ESP LTD EC-1000 - Vintage Black Review

Arguably ESP's Most Famous Guitar

Talk to any guitarist in the industry and they will tell you for certain this make and model it an absolute must when it comes to guitars. This guitar in particular is the highest selling ESP guitar for a reason. The versatile shape, the edgy yet smooth sound, and the comfortable feel. The EC-1000 in vintage black is truly one of the specific guitars to have among all others.

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Great company

Excellent every time

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The workhorse

We all have our working mans go to guitar the tool we reach for because we know it inside and out, and it's completely perfect. David gilmour has his black strat, clapton has brownie, and I have this little guy. It is the perfect weight, it has a perfect next, and the engine pickups give it the perfect sound. I own 3 primary guitars. This one, an American Ultra Stratocaster,… read more and an ibanez RG 550 Genesis series. I would say that this is the most versatile guitar I own. And truthfully, I feel like it plays and sounds better than my other two. I've been playing for going on 25 years, I use a Marshall JCM 2000 and an orange TH30. I also use a line 6 HD500x pedal board in my effects loops. This guitar has such a good deep clean tone, but when you get it dirty is when it really shines. I will say that the fender does edge it out when playing those clean blues tones, but this is no slouch. I've owned this guitar for about 10 years.... and I can honestly say that even though my strat is valued over a grand more, I'd grab this one in a fire. I would say this guitar really shines in punk, grange in metal. I will post two videos of recording I have used playing this guitar, the amplifier was my JCM 2000 DSL 100 using the amplifiers overdrive, no pedals

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Excellent guitar.

This is a very nice guitar. I'm a beginner and this is my second guitar and I bought this guitar cuz I wanted something nice and it was quite the upgrade from the entry-level guitar I had. Sounds great feels good and I would absolutely recommend it to anybody. It arrived at my house real fast I even got a phone call from Sweetwater letting me know if I had any issues or concerns… read more but they would be available to me doesn't get anything better than that. I will definitely do business with Sweetwater in the future.

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Rock Solid

This thing plays like a dream. Well balanced and comfortable to play sitting, standing, laying down, you name it. Definitely feel like I got more than my money's worth. Also as this was my first purchase with Sweetwater I have to say I was thoroughly impressed with the customer service and how fast I got the guitar. And it was ready to go straight out of the box. It was even in… read more tune! Definitely stoked on both ESP/LTD and Sweetwater for this one!

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