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Product Ref: 102522
Alder is favoured by most players for its incredibly balanced tone, offering the perfect dynamic range suitable for most musical styles. The alder body is perfect for a variety of playing styles as its excellent sustain and resonance ensures each note is heard. Its bright, sizzling highs, rounded lows, and beefy midrange sets up the foundation of the guitar's overall tonality, allowing players to achieve the perfect sound for most situations.
The E-II HRF NT-8 features a 3-piece maple neck to produce bright tones, with searing highs and strong mids for a dynamic performance. Its thin U-shaped profile is perfect for speed demons, allowing players to easily reach across the entire fingerboard without losing any comfort. The addition of an ebony fingerboard helps to tighten up the neck’s tone, giving it a defined feel, excellent clarity, and a fast attack. The neck-through construction optimises the maximum contact between the neck and body joint, enhancing the guitar's resonance for an advanced sustain. This setup allows superior vibration transfer and sustainability, perfect for when you need notes to ring out for as long as possible.
The EMG 85-8H humbucker is the 8-string model of the classic EMG 85 pickup, offering a powerful tonality and an exceptionally versatile performance. Designed with close aperture coils and alnico V magnets, the pickup delivers a muscular growl and smooth lead tones ideal for playing a variety of musical styles, from smooth blues licks to the tonal destruction of metal. The EGM 81-8 humbucker features powerful ceramic magnets and close aperture coils to deliver a tone designed with detailed intensity. The pickup offers an extreme high end cut and fluid sustain, perfect for slicing through harsh mixes, pushing the power on all 8 strings to provide an incredible sound for soloing with. Both pickups also feature EMG’s brushed black chrome casing to enhance the visual aspect of the guitar.
The Hipshot bridge provides players with an incredible intonation, allowing each string to vibrate freely while remaining secure. Its hand polished construction ensures players receive a smooth, comfortable feel while playing, and the stainless-steel saddles feature a crisp string relief edge to help eliminate any dull tones. The string-through-body construction optimises the transfer of vibrations from the strings to the body, improving the ESP’s overall sustain and resonance.
The guitar is finished off with high-end hardware to ensure players receive the best playing experience possible. The Gotoh locking tuners improve tuning stability and reduces string slippage, while the Schaller straplocks protect against accidental strap release, ensuring players can deliver a powerful performance without worrying about dropping their guitar.
Featuring a 27-inch scale length as appose to traditional 24.75, 25, and 25.5 inch scale lengths, the HRF NT-8 Guitar provides players with baritone capabilities ideal for a range of technical playing styles. Due to the longer scale length, the ESP can be tuned to a range of low tunings such as standard tuning (F#,B,E,A,D,G,B,E), or fourth tuning (F#,B,E,A,D,G,C,F) particularly favourable with heavy metal players requiring a low and deep tone.
ESP is a Japanese guitar manufacturer, established in 1975 under the name Electric Sound Products, primarily focused on the production of electric guitars and basses. Their product range will suit a wide variety of budgets and playing styles, with their popular Signature, Standard, Original, Graphic, Xtone, and Left-Handed series' guitars. The company has a growing number of high profile artists who have designed their own signature instruments, such as Ron Wood, Kirk Hammett, Jeff Hanneman and many more.