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The naming convention used by Jackson (as well as by Ibanez and others) actually gives some info about the guitar - although it results in funny names indeed. For example, in this case, JS32 is the model, JS32Q is a JS32 with a Quilted maple veneer, DK is the body shape (Dinky), DKA is a Dinky with an Arched top, DKAM is a Dinky with Arched top and maple fretboard while DKA AH has an Amaranth fretboard. HT stands for a fixed (i.e. Hipshot-style) bridge (e.g. the fixed bridge made by Jackson for its 6-string guitars is called HT6). Ibanez uses similar naming, e.g. AH stands for Ash body, AHM adds to this a maple fretboard, etc. Likewise, ESP uses the term NT (non-tremolo) for fixed bridges, etc. At the end, it is always given the finish (color) name - often transparent something or/and something burst and usually abbreviated using 3 or 2 letters. In this case, Transparent Purple Burst or TPB.

You can't deny: you had fun like a 13 years old boy

Played a tribal green version at guitar center… I was extremely impressed. Felt great, sounded brutal as hell on distortion, and the cleans were absolutely fluffy. I couldn’t believe it was $249.

Just ordered one of these, it arrives Saturday. Haven't played in about 15 years, don't ask lol. I'm super excited! Thank you so much for the video.

DAYUM that shred caught me off guard!!!

Good review and great playing! The facial expressions are a bonus.

Definitely the best review of this guitar I’ve seen. Shredding is insane!

Awesome guitar!!! Looks great and sounds even better! Cheers from Portugal 🤘🍺🇵🇹

Loved the video and cool playing

I bought the dark green one and after a good set up I haven't had any problems. It's a budget guitar so don't expect it to be high end. But for a second or third guitar to mess around on its great. I agree the the jem jr is a better guitar in my opinion but I play this jackson fairly often and use the whammy bar extensively and haven't had any tuning problems...yet. worth the money!!!!

I just love this guy, pretty funny and definitely knows a lot due to his experience... Thanks a lot for this videos, greetings from Argentina!!

Great job as usual. I sold off all my Jackson’s and Charvel the only strats I have left are my JEM 77VBK and my Malmsteen. Switched to Dean Dime ML’s I’m not a neck snob by any means but I love the V neck shape over the Jackson compound radius.

Good morning from Canada. Gotta love those Jackson and Ibanez names.

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You had that guitar punch way above it's weight class. Very nice.

I have the JS32Q HT, changed the tuners to Gear4music´s "Guitar Works Locking tuners" for 26€ and it turned the guitar from a 260€ cheap JS that would not stay in tune to a pro-series equivalent for less than 300€. It plays amazingly good, stays really well in tune with the new locking tuners and the stock pickups (Jackson branded Belcat PU´s) sound actually really good, they have a nicely tight and compressed sound to them. 0 issues with the electronics everything is still nice and tight, no rattles or unwanted noises... I have an ESP LTD EC-1000 with Seymour Duncans and i value both guitars equally high. Get the Hard Tail version to avoid the headache associated with cheap Floyd Rose trems...

I got my daughter a js22 (same as yours but not locking trem) and it's a fantastic guitar for $200 -still a joy to play 5 years later. Don't use the trem though!

I dig it!

lol that was my first guitar, even the same color. thx for the video!

Elmo there's a version of this guitar with a mahogany body and roasted maple neck. It has a vintage trem system. I've heard great things about it. Although using a vintage trem on the hockey stick headstock might not be the best idea.

I own one of the JS series as well and can highly recommend it! Of course, you d´better swap the PUs and the bridge, but the quality for the price is awesome! Ok, you can feel that the clear coat is thinner and what´s bad imho is the binding! That´s pretty cheap! But over all a killer series!

Finland is Metal County!!! Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱 thanks for your work here.

I have the JS32QHT, wich is the hardtail version of same one you have here. Same color too. :)

its hard to have a chanel in youtube but go head men ...keep doing what you love

I bought one of these years back and I still own it, albeit heavily modded, lol. Mine is a black/dark greenish JS32Q, my mods are as follows: Routed for an FU-2 FU-Tone Bridge, FU-2 bridge, brass claw and screws, 37mm L brass block, noiseless springs, titanium string inserts, titanium neck plate, Floyd Rose pop-in bar with assembly, CRL switch, Switchcraft jack, CTS pots, off-white/slime green bobbin'd Seymour Duncan '59 in the neck, double creme DiMarzio Evolution in the bridge, and Graph Tech Ratio locking tuners, and had the guitar refretted with jumbo Jescar stainless steel frets... This guitar cost me 200 bucks shipped to my door and has been a blast to experiment on, I love how it plays, the value is/was insane, it was a great guitar before I decided to replace everything on it but the neck, body, and frets, haha. Cheers! P.S. Love the neck on this guitar.

