ESP LTD EC-1000ET QM DBSB

Je connaissais déjà la série LTD EC-1000 pour avoir testé d'autres modèles, qui m'avaient déjà convaincus. L'EC-1000ET est devenu mienne pour son design particulièrement sexy et la présence de l'Evertune, que je voulais absolument tester. La gamme ayant déjà fait ses preuves en terme de qualité-prix, je savais d'office que j'aurais affaire à une belle et grande guitare, sans devoir débourser une somme extravagante.

Mon utilisation est versatile, les micros Seymour Duncan sont donc particulièrement adaptés pour aller du Rock au Metal (bien qu'évidemment on ne cherche pas ici la puissance des EMG) en passant par le Blues.
Quant à l'Evertune, il remplit toutes ses promesses. J'utilise un gros tirant, j'ai donc dû changer les cordes et apprendre à régler tout cela, mais honnêtement ce n'est pas très difficile (il suffit d'y passer le temps nécessaire, comme tout apprentissage). Maintenant c'est bien simple : la guitare ne se désaccorde jamais!

Le manche est rapide est agréable, la guitare parfaitement équilibrée pour le jeu debout. Les finitions sont très propres, la guitare est vraiment très belle.

Si je devais pinailler, je lui reprocherait juste un léger manque de sustain sur les notes au delà de la 12ème frettes sur les 3 cordes les plus aigües. Hormis cela, rien à signaler ! Je referais ce choix sans hésiter.

This guitar is absolutely beautiful, the maple cap is stunning to look at in the dark sunburst and the headstock is matching which is a nice touch. The binding is really nice too. Everything about it is quality, it's solidly built with nice weight. The pickups sound amazing from superb clean tones, great sounding crunch, overdrive and metal tones and everything in between. The tone pot has a coil tap that gives even more tonal variety. This is a guitar that seems to have it all. The design is really good too, there is no problem accessing all 24 frets and the strings feel great to play. The neck is fast and feels great without being either too fat or too thin. The switch and pots feel good quality and work perfectly. The bridge is an evertune and it really is incredible. I didn't even have to tune the guitar when I took it out of the box for the first time. I will be using this guitar for both live work plaing covers and in the studio recording original songs. I have not yet found anything about this guitar I dont like. Over all I would recommend this guitar. At this price point it's hard to imagine anything being better. In addition I should say that the guitar arrived safely, delivered by UPS. It was packed well and set up well. I will tweak things to my own liking but any further set up will be minimal as it was so near the mark when delivered. The only delays were Brexit related and nothing at all to do with Thomann. The charges I had to pay were less than I thought they were going to be and although I strongly disagree with Brexit and the delays associated with it, this has not put me off buying from Thomann in the future.