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Posted by: JTaylor Mar 15 2012, 11:56 PM

As some of you may recall, I bought a Jackson JS32R about 6 weeks ago. It's a great guitar but I just could not get a warm tone out of it. Great guitar for metal, but I want to play a lot more than metal and cannot afford a guitar for every genre I want to play. At the time, I had tunnel vision and just wanted a Jackson. Well, after trying many things (and not succeeding at any of them ), I stopped at the shop where I bought it from and talked about a trade. They took at back (at almost $120 less than I paid for it), but the store credit enabled me to buy the other guitar I had been considering briefly.
Here's a pic:
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Though I took the loss, I am very happy with the clean (and the distorted) sound from it and consider the trade well worth it!

Posted by: derper Mar 16 2012, 01:20 AM

Congrats! As long as YOU are happy with the trade, that's what matters!

I love my Parker Fly for the versatile tone, as well. I never quite fell in love with my US strat, so that got sold. The Parker is my axe for country, metal, funk, blues, and jazz! True....I'd like to have 335 tone, and a true Telecaster, but until then my Parker will hold it down on every sound I need!

Posted by: thefireball Mar 16 2012, 02:26 AM

That's awesome, Jon! Look at it this way though, now you know what guitar you like.

Posted by: The Uncreator Mar 16 2012, 03:19 AM

I've recently found out that ESP's are a whole lot of win.

Posted by: DeGroot Mar 16 2012, 07:39 AM

That guitar looks awesome! I've owned a couple ESP LTD guitars in the past and they were solid.... been recently thinking about getting one again to have a guitar with 24 frets.

Posted by: Alex Feather Mar 16 2012, 08:55 AM

Great guitar! Nice mahogany body and neck through! I love it! Also the color is beautiful! Congarts!

Posted by: Ben Higgins Mar 16 2012, 10:33 AM

Yeah, I've only ever been close to one ESP LTD guitar in my life, which belonged to someone else but man, I was impressed !

Posted by: JTaylor Mar 16 2012, 09:29 PM

Hey everybody and thanks for the compliments! I am quite happy with it ! On another note though, I have now officially run out of excuses for not getting my video submitted to Cosmin!

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Mar 17 2012, 11:25 AM

I recently heard the 7 string LTD - Stephen Carpenter signature huge sound ! It had a good tone in the live context

Posted by: Guitar1969 Mar 17 2012, 08:28 PM

What model is that ESP Ltd?

Posted by: JTaylor Mar 17 2012, 08:35 PM

It's an EC-100QM.Just a basic guitar but it's only $249 (US)! I love the sound and pretty much everything about it! The neck pickup is great (very smooth and warm) and in the bridge position, I honestly cannot tell a difference between it and the Jackson. A lot of crunch! It is a bolt on neck neck but it is is hard to see even when you are holding it. Like Brandon said, at least I know which one I prefer now!