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taken on the net:

Name: By ESP Ltd EC-256 AVG
Category: Solid Body Electric Guitar
Series: Distressed Standard
Origin: Indonesia
Body: Mahogany
Neck: Mahogany
Rosewood
Body-neck joint: glued
Neck profile: Extra Thin U
Frets: 22 Jumbo kind
Scale: 24.75 "
Radius: -
Width at nut: 42 mm
Nut: standard
Pickup: humbucker passive ESP LH-150
Neck pickup: humbucker passive ESP LH-150
Controls: 1 volume by micro, 1 general push-pull tone (split pickups), 3-position selector.

Bridge-tailpiece TOM Bridge & Tailpiece
Tuners: ESP oil bath
Hardware: Nickel

UTILIZATION

- Neck: very nice and relatively thin but I do not like the top of the handle
- Weight: Correct
- The form: I love
- Guitar well balanced even when it breaks before you sit
- We get on a good sound for a beginner like me
- Mechanical hold well
- Being a beginner, I would not talk about access to acute ... we will see later

SOUNDS

I play mostly in the clear (for now because beginner) and I find the sound very decent for a guitar of this price.

I was in the hands of an old CORT and EAGLETONE but I did not like the sleeves, sounds and shapes.
They were in all cases well below the purchase price of the LTD so she could compete in this area.

So I buy the LTD EC 256 AVG when I wanted to start a LAG imperator, or rather LTD came to me.
Indeed, in the shop there was a rather limited in this price range and the type LP choice (such makes me since I was a kid dreaming).

The musician mag made me listen to some sounds (from 170 to 1500 euros) for me to get an idea. So I found this versatile guitar for my budget.


Since I have this guitar, I do not go to it without taking in the hands grattouiller and get him out of her through a 30w MARSHALL.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had a few weeks ... let me explain:

The first LTD had a band coming off .... low E string that bordered ...
Return service that does not take seriously the owner of the shop and return the guitar without touching ... probably thinking that the client dreamed. A first phase of two weeks without guitar.
I retrieve the object after this time but I go back to mag almost immediately to find an arrangement of this ongoing problem ... Re two weeks ...
This time it is a new guitar that comes but unresolved I reported three days after the mag for the same worries (low E string that borders).
The luthier me the rule and told me that in fact ... she was wanton ... astonishment on my part .... I wish the mag strives to make me in working .. There by yellow card against ...

But OUF ... I play my guitar again and I take undisguised pleasure.

It's not upscale and it does not bother me but think to try before you buy ....

Note on the finish:
care should be taken to the finish is not on the agenda: Nail granular (air bubbles) on the top and back, frets "coarse" (it seems that it's DIY) painting the table (even if it is a AVG) unsatisfactory.

Anyway, when I look closely I rather like a customized by his former owner who did not have the gear to clean guitar ...

Nevertheless, I love it for its looks and because of its versatility.