Are the strings at a higher tension though because they are on looser being tuned down 3 steps? ..thanks mate, it really does seem a great guitar for the £440 price point, think you can get them even cheaper state side now. really like the pickups, beefy sound but clear and they must be really hot because it's easy to make them scream and squeal ..this is what the they say about them
The Pickups
The ESP Designed LH-150 humbucker pickups give you all the growl that you'd expect coming from a guitar of this shape, but if you pull the Tone control knob it activates the split coil circut, giving you two Single Coil pickups to play with and offering you a whole host of new tones with which to experiment. Whilst these pickups sound simply sublime with high-gain distortion, they also produce incredibly clear, bright clean tones too whether in Humbucker or Single Coil mode, making the guitar as versatile as you could want it to be.