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With the LTD AP-5, we started with a traditionally-styled body, but then took things in a new, high-performance direction that only ESP can offer. Designed to be a 5-string bass that blows away the expectations of players of any musical style, from metal to punk, reggae to funk, the AP-5 has the great playing feel and the professional components that make it a winner by any definition. It begins with a classic bolt-on design, with an alder body and smooth, thin U-shaped maple neck at 34" scale. For an excellent variety of tone, the AP-5 offers a set of active EMG P5 and LJ5 pickups, with a volume, balance, and tone control to dial in your sound quickly. It offers an ebony fingerboard with 21 extra-jumbo frets, reliable Grover tuners, and a Babicz FCH-5 bridge for terrific tone and sustain power. 

Electric bass guitar from AP series that combines traditional styling with the high-performance feel you expect from an ESP bass. It features a mahogany body with mahogany top and a comfortable bolt-on thin U-shaped maple neck fitted with roasted jatoba fingerboard with 21 extra-jumbo frets. Scale length is 863.6 mm, fingerboard radius is 400 mm and nut width is 38 mm. The bass guitar is equipped with two ESP Designed active humbucker pickups (LDP in neck position, LDJ in bridge position) with 2-band EQ and Volume and Balance controls. Other features include a LTD DB-4 bridge, LTD tuners, moulded nut fret, chrome hardware and D'Addario XL165 strings (.045, .065, .085, .105). Black Satin finish.

LTD’s D Series basses have been long favorites of serious players who know that they don’t have to break the bank to get a high-quality neck-thru-body bass instrument. Completely updated for 2020, the new D Series basses — the 4-string D-4, 5-string D-5, and 6-string D-6 — offer a 7-piece maple/jatoba neck on a mahogany body with a sumptuous burled poplar top in Black Natural Burst Satin finish. The D Series basses come with great-sounding ESP Designed SB-4, SB-4, or SB-6 passive pickups with ABQ-3 3-band active EQ for tone sculpting. They also include Grover tuners and high-quality LTD bridges.

Guitars in the LTD EC-1000 Series are designed to offer the tone, feel, looks, and quality that working professional musicians need in an instrument, along with the pricing that typical musicians can still afford. The EC-1000FM has all of the classy LTD Deluxe features that set it apart from other guitars in its range, such as abalone inlays and purfling, full body/neck/headstock binding, and premier components like LTD locking tuners, a Tonepros locking TOM bridge and tailpiece, and classic Seymour Duncan JB-59 passive pickups. It also offers set-neck construction with a mahogany body, a flamed maple top, 3 pc. mahogany neck, and 24-fret rosewood fingerboard. Available in Amber Sunburst finish.

This EC-256 Black has classy gold hardware, and ESP's powerful LH-150 Humbuckers with gold covers as well for smoother tones and elegance. The push/pull tone knob lets you split the humbuckers to get single coil sounds. A very affordable, yet serious instrument; and could serve as a great platform for custom modifications.

Gary Holt needs no introduction in the world of metal. His work with Exodus and Slayer influenced legions of musicians all over the world. For fans who want to get a fine instrument closest to Gary's main axe, the GH-600 is the solid choice. Equipped with his trusted components; such as the EMG 81R and 89R active pickups for incinerating tone, Floyd Rose 1000 locking tremolo to facilitate Gary's whammy acrobatics, and a 22-fret set-thru mahogany neck with Thin-U contour for effortless riffing and warp-speed runs.

Special signature features include the red pickup covers, push-pull tone pot to split the EMG 89R neck humbucker, red binding (body, fretboard, headstock), and Gary's own "split rectangle" fretboard inlays.

As part of the LTD Deluxe Series designed for professional musicians, the LTD MH-1000 EverTune gives you more than you bargained for. It offers set-thru construction, meaning the neck extends deeply into the guitar's body cavity, offering unparalleled access to the upper frets with a smooth heel joint. It has a mahogany body with a flamed maple top in a See Thru Black finish, highlighting the great look of the figured wood grain. It also features a three-piece thin U-shaped maple neck, and an ebony fingerboard with 24 extra-jumbo frets. High-class touches are included, like its multiple white binding and Grover tuners.