ESP LTD EC-500 Review

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Overall Rating 4.57

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Features 4.5

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Quality 4.53

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Reliability / Value 4.59

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ESP LTD EC-500 Specs

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  • Body Shape: LP  
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  • Number of Strings: 6  
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  • Body Type: Solid Body  
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  • Scale Length: 24-3/4"  
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  • Body Wood: Mahogany  
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  • Body Top Wood: Mahogany  
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  • Finish: Lacquer  
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  • Binding: Creme  
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  • Carved Top: Yes  
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  • Neck Construction: 3-piece neck  
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  • Neck Shape: U-shaped neck  
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  • Neck Joint: Set neck  
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  • Neck Wood: Mahogany  
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  • Fingerboard Material: Rosewood  
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  • Fingerboard Inlays: Abalone Flag  
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  • Number of Frets: 24  
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  • Nut Width: 1.65"  
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  • String Nut: Earvana Compensated  
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  • Tuners: Grover  
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  • Bridge: Tune-O-Matic  
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  • Hardware: Black Nickel  
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  • Fret Size: Extra Jumbo  
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  • Number of Pickups: 2  
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  • Pickup Switch Type: 3-way Pickup Selector  
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  • Bridge Pickup Type: Active Humbucker  
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  • Neck Pickup Type: Active Humbucker  
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  • Controls: Tone  
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  • Controls: Volume  
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  • Pickups: EMG-81 (Bridge) / EMG-60 (Neck) Active

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ESP is a company that you can count on and be sure that they know their job, and that's building great instruments. Another model from ESP named LTD EC-500 outperforms and outranks sound-wise many other models in its price range. It's well worth the price.

This guitar is fitted with all the features you could possibly wish for, for a playing style that goes with this kind of instrument. Carefully chosen features leave no guitar player's desire unfulfilled, which makes ESP's LTD EC-500 an extremely well featured guitar with which you'll be thoroughly pleased. Highest grades for LTD EC-500's features!

If you try playing LTD EC-500 after an average guitar, it becomes obvious that this ESP deserves to be proud of making it sound so beautifully. It delivers great tone when plugged in to most amps and, versatile as it is, it will allow you to find your own tone that you will be proud of as well. ESP's LTD EC-500 is surely a world class sounding instrument.

LTD EC-500 is a guitar that will cause envy with your friends-guitarists. The finish is beautiful; it tells the story of how much time and care ESP took to create such a great instrument. Action is great right out of the box, but it's easy to set it up to fit your playing style and needs. Hardware is no exception, and is carefully chosen to make LTD EC-500 a fine instrument that it is.

LTD EC-500 is one of the finest in its class. ESP created a guitar that is both durable, and a guitar that performs well in studio, on stage and while rehearsing/practicing. Quality hardware and finish are a guarantee that this instrument will last long and serve you well, if you take the usual care for your instrument, as you should.