I've owned and played A LOT of super strats all the big names (Jackson, Ibanez, Esp etc) as well as some of the smaller more boutique brands (Suhr, Robin, Valley Arts, Larivee..).
Many of them were/are awesome, I still have quite an amount of great guitars, but the best guitar I EVER played is my Custom Shop ESP MII Deluxe.
It was built in Germany as a show off model for the MusikMesse 1994.
And damn, that guitar sings and resonates like no other....you can actually feel it pounding against your chest bone when you're playing, I've never played another guitar that resonates like this one.
although it's a thin bolt-on neck guitar with a floyd rose, it still has as much sustain as any Les Paul I've ever played, but it's also lightning fast in its attack....
I love this guitar, it's my favourite guitar ever:
Anyone who's ever played this guitar in the studio agrees...even the guys who hate ESP.
. Funny you have to step up to the "prestige" series to get this level of quality in an ibanez now. Was just their standard model then.
