All user reviews for the Epiphone Joe Pass Emperor II

Neck: Glued
Number of cases: 20
Number of Strings: 6 String
Body Style: Half body 70 mm
Body type: Type ES175
Body material: Maple and Spruce
Handle Material: Maple
Colour: Vintage Sunburst
Configuration microphones: Humberking
Number of microphones: 2
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Pickups: 2 humbucker
Position: Right
Hardware: gold
Mechanical: Oil bath

UTILIZATION

Guitar bought in 1998 without trying it. I wanted this model and no store Montpellier had not in stock. So I bought to order.
I saw right away that the violin was perfect and flawless finish. I think that in 1998 the quality of the instruments was better. The setting against a real cata. Towards the maker of the corner which I tweaked a setting top. I changed the cover plate by transferring the Epiphone logo and painted black.
Recently I changed the neck pickup with a Gibson 57 classic

SOUNDS

I play mostly jazz and bossa. I played in various forms of the duo to big band. Currently I'm playing a trio two guitars and a bass with an occasional drummer, and with a formation of four brass bass guitar piano and drums. I use a Roland cube 60 w.
In use I find it more enjoyable to play. Whether agree or handle chorus is outstanding. The quality of the handle has always been a major asset of Epiphone. And we feel the key Gibson in the finish of the instrument. The treble is easy to play until the break 17. The bridge restores the sound good to the table and the harmony is perfect. The size of the box is nice especially when standing

OVERALL OPINION

Of course it's a late notice because the guitar has 11 years and has enhanced over the years. Personally I do not want to change it because snapping over € 2000 to tell you I saw a Gibson!
I solved the small vibration problems, I changed a microphone. It is followed by a luthier because you should never tinker with a device when you're not at work.

Although it is set to a guitar that has nothing to envy to the great and the memories must be above that this is not because we play on a guitar to € 2000 we will

Made in Korea I believe (I quickly removed the sticker!)

20 frets, Gibson type bridge

2 pickups (one humbucker + 1 severe acute Made in Epiphone) with each volume + Tone
Slecteur 3 positions

Thin neck and not too wide



UTILIZATION

Ergonomics are good, easy to handle, no worries

For sound, well you need a good amp and well rgler namely, the microphones are not more exciting than tell the truth but the guitar is damn good.
As usual in models of the series, if the wood is good the guitar sounds good, it's just a lottery but I am happy with mine.
She does a lot play it must be said, the wood has worked well.

It has a curved body and not too pais really very comfortable.

The hardware is the price range, even when we see that this is not a guitar are: Mechanical 3000 however, it is true, very reliable. It's rare enough to be will appreciate

SOUNDS

made for jazz guitar.

Climb ropes flat nets, play, do not change your strings unless they break and of course the sound of the neck pickup is round, even jazz!

By putting a little distortion can be a kind of sound Django 47/53

I prefer the neck pickup!

I played with a transistor amp Ibanez Tone Reverb 25w (not bad) and a Roland AC60 amp (too cold for my taste play with electric guitar).

It's a guitar plugged into a Peavey Classic or Fender amp!

OVERALL OPINION

I use acoustic or branch for very long.

It sounds enough to acoustic work time and a branch is a jazz sound.

In the hands it is over, I find it rather beautiful (non musician friends also find it beautiful GENERALLY) and easy to play.
However, with the exprience, we feel that we are far from the sound of a fine guitar maker, the feeling gnral is a bit "rustic"

Manufacturing Korea.
Wooden easel.
2 humbucker Pickups Epiphone

UTILIZATION

Channel super nice, flat head, slightly curved in acute.
Access to the latest correct frets.
His net a little hard to get on the bass on the 6th string. It sizzles quite easily question may be a hoop, you have to work the touch.

SOUNDS

Classic Jazz, its OK with different amplifiers, neck pickup only (Rhythm)

OVERALL OPINION

I have benefited greatly from the forum to get advance information I needed.
It's my turn to return the favor and provide some information.

Subject: find a jazz guitar that sounds pretty good for working in acoustic "unplugged" in different parts of the apartment.

My teacher advised me Epiphone guitar for the price / quality ratio, it remained to choose the model of:
ES-175 Archtop - Reissue 3 / 4 body 2 Alnico V Classic humbucker
Emperor Regent 3 / 4 body 1 floating humbucking micro mini Epiphone
Broadway 3 / 4 body 2 humbucking pickups Epiphone
Joe Pass Emperor II 1 / 2 body Bridge: Alnico Classic Humbucker, neck: Alnico Hot Humbucker
Sheraton II 1 / 2 box girder Neck: Alnico Classic HB Bridge: Alnico Hot HB

Test its acoustics:
Sheraton II, little more than his guitar to full bodied, probably because of the beam.
Joe Pass Emperor II, a little less than my old guitar that his study first prize, but it was something.
Emperor Regent Archtop: sound of a folk guitar midrange.

Microphones criteria:
I did not have insurance but it seems to me that this is the same for all models, except perhaps the Regent. The Epiphone neck is quite correct, it does little jazz bridge pickup. The model allows Regent to the economy of the bridge pickup.

Availability:
Attention to their own. Could not see a single ES-175 across the street from Douai and its environs (November 2010). Having a single Emperor Regent and one Broadway, sold well above the posted price by mail order - from suppliers who do not stock and do not delay ... The real market is much smaller than the market catalogs. Purchase Period, the sake of better prices and resale potential activists to choose a current model.
Nothing found on occasion in Paris and the provinces posted prices unattractive.

U.S. Market
A look at mail-order sales in the States gives a price range rather different from France. Là_bas the ES 175 is oddly very expensive, it is perhaps why we do not find in France. For others it is 75% of France without the port, without after-sales and with the unknown customs, I do not think the game worth the candle.

Manufacturing
I noted the board to select Korean, exposure is found equally Korean and other countries (Malaysia, China) and mail no way of knowing, he must buy a pig in a poke.

Conclusion
I took a Joe Pass Emperor II exhibition, available in stores, labeled "Korea" set by the seller, of course with confidence in its possibilities after purchase, with new ropes for 10 € more than The cheapest market in mail order, to carry on. I did not choose the color ...

I'm stoked, handle great, good mechanics, good sound with jazzy neck pickup, no blemishes.
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