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ESP LTD Viper-1000 Electric Guitar - Vintage Black
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Description
Description
Aggressive Style Meets Modern Versatility - The ESP LTD Viper-1000 Electric Guitar in Vintage Black
The Viper-1000 already has a diabolical look with its asymmetrical double horns, and with the addition of the Vintage Black treatment, with a matte black finish and aged-look binding on the neck and headstock, this guitar just got a whole lot meaner. Built at 24.75” scale with set-thru construction that allows smooth access to the highest frets, the Viper-1000 Vintage Black pairs a mahogany body with a three-piece thin u-shaped mahogany neck. Its Macassar ebony fingerboard has pearloid ESP flag inlays and 22 extra-jumbo stainless steel frets, maximizing the sweet spot for both the neck and bridge pickups to offer their ideal tones. Its premium gold hardware includes LTD locking tuners and a TonePros TOM bridge and tailpiece. The Viper-1000 includes a set of Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker active pickups (ceramic in the bridge and alnico in the neck), with push-pull control to select voicings and gold covers to match this guitar’s noteworthy aesthetics. Each pickup offers two voices. With the ceramic bridge pickup, Voice 1 is the ultimate high-output ceramic humbucker bridge pickup tone… crisp, searing crunch, tight bass with no mud, and a growl. Voice 2 delivers modern passive attack performance that has superbly organic distortion characteristics with outstanding dynamics and response. The alnico neck pickup’s Voice 1 is Fishman’s modern active high-output tone, offering the ideal active alnico sound: full, round, and boosted, but with unprecedented articulation and dynamics. Voice 2 gives you the crisp, clean and fluid neck humbucker tone you’ve always wanted.
SPECIFICATIONS
Body
- Construction: Set-Neck
- Body: Mahogany
- Finish: VINTAGE BLACK
Neck
- Scale: 24.75"
- Neck: 3Pc Mahogany
- Fingerboard: Macassar Ebony
- Fingerboard Radius: 350mm
- Nut Width: 42mm
- Nut Type: Molded
- Neck Contour: Thin U
- Frets/Type: 22 XJ Stainless
Hardware
- Hardware Color: Gold
- Strap Button: Standard
- Tuners: LTD Locking
- Bridge: TonePros Locking TOM & Tailpiece
Electronics
- Neck PU: Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker Alnico Gold *(Pull Tone for Voice 2) Direct-Mount
- Bridge PU: Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker Ceramic Gold *(Pull Tone for Voice 2) Direct-Mount
- Electronics Layout: Volume/Tone (Push/Pull)/Toggle Switch
- Electronics: Active
Miscellaneous
- Strings: D'Addario XL110 (.010/.013/.017/.026/.036/.046)
Manufacturer: ESP Guitars
Model: LVIPER1000VB
SKU: I761836-N-0-WHXC
UPC: 719710620360
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