HELP! *Anyone Willing to Help me Choose A new AXE*

[yngwievai]

Im saving for a new guitar. Budget about 600-700 bucks.

Should i get an ESP MH-400NT and stick with the stock pickups (which is active emg's 81/85) ?

Or Get a MH-250NT And change the Pickups to Dimarzios 159 on bridge and 158 on neck?

ORRRRR... Just Get a Fender MIM Standard Tele, change the pickups to Custom Texas Shop Pickups, change tuners, change knobs and everything?

It's a really hard desicion.

[ren]

Your opinion is the only one that matters dude.... :p

[yngwievai]

Your opinion is the only one that matters dude.... :p

Well i would appreciate others opinions to help out on my decision... :p

[ren]

Oh, OK then....

I'd go for the tele.... ESPs are a bit too ROCK for me!

[CW14]

Well...

-What music do you plan to play with it?

-Are there any specifications that are a must-have for you?

[yngwievai]

Well, i play mostly metal and punk. Sometimes i play blues and country.
Theres the hard part. Choosing take time and research for me.

The must-haves depends on what guitar im getting, like, if i get a tele, it's a must for me to change the stock pu's to texas customs. And the MH-250nt, i'm gonna change the pu's to evos 159/158/

[ren]

I use my Tele for most things...

I've never been a fan of buying a guitar knowing you're going to change the pickups, especially on a budget. Only my opinion, but I focus on finding an instrument that feels & sounds right rather than finding one I like the look of and hoping a PU upgrade will fix the sound. You can't know how the PUs will be until they are installed.

If I was you I'd be thinking very carefully about what I want, and then go out and find a guitar that gets as close as possible without modification...

[PRSplaya]

check out a Schecter C1 series. I've got the C1 Blackjack and it's a good versatile guitar, and in your price range. Check out my review of it here. (http://www.guitartricks.com/forum/showthread.php?p=110865#post110865)

[CW14]

Since your leaning towards the metal and punk side of things, I don' think a tele would suit you very well. You'd want something with at least a bridge humbucker.

MH-400NT - The active EMG's would suit the metal part, but they give a stupid digital sounding clean tone, and wouldn't suit the country/blues side of things at all.

MH-250NT - Not much different from the 400NT, but it's made from agathis (supposedly not as good as mahogany). Since you're changing the pickups (stock ones are crap), it should suit you ok, provided you put the right p'ups in for the styles you play.

H-400 - Has pretty much the same specs as the MH-400, only it comes with Seymour Duncan JB/59 pickups, which would probably suit the styles you mentioned better than the evo's. The 59 can give you a surprisingly good clean tone, and the JB can go from nice overdriven rock tones to raunchy metal distortion. The H-400 has a 5-way switch, so positions #2 and #4 will give you a coil from each bucker wired in parallel (single coil tones).
I have one and I don't think I could have done better for the cash. Heres mine: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y114/CW14/UprightpianoSMALL.jpg
Check the links in my sig for some sound clips (they were all done on this guitar through a POD)

[yngwievai]

Is that your guitar(h-400) playing on Master of puppets?
Damn the h-400 is pretty damn good, i only wish that the head stock owuld be like a mh or m series. something like that, wow, i might actually get this one instead, and yes the jb-59's are hot.

ONE QUESTION! Where was your made in? Korea? America? WHERE?

[CW14]

Nope, Master of Puppets was my strat copy plugged into the mic jack... lol.
I think that tone is horrible :o
Same goes for the "Storiwot 2 hevon" clip

Yeah, it's not my favourite headstock, but I can live with it. I think the killer top compensates for that :D

All of the LTD's are made in Korea. It's by no means poor quality though. The only trouble it's given me was one of the pickup adjustment screws, but that was the faulty screwdriver's fault

[yngwievai]

"It's by means poor quality though.."
waddaya mean by that? curoius...

[CW14]

I said "it's by no means poor quality though"

Meaning it's not poor quality

[PRSplaya]

The Schecter C1's are basically the same as the guitar posted above, only the headstock is different and instead of a stop tail the strings go through the body. It also has a JB/59 set of pup's.

Check out the Schecter C series here at the left. (http://www.schecterguitars.com/menu_guitars.asp?guitartype=1)

Compair to the ESP H series here. (http://www.espguitars.com/guitars_h.htm)

They're run in the same price range. I also think Schecter is owned by ESP (but don't quote me on that). Either way you would be getting a good guitar. Are there better guitars out there in that price range? Sure. Will one of these be the right guitar for you? Only you can decide that.