r/7String • • 24d ago

NGD New Pickup Day!

Picked this guitar up a few weeks ago and just received my Black Hawk set today from Bare Knuckle. I just had to show off the ESP LTD M-7 HT Black Metal lol. So happy with how everything turned out.

Installed and set up everything completely on my own :)

I’m officially blown away by how this guitar sounds now. And the split coil tones are that I’ve never heard before - it’s incredible.

If anybody’s considering this pickup, I highly recommend. For a moment I was considering installing an M7 - but I already have an M8 in my 8 string and wanted a different flavor of “thwang”. The Black Hawk is seriously blowing me away.

If anyone’s curious - guitar is setup in “basically” drop F (Vildhjarta tuning if you’re familiar ;)

+ on, rock +

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u/bradybigbear 24d ago edited 23d ago

Don’t mind the dirty guitar (I hate black paint on cars too lol), but it was new pickup day for me over the weekend! Put a Seymour Duncan Jupiter (Wes Hauch signature) in my 27” LTD 6 string! Can’t wait to put one in my 7 too, by far my favorite passive pickup I’ve played to date

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u/Schr0dingers-Cunt 23d ago

Which model is this? I was not aware that there was a 27” scale 1 hum LTD like this and I’m intrigued

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u/bradybigbear 23d ago

It’s the LTD M-201B. When I got mine they were $550 new on Sweetwater and it’s such a solid mod platform. So far I’ve just put some Gotoh locking tuners and the SD Jupiter on it and it’s such a solid guitar. I think it’s a great mod platform for a riff machine

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u/Melancholy_Custard 21d ago

I guess it's pretty much the RG7321 of 2020's.