ESP LTD MH400NT Non Tremolo Electric Guitar

Set neck. Mahogany body with quilted maple top. EMG pickups.

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Overall User Ratings

Overall:: 10 out of 10
Features:: 9 out of 10
Quality:: 10 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 10 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 9 out of 10

"THE BEST GUITAR EVER!!!! The price, workmanship, sound and look."

Overall:: 10 out of 10
Features:: 10 out of 10
Quality:: 10 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 10 out of 10

User: a customer from juno.com

Submitted: 2/28/2005

Style of Music: All kinds of metal, basically anything that rocks!

Musical Experience: Hobbyist - like most I need a day job

Location: Alexandria, VA

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Feature:
The components are top-notch. The grover tuners are extremely precise and when you tune your guitar, it stays in tune, especially in combination with the Earvana nut, tune-o-matic and string-thru-body. Never worry about bending a note out of tune. The mohagony body resonates for days, the quilted-maple top and the binding makes it look and feel like an overly expensive guitar. The only feature I wish it had is a selection of colors. Trans-black is great, but a trans-dark cherry or tiger-eye would make me drool.

Quality:
This guitar will last forever (provided it is well taken care of). The workmanship and quality are top-notch, it feels like a guitar hand-built in the USA that sells for three-times as much.

Value:
This product is well-worth it's selling price. It's a diamond in the rough.

Desirability:
This guitar is so sexy it makes me drool just thinking about it. It is absolutely aesthetically beautiful. The binding, the choice of woods, quilted-top... the beautiful grain of the fret-board.

Sound:
This guitar sounds better than most $1800+ guitars I've played. It's great for all types of musical styles from jazz to metal, plugged in or unplugged. Percussive rythmn playing is crystal clear, not muddy. Soloing is so good, so so good! The tone! Oh my, the tone!

Support:
Nope.

Overall:
I considered three guitars (a Peavey Wolfgang, Music Man EVH, and an ESP Horizon) before I discovered the MH400-NT. The MH400-NT plays just as well as the other three, feels just as solid, is just as comfortable to play, is just as sexy and costs way less than either of the three. You can't beat it. And it has EMGs!!! I would only supplement it with a seven-string version of this guitar. ESP makes a six-string baritone version of this guitar, but I want all seven strings.

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"Get this guitar if you play metal"

Overall:: 10 out of 10
Features:: 9 out of 10
Quality:: 10 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 8 out of 10

User: a customer from msn.com

Submitted: 9/27/2005

Style of Music: Metal, Death, Thrash, Grind

Musical Experience: Active Musician

Location: Denver, Colorado, USA

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Feature:
Not a huge slew of features, but all of the parts are well made and well put together. The grover tuners are really precise, the 81/85 pickups sound great, the mohogany body is really solid, and the fretboard feels really fast. Good quality parts.

Quality:
This guitar was made in Korea, and is very well put together, there are no paint blemishes, or chips in the wood of any kind. Good setup.

Value:
Amazing metal guitar for the price. I got mine as a blemished one for 450 dollars. There is no blemish to be seen. It looks like the "blemish" was the fact that somebody bought the guitar then returned it. It was still in the factory sealed box when I got it. I lucked out big time.

Desirability:
This guitar looks sweet. For some reason it looks purple on the esp website, but it's a really dark see thru blackish blue color. Really hot, and the black hardware looks good too.

Sound:
The sound of this guitar is absolutely awesome. It's perfect for metal. The string thru body and neck thru added to the 81/85 pickups make this thing sound awesome. The sustain is great, and it rips for metal. I'm not too sure about other styles but definitely for metal

Support:
I've contacted esp a few times and the response has usually been quick and concise

Overall:
This guitar is now my main axe, topping my gibson, my schecter and my Ibanez. It should last a long long time with proper care. It plays really good, and is just all around an awesome guitar.

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"One word... GORGEOUS GUITAR"

Overall:: 9 out of 10
Features:: 9 out of 10
Quality:: 8 out of 10
Value:: 9 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 10 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 2 out of 10

User: a customer from yahoo.com

Submitted: 7/13/2007

Style of Music: Metal/Power Metal/Gothic Metal

Musical Experience: Active Musician

Location: Andreas, Pennsylvania, USA

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Feature:
The grover tuners work great, and the 3-way selector switch operates very smoothly.

