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Hey guys,
After waiting a couple of months to receive this bad boy straight from the factory, I finally got it! Special thanks to Jason at Drum City Guitar Land for making the transaction smooth and throwing in a bunch of free goodies and my string set of choice, I highly recommend them!
Pictures of EBMM JP7 Left Handed in Pearl White BEGIN:
Dat pearl shine doe:
My First Thoughts
This guitar looks and feels solid, very well made, and I enjoy it a lot. The forearm scoop is mighty comfortable as well as the body countours, almost like it was made for me (even though I'm a chubby dude and Petrucci is a shredded guitar shredder
).
The neck profile is comfortable, not too thick or thin, it's a little beefier than my Acacia Hades 8 (only guitar I have to compare it to) and the floating bridge is awesome, been doing flutters and dives for the past few days now
The locking tuners kinda threw me off a bit, I never had a guitar that had them or looked up how to use them, but a simple google search fixed that (FYI: DO NOT release the tension on the lock when a string is in tension and up to pitch, I learned that the hard way because I'm an idiot)
Minor Flaws
The minor flaws I found on the guitar are a small paint crack at the neck pocket (kinda expected, there's a lot of tension there) as well as remembering how much the crunchlab didn't satisfy me in my previous 7 string that I had them in. I'm quite fond of the liquifire, it's a great neck pickup, but I feel the crunchlab is too loose and bass heavy for my needs. Other than that, like I said, this guitar is SOLID.
TL;DR: Guitar is awesome, very minor flaws, ditching the crunchlab and going for a SD Nazgul,Dimarzio D'Activator, Illuminator, or Titan (if they make a 7 string version soon)
And here's a little video showing off the guitar (and my terrible playing):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pfwLEF8V1w&feature=youtu.be
and 1/2 out of 5
After waiting a couple of months to receive this bad boy straight from the factory, I finally got it! Special thanks to Jason at Drum City Guitar Land for making the transaction smooth and throwing in a bunch of free goodies and my string set of choice, I highly recommend them!
Pictures of EBMM JP7 Left Handed in Pearl White BEGIN:
Dat pearl shine doe:
My First Thoughts
This guitar looks and feels solid, very well made, and I enjoy it a lot. The forearm scoop is mighty comfortable as well as the body countours, almost like it was made for me (even though I'm a chubby dude and Petrucci is a shredded guitar shredder
).The neck profile is comfortable, not too thick or thin, it's a little beefier than my Acacia Hades 8 (only guitar I have to compare it to) and the floating bridge is awesome, been doing flutters and dives for the past few days now
The locking tuners kinda threw me off a bit, I never had a guitar that had them or looked up how to use them, but a simple google search fixed that (FYI: DO NOT release the tension on the lock when a string is in tension and up to pitch, I learned that the hard way because I'm an idiot
)Minor Flaws
The minor flaws I found on the guitar are a small paint crack at the neck pocket (kinda expected, there's a lot of tension there) as well as remembering how much the crunchlab didn't satisfy me in my previous 7 string that I had them in. I'm quite fond of the liquifire, it's a great neck pickup, but I feel the crunchlab is too loose and bass heavy for my needs. Other than that, like I said, this guitar is SOLID.
TL;DR: Guitar is awesome, very minor flaws, ditching the crunchlab and going for a SD Nazgul,Dimarzio D'Activator, Illuminator, or Titan (if they make a 7 string version soon)
And here's a little video showing off the guitar (and my terrible playing):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pfwLEF8V1w&feature=youtu.be
and 1/2 out of 5
