An Eclipse on a Budget!! || ESP LTD EC-256FM Demo/Review

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2:45 My Thoughts
4:21 Dirty Playthrough (Boosted With an Ibanez TS9)
5:40 Clean Playthrough (Dry Tracks)
7:48 Simon Says!!

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An Eclipse on a Budget!! || ESP LTD EC-256FM Demo/Review

[brodieondasidewalk]

Bro telling me a Draco is a fuckin glock, take this man in the fuckin house. He don’t need to be outside 😭😭💀

[jh]

"Save up that little bit more for a EC-1000"

I'm not sure about the US, but in the UK its around double the price so... wtf you talking about.

[acoffeewithsatan]

This guitar is definitely not for someone who says "just for $300 more" - your suggestion is pretty much twice the price, many players will probably have a lot of trouble to pay $400, for some reason we have multiple price ranges nowadays and not just medium-high and high-end stuff. Asking a teen, for example, to "wait a bit more" to get extra $300 likely means to wait 2 or 3 more years - let's not forget not everyone can dedicate all of one's time to guitar, someone who can and wants to play NOW and that is living in the period of his/her life with the most spare time shouldn't be told to wait longer! Possibly after 2 or 3 years they'll be in college or working their asses and won't be able to play it by the time they get the nicer EC-1000 for "just" 300 more dollars! Play it now, it's an hell of an instrument, if it ever feels like a bottleneck you can just sell it, plus if you buy them used (they show up for sale all the time) you won't loose much if any money afterwards. Compare it instead to equivalent instruments, such as Epiphones, that for the same price suck a lot more in quality while this one has good quality all around, also it feels a lot better for a LP style guitar.

[juliusnisonen]

Because who the hell would pay more than 500 bucks for their first guitar

[Potatobrains_]

"just buy the better one" nice review dude.

[CorpseLocker]

You can't say for "just" $300 more on a $400 dollar guitar. That's almost double the price. It's a good intermediate guitar. But then then to say triple the price for a deluxe? I don't know where your money comes from but that's alot of scratch.

[michellelehky]

Because I'm poor, that's why.

[dAvE]

A few years ago I bought a EC-256 just for fun. I upgraded this guitar and put an EMG 89 in the bridge.. I absolutely love it now! Somehow this guitar is magical to me.

[cliftongardner]

"Why would someone buy this guitar?" Four words: SEE THROUGH PURPLE BURST.

Great Demo, as usual!

[TDEEPBLUE]

I do love your channel Agufish, but I think you're wrong on this one. Not seeing the reason why you'd buy this guitar when you can get the 401 for *only* $300 extra is kinda dumb.

Do the math. $300 doesn't sound like much on it's own, but that extra $300 makes the 401 a whopping 75% more expensive than the EC-256. Looking at that statistic from the perspective of a poor person, that's a massive difference. I would have no financial problem whatsoever for paying that extra 75% more, but I know plenty of people that might.

[justalilsumn]

I heard that playing lemon-drop finish guitars gives you the same health benefits as putting lemons in your water...can you confirm?

[JoshuaDalviken]

I have an EC-256 in Metallic Gold which I use as my backup guitar - my main guitars being an ESP Eclipse-I CTM and an Edwards Explorer (both MIJ) - and the 256 is absolutely insane value for the money. Solidly built, well finished, and with excellent playability even when compared to my Eclipse. The tuners aren't the best but I don't find them to be nearly as bad as you do - perhaps your tuners just weren't the best ones out the factory? Either way, they're easy enough to upgrade. The stock pickups actually sound great, as you said, definitely good enough for live use.
The bottom line is: as a first guitar or a backup, or any situation where you just can't warrant spending more than £350 or so, you can't go wrong with the EC-256.

[MarvMusic]

I own this guitar and i can easily say it is a bang for your buck....such an amazing guitar and i highly recommend it!

[jonathankeith]

My question is, for this price, why would you NOT get this guitar? I got mine about five years ago, back when they still had rosewood fretboards. And it is still going strong til this day. The pickups sound amazing for the price, the construction is well done. (You get binding on the body and neck, AND a carved top.) Two humbuckers with coil-tapping, a set neck joint, a solid feel.. And I got mine for $300 on eBay. It’s hard to beat a deal like that. You get so much for your money. And if you’re a skilled player, you can make it sound beautiful. Worth every penny. No questions.

[deangoff]

The EC-256 isn’t the cheapest besides the EC-10. There’s a step up from the EC-10 called the EC-50. Goes for about $250. Not being rude, but please do a little more research in the future. Love tor videos man!

[jasonhutchens]

Well we have determined that the strings look good 👍 I'm sold haha

[agufish]

EDIT: For all you guys who are getting defensive about your EC-256s, remember I never said they were bad guitars. In fact, I did say they were decent guitars, but in my opinion, LTD's higher offerings provide far more value per dollar in terms of feel, playability, build, quality, hardware, and tone (even compared to an upgraded EC-256). If you can afford it, my recommendation is to save up a bit more for an EC-1000. Again, that is just my opinion, and as we all know, guitar is a very subjective area. :)

Serious question, though. Have you heard the new Machine Head album, yet? Just started listening to it a couple of days ago, and I CAN'T STOP.

[willesposito]

I just bought this guitar for 299 at Sweetwater. I am super impressed with it. It looks and plays great. I can't believe what quality you can get for such a cheap price these days. It just wasn't that way when I was a kid.

[IgnoresTrolls]

In a direct choice ignoring price between this and the Harley Benton sc550 what would you pick?

[stevehill]

I have a Chinese made EC-256 and I love it. It is a really nice guitar that stays in tune.