ESP LTD M-7 HT Baritone Black Metal Review

Solid

I love this fiddle.

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The guitar for death & or black metal

This guitar is extremely light and comfortable and just BEGS for riffs. The Hipshot makes for great palm muting and the neck is thin and easy to get up and down. And don't even get me started on the pickup. It all comes down to personal preference but this pickup is DEFINITELY up there. My personal favorite and one of the reasons I bought this guitar. As a closing statement, this… read more guitar is as good as you are imagining it to be.

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Bleak masterpiece

This guitar was obviously made to do one thing, and it knocks it out of the park. That said, I have no problems getting a highly usable clean tone and the coil split adds a little hidden versatility into the mix as well. In terms of fit and finish, it was very difficult for me to find even the slightest of things to call out. Anything I could say in the negative in that regard… read more would just be going to ridiculous extremes to even call it a negative. The finish is flawless, the fret ends are free of sharp edges and burrs and are smooth, and all hardware is solid and of good quality (including the ESP branded locking tuners). The electronics are rock solid, knob is smooth in operation and activating the coil split is a noiseless transition. Speaking of: one of the great things about this having a coil split with only one pickup installed is that you don't get that life destroying 60 cycle hum that leaks through even the tightest noise gates, which while that isn't specifically a feature, it's just a nice benefit of the configuration. The Seymour Duncan black winter performs very well. I've had one in a guitar before and didn't think it was anything super special, but this time around I feel like it's really well balanced and crushing pickup. I would describe it as a med-high output pickup that has just a touch of modern tone without getting into the realm of being overtly modern, compressed, and clangy. I initially thought I might change it but after hearing it through my rig it's staying right where it is. I also have to commend this guitar on its comfort and playability. Everything I try to play on this guitar just feels right. The neck profile is very agreeable to me. Very thin and fast without getting too flat, and the alder body provides a pleasantly lightweight but highly resonant platform. Anything I would change about this guitar is purely aesthetic. I'd maybe do away with the embossed LTD logo on the headstock and use a truss rod cover that doesn't have white lettering, but that's really splitting hairs. This guitar crushes everything even remotely comparable in the price range. If you're thinking about it, just buy it.

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