NGD - LTD Viper 256P
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:10 am
Hi all, seagulling in again as I seem to do at the moment.
Behold, new shit, I got a ESP LTD SG copy and its good. Got it with a Catalinbread Giygas fuzz pedal for 390 intergalactic space doubloons.
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ESP LTD quality control is good. These guitars always play great, and have hot pickups in them. That's usually my complaint, it's pretty hard to get nuance out of these guitars because they come with 1000000K pickups despite the pretty flawless playability.
It's an SG copy with P-90s in, the fella replaced the originals (gottem in a bag too, fkn score) with some Tonerider P-90s. It sounds pretty cool, barky and up in your shit, like a good SG should. He also put locking tuners in, and I do love the secondhand market where clear upgrades actually make your instrument sell for less. He put it up for 400 about 3-4 months ago, it was all the way in Glendora so I wasn't interested cos thats like 2hr drive, but then he dropped the price to 300 and put a Giygas up for 105, so I said 390 to cover gas and voila, more gearrrrrr.
Here's some photos next to the Yamaha I bought last year. I took a picture of the frets especially because I wanted to talk about how these guitars could be seen as pretty similar axes, and that you might be like "well no Rhys, one has P-90s two knobs, the other one is LP-style HB with four knobs"; the Viper is definitely a P90s SG and the Yamaha SG500 is a Les Paul... kinda... maybe?
What I noticed more than sound between these two guitars is the Jumbo frets on this guitar are like train tracks v. whatever they slugged into Yamaha necks and you can really feel it. I thought I liked a nice jumbo fret but in this instance I'd really like to get this Viper's fretboard more rolled and the big frets are just kinda... ok. The old Yamaha plays nicer, those big frets are weird tbth. What also throws me about this guitar is that it doesn't SG neck dive because the body is big. Like its a big SG, with some girth and I really dig it. What that does though, is just make it the same as the Yamaha which is trying to be like somewhere between a SG and a Les Paul from the 80s era.
I now have a P90 guitar, but I think it's been one of the more interesting evenings of messing around with guitars because these two guitars are so fucking similar but also not, and their own take on a classic.
I do not need a new guitar, I think probably at this point we can collective say that we don't need a new guitar... here are photos:
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Behold, new shit, I got a ESP LTD SG copy and its good. Got it with a Catalinbread Giygas fuzz pedal for 390 intergalactic space doubloons.
<review>
ESP LTD quality control is good. These guitars always play great, and have hot pickups in them. That's usually my complaint, it's pretty hard to get nuance out of these guitars because they come with 1000000K pickups despite the pretty flawless playability.
It's an SG copy with P-90s in, the fella replaced the originals (gottem in a bag too, fkn score) with some Tonerider P-90s. It sounds pretty cool, barky and up in your shit, like a good SG should. He also put locking tuners in, and I do love the secondhand market where clear upgrades actually make your instrument sell for less. He put it up for 400 about 3-4 months ago, it was all the way in Glendora so I wasn't interested cos thats like 2hr drive, but then he dropped the price to 300 and put a Giygas up for 105, so I said 390 to cover gas and voila, more gearrrrrr.
Here's some photos next to the Yamaha I bought last year. I took a picture of the frets especially because I wanted to talk about how these guitars could be seen as pretty similar axes, and that you might be like "well no Rhys, one has P-90s two knobs, the other one is LP-style HB with four knobs"; the Viper is definitely a P90s SG and the Yamaha SG500 is a Les Paul... kinda... maybe?
What I noticed more than sound between these two guitars is the Jumbo frets on this guitar are like train tracks v. whatever they slugged into Yamaha necks and you can really feel it. I thought I liked a nice jumbo fret but in this instance I'd really like to get this Viper's fretboard more rolled and the big frets are just kinda... ok. The old Yamaha plays nicer, those big frets are weird tbth. What also throws me about this guitar is that it doesn't SG neck dive because the body is big. Like its a big SG, with some girth and I really dig it. What that does though, is just make it the same as the Yamaha which is trying to be like somewhere between a SG and a Les Paul from the 80s era.
I now have a P90 guitar, but I think it's been one of the more interesting evenings of messing around with guitars because these two guitars are so fucking similar but also not, and their own take on a classic.
I do not need a new guitar, I think probably at this point we can collective say that we don't need a new guitar... here are photos:
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) per A I got at GCSE, I was elated and then it was a complete cunt to me for 6 years. 
No need to apologise Rhys, where would Shortscale be without drunk posting.