All user reviews for the Epiphone Les Paul Studio

Made in China (very good quality, very good maintenance agreement)
Tune-O-Matic with Stop Tail piece Free (original and never had any problems)
round form "C"
micro Epiphone original replaced with Seymour Duncan Blackout for a big sound very metal!
2 volume, 2 tone, 3 position selector 1 (Les Paul what!)

UTILIZATION

the handle is thick enough, but not unplayable, perfect for playing with the thumb over the button, but it does not hurt when the thumb down behind the key.
Ergonomics is the Les Paul type, so quite heavy (I use a comfortable wide strap!) but very balanced, the head "dips" when the guitar is not loose.
Access to acute is not the best, it's still a Les Paul! you can easily arrive to the 19th fret, further should not be too low.
and a blues sound, microphones origins are perfect, I play metal and I immediately replace micro for Seymour Duncan Blackout, and then no worries ^ ^.

SOUNDS

then as mentioned above, for its hot and bold blues, original is nikel! I have chosen more for its comfort and price, so I changed the pickups for the asset.
I play on a Crate V33 amp with pedal Rocktron Metal Planet, and I get a precise and chased her, very powerful.

OVERALL OPINION

I used it for a year and a half before I buy a VGS (bridge eEverTune).
It is a thunderbolt, I saw, I left with!
What I like about her? Les Paul shape and playing comfort
What I like least? microphones!
Value / price exellent! it is a nice guitar playing reliable, and that's not afraid to scratch!
and I would do without hesitation that choice! Les Paul for a tight budget.

Classic Rock. Played for years at home. Few gigs. Some solo

Pawn Shop. $180. The pickup selector switch had a bad connection & I replaced the switch. I had the frets dressed and I re-set the intonation myself after the setup man was finished with it. He hadn't got it right.

This is a bolted-neck model. The pickups are the best part about the guitar. The humbuckers put out far more than single coils. With a little tube screamer for warmth it sounds wonderful.

This unit has some intonation issues, it is on the verge of needing a compensated nut. Being a short scale, tuning will always be an issue. The open chords are always just a tiny bit off in the G and B string. As I say I think a compensated nut would help. The fretboard is just too flat. It almost feels concave. While good for chording, the flatness makes it difficult to play leads without catching the other strings, despite the wider fretboard. Above the 12th fret the lack of precision in the fretting makes the intonation get very sour, especially above fret #17 . You simply cannot do the very high leads with this unit. Stay in the neighborhood of fret #12 and you will be alright.

It's solid. The finish is very nice, black, the hardware is fine, the bridge and the anchor are first class. The tuners are a little loose. The volume knobs are out of the way. The chord receptacle being under the bottom is hard to reach, you have to tip the unit up to get at it. nothing fancy, no edge bead, no big inlays.

Not a bad unit for a beginner who wants a Les Paul appearance and not a cheap knockoff. It's not going to allow you to develop a very quick lead style because of the fingerboard limitations. Chording suffers somewhat from intonation issues due to the short scale and lack of precision fretting. If you tune to the bar chords and play power chords it will crank some very fine sounds.

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Hey, I'm Fabian Spoelman.
I'm 21 years old, born and risen in Haulerwijk, Netherlands. I play guitar for about 6 years now, and I'm in a band called Thanks4Nothing (www.thanks4nothing.nl).
We play a whole variety of covers from artists such as ACDC/Guns & Roses/Nickelback/Status Quo etc.

I bought this Les Paul at a local guitar shop for about €400,-. I traded in my Ibanez Ergodyne series, as I'm sick of getting my guitar detuned due to the Floyd Rose system. Above that, I like a Les Paul sound way more then a Ibanez sound, since I play classic rock mainly.

I really like everything about this guitar. Body, neck, tuners, bridge. A lot of people think the tuners look awful on this guitar. Well, I don't. I think the creamy greens look kinda vintage on this Les Paul, and they really stay in tune for a long. long time! The pickups are great, not noisy, and the bridge pickup just sounds superb!

