Epiphone Les Paul Junior (P-90)

Made in Korea
J97 series ..... (1997?)
1 humbucker, 1 volume, 1 tonalitbr /> violin mcaniques correct except that the agreement not take (changing rapidly).

UTILIZATION

Round a little wider than a Start but pleasant even when
Access to acute ..... is duly! really great!
Guitar not too heavy, well balanced to play standing.

SOUNDS

A single microphone, but very good. Good definition of notes in his good saturated output level.
I use it on a lamp Tubeman preamp is excellent.
I prefer the sound is saturated ledzep good!

OVERALL OPINION

Guitar that was given my daughter and I "pique" regularly!
Super simple, super sound.
A very good guitar "small price" to enter the Paul family, but we will keep to its qualities (except mcaniques).

Made in China, body and mahogany neck, set neck, sunburst finish, varnish pretty though a bit thick, tune o matic type bridge, Grover, a micro P100 epiphone, 1 volume, 1 tone and that's it!
is a junior not a custom 3 pickups eh ...
small custom shop logo behind the head.
About the head by the way, I take this opportunity to say that the head is pretty good ear, and no I do not regret the profile "open book" of the original gibson. on the other hand I would have found even more beautiful double-cut but hey, we can not have everything eh ...

made in China but certainly very nice finish, if not great.
I put nine as excellent value for money!

UTILIZATION

So, yes the sound is good, easily accessible (you wonder, there's no microphone has to look hard!)
ergonomics is pretty good, it's still a lespaul .. but what a lespaul basic.
round pleasant although a bit "sticky", probably had the varnish used.
I put a 8 because of the handle that sticks a little, but over time see ...
after 10 days of utlisation rather intensive and repeated with a first, feeling a little round sticker is gone

SOUNDS

Well, the sound so ... in short, that is a Chinese skyscraper 250 euros? well you really value for money ... the sound without being that of the junior 57 (which has a P90 but worth 2500 euros in Gibson ..) is really not bad, quite in the spirit of the junior actually. the tone knob on this guitar is REALLY, it is not to decorate. going to the grave sound very jazzy punk was the very acute. between the two on the ride between blues and rock very 70's (mountain, cactus, faces etc. ...).
connected to my JTM 30 312 small Asian doing very well.
in short, its a rather good, a little bluesy if we heat a little lampes.très enjoyable.
mode saturax this fuzz a lot, you get a pretty color punk, a little old school, I love the volume on the guitar tone and a 7 to 5, 70's rock like the stones of "respectable" or "when the whip come down "in short, my hair cell niches what!
and hop, 9 for sound, this is not private! even if there's a sound !!!!!
Well, 10 days of intensive use (I'm repeating myself here ..) and I confirmed and signed, the sound is really not bad. have to play with the tone of the microphone to get the color you want, but once you dip the thing is all good ...
As for the output level of P100, well it is below the '57 Classics in my Riviera but the guy sending all the same sauce. OK they crunch too much on my clean channel, while the Riviera it ...... but what DO they sound really raproche Johnny Thunders LAMF period ..
Obviously I did on my amp connected ... I do not know what it would give a kind of amplifier transistor MGDFX (humm..) or Fender FM212 OD channel and not Top ... but hey, considering the price of the scratch, you will have corn to invest more in an amp that is just the road.

OVERALL OPINION

Well, I just receive it today. she is beautiful, it sounds rather better than I expected after H 2 gaming
In fact I bought it for him to graft a P90 Gibson, but given the P100 and its performance, I think I'll wait a bit (especially as the Black Dog ear is not available at Thomann in time).
granted it happened (well almost) the action is a bit high, but I'll sort that out soon.
a really good guitar low price, although it appears quite difficult to get here (mine just point at guitar on ebay), a real personality, a very nice for playing rock 70's or 77's punk, see the green day recess, with a finish that goes back over a much more expensive.
can not be dreamed of beginner guitar (even if its a well defined and not very versatile) but a great back up to scratch for this pleasure, because it might not be very versatile, but she does it WELL done !.... and it's still the goal right?
So yes, 100 times yes, I would do the same choice, even if I win the lottery because in this case, I would pay a real vintage 57 junior and I still take one for concerts, even change the mic term.

