ESP LTD M-200FM

IT WAS MADE IN INDONESIA, YEAR ?
IT HAS 24 JUMBO FRETS
SEE THROUGH BLACK TOP
1 VOLUME , I TONE WITH SPLIT COIL FEATURES
H/H
EMG HZ
PASSIVE
AGATHIS WITH FLAME MAPLE TOP, ROSEWOOD NECK
BODY FINISH IS A FLAME MAPLE TOP
KIRK HAMMETT STYLE GUITAR M STYLE WITH REVERSE HEAD STOCK
BRIDGE IS A FLOYD ROSE LICENSED TREM
TUNERS ARE STOCK ESP
JUMBO FRETS
TOOLS FOR TREMELO SYSTEM AND A SPARE SPRING

ITS VERY CRUNCHY METALLICA SOUND, I HEARD BAD RUMOURS ABOUT THESE EMG HZ PICKUPS , PEOPLE WERE SAYING THAT THEY WERE RUBBISH, BUT THROUGH MY EQUIPMENT THEY SOUNDS THE DOGS BOLLOCKS
I AM USING A LINE 6 POD PRO XT , THROUGH A CHEAP PEAVEY ENVOY 110 AMP
THEY ARE VERY LOUD PICKUPS AND MAKE TAPPING ETC EASY..
YOU CAN GO FROM A SINGLE COIL SOUND TO HUMBUCKER WITH THE SPLIT COIL TAP(TONE KNOB) OR TOO FULL OUT METALLICA CRUNCH..
I WAS VERY WEARY ON BUYING ANOTHER ESP GUITAR AS I PREVIOUSLY BOUGHT THE ESP GRASSROOTS KIRK HAMMETT GUITAR, THIS WAS OKAY FOR SO LONG THEN IT STARTED TO GIVE ME NOTHING BUT BOTHER, I OWN 29 GUITARS ELECTRIC AND THAT ONE THE FRETS DIDN'T EVEN LAST A YEAR WITHOUT DINKING ALL OVER THE PLACE... THE TREMELO SYSTEM WAS CRAP AND WAS TOTALLY GOOSED AND REPLACED ALTOGETHER...
SO I SAW AND LIKED THE PRICE OF THE ESP LTD M-200 FM SO I BOUGHT IT ONLINE...
IT ARRIVED AND THE ONLY THING I DONE TO IT WAS TO LOWER THE TREMELO SYSTEM DOWN TO MY STANDARD STRING HEIGHT.. AND RETUNED IT AND THAT IS IT... AND IT PLAYS LIKE A TOP QUALITY GUITAR, AND TRUST ME I OWN A LOT... SO I REALLY DO LIKE THIS GUITAR AND I AM EITHER GOING TO BUY THE KH202 OR KH203

AS I SAID IN THE LAST BIT, THE HEIGHT WAS A LITTLE BIT TOO HIGH FOR ME, SO I REDUCED THAT...
I HAD TO ALTER PICKUP HEIGHT BECAUSE OF THE LOWERING OF THE FLOYD ROSE
HAVEN'T CAME ACROSS ANY FLAWS IN THE GUITAR...
EVERYTHING SEEMS OKAY WITH IT..
PLUS ITS A THRU NECK AND NOT A BOLT ON NECK

I THINK THIS GUITAR WOULD WITHSTAND A NUCLEAR WAR...
WHAT I HAVE SEEN IT WILL BE OK... CANT TELL MUCH AS I HAVEN'T REALLY PUT IT THROUGH ANY CRAZY RYTHMNS OR SOLOS YET OR DIVE BOMBS..
BUT STAYS IN TUNE OKAY
THE STRAP BUTTONS ARE GOOD AND SOLID
I CAN SAY THAT I CAN DEPEND ON IT
I THINK LIKE MOST PEOPLE WITH FLOYDS, IF THE STRING BRAKES THE TUNING IS TOTALLY SCREWED SO I WOULD TAKE MAYBE ANOTHE IBANEZ OR FENDER

