*waits for "No Shit!" from the audience*
but anyway, now I do too!
Thought I'd post a little review of the ESP LTD Deluxe Series M-1000.
Well, it is nice. You get what you should get for this amount of money. $700.
24xj frets 25.5 scale, a set of EMG 81's. ORIGINAL Floyd Rose bridge. Body is alder, with a thick black finish, it is also a neck-thru, rosewood fingerboard with abalone arrowhead inlays.
I fooled around with it for about 30 minutes before setting it up. It played well right out of the box, tuned almost perfectly to std E. There was a slight buzz at 1st fret, but the action was very low. I tune to std D (and I was doing this before I ever heard of SX
) so I tuned down, reset the bridge, which is definitely easier to work with than a floyd copycat. But then there was severe buzzing on the low (high) e (.10) string. After a quick truss rod adjustment, this has been solved. I let the neck set for a while and now I have a very clean playability all over the neck.
Despite what I heard about EMG 81's for clean, I was quite suprised. I am able to get a very nice clean tone using the middle pickup position. Its very warm, without too much bass, and the highs come through without too much treble. If you flip to the bridge position, cleans sound like crap. If you like a softer clean sound, clean tone sounds smooth and light using the neck pickup. The body feels heavier than I expected, I was expecting a cheap light body. I think the wood contributes to the very decent clean tone you can get from this thing.
Now with gain, of course it sounds good. You can get real heavy without sounding muddy at all. And for leads, again I found the middle position to be pretty awesome. You can still squeal on it but also execute very fast, fluid-sounding runs. Flip to the bridge to get a biting tone, and then to the neck for that softer, bluesy tone. The neck plays pretty fast, maybe too fast
My only gripe is two minor cosmetic flaws on the binding, which I don't like much anyway (binding that is), other than that, this guitar is excellent, and is much better than anything else I have.
but anyway, now I do too!
Thought I'd post a little review of the ESP LTD Deluxe Series M-1000.
Well, it is nice. You get what you should get for this amount of money. $700.
24xj frets 25.5 scale, a set of EMG 81's. ORIGINAL Floyd Rose bridge. Body is alder, with a thick black finish, it is also a neck-thru, rosewood fingerboard with abalone arrowhead inlays.
I fooled around with it for about 30 minutes before setting it up. It played well right out of the box, tuned almost perfectly to std E. There was a slight buzz at 1st fret, but the action was very low. I tune to std D (and I was doing this before I ever heard of SX
) so I tuned down, reset the bridge, which is definitely easier to work with than a floyd copycat. But then there was severe buzzing on the low (high) e (.10) string. After a quick truss rod adjustment, this has been solved. I let the neck set for a while and now I have a very clean playability all over the neck.Despite what I heard about EMG 81's for clean, I was quite suprised. I am able to get a very nice clean tone using the middle pickup position. Its very warm, without too much bass, and the highs come through without too much treble. If you flip to the bridge position, cleans sound like crap. If you like a softer clean sound, clean tone sounds smooth and light using the neck pickup. The body feels heavier than I expected, I was expecting a cheap light body. I think the wood contributes to the very decent clean tone you can get from this thing.
Now with gain, of course it sounds good. You can get real heavy without sounding muddy at all. And for leads, again I found the middle position to be pretty awesome. You can still squeal on it but also execute very fast, fluid-sounding runs. Flip to the bridge to get a biting tone, and then to the neck for that softer, bluesy tone. The neck plays pretty fast, maybe too fast
My only gripe is two minor cosmetic flaws on the binding, which I don't like much anyway (binding that is), other than that, this guitar is excellent, and is much better than anything else I have.