I put 10 without hesitation as the TOP value for money!

epiphone really the case this year, without a par with my Les Paul custom buddy brouzoufs 3000 (you still have not laugh ...), it draws its pin from the elegantly jeu.et with fingers not too rusty and feeling a little bit from one of pretty things ... (the clerk ... LoL)
update 02/02/07
good, I cracked, I had to wait, but the occasion makes the thief was so ... I installed a gibson P90 on the small Chinese .... is 90 euros with shipping on ebay .. one time job later, a little tin, a soldering iron, wire cutters and a screwdriver as an assistant. Please note, dimensions are not exactly the same but it goes ...
I reconnect the beast, and there .... METAMORPHOSIS! momentum in the crunch ... clear sound a little trouble, saturations thickeners, HUGE serious, acute and sharp as razor blades ... really close to a Gibson Junior, without exaggeration, and in any case well above a Melody maker three times more expensive!
this little tinkering allowed me to see that the beautiful was still not too bad over, more so than the Korean Sg I dragged a few years.The 57 junior likens the upgrade completely, as if in fact She had come out for this configuration, the serving only P100 micro transition until the P90 of the parent.
Here is the end of this post on what I call without hesitation as the case of 2006 epiphone. a good scratch for less than 400 euros all included with the sound of Mountain, New York Dolls (you get the exact JET BOY SUBWAY TRAIN or plugged into a marshall lamps), and thunders Heartbreakers, 999, initiated a guitar , roots sound, without compromise. Forget multi effects, distos too fat, too heavy, the endless racks of pedals .... Just you, the Les Paul Junior 57, the heat lamps .... crunch some idea of ​​rock'n'roll.

Originally Coren (like many epiphone at the time), mine is 98. It is a simple guitar trs, a Bolt 22 frets, a bridge-tailpiece, an epiphone P90, volume and tone, guitar plug and play somehow!

UTILIZATION

This is a copy of the gibson junior who was destined to Apprentice plutt guitarists so it is easy to play, the handle is comfortable, the frets do not exceed a trs good race in the spirit gibson . Access in more acute is very good (I have a doublecut, the handle joins the body has its dernire fret!) And the guitar is equilibre.Pour sound, well it did that a microphone so it's not hard to get a sound, there have only p! His big flaw is the holding of the agreement, a move all the time! For DIYers, the mechanical oil bath at 10 Euros and the fact!

SOUNDS

This guitar is for me more of a blues guitar or vintage rocker because the sound is in this vein! The sound is balanced to make it a condition of adjustable pads because of origin, the cata (the fault has a low-end micro probably), otherwise, well, a particular sound, not as accurate a simple, not as powerful as a double, a micro rough but one can have a lot of personality, and then why not put a Seymour Duncan P90 or otherwise, for the price of the guitar!

Edited on 03/08/07: I have a word Seymour Duncan P90 and WoW, what scratches my Ailleux has Depotter serious!

OVERALL OPINION

I recupr this guitar in a garage sale for 30 Euros, APRS Mount of him having suitable mechanical and is full adjustment, this guitar satisfies me plain. I love playing the riff to AC / DC or the good old blues, it is for a! Despite the cheap cot of this guitar, even as it managed to secure a concert, no complaints so for a guitar that is worth three and have no faith in the personality like no other in this price bracket Only problem, it is no longer in the catalog epiphone!

Then she is made in China if I trust the label "made in china" at the bottom of the handle ..... 22 frets, 1 humbucker, 2 volume knobs and one which I did not understand the utility finally .... but hey if it is not a big thing, with a wooden handle ^ ^ yes I precise 1 parcque first I thought it was a shovel handle in plastoc ...

UTILIZATION

So the stick not too bad if we back into the context that it is a beginner scratching but at the same time a limited edition scratch I think, so it's finally good bizar ... , Lergonomie is average, scratch my first wh-st whale was much better.
the handle of the "Epiphone" is too round, it's been way too played the frets too prominent in it even if the handle is average, it easily gets a good sound? bha is no different in this 1000's scratch .....
it weighs a lil weight anyway, and the knob oula ..... quil we say we were taking a toy chnois and stuck to the glue "made in Auchan" ....
and the strings are a 2 cm from the body of the guitar in nivo the bridge, the photo example of the Epiphone c loriginale the plug, and not that the c!! it is different!

SOUNDS

So music style, bha it does not respect the spirit of the whole p90, sad ... the sound is fat and confusing, ugly basically, you can only get very little of her except that one ... the sound is the most basic ...

OVERALL OPINION

I've had three days, I like nothing in the skyscraper, or appearance of which is totally diferrente loriginale, the handle is rude it would a tree trunk, the sound no charm .... , Jai a Fender Stratocaster 50's with a bridge and soon sh4 in p90 in a sleeve, so to compare c cte scratch ..... The average value for my whale st wh much better if Jave no known earlier Jore really do what choice in.