NGD Letters and numbers

StoRMiE

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Never bought something sight unseen before, but I'm incredibly impressed.

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LTD MH-1000HS. I don't see how they can refer to it as violet shadow fade if it's all blue watercolors but it looks great.

These things have a hot rails in the neck, and a Pegasus in the bridge. Which I expected to sound kinda off because I've never actually liked hot rails in anything I've played, but they pair together pretty well. The splits actually sound a bit gilmour-esque, and it sounds fantastic. As for the Pegasus alone it's versatility is pretty nice, going from clean jazz to crunchy blues to hair metal and downtuned metal is a pretty tall order but it keeps up really well. In comparison it's like a more articulate Nazgul.

Having never touched an LTD or ESP product in my life I was expecting to have to do some kind of work on it to make it play just right but the setup setup out of the box was flawless. The floyd stays in tune, it was actually intonated which blew me away, I don't have any fret buzz, no open string floyd buzz, the action was nice and low, the neck is incredibly straight, and the only flaw I found is a yellow spot on the headstock binding and it buffed off. I was genuinely disappointed I didn't have to work on it, and at the same time very impressed with their quality control.
 
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Congrats, that thing looks sweet! As for the color, Jackson's "chlorine burst" looks about to be the same color as this, so go figure...:)
 
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I have an ESP and have played a decent number of LTDs and they are well made guitars. Dollar for me bangy long time, I think LTD is an awesome deal.
Nice guitar.
Is that their thin u neck? That is an awesome neck.
 
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I have an ESP and have played a decent number of LTDs and they are well made guitars. Dollar for me bangy long time, I think LTD is an awesome deal.
Nice guitar.
Is that their thin u neck? That is an awesome neck.

Yeah thin u, It kinda reminds me of the 80s ibanez D shape but without the cliffs.
 
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Congrats on the new guitar. I just recently picked up a LTD and love it. Great product for the dollar spent on them.
 
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I am a sucker for blue quilted tops...I have a Brian Moore with that color scheme. Congrats on a most elegant piece!
 
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Very sexy! I wasn't expecting neck-through and then bam. The fade is beautiful. The 2x ESP and 3x LTD I've ever played were all really nice guitars, that one just grabs me

Is that a 5-way switch? Curious how the in-between positions sound with a split humbucker and the rails. Very good to know the Pegasus can handle all that

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Is that a 5-way switch? Curious how the in-between positions sound with a split humbucker and the rails. Very good to know the Pegasus can handle all that

3-way with a master vol/tone and a push-pull, if you split one you split both. That said the makeshift between positions work really well and manage to nail that 70s funk tone and the 80-90s cleans, and does a pretty good job of still sounding like it has a middle pickup. With a bit of gain even they manage to do the SRV thing pretty well too. Still a metal machine though.
 
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