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This was my first top shelf guitar purchase and after playing and recording with this ax for one year I'm still able to just enjoy the sound it creates. I play death metal and use a variety of tunings and let me tell you this guitar can handle any tuning your little butt can think of. With the right gauge strings and a quick intonation you can tune this baby right down to F standard 8 string tuning and jam Meshuggah songs. The only problem I've came across is some 8 string large gauges wont fit through the tuner eye so you have to wrap it around the machine to get it on. DR strings especially the string 7 is to big to thread the slot. For recording quality you get the Fusion edge pickups. They are just fine for recording clear nasty tones. If I could describe what the sound of this guitar reminds me of it would be glass. It just sounds like glass to me. Very crisp and cutting tones. If you want to shred your able. If you want to riff some tasty rhythms this beast will eat other guitars alive. Playability is something that I find rare in a production guitar. The prestige neck treatment makes this guitar very easy to setup. This guitar is also very lightweight. I have a less expensive RG 7321 and its a lot heavier and is not so easy to setup. I would recommend this guitar to anyone that wants a modern Death Metal guitar that just gets the job done.