Demo on Donner's DST-400 Electric Guitar
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00:16 What's up? Paul here from Guitar World and today we're going to be checking out a beautiful guitar
00:20 that offers so much at an affordable price point. The Donner DST-400 electric guitar.
00:26 Let's check it out.
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00:32 Donner makes a bunch of electric guitars as well as numerous other musical products,
00:36 but the DST-400 is clearly the most important member of their DST family of electrics.
00:42 This model starts with an eye-catching alder body with a high gloss finish
00:47 with the typical S-style contours and curves found on this type of guitar.
00:52 Its bolt-on AAA Canadian maple neck features a laurel fingerboard and you can see it is outfitted
00:58 with vintage style tuning machines. The neck has an easy to play C-shape profile that's satin finish
01:05 with 22 frets. Electronics for the DST-400 consists of a humbucker and two single coils,
01:12 making it a popular HSS configuration that many players love to use. What's cool is the humbucker
01:20 has a hotter output for searing lead tones.
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01:37 The DST-400 features a pushable coil split system for the humbucker. Now this is achieved
01:43 when you locate the bottom tone control and then just push on it to get that split coil sound.
01:50 Leaving it in place, you get the full humbucking tone or if you pull up on the tone control,
01:57 you get the classic single coil spank. You can get up to seven different tones whether
02:02 you're in single coil mode or humbucker mode using the five-way switch. There's also a two-point
02:08 tremolo with a cold rolled steel block to produce warm and powerful sounds. Okay, let me take you
02:14 through the guitar's different sounds that you can get using this configuration of a humbucker
02:20 and two single coils. As I said before, it's also a push-pull circuit so you can get some of that
02:26 single coil sound. Now obviously, the humbucker adds a little more rock sound to it. So with the
02:32 five-way position on this switch all the way down, it's just over here at the humbucker. But if I use
02:38 the tone control over here and pop it up, what happens is it splits the coil and it uses this
02:43 coil so you get that single coil sound just in the bridge. And if I put it back down, then you
02:48 have the full humbucker. And as I move up here in the in-between sound, this next position,
02:54 I have the humbucker and the single coil. And then in the middle, I have just the middle position
03:02 pickup. And then this position, I get both these sounds. And over here, I just get that neck pickup.
03:10 Now keep in mind, if I'm using the split coil sound, now when I'm down here, it's just that
03:16 in the bridge. But when I move it over here, I kind of get these two, like that split coil sound.
03:22 So it gets a nice, you know, bluesy type of sound and very, very nice, chimey cleans. And of course,
03:28 knocking it back down, then of course, you're back to here using the humbucker along with that in the
03:32 middle or just a humbucker for more of that rock tone. So with that, let's take a listen,
03:39 starting with just using the humbucker sounds on a clean channel so you get to hear the range of tones.
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05:49 now let's hear the DST-400 with a few rock tones. This is where the guitar really opens up and shines.
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07:00 the DST-400 is also available in two finishes, vintage dark green, which I have here,
07:14 and classic black. Not to mention, for its price, this guitar comes equipped with a water-resistant
07:21 gig bag, a high-quality instrument cable and guitar strap, and allen wrenches for any adjustments.
07:39 The Donner DST-400 electric guitar not only has a wealth of rich and balanced tones,
07:44 but it's also lightweight and plays easily and is a great guitar for any beginner
07:49 or intermediate players because of its enticing value. Definitely check it out.
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