NGD: Jackson Solost SLX - New X series!

[SimonEriksson]

Hi! I was driving myself insane last week because I couldn't decide which guitar I should get but I ended up getting a Jackson Soloist SLX in black. I could have gotten the SLXSMG but I'm not a fan of curved top strat style guitars.

The guitar plays GREAT, I took it to rehearsal this past weekend and we played about 12hrs in totalt and it never went out of tune, so that's great! It doesn't feel cheap in any way at all, much better build quality than other guitars in the same pricerange, I would say that the X series is compareable to the disscontinued japanise models such as the RR3 for example. Even though the SLX is equipped with the cheaper ''Duncan Designed'' pickups it sounds great, I have a Les Paul style guitar that i've installed a set of emg's in and the jackson sounds WAY better. There is no fretbuzz anywhere on the fretboard, a few dirty fretwiers at the higher frets though but nothing major and it will probably go away with some fine sandpaper.


The rosewood is almost black! Definitely not as light as Jacksons website, I can't understand why Jackson picked the guitars they picked to be published on their website because the fretboard does NOT look like the on the website at all!

One nice suprise was that Jackson includes a set of Dunlop straplocks, thats nice.

I'll post a few pictures of the guitar later today or tomorrow.

[Axegrinder87]

Congrats! Glad to hear you like it, they sure look nice. RR3s aren't discontinued though.

As for why they chose the guitars they chose for pictures, I'd say it's nice to see potentially the worst of the bunch, and be pleasantly surprised later.

[CowboyFromHell]

Congrats on a purchase that, so far, seems to be right up your alley. As an owner of an RR3 I'd have to say, if your new axe is an equivalent to mine in quality, you did indeed get a nice one. I'm with you on the comment about staying in tune. My RR3 seems to have the factory "Perma-tune" option, lol. Seriously, it rarely loses tune no matter how much it gets abused. Some here seem to frown on it as a lower-end guitar, but you know, that just brings to mind another comment I saw... "lower priced guitars can rock too" (and be damn good at it). Congrats again and rock on.

[SimonEriksson]

Thanks guys! Huh, then I guess the guy at the music store tricked me, he said that the RR3 was disscontinued, great to hear that it isn't I have played alot of RR3's and they are great guitar ( my dream guitar for a while ) and I had my friends for a few months and I love them! Thats why I was so suprised that the SLX is as good as it is! But as CowboyFromHell said, maybe I was lucky and a good one.

[Axegrinder87]

If you were lucky, then everyone who's got one so far got lucky too.

I have an RR3 too, wonderful axe. Nothing "lower end" about it. Only "drawback" would be it's bolt on construction, but lots of folks here prefer bolt ons.

[psykofly]

Nice score. Where did you buy it from? I've been toying with the idea of scooping an slx myself.

[Anders]

Congrats!

The fretboard on my KVXMG seems to have a tiny bit of dye in it... Not making it pitch black like ebony, but still enough to leave some residue after playing it for a long time while doing lots of bending. It looks great however, but this leads me to believe that the rosewood may not always have been this dark.

Post some pics of it!

[warlok]

Congrats!

The fretboard on my KVXMG seems to have a tiny bit of dye in it... Not making it pitch black like ebony, but still enough to leave some residue after playing it for a long time while doing lots of bending. It looks great however, but this leads me to believe that the rosewood may not always have been this dark.

Someone said recently that was a popular thing. Even more with ebony because the very striped ebony doesn't look as good so it's dyed to even out the color.

[Force]

You must show pics....................

................& congratulations.

[SimonEriksson]

This will have to do for now! :P



I've been busy with rehearsals and school and I've been meaning to take som nice outside pictures but it gets dark so fast here in Sweden.

[Force]

That's some super yummy awesomeness right there, congrats in mega bucket loads.

[Deneb]

That Randall head, KH doesn't stand for "Kirk Hammet" does it?

[Axegrinder87]

Yes, Randall has 2 Hammett models, one of which is a module system (can't remember what they're called).

[SimonEriksson]

That Randall head, KH doesn't stand for "Kirk Hammet" does it?

Yes it does. I'm not that big of a fan of Kirk but I got the amp cheap because it was used.

Honestly, I love this guitar so much that I'm thinking about buying a KVXMG and have as my D tuned guitar.

I managed to take a few photos outside today but they ended up abit to dark so I'll try to get some GOOD photos this weekend, I adjusted the brightness on this photo because you couldn't really see the details otherwise.

[RacerX]

GTWGITS

[bibz]

Yeah! Get The Whole Guitar In The Snow!

[Hamner1]

Yes, Randall has 2 Hammett models, one of which is a module system (can't remember what they're called).

Hammett Randall MTS amp is called the KH100. His stock models for the MTS system are: KH-1, KH-2, KH-3. Best part about the modular system is you are not stuck with a single tone (or in the case of the 100 watt series MTS heads 3 tones). You want a different tone, get a different module. Modded modules are killer. I'm a fan of Rob's (Jaded Faith) work. Check it out at jadedfaith.com. There are a few other pro modders out there as well. And some of the stock modules are good as they are.

[Hamner1]

Yeah! Get The Whole Guitar In The Snow!

Probably was joke now that I think about it.

[warlok]

Nice guitar! Actually Hamner1, the MTS head is the RM100KH. The new ones that are not modular are the KH15, KH75, and KH120. And yes, Robs work is awesome!!