This guitar is really good quality for the price. The only issue I had was the action was a little high for me, but I easily fixed it no problem. I haven't played in 20 years and wanted to play again, and this guitar is perfect for me. I really like the white with black hardware and also the push pull single coil split

if you're like me and like to buy affordable guitars and mod them to your likening, this is the best choice. first of all it looks sick. Second its light and feels great, really good fretwork for the price. I cannot offer much review on the stock pickups since i didn't play much with them, swapped them for Duncan distortion. But in terms of feel its amazing, good sturdiness and electronics are good quality. The only reason i don't give 5 stars is the nut on mine is a little tight and will likely need adjustments or replacing for graph-tusq not sure if its just mine or common, but that's later down the road. Overall amazing build for a guitar of this price, would recommend to others for sure...thanks Sweetwater!!!

Pickups are adequate but could be better, the build quality is pretty nice on my specific guitar. The volume and tone knobs and nut are pretty cheap but over all not a bad guitar for the price. A pretty nice platform to build what you want. Not the most comfortable to sit down and play in my personal experience but it feels fine standing up. Thanks Matthew LaMarche for all the help!

I haven't played much guitar since the mid 90's, have pretty much played bass exclusively since then, but had an itch to get a guitar to noodle around with, play some Sabbath, doomy type stuff. Finally pulled the trigger on one of these and I'm incredibly happy I did. This is the best playing guitar I have not only ever owned but have ever played period. Came set up and ready to play other than minor tuning adjustment. I will want to add some heavier gauge strings here soon but it's fine right now. Neck and fret board feel extremely fast, frets feel great, sits in my lap while seated really well and feels good standing up with no real neck dive to speak of. Was wondering how the pickups would sound and so far not bad, get a good clean tone and a really good chunky/beefy tone as well going through Randall RG1503-212. As always Sweetwater and my sales associate Justin were great, checking in to make sure everything went smoothly and that I was enjoying the guitar. If you're looking for a single cut style guitar and high end LP's are just out of your price range I highly recommend the EC-256, a lot of guitar in this price range.

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This guitar is great. If you want to play hard rock, it'll do that. If you want to play mellow blues, it'll do that. If you want to play smooth jazz, it'll do that. It's also a fantastic rhythm guitar in general if you are looking for that.

It's playable, well-finished, and has (IMO) a thinner and faster neck than traditional single cuts. It also coil splits, which will give you a bit of twang if you want it (but not too much).

This guitar cannot do everything, however. If you are looking to play super twang-y blues or country, this is probably not the right guitar for you. If you are after a traditional strat or tele single-coil sound, this guitar is not for you. It complements those sounds nicely, but this guitar is made for lots of legato play, it's smooth, not choppy.

Things that sound great on this guitar
- Crazy Train
- Sum 41
- Green Day
- Chet Baker (jazz)
- AC/DC
- Guns and Roses
- Bobby Charles (blues)

Things I would use a different guitar for
- Stevie Ray Vaughn
- Chic

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First of all great service Sweetwater.
About the guitar, I'm impress, its a great guitar, and the best part is that you can switch between Humbuckers and singles very easy, it gives you a lot of versatility to play what you want. So if you want to play metal, you got it, you want to play jazz, blues, you got it too, incredible quality, and it looks so good, I'm in love, I'm so glad.

absolutely amazing customer service, guitar came in perfect condition, packaged great. definitely ordering from here again.

I got this guitar for christmas, and plays very well. And is a lot lighter than my Epiphone Les Paul, which is a good thing. The reason I got this one is because Keith Wallen from Breaking Benjamin uses an ESP version of this from time to time. The snow white looks perfect, and it's about as white as you can get, which is what I was looking for. I put this instrument all the way down to drop A#, or Bb, and it still sounds good. The coil splitting is an amazing feature, in which I didn't even know was included when I ordered it, so a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

Ordered this guitar, a Marshall Code 50 amp and various accessories. Upon placing the order I received an email from a rep letting me know what was going to happen shipping wise and heard back from them several times all the way through the process.

I received everything in perfect condition and couldn't be happier.