Avoid exposing your guitar to rain, use it near water or any extremely hot, cold, damp, or dry conditions.

All in all, from the guitar to the bag to the tuner, it’s a great kit and seems like an absolute steal for a beginner. Keeping your guitar safe and in excellent playing condition is all about what you do with it when you’re not playing it.Refer to the specific instructions provided by the manufacturer for adjusting the string action/height on locking tremolos. Donner Electric Guitar, 39" Electric Guitar Kit HSS Pickup Coil Split, DST-152R Beginner Set with Amp, Bag, Capo, Strap, String, Tuner, Cable, Picks, Metallic Ice Blue This is our second Donner guitar, we also have their acoustic. Volume and tone controls are also well located and used in conjunction with the amplifier controls produce a good range of sounds. JS22 Dinky can also handle more gentle stuff and has a compound radius which makes riffing near to neck and soloing closer to the body really smooth. After making it a bit higher to get rid of the fret buzz, handling this guitar and accessing all corners of the fretboard was really easy and smooth.

After a tune up mine was playable right out of the box, with a setup far better than more expensive guitars I’ve bought, although it is a good idea to get any guitar a new setup. By specs being the same, I’m talking about both having the same radius, scale length, nut width, both are C shape, have 22 frets etc. Tighten the string by turning the tuning key, making sure the string wraps downward along the post, and press the string on the nut (Figure 4). The humbucker is somewhat muddy and dark (something to upgrade if you don’t like its sound) but the split-coil works great.Using a tuner, then play the fretted note at the 12th fret (depress the string to the fingerboard), and compare the reading on your tuner to the reading you got when playing the 12th open harmonic. Very impressive and the blue color is sort of a retro shade that gives it that old time rock and roll feeling. The 3W practice amp includes a rechargeable internal battery, 2 switchable channels (clean and distorted), minijack aux in, and minijack headphones out.

So the saddles may have to be raised, and you might like to try to judge by how much to gauge viability before installing it. I have multiple guitars in my house ranging from some high end fenders to basic epiphones and this is on par with some of my basic ones obviously but it is very very good to start with this. Unfortunately for me, the pocket is not slightly over width like most Chinese copies I have come across. In the case of not playing for a long time, we recommend that you loosen the strings appropriately to avoid bending the neck.

This guitar is part of the Donner Seeker series that includes 3 different guitars sharing a lot of characteristics: the Donner DST-152, the DST-200, and the DST-400, reviewed by Guitar International HERE. The tuners are reasonably precise, and seem to have good gearing; likewise, the tremolo works reasonably well, though repeated use does take the guitar out of tune. The accessories included a mini practice amp, a set of picks with different stiffness, a second set of strings, a tuner, a strap, a couple of Alan wrenches, a cable, a gig bag and a capo.