DISC ESP E-II Viper Baritone, Charcoal Metallic Satin

Full Description

Mahogany Body

The Viper’s body is crafted from mahogany and designed with comfortable contours, ensuring players receive the best playing experience. The mahogany tonewood delivers a soft tone, with plenty of grind and bite to keep it well-balanced and create plenty of depth. The guitar’s appealing high end and full, tight low end ensures the overall tonality remains thick and firm, offering plenty of dynamics to accommodate a variety of musical styles.

Maple Neck-Through Construction

The ESP E-II 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 & 60 Pickups

The ESP Viper incorporates a set of powerful EMG 81 and 60 humbuckers, constructed from close aperture coils and ceramic magnets to deliver advanced detail and a truly meaty tone. EMG pickups are favoured by many professional musicians due to their unbeatable tone, active circuitry, high output, and low noise performance. Setting the guitar into the bridge position with deliver the thick, punchy tonality of the EMG 81, while the neck position produces the warm, crisp tones of the EMG 60.

High-End Hardware

The guitar is finished off with high-end hardware to ensure players receive the best playing experience possible. The Gotoh tune-o-matic bridge and tailpiece offers incredible string stability, enhancing the overall sustain and resonance while the Gotoh locking tuners improve tuning stability and reduces string slippage. The E-II Horizon also features Schaller straplocks to protect against accidental strap release, ensuring players can deliver a powerful performance without the worry of dropping their guitar.

Baritone Scale Length

Featuring a 27-inch scale length as appose to traditional 24.75, 25, and 25.5 inch scale lengths, the Viper Guitar 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 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: Mahogany
• Construction: Neck-Through
• Bridge: Gotoh Tune-O-Matic & Tailpiece
• Finish: Charcoal Metallic Satin

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: 3-Piece Maple
• Profile: Thin U
• Scale Length: 27'' Baritone
• Fingerboard: Ebony
• Radius: 12''
• Frets: 24 Extra Jumbo
• Inlays: Abalone Dots
• Nut: Bone
• Nut Width: 42mm

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: EMG 81 (Ceramic/Passive)
• Neck Pickup: EMG 60 (Ceramic/Passive)
• Controls: Volume, Tone, 3-Way Toggle Switch
• Tuners: Gotoh Locking
• Strap Buttons: Schaller Straplock
• Hardware: Black
• Case Included: ESP Hardshell