Jackson Adrian Smith SDX Snow White Maple Fingerboard

I am a gigging musician...this guitar meets all my needs...except ONE...the pick ups are not good...even duncan designed p.u.'s would be an improvement..

This guutar is amazing, plays and sounds great. An makes look cool to add...

Great guitar for the money. Once setup, it plays like a dream. Stock pickups were better than average.

I have the USA model and picked this one up used to have as a backup and compare. It sounds and stays in tune. HOWEVER, the neck is very hard to adjust the truss rod. It requires removing it from the body and good luck getting it to straitened out. The other part that makes it near worthless is the frets. The ends are angled to hard and keeping the high E from slipping off is near impossible. It may just be mine.

I have been playing for a year so still learning. I was ready to graduate to a better guitar and I'm a big Adrian Smith fan so this was one I wanted to own. My overall impression is that you basically get what you paid for with this guitar. It is a mid range guitar and it is clearly better than my $200 beginner guitar. It has a deeper richer tone and more sustain. The neck feels good to play. It is a nice looking guitar and looks great even just sitting on the stand. The pickups sound OK to me but I'm just messing around in the basement. If you are playing in a band I would imagine upgrading to premium pickups would be one way to really upgrade this guitar further. As mentioned in other reviews, this guitar is not set up like a dream right out of the box. There is some fret buzz especially on the low E string. I plan to let someone more experienced fiddle with the set up and I expect that will improve it. Its not a $1000 guitar but then I didn't pay for one. It is what it is and if you are buying this guitar instead of a different similarly priced guitar it is probably because you know about Adrian Smith. If you are an Iron Maiden fan and you like Adrian's guitar and just want to jam on a replica model I can't imagine you will be too unhappy here.

I bought this used about a week ago and thought this would nice to have. When I tried it out it was amazing, i thought. So i bought it. When i got it home and replaced the strings (always do when you buy a new guitar in general) and tuned it locked the nut tuned it again...it wouldn't stay in tune and my strings kep on breaking. then i figured out the problem was the bridge wasn't set up right...it was at an angle and the string tree screws were loose. 2 hrs of balancing trial and error and a little crying i was finally able to set it up right. after that It was one of the best guitars ive played. thought the neck took a little bit of getting use to. It is really a shred machine when it comes down to it. Good for metal and hard rock and you can also get some good low gain sounds out of it too. It is great for that more experienced player who just wants a touch more in a guitar.