NEVER HAD TO DEAL WITH THEM

I HAVE BEEN PLAYING FOR 19 YEARS
I OWN AS I SAID ANOTHER 28 GUITARS PLUS THIS ONE..
I HAVE A IBANEZ JEM, IBANEZ PGM 301, IBANEZ S SERIES , 2 IBANEZ RG , 1 IBANEZ RG 7 STRING , 2 IBANEZ SA GUITARS , 2 JACKSONS , 7 FENDERS ETC
I USE A LINE 6 POD PRO XT , A LINE 6 SPIDER 2 AMP, A PEAVEY AMP ALSO
IF IT GOT STOLEN I WOULD BUY IT AGAIN..
IT FEELS GREAT TO PLAY AND IS A CREDIT FOR ESP, AND AT A CHEAP PRICE THERE IS NOTHING I HATE ABOUT IT..
I DIDN'T COMNPARE IT TO ANY OTHERS...
EMG 81 PICKUPS BUT THE HZ ARE OKAY WITH ME
THAT IS IT... I HOPE THAT SOMEONE ELSE GETS ONE AND LOVES IT...

My M-200FM was made wheter 2004 or 2005 I don't know Exactly, but I got it this week, it has to be quite new. It was made in Indonesia, at least it's written on the Headstock.
There is one Volume and a Tone Control. The Tone Control is a Push-Pull Cap, wich allows you to split the Humbuckers (H-H) and get the Features of Single Coils.
The Pick Ups wich are used are 2 EMG HZ-H4 wich are passive, but still have a great Sound, both, Clean and Distorted.
The Guitar owns a Maple Neck (Neck Thru Body) with a Rosewood Fingerboard, having 24 Jumbo Freds.
As the "FM" sais there is a wonderful Flamed Maple Top, shining thru a great See Thru Black Paintshop. The Strat-Style Body's wood is Aghatis.
The Bridge - A Floyd Rose Licensed Bridge, was almost settet up perfectly, and I don't think that the Dealer I got it From did do this. The Tuners are Non Locking, Grover Style Tuners, wich keep the Tuning right well, but I think this is because the Double Locking Bridge.
As told before the Neck has 24 Jumbo Frets, the Scale is 25.5"

Plese apologize if there are any Language mistakes (and I Know there are some) but I'm from Germany, and my English isn't very well. :-)

The EMG HZ Pick Ups deliver great Sound while Playing the most Kinds of Metal (well I didn't Play Black and Death Metal but the Range's from Melodig to Thrash). Also they're sounding very good playing them Clean.
There played over a Zoom GFX-1 and the used AMP is a Peavey Transtube Envoy 110.
Of Course they're Noisy, when they're splittet to Single Coils, bit they're absolute Noiseless when they're Humbucking.
Well they'Re played Distorted most of the Time, in this Situation the Bridge PU thelivers Clear Sounds, with enough of Treble and less Basses, while the NECK PU give's a Fat Sound, with enough basses, also you can hear every little Detail of your Playing.

The guitar's Set Up was quite well even if I had to adjust the String's Height (Is there an English Word - We say "Saitenlage" ?), but the rest was Okay, the Pick Ups were well adjustet. There's nothing more To say in fact.

Well i didn't play it Live by now, but It seems Quite Solid, the Hardware seems to be well prepared for any Live Action, also the Finish is well done, there's nothing I Woudl Worry about playing this Baby live. But I still would Prefer playing with a BAckup Guitar, because you know, if the String is at End it can take some Minutes to put a new One into that Floyd Rose Bridge.

I canT# Say anything about it, but the Warranty is at least 2 Years (by Law, long live Europe :-D )

I'm Playing for half a Year now (not really Long I Know), my 2nd Guitar is a Jackson JS-35 Randy Rhoads (now Tuned to Eb). And the ESP is still another Kind of Guitar than the Jackson, if it would be Stolen, I would buy One Again, it's the second LTD I own and all of the Guitars are Great. I really Like the classic Strat Shape, because it's really well to Play, the Overall Look is Great, my Fovourite Featur are the Pick Ups, the Floyd Rose and the Reversed Headstock, looks Great.
The only Guitar I Can Compare to is the jackson JS-35 Randy Rhoads, and the LTD's Sound si much clearer, you can hear mor Details, and the Pick Ups arent noisy at High Gain Distortion. There's nothing more for me to wish.

If You're looking for a good, and still not so Expensive Guitar, try this One. I'm Loving it.

