To keep your new Donner guitar in good condition, we suggest that you should get into the habit of cleaning the guitar every time you finish playing. Clockwise tightens the truss rod for a higher string position, and counter-clockwise loosens it for a lower string position. All too often with inexpensive guitars, pickups are an afterthought, but we actually got some nice tones from them. It should also be noted that the DST-152 is one step up from Donner’s mega-budget DST-100 strat style guitar, and sits below their Seeker series strat, the DST-400, which we will be reviewing at a later date. If the Fender neck is thicker at the heel (which it certainly appears to be) then the fretboard may sit higher above the line of the Donner body.

My opinion is that copy companies like Donner would just replicate Fender assembly specs, but obviously I don't know for sure as I have zero interest in crappy Donner stuff. On the topic of the trem, the bridge was decked from the factory, which is pretty common on Strat type guitars.A couple of things that are not great for beginners are the bad setup and poor quality control that can happen. The metal parts are easily oxidized, please make sure to wipe the strings, bridge, pickups, and tuners with a dry, delicate cotton cloth every time you finish playing.

While we performed the majority of the testing on a Boss Katana 50 to get a more realistic impression of the guitar, we also made sure to test the practice amp that came bundled with it.Otherwise, for intonation considerations, if the necks' screw holes line up with the same frets then that should mean that saddles don't have to be moved forward or back much. My teen daughter just started taking guitar lessons and she was so excited to try an electric guitar.

Coil Split Function] Equipped with a PUSH-PULL switch circuit, the humbucking pickup can be split to release classic single-coil tones, providing players with more rich tones.Need to set up, nut, tuning pegs and strings are made with very poor quality, I need to change them with new ones. The bag plus all the accessories that came with the guitar are great for someone just starting out on learning to play. and the mini amp is no half stack, but it gives a variety of sounds and has a built-in distortion setting. The 3W practice amp includes a rechargeable internal battery, 2 switchable channels (clean and distorted), minijack aux in, and minijack headphones out. After the string replacement, please cut off the excess to avoid damage to the human body or a guitar gig bag/case.

They are not terrible and applying graphite to nut helps a little bit, so the tuning instability was partially the fault of the nut. One issue: I am getting a little string buzz on the E string in the upper frets, but it's inconsistent and only when I strum just right, so I'm undecided if I'm going to need to adjust the truss rod or not. The neck position was warm and well balanced, and retained clarity even when the treble was rolled back.Expertly packaged, and not a scratch on it, the only thing it’s been the years since I set up a guitar and had to think about it while! He started playing bass and guitar in 1998, and played the local scene throughout his teen years before life got in the way. Whoever put this kit together had some great attention to detail and the authority to make their decisions stick. If the string is lower (convex neck), one should loosen the truss rod, which means turning the adjustment screw counter-clockwise.