Buy This NOT That | LTD Black Blast Vs. Charvel Pro-Mod Black Ash TELES 

This really was a fantastic video.

I have the LTD TE 1000 Black Blast and have zero complaints. It looks and sounds badass! Love the sandblast finish and couldn't be happier. Thanks for the great video rundown. It's difficult to find videos that talk about the TE 1000!

I have the Charvel in all white with a fixed bridge, probably has the best tuning stability of any guitar I own. With the fishman voicing and coil split, I consider it my swiss army knife of guitars.

Stainless, Passive, Hard Tail. Has to be the LTD.

@nikaxeguitar are these guitars good for big hands ?

My buddy has the Charvel and it plays gorgeously. However I’m just not a Tremolo guy and love Passive pick ups. I need a guitar that can play heavy but also have balanced spanky cleans with push/pull. I really like the TE-1000!

The charvel, I own. I play in a band called Roses Are Dead, and I gotta say, the tone is MONSTEROUS. The open cores SLAM. The tuning stability is out of this world too. I do dive-bombs and all that and it still manages to stay in tune. Also, the action is buttery smooth, best shredstick I've ever owned, and I've owned some high end Jackson's from 2014/16 Luminlays are also an amazing touch

Guys ı want to ask you a question. I have big hands . Can you suggest me a wide neck guitar for metal ?(It would be great if this guitar didn't have a floyd rose and super strat body)

i picked up a cool Squier "hot-rodded" Tele model 18 months, the roasted neck caught my eye for a "cheap" Squire, it was the first time i'd come across one, rural Australia is not known for being fast receiving new guitar technology and features. back in the late 80's when i was in high school there were a good many Jacksons around, but *very* few Charvels. not only because there were fewer of the Chavel "hot-rodded classic Fender" models than the Jacksons, and that the Charvels tended to a higher entry level. a trend they have decided to revive it seems, today's Charvels *entry point" is the Joe Duplantier (Gojira) white Tuxedo Tele right at what i'd call the start of mid-tier pricing $850US -ish. now i've never been one to play a signature series *seriously* unless it brings something unique to the table, not just slap a name onto a repro of the guitarists favorite specced production model (i'm looking at YOU Jim Root) with, maybe, some pups that are non-standard "personal" favorite design and output from a guitarist who actually knows how to build a pick-up and uses altered ones or customs. most of us just know what pup combos we are into right now, and most famous guitarists are the same. but i would, and will, play a Duplantier Tux Tele (i'm getting one soon) because *always* wanted one and was gutted when i found out the great Squier Contemporary Tele i bought so quickly came in 3 colors, dark metallic green (mine), sandy gold color that looks really good with the light-roast fingerboard, and lightly metallic pure white with the black hardware and binding (real on the neck, painted on the body) that all 3 have. oh, matching painted headstock face with "Squier" branded silver in *real* raised lettering that is covered with so much clear Poly that although you can clearly see the raised decal, when you run your finger over it, it is smooth. the body also has a THICK Poly layer, which is less than ideal, but i got it for the neck, every other part is expendable. and i'm getting used to the "brightness" of the guitar, even tho it has a "hot-rail" bridge, PAF style neck pups, it's clean tones "chirp" like a "baby Tele" because of the way thick Poly behaves acoustically. at least modern Poly is better than the gross shit from the 80's and 90's. i prefer a natural wood (or stained) satin finish REGARDLESS of the guitar and may all pick-guards go to h*ll, that isn't pick-wear, that's music, that isn't dis-coloration, that's a life lived full and vibrant. so the Squier came in Tuxedo white. F#%@. so i started looking into any alternatives in or around the price of the Tele i got for a Tux Tele, not expecting much, i thought i'd have to get another Squier the same in white (no big deal, the neck of the green was worth what payed for the guitar, and it's "slant-single coil/humbucker" arrangement is versatile, it wouldn't take a lot to get them sounding radically different) when i stumbled on a YT video about Charvel and the Duplantier was on the thumbnail. i clicked the video expecting it to be high-end stuff only to find that the Tux was the entry-level Charvel and was only a little more than the Squier and was appointed beautifully for the price, even has a near-black ebony fingerboard with no fret markers (at that price, probably stained Macassar to get that dark. that's fine, Macassar Ebony is great fingerboard wood, i have it on an Ibanez). it's neck and head are mahogany, the body mahogany adjacent. and it has a stop-tail. i dig the string dynamics and response of a stop-tail. very immediate and articulate. Gibsony/Gretschy Goodness. the mahogany construction is also very Gibson/Gretsch, Fenders are made of "bright" woods like maple, stuffed full of pick-ups too thin for their output and foisted on an unsuspecting customer base with complete disregard to the Geneva Convention. i only play signature series if they have something different and interesting about them. all mahogany white Tux Tele with a stop-tail fits that bill nicely. the pups in it are dogsh*t but i was thinking Nazgul/Sentient so i'll check out the Pegasus now. pretty sure i'm gonna get this Tele as well because i also prefer passives and hated actives until the Fluence Modern. Fishmans are the only actives i'll use, but until now i didn't know they could emulate a single coil so well, the moderns aren't great with cleans no matter the voicing, but the review i watched before this one i was blown away by the single voicing. it sounded like a little single coil that didn't quite manage to screech unpleasantly. i *personally* can't use Fender single-coils properly, never could, i can't make em sound good, clean or dirty. but i *could* use the tone i heard in that pick-up for cleans. as i've gotten older i have been chasing the "clean tone" i never bothered with in 20 years, i was devout cult-of-the-PAF-humbucker. now my favorite pup combo for cleans (it's all about middle position) is a "hot" 'Tron in the bridge and a p90 in the neck. the new "Broadtrons" are good because they have the short but powerful dynamic range of a PAF and the "sparkle" of a Filtertron. when blended with a big, round, clean p90 neck it hits *just* right. and, of course Trons and p90s are nothing alike, sound almost completely opposite when in the bridge and neck respectively, which *amplify* each pups strong points, which happens to be the other pups weak points. you can dirty it right up too, just not as far as each pup can distort on it's own. dirty 'Tron is "early The Who" and dirty p90 is "early Sabbath" the "Holy Grail" of this pick-up arrangement is, TV Jones Powertron Plus (bridge only, hottest 'Tron TVJ make, developed as a special order for Billy Gibbons) and a "T90" neck pick-up, a TVJ p90.