I am pleased to say that I cannot find one thing about this guitar that I don't like. Its very solid, stays in tune SO well and sounds terrific

Like I said, it's very solid. It stays in tune great, its sounds amazing. Sometimes I dont believe its just me playing this thing :D I have it in combination with a Behringer Blues Overdrive stompbox and a Marshall VS65R Amp.

For those that are really into buying a Gibson, but can't get the money together, this guitar would be the perfect choice. If you replace the pickups by EMG's or Duncans, you probably have a guitar better then the Gibson itself. I suggest this ones a must for every guitarist1

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I bought this Guitar for myself as a present for not smoking for one year. I picked it up at the Guitar Center in Cherry Hill New Jersey. I paid almost $1,300.

First, It's a Gibson. Second, This Guitar is an awesome instrument. The weight of this Guitar was lighter than I thought it was going to be. The finish is Wine Red with Gold Hardware, WOW! What a combo for colors...

The finish almost looks as though it has depth to it. The color is transparent enough that just the right amount of grain shows through. The electronics speak for themselves when plugged in.

The Action is typical of Gibson (Outstanding). The tone and sustain from this Guitar are about as good as it can get. The factory strings are good enough to keep.

Haven't found anything wrong to make a comment here.

The contsruction of this Guitar is solid. It has a Mahogany Body with Maple Top. Wine Red color with Gold Hardware. Humbucker Pickups Gold Speed Knobs, Gold Tun-O-Matic Bridge and Tail piece.

As for quality of this Guitar I'd give it on a scale of 1 to 10 a 10.

Nice investment, Not only for the money but the future of playing. This Guitar is built to last a life time. Very wise choice.

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I aquired this guitar mail order from Peter Cooks Guitar World (London). I first spotted it on their web site. Price paid £679 (GBP) including black Gison HSC.

This guitar is in a limited run Saphire Blue. It is a lovely colour. It is built like a tank as you would expect from Gibson. The finish/setup was near perfect out of the box. I only had to make a slight intonation and pickup level adjustment. The pickups are the 490R/498T. These used to be on the Les Paul Standard until they were replaced by Burstbuckers. The sound is superb. The bridge pickup has the fat powerfull tone ideal for 70's rock riffs through a valve amp. The neck pickup can be backed off to get the rich
Claptonesque 'woman' tone. The guitar has also been blasted through my Boss GT6 and a friends POD liveXT and it can handle acoustic simulation to the fatest Zakk Wylde tones although i believe it is at it's best direct into a valve amp. This guitar has chrome plated hardware and has no top, or binding. I also own a Les Classic which has a nice top, binding and nickel hardware with the higher output 496R/500T pickups but I feel the Studio is as good if not better. The pickups on the Classic can be a bit 'hot'. The neck is slightly fatter than the slim taper neck on the Classic but still very playable even with my small hands

Not a lot I don't like. The hardware is cheaper than on a Classic or Standard but this is reflected in the price. If you want the features double your money.

I have no complaints about the construction or quality. It is heavy and robust. It will outlive me.

A fine rock/blues instrument with good tone and playability. Half the price of a Standard too.

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I bought this guitar (Wine red with gold hardware) for £730 from JG Windows in Newcastle (including case and whole bunch of polish, cables etc.)

First of all looks: I didn't really think I would ever buy a Les Paul as I didnt like the look of them and I was going to try out an SG. When I tried the two out together I found the les paul was more comfortable to play, sounded amazing and was perfect for my style of playing. It's got a really nice finish (Gibson use nitrocellu- something on les pauls) which is great but needs alot of care to maintain. It sounds amazing and changing the tone on the guitar loses absolutely no volume (unlike alot of other gutars I have played in the past).
I play it through a Marshall MG100dfx and the two go really well together.

The guitar does need to be polished after extended periods of playing (but it's worth it) and the gold ontop of the bridge is faded slightly where I halve been palm-muting notes, but apart from that, it's awsome.

