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#21
sungjin891118 said:
i have an ESP edwards artist series.
absolutely love it. sounds amazing, looks amazing.
its level of quality overall is in the same league as my lakland 55-02 but slightly better IMO.

and the batteries last well over a year for mine

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I love seeing that one everytime - its sooooo beautiful!

Let my clarify - I maybe got the only one with a very bad short ... maybe
 
#23
I have two C-304's. They are now discontinued, but are absolutely amazing instruments. One is fretted, one is fretless and both have 35" scale lengths. I replaced the stock EMG-HZ's with EMG 35-P4/35-CS pups in the fretted and Duncan Basslines Phase II Passive Soapbars in the fretless.

In general, I think ESP LTD make great, and often over-looked, instruments.
 
#25
bass-shy said:
I have two C-304's. They are now discontinued, but are absolutely amazing instruments. One is fretted, one is fretless and both have 35" scale lengths. I replaced the stock EMG-HZ's with EMG 35-P4/35-CS pups in the fretted and Duncan Basslines Phase II Passive Soapbars in the fretless.

In general, I think ESP LTD make great, and often over-looked, instruments.
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I wonder if they offer a fretless now? I did not see one on their site. All I play anymore is my Carvin BL75F (fretless) and I only play round wounds. If this keeps up I will sell all my fretted basses. I played fretless years ago with a unlined frettless Fender Jazz 3-5 nights a week for about 5 years. I used fretted for learning songs (figuring them out) because there was no tabbed bass information. Fretless is so much easier to play (physically) for me.
 
#27
Gabriel51 said:
I wonder if they offer a fretless now?
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In order to get a fretless ESP, you could order one from their custom shop, find a used, factory fretless model or buy a fretted model that you like and have it defretted.

The custom shop is supposed to be awesome, but you could easily spend $4000.00, depending on what you want.

The regular production fretless ESP's are pretty hard to find and I've only seen Fender-style repro's offered with a FL option.

The last option is what I did. I knew I wanted another C-304, but I couldn't find out if ESP ever offered that model as fretless. I bought a fretted one and took it to Elderly Instruments to have it defretted. It cost a little under $300.00, but they did it quickly and the fingerboard turned out flawless.
 
#28
bass-shy said:
In order to get a fretless ESP, you could order one from their custom shop, find a used, factory fretless model or buy a fretted model that you like and have it defretted.

The custom shop is supposed to be awesome, but you could easily spend $4000.00, depending on what you want.

The regular production fretless ESP's are pretty hard to find and I've only seen Fender-style repro's offered with a FL option.

The last option is what I did. I knew I wanted another C-304, but I couldn't find out if ESP ever offered that model as fretless. I bought a fretted one and took it to Elderly Instruments to have it defretted. It cost a little under $300.00, but they did it quickly and the fingerboard turned out flawless.
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Thanks
 
#30
That is an awesome looking bass Solarmist. Very cool. I've taken some abuse in "fender" threads for calling most of their factory designs really boring, but yours is a good example of what wish they would do a little a more of- not so gaudy that it's metal looking or too flashy, but kicked up a notch from the basics. Yours is a perfect compromise. You can play in a jazz band or you could rock out in a speed metal band and feel right in place, in either case.

I know that's not the primary reason to purchase the instrument, but if I am gonna drop down a hunk a cash, I want to love the way it looks, too.


What did you pay for that bass if you don't mind me asking?
 
#32
Kevinmach said:
That is an awesome looking bass Solarmist. Very cool. I've taken some abuse in "fender" threads for calling most of their factory designs really boring, but yours is a good example of what wish they would do a little a more of- not so gaudy that it's metal looking or too flashy, but kicked up a notch from the basics. Yours is a perfect compromise. You can play in a jazz band or you could rock out in a speed metal band and feel right in place, in either case.

I know that's not the primary reason to purchase the instrument, but if I am gonna drop down a hunk a cash, I want to love the way it looks, too.


What did you pay for that bass if you don't mind me asking?
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i think you mean my bass which solarmist complimented on.
and yes it works well in both jazz and rock :)
 
#39
6 String ESP ;)

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