EC-1000T
EC-1000T
BLACK NATURAL BURST
Guitars in the LTD 1000 Series are designed to offer the tone, feel, looks and quality that working professional musicians require in an instrument, and the LTD EC-1000 has consistently ranked among the world’s most popular guitar models for the past 20+ years by delivering the high quality single-cutaway guitar shape designed for serious musicians at a price that everyone can afford. The “T” in the EC-1000T stands for “traditional”, which invokes its full-thickness body with no belly cut, but is chambered for weight relief and comfortable playing during long shows and recording sessions. It has a flamed maple cap on its mahogany body, with a three-piece mahogany neck and Macassar ebony fingerboard. the EC-1000T gets its tone via a set of high-output Seymour Duncan Sentient (neck) and Pegasus (bridge) passive pickups, splittable by a push-pull control, for mind-blowing tones for metal, rock, fusion, progressive, and other genres. It includes flag inlays, full body/neck/headstock binding, and premier components like LTD locking tuners and a TonePros locking TOM bridge and tailpiece. Available in Black Natural Burst finish.
I bought this guitar for several reasons; main one was that this body is chambered. It's heavy still. But it has a distinct feel and sound when its played unplugged. Without any amplifier, I notice the guitar resonates incredibly well, and at times feels as though my body resonates with it. I can feel it through the heels of my feet, which is a very unusual feeling, but pretty cool. It's an interesting experience. Plugged into my amplifier it puts out some amazing tones.
The finish is beautiful. The maple figuring appears more subdued as you look directly at the guitar from a few feet away, but when you're playing it the whole thing looks wildly flamed, which I like. Fit and finish is nearly perfect.
I've owned several Epiphones and a PRS with this body style, and this LTD plays, feels, and sounds, better than all of them. This particular one was made in Korea.
I'm not sure if all the negative reviews are just deleted, but this model was extremely disappointing to me. The weight relief chambering of the full thickness body adds a strange resonance that is not mentioned, which when combined with the Pegasus/Sentient set that already have an "airy" quality to their sound, makes it altogether have a somewhat unusual tone that I didn't at all expect. I sold it within 24 hours of receiving it. The Black Natural Burst color on this is beautiful though, even more so in person, and I would simply order the standard EC version of the same color, but for some odd reason they've decided to make that one orange with the addition of weaponized trypophobia. I really hope the color on this model is utilized in other models at some point, it would be such a waste otherwise, in my opinion.
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