I bought the Charvel one without the trem last year before the price increased, pretty solid featured guitar for the price... 😊

Just added a Graphtech string tree to my LTD te1000 black blast. The G string is still a bit twangy and I'd like to increase the break angle over the nut somehow? Otherwise it's the best metal tele out there right now. I also have an LTD '87 Eclipse NT in pearl white that's got the pointy headstock.

is the Jackson Kelly worth it as a beginner guitar??

Hey man, im trying to buy myself a new guitar and i just cant make up my mind and need some serious help lol. I can currently get a Jackson pro series soloist SL2Q for 500$ or i could get the Harley Benton Fusion 3. Which should i go with?

About the neck pickups with 22-24 Fretboards. It actually does make a difference in the sound. Having it closer to the bridge adds more treble and attack while having 22 frets sounds warmer and softer. One fix I've seen around is single-coil-shaped humbuckers in the neck position, pushed right up against the 24th Fret. It helps keep that warmth and saturation. Personally I think it just depends on how much you want that sound. I know I like having it for more cleaner stuff or with coil splits, but when I'm shredding, it doesn't make that much of a difference

Def prefer the Charvel over the LTD

I have a few different 1000 series LTD guitars and they are top notch

im taking the LTD for the stainless frets

I think you're confusing sunblasted with open pore. Both are open pore, but only the LTD is sunblasted.

Good video... normally I'd go LTD without thinking twice as an ESP fanboy who likes Korean Ltd's. BUT, I owned a SN-1000 with the 17-22 scallop section and wasn't a fan. All things equal, I'd normally default to the guitar with stainless frets, but in this case with me not a fan of the scallops, charvel is my pick. Can't go wrong with either though.

I would add to the comparison the Dean Nashvegas in black.

Two great guitars , the one guitar plastic nut: to solve the problem, buy a graphtech TUSQ nut, or a guyker brass nut. Two really great nuts for any guitar , or the Fender Roller nut.

I owned two of the charvels. My favorite neck of all time, but the tuning stability was an issue for both. Even with nut lube(hahaha) so both are gone.

The quality control on mexican charvels is shaky at best. I returned two and gave up. One the string spacing was brutal, the other had the worst fret sprout and rough edges.

Great video. Sometimes you don't need an hour an a half of sound samples. Just someone's thoughts. I'm not a shreder. More like a turtle. I have a Charvel DK 22 and lots of other guitars. I seem to gravitate to the Charvel and a Gibson 1965 SG (original) when I want to turtle. I like the option of something with low action, easy to play with a PACish tone option so I'll likely give the Charvel T a try. It's all opinion and preference. Nothing wrong with either. Turtle On!!!

My te 1000 deluxe is 24 frets

SS frets wins it for me. But also, the LTD is a classic tele shaped body - if you look at the charvel its clear that the cut away is further down the fretboard than a normal tele and the LTD have. For some reason, being a tele fan boy I can't not see it and it looks off to me because of that. The shape just isn't quite right and I can't unsee it lol... although u love the features etc and u love charvel, I wish they kept it with the normal angle and distance from the top section where they both meet the fretboard that is on the LTD or a normal tele. Just pointing that out as nobody else has mentioned it.

I'm a big Charvel fanboy so for me there is not even a choice

so you just make videos where you read specs?

My charvel San Dimas is awesome and I wasn't sure about Mexican made guitars before that but yeah it's better than most of my other guitars made in so called better countries. Also the Mexican factory is like 30 miles away from the American one lol ...

Soooo..... the one with the wiggle stick that offers country tones is more metal for the money. Got it.

Had the charvel so cal and ended up selling it - poor build quality and the Fishman pickups were not very versatile

LOl a versus without playing them or even holding them. What a complete joke.

Korea better than Mexico?? No way

"The key to playing good, is looking good"... Seriously?

buy neither, buy an esp ltd te-401 instead