I have owned a Petrucci, Silhouette Special, and an Axis in the past - but have been without an EBMM for the past few years. My local shop just became an EBMM dealer and got in some SUB's. I hadn't paid alot of attention to them-but yesterday wanted to try out the new Peavey JSX amp-so I pulled down a SUB - graphite with black pguard-2 humbuckers - hardtail. It ripped! I was really impressed. So I went back today and bought it. I have a 1979 Marshall JMP head thru a 412 with Celestion Greenbacks - they sound great with this guitar. I think I made a pretty good purchase today - and - I'm back in the EBMM Club !!