What is the ESP MX-250 of cinema?

master of puppets kill em all ride the lightning mean nothing to me sorry

Based. Black Album is their best work.

A fellow AJFA fan, I see.

Probably all in the hands of 50+ year old boomers that treat guitars as investments rather than playable instruments.

prices post-chink flu have gone through the roof, a plain vanilla explorer costs close to $3k MSRP

The boomer dentists and lawyers of today are actually Gen Xers. Like the boomers who bought up all the Fenders, Gibsons, Gretsches, Rickenbackers, and PRSs (how PRS managed to win over that crowd without actually having any of the history that they typically find most important should be studied) 30-20 years ago, those Gen Xers are now buying up all the ESPs and Jacksons of their youth. This model in particular is THE iconic ESP to them, so they all want one. The guitar was mostly sold in Japan (and like 99% of them remain there in collections to this day), so they're relatively rare in the West even if there are many of them on a global scale.

that's where it's starting to git gud yes

Kill Em All was their only good thrash album.

shrug

have u tried not being poor yet

t. Bob Rock

have u tried not being poor yet

nta, but go look at some collector forums and look at the prices these things usually sell for, you're easily looking at $8k USD if you can even find a listing.

you can get a custom made guitar for less

I collect vintage ESP guitars, just explaining some of the mechanics of the current market.

I'd say Canon EOS 5D Mark II or GoPro Digital HERO, or whatever the digital camera it was which started the transition from analog to digital among the z-budget filmographers. Or perhaps digital editing. Something digital anyway, which forced the filmproduction to focus more on style than substance.

its rare??
i have one, but its just been played to hell and back, looks very worn now

bruh post a pic

i cant, its at my moms and shes out of town
the attachment for the shoulder strap at the "ass" of it is gone and one of the knobs is also gone
i guess its not THAT fucked
i was always careful with scratches and used more products to take care of that thing than i did myself
guess i'll see if i can fix it and sell it

David Lynch

Metallica was never good. Corporate sellouts of the lowest sort. Absolute cock smoking faggots the lot of them.

Fuck Shitallica. Fuckers literally stole the name of a genre to try and be the big men when they were just another in a long line of half baked clowns.

Corporate sellouts

how is this relevant? i dont expect any musician to stay poor just to earn your respect anon

HE FOKIN LEFT THE BAND

whats the point of this music? they thought that looked cool? ape people?

I'll drop her off if you'll post it. She's worn out

she paid for a full weekend thats what shes getting or im leaving a 1 star review

Musashi believed sword collectors were retarded, fake warriors who didn't even know how to use their weapons. He was right and it applies to boomer guitar collectors, 20 guitars just sitting there and still can't play worth a shit

The moment I saw your image the song Blackened started to play in my head. So thanks for that I guess.

Kill Bill

She's straddling this menorah I stole and dildo'd out

Canon EOS 5D Mark II

Man that shit was peak kino when it came out. Looks like shit with today's eye lol

How?

David Lynch played a Parker Nitefly.

What is the Warwick Thumb 6 NT of movies, bros?

Clerks 1

The 1989 Seattle concert is incredible, I still watch it from time to time

Shit guitar that's a bad copy of a Gibson explorer, and relies on faggy active pickups to make it sound good

Any shitty remake should be suitable.

It's so fucking hard to find a sexy bass now. They're all ugly and made to pander to the country/jazz/fusion/funk bassists. Ibanez briefly brought back their awesome Roadbass, but they made it as an econo-model and it was made out of fucking compressed sawdust like all of their cheap shit is made out of.

This is what the average 25 year old looked like in 1989

Just go full boomer and get the Rickenbacker

Gate keeping crabs in a bucket faggots deserve the rope

I always wondered what this meant as a kid.

Apparently James wanted to write "Sleep Eet Fuk" on his guitar because those were his favorite things, but it wouldn't fit.

I find Warwicks incredibly aesthetic with their natural exotic wood finishes. You seem to yearn for the edgy 80s Jackson axe that's still around. I prefer my basses to look as far removed from a sgredder super strat as possible.

They're stupid levels of expensive for basses with TREBLE pickups instead of actual bass ones, and require surgery to get rid of that stupid pickup bridge that forces the playing hand into an un-natural playing position. And you hear it with Lemmy's bass. Listen to his music. Motorhead's bass isn't exactly thumping and rattling the walls.

So unless you're willing to put in the "elbow grease" to fit in new pickups that'll produce actual bass, you end up with something that produces a bright and poppy sound.

But you'll look cool

I have a Jackson that looks exactly like that and it cost 250. Paying big prices for guitars is guitarded

I like the ken lawrence explorers better.

That's because Lemmy played through Marshall guitar amps since he treated his Rick like a guitar. Rivkenbackers can sound alright but they are vastly overpriced and really not worth the money.

gibson customs are too expensive

entry level models are shit and have poor build quality

keep hearing about how Epiphone makes good entry level guitars at an affordable price that rival gibson

Should I take the Epiphone pill bros?

Go try some out in a store.

Apparently James wanted to write "Sleep Eet Fuk" on his guitar because those were his favorite things, but it wouldn't fit.

I wonder if people like this have souls or if they're just humanoids

Doesn't matter. Treble pickups have no "thump" to them even on a bass amp. They're not designed to. They're designed for 60s rock, mainly British "mod music." Drummers back then were still using jazz kits as the heavy percussions kits hadn't been invented yet, and no one liked the sound of a heavy bass player suffocating the drummer and even the guitarist playing with single-coils that produced no "meaty mass" of sound.

So basses were deliberatly made bright and poppy to still sound like a bass without actually producing bass. So the amp Lemmy played on never made a difference.

For me it's the washburn dime black bolt.

