Product: ESP H-300 Price Paid: US $450
Submitted 12/08/2000
at 05:22pm
by Bren Miller
Email: a9voltpig at yahoo<dot>com
Features
:10
2000 korean made.22 frets. solid top.
1 tone, 1 volume. 2 awesome EMG HZ's humbucking pickups.Yooooowwwww!!!!new passive EMG wiring.
All ash body with maple neck through configuration.
Beautiful see thru-aqua finish.Strat style body with stop bar tail piece.
Wonderful sturdy grover style tuners.
All black hardware.
Incredible xl jumbo frets.
The most perfectly set neck I have ever played.
Sound
:10
My style consists of various musical influences.Mainly Radiohead-type guitar style.I have been playing this beauty through a mesa boogie single rectifier half stack.This guitar produces an extremely full guitar tone.The bridge pickup is nice and bright. Kinda has the sound of an alnico humbucker.The neck pickup has a large warm tone to it . Great for clean tones.I dont like the fact that this guitar is so underappreciated.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:9
When I recieved this guitar in January 2000, it came directly from the factory. I ordered it from my place of work which is MARS music.Yes I got a good discount.The action was perfect out of the box,but I hated the strings so I slapped on some 9-46's and adjusted the easy to use truss rod.My only problem was the nut was not filed down at the factory.But who ever files'em down?Also the input jack located on the bottom of the guitar kept coming lose. so i adjusted too. I have been playing this guitar now for 11 months and I tell you it has not changed a bit.It's still like new!
Reliability/Durability
:10
I thought I would have beat the crap out of this guitar by now but i was wrong.I fear that I will have to replace some of the hardware due to the cheap quality of the tuner knobs and the input jack .Overall this guitar is a beast.I'm ordering another in a month for backup.
Customer Support
:10
ESP is one of the greatest guitar companies out there.They are dedicated to great sounding guitars for great sounding prices. I am sold.
Overall Rating
:10
Product: ESP H-300 Price Paid: US $450
Submitted 07/27/2000
at 02:28pm
by Justin
Email: dogearred<at>hotmail dot com
Features
:9
Made in Korea, I think. Not sure. 24 fret, volume, tone, three way selector, two EMG HZ humbuckers (passive), Mahogany body and neck with a rosewood fingerboard, transparent dark cherry finish. Tune-O-Matic bridge. I thinks all guitars come with cheap volume and tone pots, so I wasn't horribly suprised that the pots weren't as good as the ones I've replaced with, but they were the best beginning set I've had. Nice paint job, good binding, fret work was good. Nice.
Sound
:10
I play an ecletic style of ambient, heavy, punk, etc. etc. I play into a Crate Vintage Club 50 with a 15 inch speaker, a Korg Echo/Delay, and I have other stuff I haven't had a chance to try yet. It was a little noisy when the volume was backed off almost all the way, but the rest of the time it was rather quiet. It has a rich full sound, that can be bright or heavy or deep depending on what pickup you use and what you set the volume and tone to. It does a nice variety of shifts with easy adjustments. I'm not sure whether or not I'll keep the pickups, because I like having the option of a very upfront-in-your-face sound, and that's the one thing I'm not sure it has, the disgusting overload.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:9
Good. I don't like natural binding though and the knob at the end of the neck for the truss rod once or twice got in the way when I was working on the first fret. Common, no big deal, it's just that it's new to me. Pretty paint job.
Reliability/Durability
:9
Solid. Feels kinda light though, odd alien feeling for someone who's used to heavy guitars.
Customer Support
:No Opinion
Overall Rating
:10
Love it, looking forward to having it for a long time. It doesn't have as much personality as the Jackson I've beaten and modified, but it probably will before I finished with it.
Product: ESP H-300 Price Paid: US $550
Submitted 02/16/2000
at 05:58pm
by Brett Blakeslee
Email: head38 at hotmail<dot>com
Features
:9
1999 made in Korea I think, 24 frets, rosewood fingerboard, block style inlays, neck-thru body, one volume one tone three way pickup selector, 2 EMG-HZ Humbuckers (these SOB's are so sweet, oh damn i can't even discribe them), Mahogany body with figured maple top, with a beautiful see-thru black cherry finish with black hardware, strat style body, Tune-O-Matic bridge, non-locking tuners i dunno what brand but there good, and a medium thin neck. Just to make this short THIS GUITAR KICKS ASS!
Sound
:10
This guitar can suit any style of music music you want, I play Metal, Metallica, Godsmack, ect.... and Hardcore Deftones, Slipknot, System OF A Down, ect.... and some Blues mostly Led Zepplin, and this guitar suits me perfectly. It's not noisy, it gets a rich full sound. Im sure it will sound even better when I get myself a Marshall JCM2000 TSL 100. THeres nothing to dislike about it.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:10
The guitar was setup perfectly no flaws, well none that i've found so far, and i've had this thing for a month. Very nice low action. Pickups are easily adjusted. White binding on the neck is very well done and looks very very nice, nice natural binding around the body, and a see-thru black cherry finish that will make you cream in your pants when to look at it!
Reliability/Durability
:No Opinion
This guitar will with stand live playing, it seems solid as a rock. The finish is great and it seemd thick and very hard, and should not wear much with a lot of playing. Strap buttons are solid. You should be able to depend on this guitar, you should be able to depend on any guitar that has a lifetime warranty. No i would not use it at a gig without a backup, you should never go to a gig without a backup because you'll never know whats going to happen.
Customer Support
:No Opinion
No need to contact them and probaly never will have to0...... hopefully.LIFETIME WARRANTY!
Overall Rating
:10
I've been playing for 2 years and i've played alot of guitars and so far this is the best. If it were stolen i'd find the guy that did it and rip his nuts off and feed it to him, but i couldn't find him i'd sure as hell buy another. I love everything about this guitar, it is soo awesome. I compared this guitar to my friends $1500 Custom Shop Fender, and he and i both thought my guitar sounded and played better and i paid $550 for mine!