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Published on 04/29/04 at 15:00I bought this guitar second hand from a friend who has gone over to the dark side (hard house and trance!). I paid £230 with a 30W Marshall but the guitar was as new, hardly touched.
The sound of this guitar is really meaty. My brother owns a Mexican Tele and the sound difference is really big. It's great for playing along to Heartbreaker by Led Zep.
I tend to use Ernie Ball Hybrid slinky strings which are good for riffing and soloing, just turn everything up to 10 and plug away. A fairly wide range of tone can be extracted thanks to the three way pick up selector. Plonk it in the middle and start playing with the tone controls for neck and bridge pickups. you can fade each in or out, dampen the bridge to give a warm bluesy feel. The strokes managed to get a keyboard synth sound by rolling back the tone and upping the distortion... lovely.
My only grievence about the Epiphone model is the pick-up switch. it crackles when switching mid song making you sound like a fool when trying to do the morse code bits in the outro!!
The colour, as it should be with LPs is a cherry burst, excellent finish with no blemishes at all. the sound of this guitar is really meaty. My brother owns a Mexican Tele and the sound difference is really big. It's great for playing along to Heartbreaker by Led Zep.
Excellent guitar. Buy one, with a skinny strap and bang out some zepellin!
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
The sound of this guitar is really meaty. My brother owns a Mexican Tele and the sound difference is really big. It's great for playing along to Heartbreaker by Led Zep.
I tend to use Ernie Ball Hybrid slinky strings which are good for riffing and soloing, just turn everything up to 10 and plug away. A fairly wide range of tone can be extracted thanks to the three way pick up selector. Plonk it in the middle and start playing with the tone controls for neck and bridge pickups. you can fade each in or out, dampen the bridge to give a warm bluesy feel. The strokes managed to get a keyboard synth sound by rolling back the tone and upping the distortion... lovely.
My only grievence about the Epiphone model is the pick-up switch. it crackles when switching mid song making you sound like a fool when trying to do the morse code bits in the outro!!
The colour, as it should be with LPs is a cherry burst, excellent finish with no blemishes at all. the sound of this guitar is really meaty. My brother owns a Mexican Tele and the sound difference is really big. It's great for playing along to Heartbreaker by Led Zep.
Excellent guitar. Buy one, with a skinny strap and bang out some zepellin!
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com