Feature:
The ability to control the sound of each pickup individually is the most important feature that this guitar possesses. It allows you to pinpoint the exact sound and tone that you want out of the guitar.

Quality:
This is where this guitar scores...the neck of the guitar is extremely smooth, and fast. There is absolutely no struggle when trying to slide up and down the fret board. Also, the body of the guitar is absolutely beautiful. I own the vintage black model with the gold knobs, the texture of both the knobs and the body are so detailed, you want to show the guitar off to all of your friends. There are no words that describe the way the guitar is visually put together. Finally, the guitar is very sturdy, it can take quite a beating. Although it is very sturdy, it is also very light. Which makes it easy on you shoulder when playing shows.

Value:
Like many other people have said, this guitar is pretty much a Gibson Les Paul for around $2000 cheaper, and with many more color choices. It is an extremely good value.

Desirability:
After playing this guitar, I don't think I will ever buy a guitar that is not made by ESP. I have never seen, played, or even heard about a guitar that looks, feels, and plays like this one does.

Sound:
This guitar has the perfect combination of EMG's, 81/60. It creates the best sound no matter what type of music you are looking for. If you want a clean, blue's sound, flip the switch up and use the neck pickup. If you want a modern metal sound used by bands such as Killswitch Engage, flip the switch down and use the bridge pickup. Also, the humbuckers work to perfection on this guitar as there is absolutely no feedback when you are not playing.

Ease of Use:
Not much to say here, it's pretty much as simple as this: pick it up, adjust the volume, and play.

Support:
I have not had to deal with ESP support

Overall:
If you are going back and forth on weather or not you want to purchase this guitar, I am telling you right now, if you pass this guitar up, you are making a huge mistake. You will only understand what I mean, if you purchase this guitar. No other guitar can even match up with the quality, sound, and feel of this guitar.

Feature:
I personally love the uncomplicated controls and how there is only one tone knob, which lets you control how much treble is in the outgoing signl. Also the two volume knobs are useful I suppose if you were tyring to get a twangier distortion, but I don't know anybody who would buy a guitar with active EMG's and not crank it up all the way.

Quality:
To sum up this guitar it is a Les Paul (but cooler looking because of the more dramatic cutaway and headstock) with better pickups, more attractive paint jobs, and an amazing price.

Value:
I would give this a 1000/10 if I could. The quality of this guitar is astounding. Look at the professional players from tons of bands that use this guitar, and they use it stock. No mods, which says something about the tone and pickups. I like this guitar better than $3,500 Gibsons and PRS guitars that I've played.

Desirability:
This guitar is absolutely beautiful. I think That I may buy another in a different color. I hope they never stop making this guitar. I don't know if there has ever been a guitar like this at such an amazing value.

Sound:
This guitar screams. The active pickups are amazing. I use it with a Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier (dream amp) so it is basically a combination made in heaven. This guitar is made for heavy metal. Pure and simple. The pickups are so dead quiet when not playing, which is great also. The EMGs are godly. The Bridge, which is the main pickup I use, screams. It is THE sound of todays modern metal. (Think Darkest Hour, Mors Principium Est, Killswitch Engage etc...)

Ease of Use:
It's a guitar so it's not hard to use. I give it a ten because of the simplistic tone controls. I've played les pauls and just could not get used to the controls.

Support:
Not had to deal with ESP and most likely never will.

Overall:
There is no negatives about this guitar. The only thing is that I wish I had more of them in different colors.

Feature:
The features and pretty simple but they're some of the best quality you can get. Sperzel lockin' tuners Tonepro's bridge. Dual Humbucker set up. It's a metal guitar what more could you ask for?

Quality:
This guitar came to be ALMOST perfect. Everything was great expect the G string was too short so 30 minutes into playing it, the string liked shot out of it. It didn't snap it just like shot out of the tailpiece. I tried putting it back in but it was too short.

Value:
If you want an ideal metal guiat and you don't feel like bustin' the 1,000 dollar line don't look anywhere else

Desirability:
Sex Appeal? A ton of gorgeous abalone a beautiful flamed maple BLUE top. That screams sex to me.

Sound:
Well, I play all metal sub genres and some vintage hardcore and it sound great with them all. I have the See Thru Blue with EMG's and they're amazing. I've played some Gibson Studios and they just don't compare to the chunkyness of this guitar. Don't fall for name brand BS this guitar deff compares and exceeds them.

Ease of Use:
The neck on this guitar is AMAZING it's very comfortable and fast. I don't have huge hands and this is a breeze to play with it's slim neck, none of that stupid almost flat necks on Ibanezs

Support:
I haven't needed to talk to them. A short string isn't anything to complain about I was going to switch them out anyways

Overall:
If this guitar was stolen. I'd cry and go buy a new one

Feature:
This guitar came with SIT strings which I think suck. Right out of the box 30 minutes into playing broke the g string. I slaped a set of earnie balls on the guitar and no more problems. I think this guitar is light weight there fore it is not a burden to be have it hanging off your shoulder for hours. I do wish the guitar did have another tone knob just to spice up the sound a little more but really no big deal. Oh and the toggle switch is kinda in a bad spot sometimes while playing I will hit it switching pickups and not having any sound then watch people stare. I think the guitar has the best pickups and tuners money can buy.

Quality:
The product is made well. When I first got the guitar i was shocked to find that it was not made in America because of its beauty and structure. I beleave this guitar will ast forever and I dont plan on getting rid of it.

