ESP E-II Horizon NT-7B Hipshot, Purple Sparkle

Full Description

Solid Alder Body

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

Maple Neck-Through Construction

The E-II Horizon 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.

Fishman Fluence Modern

The ESP Electric Guitar features an Fishman Fluence Modern humbuckers to offer versatile tones. The Fluence Modern humbucker has been adopted by active and passive pickup players alike, 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 the harshest mix, and pushes the power on all 7 strings to provide an incredible sound for soloing with.

Hipshot String Through Body Bridge

Incorporating an innovative locking tune-o-matic bridge system, the Horizon NT-7B eliminates the problem every guitarist who uses a tune-o-matic bridge will have encountered, the lack of stability when the strings are removed. This problem usually causes the bridge to fall off and make minor unwanted adjustments to the bridge height. However, the locking tune-o-matic bridge makes that a thing of the past, with high tension springs fitted into the attachments to allow the bridge to clip and lock into place without the use of tools and also increases sustain by up to 20 percent.

Baritone Scale Length

Featuring a 27-inch scale length as appose to traditional 24.75, 25, and 25.5 inch scale lengths, the ESP E-II NT-7B provides players with baritone capabilities ideal for a range of technical playing styles. Due to the longer scale length, the ESP can be tuned to a range of low tunings, without losing tonal integrity, such as standard tuning (F#,B,E,A,D,G,B,E), or fourth tuning (F#,B,E,A,D,G,C,F) particularly favourable with heavy metal players requiring a low and deep tone.

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: Hipshot w/String-Through
• Finish: Purple Sparkle

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: 3-Piece Maple
• Profile: Thin U
• Scale Length: 27'' Baritone
• Fingerboard: Ebony
• Radius: 12’’
• Frets: 24 Extra Jumbo
• Inlays: Offset Pearloid Blocks
• Nut: Bone
• Nut Width: 48mm

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker Ceramic
• Neck Pickup: Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker Alnico
• Controls: Volume, Tone, 3-Way Toggle Switch
• Tuners: Gotoh Locking
• Strap Buttons: Standard
• Hardware: Black
• Case Included: ESP Hardshell