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Epiphone Les Paul Junior (P-90)

LP-Shaped Guitar from Epiphone belonging to the Les Paul series

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Published on 02/02/07 at 16:21
Value For Money : Excellent
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&#39;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&#39;s no microphone has to look hard!)
ergonomics is pretty good, it&#39;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&#39;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&#39;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&#39;s a sound !!!!!
Well, 10 days of intensive use (I&#39;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 &#39;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&#39;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&#39;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&#39;s or 77&#39;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&#39;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&#39;n&#39;roll.