ESP E-II Arrow-7 Babymetal, Black w/Red Bevels

Full Description

Solid Alder Body

Alder is favoured by most players for its incredibly balanced tone, offering the perfect dynamic range to suit 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 body also features a contoured design, allowing the guitar to hug the player and deliver an incredibly comfortable performance.

Maple Neck-Through Construction

The ESP E-II Arrow-7 features a 3-piece maple neck to produce beautifully 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.

EMG 81-7/707 Humbuckers

The ESP E-II Arrow-7 also features EMG 707 and EMG 81-7 humbuckers, offer versatile tones and a powerful performance. The EMG 707 humbucker has been one of the leading pickups for 7 string guitars since its debut in 2001, delivering a tight tone with an excellent response and incredible articulations. The 707 eliminates muddy B strings and beefs up the tone to articulate the upper registration and maintain balance. The EGM 81-7 humbucker has powerful magnets and close aperture coils to deliver a tone designed with detailed intensity. The pickup offers an extreme high end cut with a fluid sustain to slice through harsh mixes, while pushing the power on all 7 strings to provide an incredible sound for soloing with.

Floyd Rose Original Tremolo

For many years Floyd Rose has been the leading manufacturer and designer of floating, locking tremolos. With a design that has stood strong for over 30 years, the Floyd Rose Original locking tremolo allows you to adjust the string tension and pitch with the removable whammy bar to create unique sounds such as dive bombs. Unlike non-locking tremolo's, the Floyd Rose bridge can make huge changes in pitch but still retain the initial tuning by the addition of the locking nut at the end of the headstock.

High-End Hardware

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.

About Babymetal

Babymetal is a metal idol band from Japan which fuses heavy metal with the Japanese idol genre, resulting in a unique sound and the creation of a new metal genre ''kawaii metal''. The group is made up of Suzuka Nakamoto (“Su-metal”), Yui Mizuno (“Yuimetal”), and Moa Kikuchi (“Moametal”), and features a live backing band who are collectivly known as the ''Kami Band''.

About ESP Guitars

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.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Body: Alder
• Construction: Neck-Through
• Bridge: Floyd Rose Original
• Finish: Black w/Red Bevels

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: 3-Piece Maple
• Profile: Thin U
• Scale Length: 25.5''
• Fingerboard: Ebony
• Radius: 12''
• Frets: 24 Extra Jumbo
• Inlays: Pearloid Shark Fins
• Nut: Locking
• Nut Width: 48mm

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: EMG 81-7 (Ceramic/Active)
• Neck Pickup: EMG 707 (Alnico V/Active)
• Controls: Volume, 3-Way Toggle Switch
• Tuners: Gotoh Locking
• Strap Buttons: Schaller Straplock
• Hardware: Black
• Case Included: Special ESP Hardshell
• Accessories: Certificate of Authenticity