JEFF LOOMIS SIG GUITAR!!!!!!!

[006]

It's a push-pull volume/tone pot, just so everyone knows.

~e.a

 

[kaomao]

...One knob to rule them all....

(very very LOTR-ish)

 

[doc_backmask]

Damn, I love the new year. What a way to start '07. I really am looking forward to the ash body. And with a maple neck, this should be a very articulate guitar.

 

[chadsxe]

It's a push-pull volume/tone pot, just so everyone knows.

~e.a

Is it a mid boost?

 

[J the TyranT]

It's a push-pull volume/tone pot, just so everyone knows.

~e.a

Thank God.. its at least serviceable then... I cant believe you guys dont use your fucking tone pots at all... nothing like cleaning up an interlude with some warmth from the neck pup and pulling some shit out with that.

And here we are at a recording forum after all... but, there's "no use" for changing tone...

And thanks to smartass "Guitar God" for letting me know its a 7 string, and that I meant tone "pot"... cuz I cant use my fucking eyes or something.

 

[Massili]

ugliest schecter ever!!!

 

[Exocaster]

Thank God.. its at least serviceable then... I cant believe you guys dont use your fucking tone pots at all... nothing like cleaning up an interlude with some warmth from the neck pup and pulling some shit out with that.

And here we are at a recording forum after all... but, there's "no use" for changing tone...

While I agree, I can believe many of these guys don't use their tone pots at all- it's a metal forum. I'm willing to bet there's guys here who only use the bridge pickup, volume full on, all the time.

 

[Untruth]

bypassing the tone pot the output signal bypass also a condenser (I'm trying to remember the electronic schemes )...
the output doesn't make any tension fall.
however also eddy van halen has no pot on his guitar! he said he felt more direct/raw sound

 

[chuck1703]

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That is proper sexy mate.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I was adding that I hated that it was a 7 string smartass as well as what you already pointed out.

Plus I knew that you meant the pot, I am not a moron it was sarcasim.

 

[J the TyranT]

Fair enough then.

Im also not sure I'd dig the extended scale...

 

[J the TyranT]

Basically, fuck that guitar... I'd just get another ESP Custom shop or something =P

 

[Ben Johnson]

Would it really be THAT much better for $3000+ more?

 

[Gnash]

Tone pots are lame. When I can, I take the tone pot out, put the volume pot there, and put a sticker or something over the V pot hole. I hate accidently turning the volume down while picking, so I get it out of the way. Like Paul Gilbert's Ibanez'. I'm constantly checking my volume knob, to see if it's full up. It's really turned into an OCD thing.

 

[Nebulous]

While I agree, I can believe many of these guys don't use their tone pots at all- it's a metal forum. I'm willing to bet there's guys here who only use the bridge pickup, volume full on, all the time.

I've yet to find a situation where switching to a different pickup or amp channel hasn't fixed my need for a different tone for the music I play, which goes beyond metal. Of course there's no reason other people might like to use it.

 

[J the TyranT]

Would it really be THAT much better for $3000+ more?

Yeah, actually.

When was the last time you've played one?

I've got a Schecter Elite, right next to my ESP Horizon, and my Horizon knocks the holy shit out of that Schecter.

 

[006]

Chad - No, just a concentric pot for volume and tone. I beleive Loomis was going for as basic as possible for this signature model.

ESP customs are actually pretty damn nice guitars. Although my preference is with the LTD EC-1000, with all the binding and stuff...that's all aesthetics. I know for a fact an ESP custom shop Eclipse would...eclipse the EC-1000 (escuse the pun) in the quality felt when playing. I'm pretty sure they use higher grade woods in the customs as well, but I'm not 100% on it.

Regardless, IMHO this signature may look like absolute hell, but I'll bet it's a nice fucking axe nonetheless. I personally can't stand maple fretboards, even on Strats, and this one is by no means excused from my book, haha. And actually I'll bet the maple neck and extended scale will help a lot with the low-end clarity when playing single note riffage down low. Give it much more bite overall...however I loved the overall tone of my HellRaiser C7 for leads...it was just rhythm playing tones that I felt suffered from time to time.

~e.a

 

[everybody's x]

Man I actually love maple necks. But then I don't use a tone knob either, so I might just be an asshole or something

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

In short the guitar looks un apealing. But it's really only that it's 7 string. I have played a handfull of those and have never liked them so that's my only beef.

 

[J the TyranT]

My beef with 7 strings is that they widen the neck, but dont give it a better radius along the bottom... so that they feel like fuckin Cricket paddles instead of having a nice contour to them. But then again, I kind of prefer more Gibson-esque thicker "baseball bat" necks myself anyways...