DGT-1 Review

It has a rosewood finger broad. It has 22 frets like most electric guitars. The gutiar has a soild-top. The body is made out of Alder and the neck is a bolt-on maple neck.

Features:	8
Sound:	7
Action:	4.5
Reliability:	7
Impression:	8.5
Overall rating:	7
Users rating:	4.8
Comments:	14

overall: 7.2

Reviewed by: BennySaid, on january 26, 2008

Price paid: $ 200

Purchased from: Blind Faith Enterprises--Winchester, Virginia

Features: 2005 electric Sunburst print alder Stratocaster style body with Strat-style type vibrato bridge, no-name non-locking tuners, typical Stratocaster width and length 25.5" scale 22 fret maple bolt-on neck with rosewood fingerboard, 3 single coil no-name pickups with 5-way selector, two tone and one volume controls with passive electronics. // 8

Sound: This is my first electric guitar, so I don't have any valuable input and I currently don't play with any effects. The amp I use is a Fender Frontman and it comes through pretty well. The style music I play is rock/punk/emo and the guitar didn't do badly as a learning instrument. Made in the U.S.A. // 7

Action, Fit & Finish: When I first got it, the sales rep had to do some fret work on it to get the fret edges to be flush with the side of the neck. However, I had to get some additional work done on the bridge and bridge plate to eliminate the burrs the sales rep left that was snagging the strings and wearing them out. The truss rod had to be adjusted and the string height had to be set a little higher than it originally was in order to avoid buzzing. A few of the frets were a little high and required a fret job to also help with the buzzing problem. All-in-all the repairs and tweaks cost only 25 dollars. // 4

Reliability & Durability: I take it with me while transitioning between home, my dorm, and my friends' houses and have had no problems plugging it right in as soon as I get there and playing it. I don't have any kind of transport covering for it so it has fallen, been dinged, dropped (once), and open to the elements and throughout all of that it still plays well. // 8

Impression: I've been playing for a little over two years now on an acoustic guitar and used this guitar in an attempt to broaden my musical horizons. When I bought the guitar, I was looking for a name brand, like Ibanez or Fender, and when the rep showed me the guitar I was kind of taken back because I had never heard of "Eleca". However, after he played it and I played what parts of songs I knew he said, "A Strat is a Strat, why pay more just to get the brand name?" Other than the initial work I had done, I have no complaints and would dare to say this is a pretty good guitar for a newbie. // 9

Reviewed by: unregistered, on november 14, 2007

Features: It was made in 2006, in the USA. It has a rosewood finger broad. It has 22 frets like most electric guitars. The gutiar has a soild-top. The body is made out of Alder and the neck is a bolt-on maple neck. It has a flamed top with no scratch broad. It has a Strat body. The bridge style is Tele. The guitar has a volume knob, two tone knobs, and a 5-way selector. The DGT-1 has 3 single coiled pickups. It didn't come with a tuner, I'm planing on getting one. The package came with a pitch pipe. The DGT-1 (flame) package came with gig bag, strap, cable, 10w amp, whammy bar, pitch pipe, and one thumb pick. // 8

Sound: This guitar suites my style really good. My style is rock, post/grunge, hardcore, metal, and heavy metal. I'm using EG-10J (OD) Eleca amp. I'm not using effects yet, I'm just starting to play the electric guitar. It can be noisy, only when I put the amp on overdrive. The guitar make sound of rock, metal, grunge, heavy metal, and if you really whated to death metal. If you use the whammy bar you get it to sound like a car starting and reving, so it has a good variety. // 7

Action, Fit & Finish: It was set-up pretty good. The action was okay. The pickups were adjusted okay. If you look carefully on the guitar you can see come of the wires of the pickups, at least they work. It has a properly bookmatched top, and proberly routed bridge.The guitar has a a noisy pickup selector. // 5

Reliability & Durability: It will withstand playing live. The hardware looks like it will last many years. The strap buttons are soild. I wouldn't use it with out a back back. It was so hard to change the strings. You have to tred them through the back of the guitar. It has a great finish, it isn't thin or easy to warf off with lots of playing. // 6

Impression: I play most rock (metal, grunge, hardcore). I have been playing guitar for almost a year. I had this guitar for about 3-4 days. I also own a burswood ascoustic. They was nothing I wished to say when I got this guitar. Yes, if it was lost/Stolen I would buy that same guitar. I love the grapic top, and the overdrive controls on the amp. I hate the knob on the pickup selector, It falls off sometimes. My favorite feature is the whammy bar. I wouldn't compare it, Expect that it looks like Fender Strat. I wished it had a Floyd Rose bridge. // 8

Comments

[bucketbots]

another stupid guitar

[TeddyRamone]

how can u play metal wif only single coils and no humbuckers?

[nathhan]

Sounds like a really really cheap beginners pack

[teknotard]

how can u play metal wif only single coils and no humbuckers?

Yeah, Of course you can!! It's all what you want to make it. Sure, Humbuckers can give it that really dark tone, but you can pump out some chugg-a-riffic chords. Also, "wif" is spelled with .

another stupid guitar

It's always good to hear what people think about the cheaper guitars. Even though this review was not the most helpful article. I would be curious to see what others thought. I always love findind deals! My best guitars are not the most expensive!

[BornToRun]

Eleca?!?!?! wtf is that?! right now im glad i have a Squier

[TheFreeBird]

great. sounds awfull.

[BlindSilence917]

My first amp was that Eleca EG-10 thing. It was horrible. I don't even have a regular amp anymore... I use my friend's Fender bass amp, and it's way better than that Eleca crap. I can't imagine Eleca's guitars are much better.

[Strat = Love]

Wow, dumb review. First of all, you say it fits your style perfectly and you play metal? Ok, lets be real, this is a Strat knock off, not a les paul knockoff, or some guitar made for heavier stuff. And with that amp you can't get a good tone out of this guitar. Also, your review is filled to the brim with spelling and grammatical errors. wow...

[_SamuraI_]

Also, "wif" is spelled with .

*ahem*

I always love findind deals!

I believe it's spelled: Finding.

[Mapsand01]

Welcome to Amewica!

[shamil]

just 200 dollar?
my house at malaysia can u sent for free??

[The_Faded_Line]

i have this guitar and its a peice of sh*t, it buzzes, strings go out of tune everytime you use the whammy bar, pickups suck. if i had the money id get a good guitar

[brcpinoyako123]

well i know this is abit late but i have a guitar like that and does pretty well, but the neck is slighly bent. I need to know which way to tighten the truss rod. If you get this pls reply

[KingXNothing]

haha this was my first ever guitar and even then i knew it was crap. lol. well i now have 2 squiers, a fender n an ibanez n rarely even touch my eleca. lol