ESP LTD Phoenix QM Tobacco Burst

First of all, the guitar is well assembled. The tone block is soldered quite neatly, better than most other guitars, especially Epiphone. Basic tuning is also present: the nut is filed, the scale length is adjusted. What needed to be done: adjust the neck relief (it’s too loose out of the box) and adjust the string height. The quality of the hardware is excellent; the bridge and stopbar, by the way, have locking screws, which means the bridge doesn’t wobble, unlike on most guitars with this type of bridge, and the stopbar doesn’t fly off when changing strings. As for the pickup, it’s not the best part of the guitar. On the sixth string, at a short distance from the strings, there are buzzes, and the sound is quite specific; I had to fine‑tune the processor to make the sound acceptable.