2004, indonesia (though you wouldnt guess this by looking at it) 24 XJ fretts, flamed maple top with see through black cherry paintjob (looks very nice) one volume control and one tonw (with push pull coil tap) Originaly came with EMG HZ-H4 pickups (active), neck is neck through and made of maple with the same finish, shaped similair to a super strat, has a liscenced floyd rose tremlo (eek) non recessed

The guitar when i first got it sounded cool for basic metal, but if you want more out of it i suggest installing new pickups, i was running it through a hi-watt g200r hd half stack , with a boss mega distortion and a digitech whammy, i found the pickups to be really lacking for soloing or dime bombs, so i swapped the bridge with a seymour duncan dimebucker and the neck with a seymour duncan 59 and now this guitar is a beast, it sounds so much better, is quiet , and you can get all sorts of stuff like blues tones, neo classical and full on thrash metal, realy nice.

When i first got the guitar the action was pretty high ,this was eaily ajusted with a few turns of an align key, the pickups were also a little high but that didnt matter because i took them out and replaced them. The bridge is non recessed which means you cant pull up at all on it, however if you tweak the spring tention you can set it up so it can pull up, doing this results in a loss of accuracy and the floydd rose will go slightly out of tune when pulling up, to adjust it back to the original tuning you need to push down again after pulling up, which is a pain (im in the process of recessing the floydd to solve this problem)
The licensed floydd rose feels a little flimsy too, ive had it for a while and played a gig with it and its been fine but i still wouldnt trust it, the locking nut especially feels weak and sounds like its going to break sometimes when i tighten it. However other than these flaws which are mainly to do with the licensed floydd, the action is realy nice and the finish on the neck joint especially is perfect

The guitar itself is sturdy and will survive a good thrashing live and in the studio, the licensed floydd rose however as i mention does not seem like it will last long, and i am going to replace it with an original.
The finish has not lost its original colour and seems to be staying for good , which is cool because its stunning. The strap buttons also are solid, i would not however gig with this guitar without a back up, purely because of the licensed floydd rose, with an original floydd i would though.

I've never dealt with customer support so i dont know how they are

I have been playing for around 4 years and also play a gibson angus young signature sg, for metal this guitar destroys the sg, and even has a better neck joint and sound believe it or not, which is creat considering it is a fraction of the price, i would definately replace this guitar if it was stolen, in fact i belive i have found the guitar i love, and will be buying the other paint job of this guitar, along with another for a custom paint job.
Only complaints over all are the pickups lack a bit, and the floydd is pretty useless

this guitar was made in 2004. it has 24 awesome frets and mine has like a black flame body. it looks the buisness. 2 emg-hz's. the rest you know. oh yeah. THRU NECK

let me start off here by saying that this guitar is not going to be as good as a custom made guitar. for all those people that say they cant hear the difference between the emg-81 and the hz, you are wrong. with the 81, you can get an amazing metal tone without too much effort, but with the hz you have to push it and when you do it makes a twangy sound. nevertheless, this is a very good sounding guitar and i can get some very nice megadeth and slayer tones out of it. currently i am playing through a marshall mg100dfx. I KNOW I KNOW, it is crap, but i am saving up for a jcm800 2203 super lead head. the sound is amazing for the price that i paid and as soon as i have a bit of spare cash, im gonna upgrade the pickups to 2 81's.

when i got the guitar, the strings were a bit high, but that was easily fixed. normally when i get a new guitar. i spend at least 2 weeks tweaking it until it is perfect. when i got this guitar i spent half an hour. this is as close as the common man gets to perfection for 450 quid. the flame is cool but in a certian light it looks purple which could be an issue for some people.

this is a very sturdy guitar, but i am still a bit suspicious of the licenced floyd rose trem. i just dont trust it. origional all the way. ive done a few divebombs with this trem and it seems to stay in tune but i wouldnt gig without a backup. apart from this. perfect.

never needed 'em but i hear that they are good

ive been playing for 9 years solid now.(since i was ten). i own a marshall mg100dfshite a pimped out epi goth explorer with 81's, a multitude of effects pedals of which i use a korg ax1500g most. if this guitar was stolen, i would get the money off the insurance and upgrade to either the esp m-II or the ltd delux m series one with the 81's. i chose this over a gibson sg AND I REGRET NOTHING.

made in Indonesia, 24 jumbo-frets, licensed Floyd Rose. The guitar has 2 passive EMG humbuckers and a coil tap. This is a button you can pull out to make the tone more or less "tight".
It's made out of Agathis w/flame maple top and transparent See-through black finish. And then, very important, it's a neck-thru

the sound of the guitar is good, very good in fact. It screams, it rocks, it's tight, fat and finished. Not muddy. I am playing through aH&K triamp MKI and the clean sounds are nice but this guitar is made for rocking! The pick-ups ask for overdrive. The clean tones aren't the clean tones of a high end Fender or '58 Gibson Les Paul but they do their job very well. Considering the price I paid it's superb.

the action when it came out of the box was a rythm action. Since I am a solo guitarist a changed the action a little bit. I say a little but because the Licensed floyd rose began to make a strange noise when I was changing the action too much, that was something i didn't like but which is of course personnal.

