Donner DLP 124 - A Budget Guitar With Good Bones: Review & Demo
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Today we look at a great budget #guitar... #Donner DLP-124 #review & demo
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I really think Donner missed a trick by not naming one of their guitars, the “Kebab-ocaster”…….I’ll get my coat.
Noooo.. sit down, have a pint...I like it.
Great playing John - really goes to show that tone is more about your playing skill and expressiveness than the hardware involved. You made that thing sound great! The Donner I think makes an important point i.e. there's NO good reason why a budget guitar can't play superbly well and sound pretty good too. But it takes time and care to make it that way and of course that comes at a price. By the time you've factored the set up cost into the equation it's more like a £250-300 guitar rather than a £150 one. But a majority of new guitars retailing at £300, £500...or £1000 also need that work doing. I suspect that the business model of large-scale guitar manufacturing (and the profit margins involved) just doesn't allow for the cost of the time and expertise required to set the guitars up to an optimum level and of course the customer's quest for ever-lower prices plays a key role in this too.
On another note, I'm thoroughly chuffed (or 'todally stoked' in UA-cam speak) to have gone from 'zero' to 'legendary' in the 8 years since I started working on guitars. Thank you for that :)
I can tell you my DLP came out of the box with a setup so bad It was almost funny. Thankfully I brought it as a modding platform and have sorted it out, the next step are new pickups and tuners which I'm doing this week. I have to say its a really good looking guitar and its quite nicely finished. I would not recommend one as a first guitar though as it needs way too much work for a beginner. Cash Converter's £75 encore strats are better setup than the DLP 😄
Donner guitars are made to a price in China, a bit like Harley Benton's entry models
but at a higher price.
I made the mistake of buying a DST-200 in Amazons new year sale, for £106 i received
an assembled guitar with strings on it, it kept me busy for days trying to do a full setup
and stop the fret buzz, problem is that the frets were so thin i didn't dare risk trying to
level them, so it ended up with a high action, the pickups were thin and very bright sounding.
Rather than upgrade everything, i gave it to the local charity shop.
There are better guitars outhere for just a little more money.
With the weight being 3.07Kg (approx 6.6lbs) I would guess the body is basswood.
Absolutely cracking demo tune, John. 👍👍
John , as always a fine video, loved the demo piece, very LITTLE WINGish. Take care kid.
Another fantastic video from a fantastic guitarist
WoW! That guitar really sings unplugged huh?? Such resonance usually bodes well for good tone. In my experience, basswood is light, resonant and gives decent tone when amplified. However, it's somewhat lacking in sustain. Better put them brass strings back on 🤣
"It's not a bad guitar" - well, what makes a bad guitar?
That would be a good subject for a video.
To me, anything that requires a modification beyond regular adjustments (by turning screws) makes a guitar bad. If the frets need levelling, the tuners replacing, the neck shimming or the electronics re-wiring, this is a bad instrument, even if I can do it myself.
I'd say a bad guitar is one that, no matter how much fettling you do to it, it'll never be any good (that Yamato early 70s LP copy springs to mind). As for the kind of fettling required (screw adjustment vs using a file of some kind), it depends on price. On a £200 guitar, I don't mind having to sort out frets & nut slots etc. On a £900 guitar, anything more than a bit of truss rod/intonation/action tweaking is unacceptable.
So this guitar doesn't fit in that bad category I hope because I just bought one
My hubby bought me that exact guitar on a whim. Totally agree with you re: build quality and it being good bones for modding. I was amazed that it has full binding! Really surprising on that price range. Pickups are the obvious upgrade. My action was a tad high out of the box new. But still playable and no choking anywhere. I was quite impressed. He tells me he paid less than a hundred quid for mine. Nice to have anyway. 👍
Hi John. Had a couple of vinos so thought I would attempt to put you on the spot. I've mostly played budget guitars (Still haven't broken the £1000 mark yet) and find I usually reach for my Yamaha RGX rather than my Gibson LP studio, MIM Fender tele or Ibby - unless I need a Whammy. With the selection you have, what is your go to when not recording content?
It was the not using the Eart that promted the musings.
Often it's Blondie, but the PRS S2 Standard is an addictive guitar to play. Versatile too 👍
I used to buy Red Dragon brass wound strings for my acoustic back in the 70s. They were sold at a strange music shop in Houndsditch in the City of London, where I worked at the time. They were 52p a set!
The Donner DLP got a pretty sweet demo for the budget beast it is, sounded useable through the Marshall. Looking forward to the "upgrade" project.
Seems to be a large Gibson box in background....
Yup... The Les Paul I reviewed last week 👍
Nice arrangement, Good advice for anyone wanting to buy one.
Currently being sold for £86.99 on Donner's official UK ebay store (Donner DLP-124B).... & it's a make offer listing ...
new, not B stock or return ..
Great playing John. The Marshall's back, was it just new valves?
This was made before the Marshall died, mate.
What pickups would you use ?
Vanson Classic 57s available on eBay 👍
@@JRobsonGuitar John, what pickup might you suggest to put a single size humbucker in the bridge position on a mexi strat?
Nice one John 👍