Two CUSTOMIZED Donner Teles COMPARED... DTC-100s Solid Body ...and the DJC- 1000s Slimline скачать в хорошем качестве

Two CUSTOMIZED Donner Teles COMPARED... DTC-100s Solid Body ...and the DJC- 1000s Slimline

If you are looking for a rundown on the out of the box Donner Teles (the DTC-100s Solid Body Tele and the DJC- 1000s- Slimline Tele) and how the guitar meets the needs of a beginner player, this is not your video. Stop watching immediately...watch the many other fine videos on YouTube on that very topic. Instead, I take you inside my world when I take VERY inexpensive guitars and raise them up like Lazarus from the dead to pro quality. And both these guitars are now exactly that- pro instruments...killer playability and great tone. The two instruments are very very different, different necks, different bodies, different electronics, and different sounds even before I customize them. Which is better depends on the sound you desire. My favorite is both. Had to had to have both. THE DONNER SOLID BODY TELE DTC-100 about $100 to $140 at Walmart website. This is a solid body Tele type instrument with 2 Alnico pickups- decent quality, 25.5 scale (length of neck) 22 frets, thin modern tele type neck with I don't know what kind of wood and neither do you! ...pretty standard stuff. BUT the platform is excellent quality and it is easily improved- lots. My customizations: Sanded sides of neck, sanded back of neck to remove almost all the varnish for fast left hand movement, polished frets and fret ends, sanded the fingerboard itself to near glass smoothness, and replaced the pots and 3-way switch with genuine Fender Tele, intonation perfect, string height perfect via bridge and truss rod, also rewired the instrument as a 1951 Fender Telecaster would be. Also very carefully set pickup height for optimal tone/volume mix. Why? For fun of course and I wanted that sound. Got the bite, got the vintage rock, got the deep bass. There are videos on YouTube which explain this setup. Strings were 11/52...heavier than the solid Tele's 9.5's stock mix. Note both guitars are downtuned to Eb, just because. Great guitar, no question. But I saw how Donner makes another Tele...the Slimline DJC- 1000s, half hollowbody, half solid body...with an S hole, which some fine players on YouTube said was their favorite of the two. Hmmm. I paid $109 on Walmart website for the Slimline, and got free shipping too. THE DONNER TELE SLIMLINE DJC- 1000s Slimline is a 2 humbucker Tele, 25.5 length neck which always provides better tone over a 24.75 neck as Gibson makes in the same way a 9 foot Steinway grand piano outperforms a smaller Steinway piano, decent pots and pickups and switch from factory (I got Fender NOS to replace them but jeez, now that I play the dead stock I like it. Maybe I'll get lucky and the stock ones will break! SEE...that's why I got the genuine Fender after all. Humbuckers have a wonderful round tone which you will hear, but do not offer the bite of the solid Tele. These were carefully set to provide optimal sound...a rich jazz sound. The neck is more of a half a baseball bat, thicker, which I like, and it's solid maple, which I also like. Customizations: Pretty much all I did on the first except I did not replace the pots or switch. Which brings up the question...How does Donner make a guitar players can be happy with at this idiotically low low low price? Well, they've got their manufacturing together and guess what...dealers make alot on guitars. I'll mention I had a Classic Squire Butterscotch 50's and wept as all the frets loosened and the pots went bad one by one. Not impressed... Perhaps for us the question is not so much how Donner does it as it is how to enjoy them! I've had fine guitars but got rid of all of them because the only thing I played was the Donner Tele, and when I'm done they are pro quality. Listen to the sound samples, and you be the judge. (Vox Valvetronix was Solid Tele amp, a customized Fender Acoustasonic for the Slimline.)