The guitar is surpisingly well finished, no scratches, no bad painting, great gloss and nice color.

the hardware seems like it will last but never trust a Licensed Floyd Rose.

never dealt with them

Well I have been playing for seven years now. I own two Gibson explorers but I wanted another axe which had 24 frets and was easy to handle. I guess I made a new best friend. This guitar is well built, not expensive and blows away any Ibanez or Epiphone from that price range. I would really recommend this guitar

24 frets, agathis body, rosewood fingerboard, neck is 3-piece maple, with white binding on the head and neck-stock. Came with EMG HZ-H4s' (passive version of EMG-81s'). A licensed floyd rose bridge is standard, and a tone control with push coil tap. The finish on mine was see-through black. It was made in Indonesia, but inspected by ESP in the USA before shipping. It came in the box with hex wrenches, an extra spring, and an instrument cable.

It sounds good to my ears. Tone freaks-and I dont know why-always seem to beat up on the EMG HZ-H4 pick-ups just because they are passive versions on the EMG-81 pick-up. I've played both pick-ups and I really dont hear that much difference unless you swap the 9v battery in EMG-81 equipped guitars for an 18v battery; it gives them more head space. However, I'm happy with the HZs' and they give me what I need. I really dont find much use for the push coil tap feature. I play this through an effects chain running into either Randall, Marshall, or Berringer amps. The sound is somewhat compressed though, but that makes it a litter tighter and I like that.

Well, here, on the action this guitar need some adjustments. The action was too low and led to fret buzz, so I fixed that. It came with a heavier gauge that what I use so I swapped the strings for .09-.42 gauge instead (my preference). I ran into a little trouble here. I think somebody over-torqued the saddle screws when they stringed this guitar beacause all of the treble strings had to be pulled (with force) out of the saddles. The G-string gave me a real fight when I tried to pry it out and almost seemed to be fused into the saddle as if it melted in there. Normally, when you loosen the saddle screws the string just pops out, but the 1st and 3rd strings wouldn't come out without a fight. The bass strings all popped out easily, though. Care should be taken not to over-torque the screws when securing new strings on this kind of bridge. I restrung it and was anticipating adjusting the spring tension to cope with the lighter gauge but this proved not to be very laborous as the bridge was solidly assembled and needed only a minor adjustment on string tension. The only other concern was lowering the bridge pick-up slightly, as it was too high, and I raised the neck pick-up slightly, too.

Most of the hardware is or seems pretty durable, with the exception of the tuning machines. They are kind of flimsy and the screws needed tightening on the keys. Because of this I really would only settle for about putting 3 wrappings around the post at most when stringing treble strings, and 2 wraps for bass strings.Other than the tuning machines this guitar is solid. I was worried about the Floyd Rose bridge being poorly assembled because I'm paranoid that way, but it was set up perfectly. I dont gig and never will, I just play for personal interests, so I cant say it would hold up on stage. But it is fun to play and I could barely put it down after setting it up and pluging in.

I've rarely delt with them. I've emailed them before and they always got back to me.

I had this guitar on back-order for nearly 3 months before it shipped. I tried everybody and it was always out of stock or on back-order everywhere I looked, so it seems to be pretty popular. For what you get this guitar is a good deal.

2004 Indonesia, 24 Frets and the other tings are the same as at the other descibs

i play gothic metal and it sounds really great, with a fender 400 Watts Amp it kikcs ass, i want to buy a Seymour Duncan SH-8 Invader pickup because i was always a fan from Dimebag Darell, but its sounds with those EMG-HZ pickups cool too. The only minus are solos, this guitar is build for Lead and no solos :) but with a good effect you can play it

the only problem was with the sound button, i must make it fast

good, no backups

its really great for this price

2004, made in Indonesia. 24 Jumbo XL frets. Volume, tone /w coil tap and 3-way selector. Neck through construction and licensed Floyd-Rose floating bridge. Agathis body, rosewood fretboard, flamed maple top. Translucent red finish. Two EMG-HZ H4 passive humbuckers.

For such a low price, this guitar has a lot of features, especially with coil tap - essentially 2 guitars in one!