Cheap Epiphones are cheap Chinese shit. Epiphones don't get good until you're spending at least $700 for one. Then you'll start finding ones with actual Gibson pickups and parts on them. I've played an Epi LP Custom, and it's easily better-sounding and better-playing than any cheap Gibson Les Paul up until you reach the "standard"

BIT the caveat with buying modern guitars remains: ASK AROUND ABOUT WHAT WOOD ITS MADE OF. Don't take the factory word for shit. As humanity (mainly the third world) keeps on overpopulating and increasing the demand of finite resources, it's getting harder and harder for guitar-makers to source good wood. You can buy something that says it's maple-bodied, and when you strip it down you find it's comperessed maple sawdust. I can't count how many guitars have "it's sort of like ebony so we'll call it ebony" fretboards on them now.

So when you see one you want, get on the internet and ask around about what it's really made of.

Wait fuck that's not it.

Off all the hyped up vintage instruments, Rickenbackers are by far the worst. They would be considered aliexpress tier if they were new instruments today.

Everyone from Paul Mcartney of the Beatles to Cliff Burton of Metallica played them, so they carry a massive amount of provenance because of some pretty massive musicians.

So the fact that they sound like shit and certainly don't serve modern bassist needs to rattle the walls really doesn't matter. They're "legacy instruments."

I can't count how many guitars have "it's sort of like ebony so we'll call it ebony" fretboards on them now.

Most of those new ebony names that look like quite bad are in fact real ebony, it's just that it's ebony that would've simply been thrown in the trash a few years back. Ibanez dyes the fretboards on their Prestige 5000 series RGs, while Jackson seems to exclusively use the cheapest stuff they can find. Ebony usually isn't black, it's just that that's the kind of ebony that everybody wants. These days, that kind of ebony is too rare and expensive for most guitar builders to use without cutting into their profits.

What are you looking for exactly? If you don't mind that it doesn't have a Gibson logo, you can possibly find an Edwards (which are not made in Japan unlike ESP claims, but they're still fine instruments) or a Tokai or whatever for a fraction of the price. Like the other anon said, the cheap Epiphones are really bad. The higher end epiphones are a lot better, but at you're quickly overpaying simply because they're semi-official.

Friendly reminder that ESP still technically makes the MX-II but under one of their other brands. You can still find them for sale and they're no where near as overpriced as the ESP version.

Pretty damn close, yeah.

Load and reload have some good tracks but overall the albums are shit thanks to every other track being filler. Bleeding me is still one of my favorite tracks,

Dave> james

The higher end epiphones are a lot better, but at you're quickly overpaying simply because they're semi-official.

$700 - $900 for an Epiphone LP that's equal in build quality to a $2,200 Gibson LP standard and having American-made parts like the pups, pots, and tuners isn't over-paying.

For bonus points in recent years Epiphone modified their guitar heads to be more Gibson-like instead of how they were, which makes Epiphones look a lot less cheap than they used to with the old-style head.

you guys might like to know that Anon Babble made a metallica song
youtu.be/u9NdjBhhCQI

for me it's the V

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure B2B Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

James and Lars:

"The Black album is our most well-produced and best-sounding album ever! The kicks and bass actually have bass to them, the midrange guitars are massively fat and bring a big wall of overdrive down on the listeners, and the dynamic range from tone to bass is the highest we've ever produced! Let's never ever produce at that level of quality again! Let's deliberately sound like shit so we can pander to today's grunge and alternative rockers!"

I love that guitar. It's built to play tight and well-articulated fretworks. It's just a natural "shredder guitar." The thing is now pretty much everyone copies Jackson's assymetric compound-radius necks (even PRS and Gibson), but in the 90s where that pic was from, Jackson was alone making their necks like that, so they were leagues more comfrotable to play than anyone else.

Except for maybe the Ibanez Wizard necks. They were alright too even though the Jackson necks were better.

So a Kelly?

Let's deliberately sound like shit so we can pander to today's grunge and alternative rockers

self-contradictory

maybe so, but that's what they did.

Anon Babble makes a song

it's shit

makes sense

the memory remains is good
turn the page cover is great

meant for

The production on load and reload were fine, it's after that when their mixing went to shit and the band never really recovered.

I was referring to the new Epiphones that even go well over a thousand dollars/Euros, Epiphones are a great deal compared to Gibsons.

none of you fags have ever come together to make a movie

contradictory

The songs are OK, but the audio quality is absolute dog shit. Listen to Metallica albums using either high-quality headphones (not faggy earbuds) or high-quality speakers with real wattage pushing them.

Everything from "Kill 'em All" to "Puppets" is very dry-sounding. Bass is dull, and so is the tone. The entire sound spectrum is suffocated by James's "scooped out guitars" (amp settings: bass and tone set to 10 and mid set to zero) which produces a great guitar sound but completely fucks up the dynamics for tone, bass as well as fucks up how well you can record the drummer and bass.

Then there's AJFA, which sounds like the whole album was intentionally ran through a compressor to squeeze the entire sound spectrum into a narrow band of midrange. Lars did that so his drumming could sound tight, and he sent the whole album's audio quality (especially Jason's bass) to shit by doing it. In terms of songs, AJFA is a masterpiece, but in terms of production quality it's absolute garbage.

Then there's the black album, which finally got the mix right. It really is their best album in terms of audio quality. Whether or not the songs are any good is anyone's opinions, though.

Then there's the post-black albums where Metallica abandons being a thrash band, takes on being a hard rock band, and wants to pander to 90s grunge and then post-metal post-grunge fans in the 00s. Their audio quality is shit, too. It's not as bad as it was in their pre-Black days, but it's still a noticable fall from the Black album.