As guitarist of the Bay Area legends Exodus and Slayer, Gary Holt is one of the pioneers of Thrash Metal. So that he can realize his solid riffs and virtuoso solos precisely, the metal specialists of ESP with the ESP LTD GH-600NT Black tailor a signature electric guitar to his body, which turns out to be a pure-bred heavy guitar in sound and appearance. The combination of glued mahogany construction and active EMG humbuckers ensures powerful sounds with tight precision, while the combination of TonePro's bridge and LTD locking mechanisms also enables extreme drop-tunings.
Based on the popular ESP Eclipse singlecut design, the ESP LTD GH-600NT Gary Holt Signature electric guitar features a mahogany body glued to the mahogany neck. In combination with the noble ebony fingerboard, the electric guitar provides a pressing basic sound for crushing riffs and neatly articulated light speed solos. Gary Holt wanted the proven "Thin U" neck profile, which combines impeccable playability and a pleasant feel. The large split block inlays in the fretboard and the red bindings around the body, fretboard and headstock are also visual highlights.
Since the first days of his successful career Gary Holt swears by active pickups from EMG. Accordingly, the ESP LTD GH-600NT Black is also equipped with its EMG GH set, whose striking red caps are used for the first time on an electric guitar for the masses. On the bridge, the EMG 81 is a true legend among metal pickups, whipping every note played through the band sound thanks to tight bass, focused mids and poisonous highs. The EMG89R on the neck on the other hand convinces with its tonal variability between warm singing humbucker and the transparent belliness of a single coil, as it combines both pickup types with separate preamps under its cap.
As the"NT" in the name suggests, the ESP LTD GH-600NT Black and the"Non Trem" version of the Gary Holt Signature model. Accordingly, the electric guitar features a combination of TonePro's Locking Tune-O-Matic and Stopbar, both of which are locked on their pins for fast response. Furthermore, the electric guitar can easily be tuned lower by the fixed bridge, whereby a perfect intontaion and string position is ensured even with thick string sets. From the bridge, the strings with the classic 24.75" scale length (628 mm) are guided towards the headstock, while LTD locking mechanisms ensure high tuning stability.