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


yngwievai
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07/18/2005 9:27 am
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.
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07/18/2005 9:32 am
Your opinion is the only one that matters dude.... :p

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07/18/2005 9:34 am
Originally Posted by: zreynoldspYour opinion is the only one that matters dude.... :p


Well i would appreciate others opinions to help out on my decision... :p
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07/18/2005 9:40 am
Oh, OK then....

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

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07/18/2005 1:13 pm
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/
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07/18/2005 1:35 pm
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...

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07/18/2005 5:44 pm
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.
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07/19/2005 3:53 am
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.

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07/19/2005 4:27 am
"It's by means poor quality though.."
waddaya mean by that? curoius...
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07/19/2005 12:38 pm
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.

Compair to the ESP H series here.

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.
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