DAN AGOSTO: Hi. Welcome to Gearwire. We're taking a look at the Jackson DKMG Dinky guitar. This is a 25.5" scale guitar. This one, this model we have here is Black Forest finish. It's an alder body, and as you can see it's contoured so we got some comfort out of it. The neck is made out of rock maple, and as you can see this is a bolt-on neck. And this is a pretty solid piece of neck. You can feel it. We've got 24 jumbo frets on here. It's a rosewood fingerboard and piranha inlays so they're kind of like shark tooth -- teeth but a little smaller. We got a locking nut up here at the top so you're going to need some Allen keys, and this is because we got the locking style floating tremolo. The headstock is a reverse headstock. This is a Dinky reverse, and of course we have our truss rod cap and these are all Jackson die-cast tuners.

All right. If we take a look at the bridge, this is a JT-580LP double locking tremolo, so it's a floating, sort of reminiscent of the Floyd Rose, and we got the bar comes attached. These knobs right here, we got three knobs: one master volume and then the tone for the neck humbucker and the tone for the bridge humbucker, and a three-way selector switch. And these pickups are EMG HZ pickups. These are both passive. Let's see what this neck humbucker sounds like.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING ON THE JACKSON DKMG DINKY, NECK HUMBUCKER]

So, pretty much what you would expect out of a high-output neck pickup. Let's see how the tone affects this.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING ON THE JACKSON DKMG DINKY, NECK HUMBUCKER]

So, really just makes it a little darker. I was sweeping it up a little bit but right now it is down. We can turn that back up. Let's listen to what the middle setting sounds like.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING ON THE JACKSON DKMG DINKY, NECK AND BRIDGE HUMBUCKERS]

So, kind of like what also we would expect out of the middle setting. Let's see what these tone knobs can do in this setting.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING ON THE JACKSON DKMG DINKY, NECK AND BRIDGE HUMBUCKERS]

So it actually seems like the middle knob or the neck tone knob is not really -- it might be bypassed right now.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING ON THE JACKSON DKMG DINKY, NECK AND BRIDGE HUMBUCKERS]

It seems like this knob is actually doing the only thing a little bit of high and roll-off, not too much though. Let's see what the lead pickup sounds like.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING ON THE JACKSON DKMG DINKY, BRIDGE HUMBUCKER]

All right. So, it's a pretty solid lead tone.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING ON THE JACKSON DKMG DINKY, BRIDGE HUMBUCKER]

Also a pretty solid, heavier, edgy rhythm tone as well, so that setting is my personal favorite. I'll go back to the middle setting and just see how this tremolo works. It works in both directions.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING ON THE JACKSON DKMG DINKY, BRIDGE HUMBUCKER, TESTING OUT WHAMMY BRIDGE]

Sounds pretty good in tune considering that I basically just push the tremolo down about as far as it can go. Let's see how the other direction works.

[DAN AGOSTO PLAYING ON THE JACKSON DKMG DINKY, BRIDGE HUMBUCKER, TESTING OUT WHAMMY BRIDGE]

So you can see it's starting to go a little bit out of tune, but that could be because we don't have these as down as hard. The locking nut may not have it down as hard as we should or it may not be adjusted properly right out of the box. But this is the Jackson DKMG Dinky guitar. This is what you get. It doesn't come with a gig bag or a case so you'd have to provide one for yourself. So, thanks for checking out this guitar at Gearwire.Com.