EC-1000 BARITONE
EC-1000 BARITONE
CHARCOAL METALLIC SATIN
Guitars in the LTD 1000 Series are designed to offer the tone, feel, looks, and quality that working professional musicians need in an instrument. The EC-1000 Baritone is the extended range guitar you’ve always wanted, delivering the single-cutaway Eclipse shape in a 27” baritone scale. Typically tuned a fourth below standard, from B to B, this is the six-string guitar that lets you explore the downtuned sounds of modern rock and metal while still maintaining ideal string tension. Its darkly minimalist design pairs the look of a Charcoal Metallic Satin finish with black single-ply binding and a Macassar ebony fingerboard with no inlays…except for the glow-in-the-dark Luminlay side dots. The EC-1000 Baritone features 24 extra-jumbo stainless steel frets, a TonePros locking TOM bridge with string-thru-body, and powerful tones from a set of direct-mount Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker active pickups (alnico in the neck and ceramic in the bridge), with push-pull control to select voicings and black nickel covers.
Just bought this guitar and I everything about it is perfect. I can't seem to stop playing it. Definitely recommend buying if you're on the fence about it. What I really want and have been waiting on forever for is a 7 string model exactly like this. Will that ever happen ESP? I doubt it but one can hope.
Bought one from Thomann being sure in LTD top quality I’ve witnessed. The guitar arrived without a piece of a fingerboard under the 24th fret, with messed up screw on the jack mount and with a huge scratch on the headstock. Also pickups are not angled to match the neck angle. Unacceptable for guitar of this price.
But still plays and sounds great, that should I give to it.
This guitar is outstanding , I love it, I lowered the pickups and both voices sound amazing now.
I found that the ESP Premium Guitar Gig Bag is so well padded that this guitar's angled headstock was under pressure when zipped up, as such it would take less impact to damage the guitar at that point.
Being flat, the gig bag does not accomodate the angled headstock very well.
It's not a great fit in my opinion so i returned it.
I finally, recently, received my EC-1000 Baritone. All I can say is "thumbs up"! The all black satin finish, with black hardware is totally awesome. The overall quality of the guitar is excellent, and you get locking tuners! The satin finish on the neck allows your hand to easily slide up and down; neck dimensions are very comfortable and I have average size hands. This guitar is also lightweight, coming in at about 7.5 lbs. The 27" scale length is just about right for me; I've played one with 27.7" scale length and this is more comfortable. In addition the .013 - .062 strings were a great choice; the action was set a little high in the factory, but I easily lowered the strings, while avoiding any buzz. I'm liking the active Fishman Fluence pickups and mostly play the ceramic bridge p/u. If you're looking for a great baritone guitar, you can't go wrong with the EC-1000.
I have one on order. When did you get yours? I spoke to ESP at NAMM and they said they would probably ship out in May?? I was able to handle one at NAMM, for the first time, and I was impressed. I turned in a PRS SE277 with Sweetwater, as an exchange for the ESP baritone; don't think I'll have any regrets. Will report back when I get mine.
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