That is a great looking instrument.

Mr Elmo I Just ordered a new 2022 Yngwie Malmsteen Stratocaster . The Guitar Store said 6-12 months of expected delivery time . $2615.00 plus 13% tax here in Canada . Toronto .

I love mine after some work.Still cant compare to my old model 6.

Got JS32 JS22 & PS1 Still love my PS1

I have a 1995 Jackson USA Kelly Pro getting a custom respray atm, and work done. So i was gong to get another USA King V Pro. Went and played a few at guitar store, my local for 30 years. And honestly for $6500 and a 3 year wait I played tis guitar (mind you neither the expensive or this $500) Jackson were setup by a technician. I just couldn't see the value in paying $6500 for Guitar, when played this I bought one to leave at my girlfriends place, sick of carrying guitars at my age. Took it to my guitar tech, and WOW, it shreds does not go out of tune and is killer, so i bought a SECOND one for me at home hahahahaa.....this thing is a freak guitar for the money, Looking for a reason to buy a third one as the pickups, fret board size, sound, playability even with bolt on neck ( noting like the bolt ones from 1995) is epic. Thats my experience!! i could buy 10x of these or 1x USA Pro King V........And the new King V cases are V Shaped and have Jackson All over them. See i don't want to advertise what's inside, and 3 year wait!! The guitar sales mate kept syaing, but the USA made has all these extra bits that make it worth the money. I said okay like what? couldn't get an answer lol.....

I have 4 of them white colored. Js11,JS 22, amd myJS34Q is red quilted color and a JSX11 DINKY DMK minion soloist with the light colored neck in white

Is this better than the Schecter Omen Extreme-FR Electric Guitar, Vintage Sunburst??

I had one as my first guitar and now I bought another one to keep it. The neck, frets and inlays sold it for me. When I get better i will get an ESP e-II Japan. This is the best review for this guitar.

Well... it sounds like an... electric guitar! Tadaah! And a Marshall and effects. Your playing is respectable. Would a Jem Jr., for example, sound different? If there is a subtle difference, who is going to hear it? Like... listening to demo recording and having a great moment of epiphany: wooooow, this guy is not playing LTD, but Jackson! However, great to hear that this thing is a potential instrument after some tweeking, intonating, filing, planing, screwing etc!

Elmo Rawrs! 🦖🎸🔥

I think they sell others with a regular hard tail bridge instead of a Floyd rose. In any case this guitar is a great value and very comfortable

Bro Dinky is just fine. Just got one in satin black with the Jackson Floyd pre owned for £100 but he knocked it down a bit from £130 for me. It’s mint, been cared for and not a scratch on it. £100 unbelievable! Will set it up, new strings and a clean up tomorrow then get it screaming

i have a jackson js 32 dinky natural oil and a ibanez jem junior for the price i would say that the ibanez is the better choice for me but they both sound great

Would you buy this together with a blackstar fly, gig bag, cables and a tuner for 200 eur 2nd hand? Or a Yamaha Pacifica 112J also with gig bag and Amp also for 200?

Most reactors who test this do see the FR bridge difficult for a beginner. How about you ? I bought JS22 Dinky because of that and do not use tremolo so much.

Hello hello! Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱

Got the violet one, wow after some normal adjustements to get the low action I love, like take of the metal chim they put under the nut that makes the strings to high. then I had to fill just a bit on the 1 fret high E string. then adjust the springs in the back and lower the floyd, adjust the trust rod. change the strings. plug into a good distortion like the revv g3 etc.. and bamm this thing is well made because theres zero buzzes anywere and I got super low action. and still a few turns left to lower the bridge not many guitars are like this. most that I got are at the lowest point. wow sounds amazing with these pick ups and plays super fluidly and fast. I will surely get another with the reverse neck this time. :) sory for bad spelling, I'm french so....

Put a Dimarzio tone zone in the bridge. It sounds so much better. I did that with mine and it roars like a pro!

