Very comfortable. I find muting very important when playng fast runs and of course while playng rythm. I actually wanted to change my Epiphone guitar for an Ibanez RG 550 but since I couldn´t on Ibanez I decided to let it go. I´m really satisfied on my guitar but a whammy bar would be nice.

But like I said, I don´t feel no pain when picking from the elbow but I´m a little bit afraid (if it´s dangerous of course) what will happend in few years. A injury is the last thing I want and all I want is play guitar.