Sterling by Music Man John Petrucci JP70 7-String Electric Guitar Stealth Black

I bought my jp70 a year ago so I've had some time to work with it. I absolutely love this guitar. It's so much fun to play and it feels so comfortable. I haven't had any tuning issues at all. I did swap in Seymour Duncan black winters, but otherwise I wouldn't change a thing.

As soon as I bought it, it was a hassle. Never States in tune, action cant be set tithout a string breaking, and over all just sounds awful. 0/10, would never recommend to anyone ever. Not worth the price tag

Nearly everything the Petruccinator touches turns to gold, but I honestly can't say I was blown away by this instrument. The good part is that it looks awesome, and feels great to play. The fit and finish and QC of Sterling seems to have improved dramatically over the last 2-3 years since the last time I bought one. The neck carve and radius on these JPs are a perfect pairing for me. However, the hardware still feels cheap and does not hold tune at all. If you even think about touching the trem arm, you're out of tune. If you get the guitar in tune, you're out of tune. I have experience setting up floating trems, and this thing was impossible to work with. After setting it up and stretching the strings, I spent nearly an hour tuning this thing and eventually gave up. You just can't win with it. A lot of people buy these as mod platforms, so I'm certain if I bought the Gotoh 510 bridge, a Graphtech nut, and some good tuners, I'd be in business. It's just too much money for me. The guitar was already expensive enough, and I'd rather get something that's ready to go than spend the next year or more saving up when I need to keep gigging. If you do plan to get one, I would recommend budgeting for the hardware upgrades so you don't have to live with any of the tuning stability issues.

Dude it's incredibly disappointing because I cannot put this thing down. So fun to play. Unfortunately it doesn't stay in tune. It's a little cheap feeling for the price. Bridge is a dud. The nut is a dud. The locking tuners feel like they could break any day now and I just bought it.

Guitar center has been helpful so no issues there, however the jp 70 has issues , strings pop out of nuts , nut was sitting sideways , tremolo creeks and pops, went for a replacement and several others in the store were the same, product is not reliable.

Seriously I was looking for replacements because I knew they were not the official Dimarzios John Petrucci uses (not that I was looking for what he uses I actually am partial to a different combination than his usual Liquifyre and Airnorton) but when I plugged it in I was shocked at their clarity and their ability to clean up when rolling back the volume. This is a steal for a seven string like this.