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Bought this for my son, after playing it, I quickly started looking to get him something else as I am keeping this baby for myself.The craftsmanship is light years better than my old 1976 Gibson Firebird. The Firebird is no dog, but there is not a single flaw on this Phoenix. The pick ups are supperb, as eveeyone knows, but that single coil pull is where it's at! zZounds made it easy and helped our dreams come true. Perfect guitar.

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Got my ESP/LTD Pheonix in Vintage White today. First off, packaging was perfect (Thanks zZounds). Very well packed with wrapped styrofoam around the headstock/body then bubble wrapped then harnessed in with tape in a guitar box the another box! These guys do it right! The guitar itself is beautiful. Love the gold hardware, with the locking tuners it’s just excellently put together. Indonesia has quality people building these guitars but being my first ESP/LTD I’m not as familiar as most on these but the build quilts is really nice. I have to say Gibson Custom Shop might be the only exception to my looking at LTD’s but who can afford that? We’ll, not me at least. Tone of the guitar is amazing. Bright body sound mixed with the JB and Fatcat sounds great. I’m playing through the Mesa Boogie Mini 25 and on the clean channel the Fatcat brings out that brown woody sound especially when I hit the tone knob back just a bit. Really cool bluesy lead tones (Johnny Winter/Al Green) then move to the second channel to more high gain and my god this JB sounds so good in this guitar. I was afraid I was going to have to change it out but it’s staying for sure. Balance of the guitar is really good. Fits the body well but it is different when sitting down practicing than a Les Paul which I’ve always played. Out of the box this guitar was set up perfectly and almost in tune! I looked all over YouTube and saw all the reviews SDS, Fluff and Kyle all loved this guitar so much it sold me and I’m very pleased with my purchase. My 2nd no credit check 12 month deal (I’ll be paying off early though) and really think zZounds has a great thing going with that.

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