I'm looking to get a first FR for a grand-daughter(her choice), these are in the mix though I'm pretty sure the JemJr is in the lead. Any significant differences between the Edge system and FR Licensed?

i really wanna get a Jackson guitar cuz then I'd have my name on a guitar...but none have really stood to me. Cool vid

I plan on replacing the pick ups in mine. Would it be a waste to put an original Floyd rose on it? If I can do such a thing. I’d rather kinda customize mine instead of buying a new one. Thoughts?

I had a GORGEOUS LTD M330-R and it had a Floyd Rose licensed ESP double locking bridge. Just like this guitar has a Floyd Rose licensed Jackson double locking bridge. They are good. But they aren't great like a real Floyd Rose. They are quite a bit cheaper. But the lost tuning on such a dive on the trem bar, that impressed me.

I have one of these. Plays well and sounds decent. Only thing I don’t like about it is the e-string pops out of the tremolo all the time. I think the hardware is just cheap.

Found a great deal on it, had to buy.

It would be nice if you can review also the Jackson js11 or js12 guitars (22 and 24 frets is the difference). Price wise they are the same as Squier Bullet/Sonic. I have the js11 and i am beginner player and to me it feels nice and seems like good value for the money ( 185€ in Europe). But again, would be great to see your honest review. Also for all the people looking to buy it, there are alot of channels that give it a good review, but are they honest?

does anyone know if the guatair body is matte or shiny

Man you are good!

Jesus christ on a crucifix you're a phenomenal player

And how often will I hear a Jackson guitar played in this inappropriately unconventional manner? I believe this was it. And more. More or less. Thank you for an unanticipated pleasure. Unanticipated, due to the fact that your video came on automatically instead of being chosen. For me, apparently a once in a lifetime enjoyment. I like the impromptu style you play.

Easy way to say it: Jackson dinky js 32 Floyd Rose with quilted maple top. Nice quality for what you get, would buy several of them at the price the paint job alone is worth that very nice quilted maple paint on those guitars.

Said it once… say it again.. you make the guitars sound good…

U should review the ibanez azes 40

Isn't the flyod rose tremelo of this guiter and the Jackson JS32 Dinky ( Black Matte ) same???

Whats the amp your playing through sounds scrumptious 😋

Moro! Ite hommasin tän "shred machinen" tossa nuutama päivä sitten ja ois ollu tosiaan budjetti kokreammallakin, mutta kyllä tää Jacsoni vaan sopi käteen niin hyvin, että lähti matkaan. Sehän soitettavuuden mukavuus siinähän on tärkeintä.

Damn bro u shred

Dinky series is made in Fender's Mexico (FMIC) factory yes?

Good review as you would expect from Elmo, But a proper set up will ensure you get the most of it. I just took my Tokai Les Paul Delux for a professional set up, By Andy Farrell Ex led Zeppelin and a host of other top bands tech, The difference is just wow, I was embarrassed as He asked me to try it and I could not play it is , as the difference was so, so now at home it is butter melts as I play it, Fret polish helps sustain ect, All of you want to race your car get it race tuned, do the same with your guitar.. My favourite guitarist ( sorry Elmo) is Jeff Healey he played a Squire, yes set up a bit different for his style of play, Get you Axe, guitar done, but by a Luthier not at a shop, look around you will find them.

This is a damn good guitar if you know how to or know someone to set it up properly and take care of those cost cutting QA issues. And the problem we have here is that novice players usualy dont know how to fix this type of issues so the guitar gets branded as garbage right away. Back in medieval times when we had no ecomerce and instruments were only sold at music stores most stores would have these guitars sent to a tech for an overhaul before they were put on for sale in the store so even a cheap guitar like this would make for a decent instrument. This would obviously increase the price of the instrument but it would also save a lot of customer grief and lower the amount of returned instruments.

Is that the really thin body one?

I mostly came here to listen to some playing. Luckily they make a hardtail version of this guitar. I say skip trem systems while on a Budget. Playing in tune is way more impressive than dive bombing :)

I have the Rhoads JS32. Great guitar except for the atrocious "floyd" and weak pickups

Please do the Black Metal Esp Ltd

Bet it would sound 100×better if you put some symore duncans in that

I’ve the exact same guitar with hard tail, can’t put her down.

🤣🤣 My 13 yr old loves it, and the RR24Q.

do a jackson Randy Rhoads next Elmo?

