player opinions
ESP EX Standard
Name: Devin Townsend
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Band: Terria, Physicist, Strapping Young Lad, Infinity, Ocean Machine, Oh you get it — they’re all my solo projects!
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Model Year: -----
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Price Paid: $1499 (ouch!)
Performance
This is the ultimate guitar, it plays like a dream, it is much easier to play than a regular shaped guitar, I tell ‘ya!
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Performance Rating: 10
Sound Quality
With EMG 81 pick-ups the guitar is one mean, heavy metal beast. The sound is clear and precise, each singular note is easy to make out, despite the fact that its sound is soooo very heavy. The guitar does also have a very “sonic” feel to it, you’ve just gotta hear it! It sounds metal!
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Sound Quality Rating: 10
Construction
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Solid as a rock, my friends! This actual guitar which is right next to me now has survived 3 world tours with Strapping Young Lad, and stayed in tune the whole time. I still use it on stage today as well as in the studio. If a guitar can survive the recording process of an album like “Physicist” then you know its gotta be good. The best guitar ESP makes, and probably the heaviest guitar in the world! You don’t HAVE to sound like Metallica!
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Construction Rating: 10
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Average Ratings
- Performance: 10
- Sound Quality: 10
- Construction: 10
Ratings Key
- 10: Excellent
- 0: Useless
Company
- ESP