal

sound is very good. going from a beginner washburn to a jackson is great

the reversed headstock is great looking and the designs on the frets are amazing

very playable and easy to sound great

made very well. i like the feel of it when i play

amazing price for the quality of the guitar

havnt had any problems

i love this guitar

I have the old one with 2x EMG HZ H4. So the thing is that these passiv 81 have not the power of the 9V battery loaded aktiv ones. The idea from Jackson to put the aktiv afterburner into was great. Now you can boost the HZ H4 with a 9V battery and its possible to get the same sound like an 81 by 1/3 boost of the afterburner. When you take the full power of the afterburner than you have an extream distortion an its impossible to get a clean sound out of it - nice for heavy things...

There are many things i like on this guitar. The afterburner, the emg's, the fretboard (a dream) and the tremolo.

You need no long time to get an ingenious sound. The afterburner gives you a bigger range of sound than the DKMG with 81 and without the afterburner... I think its a matter of taste but I'm verry happy to have the old one

The wood, the pickups, converting... its all great. There is only one thing I displace on my one: The tremolo is great but the attachment of the tremolo is not the best. When I tune with the tremolo the tones up, then the tremolo attachment don't tune it exact in normal tune. I put backboxes into my one. I think to take tremsetter is a good idea too - or when you have the money, you can displace it with an original Floyd Rose. Now my tremolo works perfect!

When I look at my one and thing about it what I payed for it, than I'm very happy that I bought this guitar. My opinion is, that these guitar is one of the best guitars for this money!

Wow... I was taken aback by the sound of this baby. I plugged it into 3 different heavy distortion pedals: the Boss MT-2 Metal Zone, the Digitech XMM Metal Master, and the DOD Death Metal. GOOD GOD I LOVE IT. It was so unbelieveably heavy- the EMG HZ passive pickups just scream. They're amazingly quiet for passive pickups. It had a decent clean sound, but it wasn't very warm, which I've heard in some other reviews. But if you mess with the tone and volume and such, and with your amp, you can get tons of great tones out of this baby- both clean and distorted. It sounds great with the Crate BX-15 bass amp for some reason. The EMG Turbocharger active gain boost is good, too- it doesn't kill your sound when you switch it on, and it doesn't add any excess noise, like if you would have used a pedal for the gain boost. If your looking for a guitar with active pickups, just replace the EMG-HZs on this one with EMG-81s or EMG-85s.

This guitar has the typical "Jackson feel". It has a really thin neck that plays awesome. Like I said before, the EMG Turbocharger works great- I'm glad Jackson added that feature. Only real problem I had was the tremolo. It stays in tune really well, but its kind of a pain to string up and tune. I guess it's really a matter of patience. The DKMGT doesn't have a tremolo though, if you like a string-thru tailpiece rather than the double-locking Floyd Rose.

God, it's built to last. Even the paint is difficult to chip. I recommend getting it in Satin Black though, if you're gonna treat it rough.

If you can get it for less than $470 then you have a great value. It's overpriced otherwise.

Fender is really great when it comes to handling problems, but there shouldn't really be any with this guitar. If you need to contact them, its only because you want to thank them!

Jackson just makes sexy guitars. It also has a carved top, so it looks a bit better than the DXMG. Plus its got the black hardware, covered EMG-HZ pickups, and comes in lots of cool finishes.

Everything except pop- but you wouldn't play that on a guitar like this anyways!