Educate me on ESP guitars

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Im looking into an ESP eclipse or LTD ninja v for my next guitar, so all this info is excellent for mor than one person!

how would you guys rate those guitars, to save starting a new thread?

(bear in mind, up against a gibson flying v with bareknuckle nailbombs!) :thumbsup:
 
Digital Jams":24xetjqs said:
Telephant":24xetjqs said:
The only ESP's I like are the Edwards LP copies and their George Lynch Relic Strat. Their other guitars are far too metal for me.

I have a feeling their Super Strats will feel entirely too much lik shred guitars for you to dig. Unless you've started digging that feel recently. But I always took you for a traditional kind of guy like myself. :)
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The Lynch models do not have thin necks, not sure what the relic has.

That said I am still pissed as shit that ESP re-issued the Serpant and it is an LTD :doh: :cry: :aww:
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That relic has a big ass thick neck too. I dont like the way it played. iN fact, it looked like ass in person too. Im not sure why I said I liked it, cause now that I think about, I was really dissappointed when I picked it up at NAMM. :lol: :LOL:
 
I have to disagree about the lynch relic having a big neck.
I own one and have had it for 6 months now and the neck feels nothing like any other lynch model, its flatter and not a wide as the other lynchs, it feels thinner than the neck on my evh charvel, eclipse, or the 60 custom shop fender strat I had. There's now way it can be considered big or thick.
Maybe you played a ESP vintage strat and got It confused with the gl-56 lynch model.or ESP might have changed the specs but on the ESP neck sheet it also says its a thin neck. I can only comment on the ESP version and maybe the Ltd has a thicker neck, I think the ESP version looks cool but I don't like how the Ltd looks.
 
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best esp ive played is an m1. the neck was what stole the show. really nice jumbo frets and ebony fingerboard. the only downside is the one active emg in the bridge. id swap it out for a suhr aldrich though. best high gain pickup ever.
 
I have owned quite a few ESP guitars from Ltd's to Standards to custom shop stuff. For the coin, at every level, they are great value to cost guitars.

The higher end Std stuff is very good for a day to day use guitar. If I were gigging regularly, I would most likely use that level guitars from ESP because they sound anf play very well, but it wouldn't break my heart when I nicked it up...as I always do when gigging :confused:

I also really like the 400 series guitars for inexpensive....the Viper in particular. Though it has a prety thick neck that some wouldn't care for.

The Standard level guitars are on par with most shops top end production guitars and in my experience tend to have fewer issues.

The custom shop stuff is excellent.

I went from Gibson to ESP right around 2000 because of the shit QC at Gibson and was verey happy with ESP's until I discovered Gutierrez.


Something that threw me off a bit is that the Eclipse (Les Paul) shape has tone more like a SG and the Viper (SG shape ) has tone more like a Les Paul. Not exactly on either count, but more similarities.


Never played an Edwards, but folks seem to reallylike those as well.
 
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