All user reviews for the Epiphone Elitist Les Paul Standard

Made in Japan.
Pickups Gibson United States
Slecteur microphones usual for a Les Paul

UTILIZATION

Channel super enjoyable as any Les Paul Access in acute is very simple.
Pleasant surprise: it is lgrement lighter than its big sister Gibson.

SOUNDS

The sound is crying ... I use a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe with a Memory Man pedals to make post-rock.
Before I used a low-end imitation Les Paul Jim Harley on a transistor amp (a good, yet the Fender Cyber-Deluxe), there's really no comparison, I feel the guitar redcouvrir .

OVERALL OPINION

Buy secondhand for a week for 700 euros, there's no picture I would do the same choice with eyes closed. When it is new CHRE same, but it is good suprieure the Gibson Les Paul Studio
The luthier from whom I took him to hallucinate for rgler amme not believe it that there was marked "Epiphone" on it ...

- In which country was it made? (USA, Japan, Mexico, France ...)
Guitar Made in Japan
- How many frets, what kind of micro as well as their configuration?
22 frets Mahogany body, Mahogany neck, maple table (mine is very nice), 2 microphones Designed by Gibson
- What type of bridge (Floyd, Wilkinson ...)?
A bridge Stop bar tailpiece and Tune o Matic, Grover oil bath
- What are the settings (volume, tone, micro switch ...)?
2 volume, 2 tone, 3-position selector
- What type of race?
A log that is good in the hand of the woodsman

UTILIZATION

- The handle is it fun?
Destabilizing the beginning for those who do not know. I had a lot of guitars (Lag Roxanne, Kopo Neptune 2, Start, Epiphone Joe Pass Emperor ...) is the biggest race in which I played. Provided it is pleasant enough, once past the first impression
- Access to acute (recent freight) is it easy?
Past the 20th fret it becomes sport, forget the shred of the treble
- Ergonomics is it good (in terms of shape, weight ...)?
Ergonomics is detestable: heavy, unbalanced, no muzzle ... that's why we love
- Gets it easy to sound good? ...
Nope and that's what is good. Have to get a little guitar into a corner. It's not a guitar that fits your game, you have to adapt to the guitar

SOUNDS

- They are suitable to your style of music?
The same versatility: the Blues suits him perfectly, playing a little on the volume, we get to go from light to crunch to saturated without touching the amp.
- With what (s) amplifier (s) or effect (s) do you play?
I played with a Flextone 3 in a Carvin VT50, a Mesa 50 Caliber +, and sometimes a small all-tube Marshall JCM a friend
- What kind of sound you get and with what settings ("crystalline", "bold ",....)?
The sound of the pickups is drier and less warm than the Gibson. It was a more cold, a little metal type. The microphone is it very serious Bluesy, it sounds great in clear and crunch. The middle position is nice in the clear, saturated and then putting the serious tone of the microphone 0 and slightly lowering the volume of the grave, there is a phase out of its way a little talk box is the best effect
- What are the sounds you prefer, you hate?
To avoid the grave on a large micro or micro acute saturation only one of its clear

OVERALL OPINION

- How long have you use it?
I kept it for over a year, but I have tried a lot before I decide. In my opinion, the quality of the violin is excellent and except for playing on a Gibson and touch the myth of the finger (which some may find, I do not see the point of going to Gibson.
- What is so special that you like most and least?
I liked the Standard Plus is done in left-handed, with a sunburst finish Honey ...
- Have you tried many other models before buying it?
I compared with Duesenberg, the classic Epiphone, Tokai, and of which I confess that I enjoyed most. In addition to delivery in the case said that little pill that makes you touch Gibson's finger. It seems that Gibson IEA also decided to stop production because it was the shadow of their production in their own name. A future collector?
- How would you rate the quality / price?
€ 700 for the U.S. on Ebay, great value for money. I think for the price of nine, I preferred a Carvin
- With experience, you do again this choice? ...
Yes, but then delivered by UPS. The post office really sucks ...

epiphone have produced some nice looking guitars, and my les paul is definitely one of them. it came from the epiphone factory in china, (unfortunately) though its nice black cherry red colour is what firstly pulled me in.
typical 22 fret les paul with two volume and two tone knobs and tune-o-matic bridge also pulled me in as all i ever wanted was a les paul..
The good features of this guitar is a set mahogany neck and epiphones 14 degree headstock angle as well as standard grover tuners provide the player with a guitar that will stay in tune whilst thrashing it!


UTILIZATION

the les paul shape with a single cutaway allows some easier access to the upper frets though it would be wise for epiphone to start filing down the back side to allow even better access.
One thing i didnt know back then but now do is pickups definitely make a difference, as a young chap just wanting the prettiest guitar i could find i did not care about the les pauls standard epiphone pickups which can get a nice clean sound but no good for the heavier types of music as i so much long for.
As a typical les paul it does way a fair bit so i dont recomend throwing this one over your shoulder without a lock-in strap and it did hurt to hold for a long show at first. And again as people know these guitars can take a beating! im not exactly nice to my gear and this guitar has not given me one bit of a problem yet in the two and a bit years i've owned it.

SOUNDS

i run this through my vox effects pedal and then either direct into my computer or out into my vox vt 50 clean channel, as i said it is no longer good to me for my style of music but as my first decent guitar i dont want to let it go.
I recommend getting after-market pickups installed either emg's or seymour duncans black-outs, though after installing these you may as well have gotten a different guitar.
The standard pickups do deliver a nice dynamic clean sound, they just get muddy as the player goes towards the "dark side" of gain and distortion.
Though yes, for my jazz/blues/cleans this guitar is next to brilliant.

OVERALL OPINION

ok, admittedly for the price this guitar is good. though retail at most stores now is around $900-1100 Autralian. Add some good pick-ups and that brings it to 1300 at which price i'd preferably get my shecter or a jackson or even an esp/ltd.
The looks are brilliant and the cleans are still amazing but it simply does not suit my style of playing. Its heavy, muddy, stays in tune, fun to look at but less fun to play.
All in all, good for beginners.
If i knew know what i did then, i would get a shecter haha!

This is the standard and quintessential Epiphone in the entire lineup. The guitar has a mahogany body with a maple top, it has a mahogany set neck, a rosewood fretboard with 22 frets, a tune-o-matic bridge for tuning stability and tone, two humbuckers, two volumes, two tone knobs and a three way switch.

UTILIZATION

This guitar wasn't too bad. The fretwork was pretty decent, especially considering the price you're getting. However, the nut was cut incorrectly. It would bind every time you would tune, and you could tell by the "ping" that would occur. Whenever you'd bend, you'd go out of tune. That's a sure sign that the nut is cut incorrectly and needs to be reshaped. The upper fret access is the same as any other Les Paul out there, and the layout is just like every other Les Paul style guitar you'll come across.

SOUNDS

The guitar didn't sound too bad. The stock pickups were a bit iffy, but you could get them to work for those looking for that hard rock kinda vibe. I'm mostly a metal player, so I'd personally replace them with something else. The nice thing about this guitar is that it resonated nicely. Considering how much trash can come out of some of the lower lines of guitars, this one was pretty good. The price also made it even sweeter as you don't have to pay a ton to get that Les Paul sound that everyone knows and loves.

OVERALL OPINION

Those looking for a decent budget guitar that has that Les Paul sound, this is probably the one you want to look into getting. However, just be sure to play a bunch. I'm sure that it'll need a proper setup once you buy it, so also look into spending some money on having a luthier make it play to its utmost potential.