I can tell it's not your style, you're a fender Stratocaster guy. I really like mine, I changed the saddles to stainless steel and replaced the pot's the nut and trem block. That made a huge difference, I purchased mine from Sweetwater, and had no fret issue they do a 55 point inspection and have their own 2-year warranty and have a 30-day return policy and offer free tech support on anything from pedals to amps or anything you need. Look at their videos on KZfaq.I like your honest reviews.

If you think Jackson model numbers are tough to remember, try Ibanez's lol. Guitar looks killer nonetheless.

Its not about d guitar it's about who's playing it..... nice 👌

i have the same guitar in black, which i bought a few years ago. The issue with the neck and sharp frets is becoming all too common. Today to meet demand, i think that the guitars are made with wood that has not been allowed to fully dry out, and it shrinks and bends before the guitar reaches the customer, hence requiring a full setup. This is just annoying for us, but for a beginner it makes the guitar unplayable. One request, please use the Vox amp for clean tones, that Marshall sounds way too gritty.

2:25 YOU'RE 42??? NO WAY

You choose the right color, purple shred..

whammy bar manufacturers must be TERRIFIED when you test them! haha :)

I wonder if pointy guitars will ever make a come back? For some reason Ibanez headstock is OK. You should have put on some nice sexy spandex for this video amigo. ;)

That's a good review. I thought it sounded pretty good. I hate bad fretwork though. It just pisses me off. That said, one could put a 100 dollar gotoh Floyd in it and maybe change the pickups and tuners and you would have a decent guitar, but if you did that you could avoid all that and just buy a better version Jackson or whatever and be done with it. 😭😂 Hope all is well sir. Tim

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I have green one, without tremolo. To be honest I don't like pickups on this guitar.

My cat didnt like the clean tones particularly at the 6:00 mark.

All Jackson's I've had under £400 never seem to stay in tune 🙄 The X series up are much better🤘🎸

Its funny I have a jackson and no one can tell me what its called. I called Jackson and gave them the serial number and all they could tell me is what year it was built.

I bought this guitar and quickly became annoyed. Not sure if its because it was my first floyd but the string always pop out of the floyd rose. Its almost not funny anymore how many times it has happened and i dont know how to mitigate this

Now thats something you dont see everyday ,A wannabe metal/rock guitar playing fussion jazz/ i have the one with the strat trem ,put on a black graphite nut and some dadfadrtio locking tuners ,played it for a year and half ,jist recently got a king v ,holy shit yeah these guitarzs are junk ,from the jackson plant to the music store ,to my so called best friend that had me trafe a cort exploror thats lizted for 350 and my campfire/ firewood guitar is going for 159 new at the local music store in bfe oregon,you made that guitar sonnd awesome ,sorry for any misplelling phones display dying on old old phone

Compared with some other guitars you've demoed this one doesn't sound very good. Seems flabby sounding on the low end and lifeless on the high end. The best tone seemed to be the warm jazz tone near the beginning

When did Elmo leave sesame street?

Yep, it is typically for young boys for full distortion... Clean does not sound too nice. I do not know why but Jackson guitars have always been out of my radar. What I like they focus on 3/4 guitars (both guitars and basses) which can plant the seeds for really young players to continue with the same brand as they grow bigger. This guitar reminds me the early 90s Washburn finishes :)

Neck- Excellent playability, compound radius Tuners - Barely good enough to use Pickups- Not good or bad. Just there Floyd Rose- ABSOLUTE TRASH! Nut- On the JS32 model it's TRASH Avoid the Floyd rose made out of pot metal. The neck is amazing and will inspire you to play. Buy the hardtail version if you want but don't spend a bunch of money modding it. WARNING: These guitars will suck you in and many people mod them. You just have to remember it's still a cheap chinese bolt on guitar with a poplar body. That neck is awesome but I would rather buy it attached to something else.

Just call it a dinky .awsome guotar period!!🎯talkn is cheap

Don't like any Jackson 2000 and up

Good video, but to me, a square joint is absolutely not a shred thing, for the price, there is better : Harley Benton

Your intro music takes me into a deep sad state everytime . Please change it

Who names these things? It sounds like you’re reading the serial number.

Men, you can play

I’m almost scared to say this, but it sounds kind of…beautiful? It’s got a great shape even though the finish looks downright flea market.