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ESP LTD MH-1007 EverTune - Black

7-string Electric Guitar with Mahogany Body, Maple Neck, Ebony Fingerboard, and 2 Active Humbucking Pickups - Black
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7-string Guitar with Active Pickups and EverTune Bridge

Set your performance on fire with the ESP LTD MH-1007ET. This 7-string electric guitar's mahogany body delivers a massive dose of warmth and sustain. Dual active EMG humbuckers provide amp-punishing output that retains note definition, even in high-gain situation. Enjoy unbelievable intonation, thanks to the LTD MH-1007ET's EverTune bridge. Execute your fastest runs with ease on the Thin "U" neck. Packed with sustain and aggressive tone, the ESP LTD MH-1007ET 7-string electric guitar is sure to put a smile on your face.

ESP LTD — the perfect guitar for rock or metal

ESP LTD guitars were created to bring a more affordable version of the classic designs and quality of ESP guitars to a new market. The entire ESP LTD line of instruments feature premium tonewoods, quality pickups, and solid hardware for a lifetime of use. An exacting eye to detail and quality means that every instrument is ready to rock when it leaves the factory. An impressive list of signature guitars by some of today's biggest guitar heroes shows the popularity and respect held by ESP LTD. If you're looking for the perfect rock or metal guitar, you need to check out ESP LTD guitars.

EverTune bridge keeps you in tune, all gig long

The EverTune bridge on the ESP LTD MH-1007ET is an all-mechanical system that helps you stay in tune longer under any playing situation. Small springs keep constant tension on your strings, giving you long-lasting tuning stability and incredibly accurate intonation too. You can even adjust it to control how much your pitch changes when you bend a string. Even if you're playing a long gig or recording session, your tuning will be more stable regardless of your playing style, temperature, or other variables.

EMG pickups yield incredible top-end clarity and huge lows

You'll get to know the true personality of the ESP LTD MH-1007ET as soon as you plug it in. A set of EMG's popular 817H and 857H active humbucking pickups offers up a sound that is high output with plenty of top-end clarity and huge lows. These pickups are a favorite among metal players, and Sweetwater sells a ton of them for how well they push amps into tight-sounding distortion. Also, the simple-to-navigate control layout makes dialing in your tones intuitive and fast.

ESP LTD MH-1007ET 7-string Electric Guitar Features:

  • 7-string electric guitar with aggressive tone and extreme playability
  • Mahogany body delivers a massive dose of warmth and sustain
  • EMG 817H/857H humbuckers provide hot output and excellent note definition
  • Thin "U" profile makes the mahogany neck play fast and smooth
  • EverTune bridge keeps consistent tension on your strings for better tuning stability and intonation

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Tech Specs

  • General
  • Number of Strings 7
  • Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
  • Body
  • Body Type Solidbody
  • Body Shape MH series
  • Body Material Mahogany
  • Body Finish Gloss Polyurethane
  • Color See-thru Black
  • Neck
  • Neck Material 3-piece Maple
  • Neck Shape Thin U
  • Neck Joint Neck-through
  • Radius 13.7"
  • Fingerboard Material Ebony
  • Fingerboard Inlay Offset Blocks
  • Number of Frets 24, Extra Jumbo, Stainless Steel
  • Scale Length 25.5"
  • Nut Width 1.889"
  • Nut Material Tusq XL
  • Hardware
  • Bridge/Tailpiece F Model Evertune Bridge
  • Tuners Grover
  • Electronics
  • Neck Pickup EMG 857H Humbucker
  • Bridge Pickup EMG 817H Humbucker
  • Controls 1 x master volume, 1 x master tone
  • Switching 3-way blade pickup switch
  • Miscellaneous
  • Strings D'Addario, .010-.059
  • Case/Gig Bag Sold Separately
  • Manufacturer Part Number: LMH1007ETBLK

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Well-designed instrument held back by lack of attention to detail

First thing's first: this guitar has made playing my other guitars suck. There's nothing crazy about the fit and finish, or tone, or feel. But the bridge. Not having to tune is the game changer I didn't know I needed. I like to write and record a lot, and a lot of my recording is done spontaneously. I'll have an idea pop into my head, and I'll run upstairs to my music room and grab this and just get straight to work. No friction with having to tune. To me, guitars are tools first and foremost, and this is the most reliable one I've used. But the bad part, is that my guitars with normal bridges go out of tune, so playing them is kinda less fun now. Having to stop between takes to re-tune, or picking a guitar up for the first time in a month to have the strings a quarter step flat.

So yeah, Evertune is a wondrous, magical device that I want on veery guitar now. Setting it up was a bit of a pain, but it's no more difficult than setting up a Floyd.

There are two things about this guitar that bug me though. One I can blame on ESP, one I can blame on Sweetwater.
As for ESP, the fret ends are a little rough. Not necessarily sharp or poking out, but perhaps not rounded over enough. No other guitar I have feel like this, so I'm assuming it has something to do with the frets being stainless steel. I'll eventually file them down, but taking a file to a new expensive guitar is always nerve-wracking.
Now for my Sweetwater problem. I got this guitar as a demo unit. It appears the guitar had heavier strings put on it at some point. Maybe someone bought it, put 11s on it, and returned it. But it came with what feel like 11s. As a result, the bridge was really out of whack, so I had to learn how to tech an Evertune real quick. And perhaps more important, the nut wasn't cut to accommodate the larger strings. So the action is really high at the nut, and kind of hard to play. Eventually I'll have to make a decision, cut the nut for the heavier strings, or put lighter strings on it and do a complete setup. I've been making do with it how it is but it's suboptimal and that bothers me.

