Jackson JS22 Dinky BLK AH

I play mostly rock/metal and I purchased this guitar with the purpose of playing it mainly at home as a practice guitar. I would feel comfortable using this guitar for gigging as its very solid and sounds great. It has exceeded my expectations and is great value for money. It comes fairly well set up out of the box. The neck is very fast and the fretboard looks great with the sharkfin inlays. The stock pickups are great for the style of music I play and have lots of definition when playing heavily distorted metal riffs. I had been worried about sustain and tone when i purchased this guitar as it is quite small and light, but I couldn't have been more wrong! Amazing sustain! This guitar actually sounds and feels better than some more expensive ones that I own. In a nutshell, I believe this is probably the best rock/metal guitar that can be purchased in this price range. If I could change anything on the guitar, I would probably swap out the machine heads for locking ones as when using the trem heavily, the guitar goes out of tune easily enough. Other than that, this guitar is perfect.

This is a quality guitar for the price. The fretboard is very easy to play and makes bending and vibrato easy. For more complicated chords the fretboard takes a little practise, so you learn not to press strings too hard. The debth of the fretboard means that pressing the strings all the way down to the board will stretch the string so much, it will ring audibly out of tune. But you will easily learn it. And learning a lighter touch will make you better player.

The humbuckers are not the most clear sounding of them all, but one can expect that in this price range. They are still very passable especially in more heavy oriented sounds.