ESP LTD EC-256 Electric Guitar, Black

I am happy with this ESP . . ..I had a PRS which looked awesome but had high action. I wanted to turn a few screws . . .but thought the factory settings were where it was at. Regardless, I needed a new guitar and came around this beauty (black and gold) and realized it was a decent guitar to have. It wasn't a PRS . . .but I was able to lower the action on this guitar in a few minutes. Just a turn of a screw and there it was. The pick ups on this thing (humbuckers) are gold and sound jazzy on the rhythm setting. The high treble switch gave me decent solo room for distortion . . . and sounds great through a good amp. I don't like the fretboard inlays . . .but I'm getting use to them. I like dots on the fretboard to help locate where I am. I play a classical with only one dot on the seventh fret and I get lost, from time to time. This guitar has dots running up and down the fret board. The tuning heads are solid and stay in tune. This is not a problem . . .again . . .this ESP is not a PRS . . .but for the money . . .I made a good purchase and I'm happy with this brand.

Quite possibly my favorite guitar, out of the 10+ I've owned, great build quality, reasonably priced, beautiful looking, and it sounds great, the coil splitter is a great feature that most of my other guitars have been missing. I highly recommend this guitar for players of any skill level

The guitar is great, plays nice and sound great too. Maybe some higher end humbuckers pickups will add the high quality in sound. Also, some locking tuners will definitely help to keep the tuning longer even though it stays in tune. The guitar looks and feels great.

Guitar arrived in about 4 days and was brought to my door by the mailman, not UPS/FedEx. Would have given it 5 stars, but there were/are some minor flaws. For one, when the box arrived there was a 3 inch gash through the cardboard, luckily this was on the side of the box where the back of the guitar lay, no damage from that. Next, the fret board has a few scratches in the wood on some of the frets, and there are some other minor cosmetic flaws, so this might be a b-stock guitar even though the description doesn't say so. Despite these flaws, the guitar still looks great, no problems with the way it plays! Honestly, i bought the guitar for about $70.00 cheaper from GearTree, so i can deal with a couple insignificant scratches. I would recommend considering a safer method of shipment when ordering musical equipment, such as UPS or FedEx, just to try to minimize problems.

Full disclosure: I am a total amateur hack player who started playing again in October, 2020 after a 20-year hiatus. I have one other guitar, a Gretsch electric hollowbody. I wanted a decent solid body guitar and I considered models like the PRS SE Standard and Epiphone Les Paul Traditional Pro, but decided on the ESP LTD EC 256 after listening to all of the online sound checks and reviews. I use a Boss Katana 100 mkii amp and I can get my Gretsch to sound like a Strat, so I wasn't concerned at all about the occasional mediocre rating the LTD's in-house humbuckers received. The set-up was perfect. Out of the box, the only thing I did was swap out the D'addario .10 gauge strings which came on the EC 256 for my personal preference Ernie Ball Super Slinky .09'S. The 256's Les Paul-style cutaway has a cool m, smaller cutaway in the back of the body which lets you play even the 22nd fret easily. One last note is that I have long fingers and I find the neck shape and fret board really comfortable. The bottom line is that this guitar looks really, really great, feels solid, plays great and sounds as good as it looks. I have no hesitation in recommending the EC 256 to other players like me.

Packaging was so good and came ready to play

Broken tuner not due to shipping damage, but due to packing damage. Third ESP I've bought online. This will be my last. All 3 have had some defect. I'll only buy in person.

I like it made it a little adjusting not much little buzz very hot pickups very sensitive pair to my other guitars harmonics are great it's a great copy