Overall thoughts:
Well designed guitar with an amazing bridge and the right pickups for metal.
ESP let this one slip through with bit great fretwork, and Sweetwater sent it to me with heavier strings without cutting the nut to accommodate.
by Dylan Lanphear from Sedalia, MO on

Perfect!

Best guitar I've ever owned. Will be my live guitar for years to come. If broken it will be replaced by the same guitar no doubt.
by Daniel Monroe from Kentucky on
Music background: Mr.Lugosi

Awesome sounding Guitar

I received this Guitar a few days ago and haven"t put it down the sound the feel just blew me away I did have to get used to using the EverTune bridge with a few days of practice Iam not good at it I want to thank my sales rep Justin Kessler who did a outstanding Job helping me with my order and the shipping he made my order experience very professional and when you have people who work with Iam sure to do more business with Sweetwater
by Dean Gellman from Brooklyn NY on
Music background: Professional

Perfect instrument for rhythm/metal guitarists

I've had mine for around a couple months now, and as a vocalist who also plays rhythm guitar, I'm in love with it.

First off, the most obvious talking point is the Evertune bridge system. I love technological innovations in music gear, and the ET was something I really wanted to try for myself. Once I got the instrument set up to my preferences and learned how to handle the bridge, I was completely sold -- WITH some caveats.
With it set properly, the instrument has the cleanest tone imaginable, no matter what you're playing. I have mine tuned such that all the strings are just on the upper edge of the active zone, so I can still bend the strings and use vibrato, but they'll remain in tune no matter how or what I play. The tradeoff here is that when set very close to the edge of the active zone there's more opportunity for the tuning to shift juuust enough over time to require occasional readjustment. Also, if you set it too closely to the edge of the active zone and you hit the strings hard enough, the saddles on the lower-tuned strings may buzz against the stop points (though you generally won't notice this when plugged in). If you're primarily a rhythm player who doesn't ever use bends, though, you can keep all the strings tuned at a point closer to the center of the active zone and it should never require readjustment at all. Many players set the lower strings closer to the center of the active zone though to prioritize clear chords, while setting the rest closer to the edge to allow bending.
A commonly-cited potential concern is that the bridge reduces the sustain of the instrument. A rhythm player probably won't care much about this, and I've only personally noticed any reduction of sustain at all on the high-E string -- it might make sense for you to disable the Evertune for that string entirely if you want to regain the lost sustain (by tuning that saddle to a higher pitch so that string is never in the active zone, basically turning it into a hard-tail for just that string) while having it active on all other strings for the tuning benefits when playing chords. I haven't felt the need to try this for myself, but it should work in theory since the string will no longer have the saddle acting against it.

As for the guitar itself, from the factory, it actually arrived in tune (with the bridge configured for E standard) and the action on mine was perfect for my preferences -- nice and low. The intonation was slightly out, but fixing it was simple -- just adjust the rear set screws to move the saddles, then adjust the saddle's tuning screw and tuning peg. Nearly two months later, the instrument stays perfectly in tune across all strings and the full length of the fretboard.

Not much to say about the pickups, anyone who's ever used EMGs knows what they're getting here. I love the sound they give, but I do want to try swapping some Fluences in there sometime simply because I've heard such good things about them and always am looking to try something new. I had a hard time choosing between this guitar and the Headly model for that reason. At this point in time, Sweetwater doesn't appear to carry the 7-string Fluences that would fit in this body.

The neck just... feels really good. It's surprisingly easy to play, especially given that it's a 7-string. I thought I'd have trouble adjusting to a 7-string, but so far it's been an incredibly smooth transition. I actually feel like I might even prefer it over the other guitar necks I've played -- It doesn't feel too wide or too thick/thin, and fretting notes feels super natural. I don't know much about neck profiles though, so this one's a purely 'by feel' thing.

The hardware all feels high-quality enough to me; the knobs and selector switch don't feel cheap and the tuners are nicely responsive and don't seem to slip. the area at the upper end of the ET active zone is particularly sensitive to tuner changes, but it doesn't seem as though mine has ever slipped outside of the sweet spot there.

I would've liked some more finish options. The other models all get multiple options including flame tops, but the 1007ET only gets glossy black with white triple binding... It works for the generic metal sort of look, but it's kind of bland and I was disappointed at the lack of variety here (though given that the Evertune is rather niche, I can kind of understand). This was another thing that nearly had me pull the trigger on the Headly model, with its nice purple flamed top (though it lacks binding, which would've set it off nicely IMHO).

The only complaints I really have at this point are of a few very minor cosmetic issues. The finish at the edge of the pickup selector cutout is pretty rough, and the cutout itself is a bit too wide, exposing a bit too much of the rough inner edges as well as the metal chassis of the pickup selector itself (which doesn't seem to be perfectly centered along the cutout). Likewise, the triple binding is a bit rough in spots, and the top and side of the binding seem to be slightly different colors -- pure white on the top, slightly more cream-colored on the side. Finally, the 12th-fret inlay seems to have a number of open gaps along the black lettering material. These gaps are hard to notice at first; I only realized because the material appears a bit darker at the gaps due to the lack of surface material reflection. None of these are serious issues at all, and you can only really notice them if you look suuuper close -- and of course they don't affect how the instrument plays, which is the most important part ;)
by Ash Wolford from Russell Springs, KY on
Music background: Vocalist / Rhythm Guitarist
See also: 7 String Electric Guitars, ESP, ESP 7-string Guitars, ESP Solidbody Guitars
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