Value:
In my opinion I think this guitar is as good if not better than any Gibson Les Pauls. My brother had purchassed one several years back and I have always wanted one and now I finally got it.

Desirability:
The guitar is beautiful see thru green. I do wish I would have gotten the vintage black.

Sound:
This guitar has amazing sounds expecially with the emg pickups. I play lots of 90 and new age metal and even some 70 rock and it is able to produce great sound for bith eras of music. This guitar to me has the sound of a les paul but with a little more crunch whish is what i like when I play.

Ease of Use:
The guitars slim neck and jumbo frets allow for easy fast playing up and down the neck. Any body would be able to pick this guitar up plug it into any amp and sound good.

Feature:
its pretty simple. I actually am going to get a killswitch installed on mine.

Quality:
Incredibly well built, this thing can take a beating.

Value:
Dude, this is like getting a les paul with better pickups and a different headstock for 1000 bucks less.

Desirability:
I actually hated the abalone at first, but it kinda grew on me after a while.

Sound:
the emg 81s SCREAM! i love the sound, its amazing for hard rock and metal and its pretty nice clean. I use it with a spider II and its great.

Ease of Use:
MegaSuperUltra fast neck. Its basic 2tone 2volume controls and a 3 way toggle. Low Action

Overall:
Im gonna keep this forever. amazing value, amazing product. BUY THIS GuITAR NOW!

Feature:
Mine shipped with a manual, some crazy ESP stickers, and allen wrenches for adjusting the hardware, but I didn't need to adjust it one bit. This guitar has fabulous intonation because of the way it's designed - to start, it has a tonepros locking bridge (so the bridge will not move at all no matter what you do to it) and that makes the tuning a lot easier when changing strings. Then you move up to the headstock and find both a compensated nut and locking machine heads (which you don't have to unscrew or anything like that, they just lock the string in place so you dont have to wind it around the post and risk slippage)

Quality:
Made very well. There was absolutley nothing out of place or wrong with mine and the guitar itself makes for a very durable road guitar (just ask all the bands that use them). However, I advise against getting the Satin Black finish (Vintage Black I think they call it) if you're the type of person that is a total neatfreak about your guitar. Mine has the Satin finish and it is very prone to scratches / blemishes if you don't treat respectfully. If you don't want to worry about scratching or things like that and you still want EMGs, just go for the regular gloss black or the black cherry finish - they're a little more easy to keep clean.

Value:
Best. Price. Ever. Pretty much everywhere you look, this thing is selling for WAAAYY under what it should be. You're basically getting a Les Paul with better pickups and neck (that's easier on the shoulder too) for less money even than a studio guitar. Ridiculous value.

Desirability:
Pretty much any variation of this guitar will make people crap themselves when they first see it.

Sound:
I could write a novel about the sound of this guitar - no matter what model you have. So to put it extremley brief: the mahagony gives it a tight, warm, resonant base for the pickups to build on. The EMGs are 81 and 60 (bridge and neck, respectively) and are, shall I say, hellacious. The 81 rips out intense distortion for all you metalheads to play juicy squeals and harmonics - perfect for leads and tight/heavy riffs. The 60 is soft and smooth, great for legato playing or soulful soloing. For those who have the JB and the 59, let me just say this: Lamb of God's Willie Adler uses the exact same setup on his ESP guitar. Got it? I own the model with the EMGs, and for those that boo the clean sound, I'd like to disagree. Just put it on the neck pickup and it'll take off a lot of the bite. Dont feel like you have to pay high prices for a great sound - look no further than this guitar for any genre. A++

Ease of Use:
Playability is outstanding. Like I said before, this thing can crank out some wild sh*t if you know how to play. The neck is also nicely shaped - not too thick that you cant play solos really fast, but also not so thin that you can't have a nice full grip on it.

Support:
Though I've never personally delt with them, ESP is a company that caters to guitarist's every need to make them happy. After all, they specialize in custom guitars - why wouldn't they act the same with customers?

Overall:
Overall, this is simply the best guitar out there for those who like a hot sound. Im not saying it doesnt also work for softer music, but it really strides in the high distortion area. The only reason I can think of why anyone shouldn't buy this guitar would be that they want to do whammy bar stuff. Anything else, and you've got it all here in an affordable, sexy, tight little package.

Feature:
Earvana compensated nut, Sperzel locking tuners, Tone Pros locking bridge, EMG pickups....what else could they possibly include? EXCELLENT value!

Quality:
Not a big fan of ANYTHING from Korea, but I've yet to find a flaw on mine! In fact, I have a USA made Jackson, Wolfgang, and Les Paul, and I like my ESP better than the rest. Very surprising quality. Times sure are changing...

Value:
Cannot say enough good things about this axe. VALUE is the key phrase for this guitar

Desirability:
Mine's see-through-cherry, and very stunning. At first I hated the Abalone, but in time I've really started liking it on this guitar. Normally I'd say it made it look gaudy, but I dig the prisim effect the Abalone gives off in certain light.

Sound:
EMG's really make this thing sing! Cannot say enough good things about this axe. If you play rock, your search is over.

Overall:
I liked my fist EC-1000 so much, I just ordered another one in Amber Sunburst! I just LOVE the neck profile, and it plays much faster than my other shredder axe I own. Ultimately, I wish they came with a case, but for the price point, ESP has a winner on their hands. (Just check around...most all dealers are continously out of stock!)