Metal/hard rock guitar that has *really* good cleans. I run it through a Marshall TSL100 with CE-5 chorus pedal for cleans and a G2D Morpheus for a heavier sound. I use the Marshall's lead channel for, well, leads. I also have a Peavey Bandit 112, which is a really neat amp, and the M-200FM sounds really good on that too. Very versatile, I can get a lot of different sounds from this axe (coil tap). The neck pickup sounds amazing for clean work (if you've heard Al Svartr (The Oath) by Emperor, the cleans sound exactly like that). I bought the guitar for this alone. Harmonics are mind-blowing on this thing. Bridge pickup was excellent for rhythm but a little weak for solos, especially anything involving tapping or lengthy legato pull-offs. I decided to swap the bridge EMG for a Seymour Duncan SH-13 Dimebucker and now it is a monster. Squealing leads, crushing rhythm and sounds great clean as well when split with the neck EMG. Perfect for what I play (anything from modern rock (The Darkness, Evanescence) to old skool heavy metal (Metallica, Megadeth, Sepultura, Pantera) to Scandinavian extreme metal (Immortal, Opeth, Dimmu Borgir).

Action is Jackson-like and can get very low before fret buzz starts to occur. The trans-red finish is glorious although if they had trans-blue I'd be even happier. This guitar was made for speeding. The volume knob was a little loose when I got the guitar, but a few turns of the screwdriver fixed that easy.

Looks very solid. I haven't gigged with it yet, but am certain it would handle the jandal. Gig without a backup? Not with Floyd-Rose guitars.

One year warranty at the shop I bought it from. Did not have to deal with ESP customer support.

Been playing 7 years, most of them through a Jackson PS-2 which is a pretty decent guitar in its own right. I was a disciple of Jackson for years until I played this. This is a very nice piece of equipment that is versatile enough to play all sorts of music (coil tap!!). If you are playing leads, I suggest you change the bridge pickup, it's very sterile and too low-output for lead work. If it were stolen I would get another one (and change the bridge pickup). My dream guitar would be a Jackson Randy Rhoads-type V with 24 frets, but for the price and what you get, the M-200FM simply cannot be beat.

2004 model.
This guitar is made in far east, possible Korea or Japan, and it's inspected in USA.
24 XJ (extra jumbo) frets. 1xvol, 1xtone, coil tap, which is really cool, 3-way selector. EMG HZ-H4 passive humbuckers (neck and bridge)
Neck-thru construction (hours of sustain!) I'm not sure about woods used, but it's pretty heavy.
Flamed maple top with see through black cherry paint (cool!)
Super-strat body
Licensed Floyd Rose bridge, great, but the nut was badly assembled and it broke 5 days after I bought it.
If this would have active electronics, I would give 10

It's heavy/metal guitar, but not exclusively, because of the coil tap.
The pickups are really quiet, even with coil tap on. I think the pickups sound just like they should. Bridge is bright and, if distorted with my ibanez smashbox, it provides the cut-through tone used in many heavy metal solos. The bridge pickup provides full sound, great for HM rhythm guitar. If you turn the coil tap on and play clean, the pickups give really sharp tone, which is suitable for other music styles than HM. This is more a lead guitar than a rhythm one.

Action is low and strings are really close to the pickups.
The see through painting with flame top is really cool! Headstock matches body finish and headstock and neck has white bindings.
The nut, as I mentioned before, was poorly set up. That dropped rating by 2

The guitar looks like it's going to last forever, except the nut thing, that dropped rating again by 2. I believe it was an exception.
Finish seems very thick and like it's made to last. Strap buttons seem and feel very solid.
Once I get it repaired, I would gig with it without backup.

Lifetime warranty for the guitar, one year for hardware, if I remember correctly.
Once the nut broke off, I contacted the shop I bought it from (authorized ESP dealer) and they just said: Bring it here and we'll fix it. So when I have time I go and get it fixed, for free.
They were really helpful.

It's great guitar for it's price!
I've been playing guitar for some 5 years (Heavy metal and hard rock), and this is my first (and at the time, only) electric.
I have Orange Crush 15R practice amp and Ibanez Tone-Lok Smashbox heavy metal distortion, and the guitar suits heavy metal and hard rock great.
If I would haven't bought this guitar, I would have bought ESP LTD KH-202, but this was cheaper, looks cooler and has coil tap.
If this were stolen, I would definetely buy another