Quality:
I noticed a few minor blemishes when I got the guitar. The inlay at the 20th fret has a small chip in it, and the edges are a little sloppy where the wood meets the binding. Other than that its a beautiful guitar.

Value:
great value for a mid-grade guitar. The EMG's and the quilted maple body are top notch.

Desirability:
The picture on the site makes it look really bad, but when I opened the box I couldnt believe how gorgeous the guitar was. And to my suprise, instead of natural binding on the body, it came with white binding, which Im happy it did, because I didnt like the natural binding.

Sound:
The EMG 81/85 pickups are incredible. Ill never go back to passive pickups.

Ease of Use:
Extremely easy to play on, the pinch harmonics just flow out of this thing.

Support:
My guitar was backored, and Esp took FOREVER to fulfill their order, I had to wait over 2 months for my guitar to finally ship.

Overall:
I definitely plan to keep this guitar for a long time. As for adding anything? It doesnt need a thing.

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"Metal monster at a small price"

Overall:: 9 out of 10
Features:: 9 out of 10
Quality:: 10 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 8 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 10 out of 10

User: a customer from yahoo.com

Submitted: 4/22/2008

Style of Music: Metal

Musical Experience: Active musician

Location: IL

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Feature:
The most useful features are the great pickups. The grover tuners are great. I think the selection is perfect. I also like how its a non tremo. I dont like floyd rose cause it screws up your guitar and I hate the ugly bridge.

Quality:
Quality is great. No blemishes or anything. I just orderd it a week ago from zzounds and just got it today. Just to let u kno the guitar in the picture is an older version. The guitar looks black and has white binding. If u wanna see how your guitar will look go to the esp site. Thats the exact guitar they send you. I was worryd I was going to get the older version because of the picture and the specs said it had natural binding and the new one has white binding. But I just got the guitar today from zzounds and its the up to date version on the esp site. The guitar also looks better in person. I went on the installement plan which is awesome cause I couldnt afford this baby all at once. I reccomend using the plan if you dont have all the cash.

Value:
Great value for the price. If its way out of your price range I say its worth it. If u wanna spend more go for a deluxe version of an ltd.

Desirability:
I think it appeals to all metal players. When I played it in the store I knew I wanted it.

Sound:
Product sounds great. Made for metal. Emg pickups are great. Althogh i use it on a crappy peavy amp thats why I gave the sound a 8.

Ease of Use:
Very playable. Really fast action. I reccomend it highly.

Support:
Havent used support yet.

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"A MUST HAVE!"

Overall:: 10 out of 10
Features:: 10 out of 10
Quality:: 9 out of 10
Value:: 9 out of 10
I Want It:: 9 out of 10
Sound:: 10 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 10 out of 10

Submitted: 12/24/2006

Feature:
Probably the lightest ESP out there and the neck...omg there's just no end to ripping it on this guitar. so flat...so light.....

Quality:
Because of its light feel and coating it seems like something you don't want to carry around anywhere without a hardshell case, but otherwise i wouldnt know.

Value:
Very nice price for the quality of the guitar.

Desirability:
The first time i SAW this guitar i pretty much didnt like it. But omg when i sat down at the music store i fell in love with it right then and there. Compared to other guitars this "flame-top" also looks the best.

Sound:
OMG, this guitar is definetly for people that love distortion, the sustain is like a lifetime tone, OMG!!! pff im 13 and i rip

Ease of Use:
Eh, like i said it's light, very fast neck and the jumbo frets really help with your power chords and single notes.

Support:
I havn't had any problems with this guitar so im pretty sure i wont know how the support is if i treat this guitar right ^^

Overall:
Wow i expect this guitar to last and appeal to me for maybe 10 years..yea..that's how good it is...

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ESP LTD MH-400NT Guitar Customer Review

Overall:: 10 out of 10
Features:: 10 out of 10
Quality:: 10 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 10 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 10 out of 10

User: a customer from hotmail.com

Submitted: 5/6/2009

Style of Music: Thrash metal, Rock, heavey metal, black metal

Musical Experience: Active musician

Location: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Sound:
If you get it custom made then im sure you can put a gold EMG pick up in there. how ever, i think it should come with a gold and a silver EMG pick up if not custom made.

Ease of Use:
this is most deffenatly the easiest to play...i love how you can get to the 24th fret with ease

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