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Published on 09/12/11 at 20:23ESP has made some fine budget friendly guitars that are highly influenced by Fender and Gibson guitars. ESP makes a lot of influential guitars that are pretty cheap comparatively to Fender Stratcasters or Gibson explorers or Gibson Les Paul guitars. Their body shapes are little bit different than the fenders in Gibson guitars but overall to pretty much the exact same thing. This guitar is a knock off of a Gibson Les Paul guitar. It has a map looking finish which gives it more of a metal look to it.
These are the eclipse guitars which is basically the ESP version of the Gibson Les Paul guitar. You may have seen this guitar from the lead singer from Metallica. He would use a similar guitar do this. The body is a mahogany wood as well as the neck. You do have an ebony fretboard which is a little bit different than most Les Paul's which using your Brose Woods fretboard. The binding on this guitar is a very vintage yellow or a vintage white that's been age which looks very cool on this guitar. Yet to solid EMG pickups which gives it a very good metal sound in this guitar.
UTILIZATION
The utilization of this guitar is very easy and very easy to understand. The neck is a pretty fast neck and comparatively to a Gibson Les Paul which uses a more chunk you're feeling neck. EMG pickups are very thick and full of town. There's an 81 in the bridge and 60 in the neck which is a great combination to the EMG guitars. You have 22 jumbo frets with black hardware which is a great macth to the rest of the guitar's design.
SOUNDS
Overall this is a great feeling and sounding guitar. It's a great guitar for someone using metal guitar sounds or a metal amplifier. The 81 Bridge pick up is a nice steak metal sounding pick up which is the one of the most highly used pick ups that EMG has ever created. It's very common pick up for most guitar music overall. It's doesn't sound that money when you use it in hiking situation that is why it is a very common pick up from metal guitar players to use a lot of saturation or distortion.
These guitars work well in any amp setting. I like them most with a high gain amp because of the metal sound and voicing that the pickups generally create. These are fantastic sounding guitars for the money and when you couple them with a good delay pedal and a high gain amp then you can get some hot rocking tones.
OVERALL OPINION
These guitars have been discontinued for a while so the use market is the only way to go for them at this point. I've seen him go for a little over $1000 on the user classified market. They have a different models and different shapes but most of the overall feeling and look is pretty much the same. ESP makes great guitars and they are at traditionally influenced off of Gibson and Fender guitars. This one obviously is off of the Gibson Les Paul guitar and so if you're looking for that type of guitar this is a great alternative and a much cheaper alternative as well.
These are the eclipse guitars which is basically the ESP version of the Gibson Les Paul guitar. You may have seen this guitar from the lead singer from Metallica. He would use a similar guitar do this. The body is a mahogany wood as well as the neck. You do have an ebony fretboard which is a little bit different than most Les Paul's which using your Brose Woods fretboard. The binding on this guitar is a very vintage yellow or a vintage white that's been age which looks very cool on this guitar. Yet to solid EMG pickups which gives it a very good metal sound in this guitar.
UTILIZATION
The utilization of this guitar is very easy and very easy to understand. The neck is a pretty fast neck and comparatively to a Gibson Les Paul which uses a more chunk you're feeling neck. EMG pickups are very thick and full of town. There's an 81 in the bridge and 60 in the neck which is a great combination to the EMG guitars. You have 22 jumbo frets with black hardware which is a great macth to the rest of the guitar's design.
SOUNDS
Overall this is a great feeling and sounding guitar. It's a great guitar for someone using metal guitar sounds or a metal amplifier. The 81 Bridge pick up is a nice steak metal sounding pick up which is the one of the most highly used pick ups that EMG has ever created. It's very common pick up for most guitar music overall. It's doesn't sound that money when you use it in hiking situation that is why it is a very common pick up from metal guitar players to use a lot of saturation or distortion.
These guitars work well in any amp setting. I like them most with a high gain amp because of the metal sound and voicing that the pickups generally create. These are fantastic sounding guitars for the money and when you couple them with a good delay pedal and a high gain amp then you can get some hot rocking tones.
OVERALL OPINION
These guitars have been discontinued for a while so the use market is the only way to go for them at this point. I've seen him go for a little over $1000 on the user classified market. They have a different models and different shapes but most of the overall feeling and look is pretty much the same. ESP makes great guitars and they are at traditionally influenced off of Gibson and Fender guitars. This one obviously is off of the Gibson Les Paul guitar and so if you're looking for that type of guitar this is a great alternative and a much cheaper alternative as well.