M-1007HT
M-1007HT
BLACK NATURAL FADE
Guitars in the LTD 1000 Series are designed to offer the tone, feel, looks and quality that working professional musicians require in an instrument. The LTD M Series has always been guitar designed for shredders, and one of the best examples ever is found with the fast and extremely playable M-1000HT and the seven-string M-1007HT. With neck-thru-body construction and an extra thin U-shaped three-piece maple neck (that features a natural satin finish on the back for supreme speedy playability), the M-1000HT and M-1007HT are perfect for players who want M Series performance with the stability of a Hipshot hardtail bridge with string-thru-body design. You also get excellent tone and sonic flexibility with direct-mounted Fishman Fluence Modern Humbuckers (Alnico in the neck position, Ceramic in the bridge), with a push-pull control to activate the second voicing.
I bought this guitar in May. I’m satisfied with the guitar.
Playability:4/5
The neck isn’t the thinnest I’ve had but by no means is it unmanageable or uncomfortable to play. The guitar’s body is contoured to comfortably play. The knob and blade switch placement should facilitate easy manipulation when needed. I don’t find this guitar to cause fatigue from its weight distribution or design.
Hardware: 3/5
My guitar’s blade switch didn’t work in the neck position upon its delivery. After researching online extensively I’ve come across many claims this model has issues with the blade switch not working at all when set to the neck pickup. As for the pickups I’ve noticed that you have to give active pickups a bit more fine tuning on your amp or in your VST to get a quality tone in comparison to instruments that I have with “hot” passive pickups. The fretboard is beautiful, put some fretboard oil on it and boom, gorgeous. The nut will need filed for larger gauge strings, otherwise no issues. The locking tuners are great as they secure the strings very tightly with a good bite.
Sexiness: 4/5
It’s a far more gorgeous guitar in person than in pictures, even these awesome pictures ESP has. I’m giving it a 4/5 because imo the white font on the headstock is too much of a contrast to the other colors on the guitar. Black font for the logo would’ve have been far more fitting.
Would I buy it again: Yes.
I bought one of these from Sweetwater and really dig it. Looks and playability are fantastic. I can't get into the pickups too much, so I'll probably try some swapping them for some others, but otherwise I cannot put this guitar down. I'd love to see a Floyd version of this guitar at some point, but the Hipshot makes it nice/easy to go between standard and drop A.
Three questions. Are these made in Korea or Indonesia? Online I found some that say Korea on the back of the head stock and others that are blank on the back of the head stock and are advertised as made in Indonesia. If both then which one will I get if ordered through ESP. Also, when will they be available? Thanks!
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