This thing will is solid, and it weighs a tonne! The manual says it'll outlast the buyer and I f***ing believe it! I'll probably be palying this guitar for the rest of my life.

This guitar is the best thing I have ever heard or played! I've played Ibanez, Fender, Jackson, ESP's and a whole bunch of other gibsons but this thing is the best! Even if you don't like the look of them, try them out because they are great!

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I got this guitar off ebay for $410 Canadian. I had eben playing acoustic for about 2-3 years off and on, and i finally saved up some money for an electric. I had originally wanted a standard epiphone les paul but i couldnt afford it, so after reading the reviews on both the studio and lp-100, i decided to go with the studio since i preferred the look of the trapeziod inlays and alnico pick-ups (which they recently stopped stocking the studios with), and the reviews seemed to think that the studio had a sound closer to the standard than the lp-100

i love this guitar! i have had it for about 2 months, and ive already had so many compliments on it. The guys at the local music store like the rare colour of my studio (its like a tobacco sunburst). I play punk rock, emo, and alternative rock and this baby screams. I run it through a crate gt15 practice amp and my friend's marshall mg15, and its rad. the rhythm pickup is a little too muddy, but i normally use the treble (which sounds good but i plan on upgrading) so its all good. and this baby stays in tune. my guitar teacher was amazed becaue my guitar was the only one out of his student's that manages to stay in tune for weeks, even with the everchanging weather (i did upgrade the tuning machines to grovers though)

like i said before, the rhythm pickup is a little bit too muddy, but still screams. and the pick guard does stand high off the body of my guitar between the pickups (i know its supposed to be elevated at the one end, but the other end is still a little bit high off the body) but that miught just be because it might have got warped in the mail... it can be replaced anyway

the quality is amazing, i did put one dent in the back of the guitar already though, which cracked the finish, but thats because i wacked it hard on the arm of my computer chair. otherwise this baby is built to last. it never cuts out on me or anything, even when switching the pickups. and, like i said, it stays in tune very well. i havent broken a string yet either, and the strings i am using have been on there for more than a month! very good quality.

amazing guitar! i'd probably recommend this over the lp-100 (i havent played much of the lp-100 but the guys at the music store, who i didnt even buy my guitar from, said that the lp-100 specials are poor quality and the studio is much better). i'd still like a standard, though, because of the binding and maple top, but this baby works just as well probably... since they both have the same stock-pick ups (or they used to, now they have downgraded the studio pickups from alnicos to standard humbuckers it looks like).

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I purchased my used Les Paul Studio at Guitar Center in 2000 for $899. The original reason I purchased it was that it had been autographed by Jimmy Page. And yes, I conducted an exhaustive research on the autograph's authenticity.

Like other reviews that I have read concerning the Les Paul Studio model, it is every bit tonally as good as any high-end Les Paul that I have ever played. It sounds amazing whether playing Metallica or mellowing out to some Allman brothers. I highly recommend the ebony neck for the added feel that it provides when digging into the fretboard...When I play my LP Studio through a Marshall TSL100 head with a 4/12 cabinet, it transforms itself into the Zeppelin tone that so many people are looking for!

Others have complained about the aging that the white finish has on this model, but I like the character that it give the guitar.

Its a tough and brutish guitar that can handle the rigors of being knocked over time and again only to get back up and start fighting some more.

If you are on a budget, but want the tone, go and find a used LP Studio with the ebony fretboard! Its got the tone you are seeking, and it is of much better quality than Gibson's new entry level models that they are releasing in 2004.

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I purchased my Gibson Les Paul Studio at Christmas 2003, from a shop in Glasgow, Scotland. After playing many guitars around this price range, including the Fender American Series Strat I decided this was the best guitar for my money. I had everything i wanted. I paid £699 for it which is about $1272 a very good buy (I think)!

I simply love the Gibson, others had told me it was rubbish but it is a brilliant instrument. The action is fantastic, it is so easy to play. High notes, bends even more simple chords are easy to pull-off. Apart from the brilliant playability the Studio has an immense sound, of course, not the quality of a classic or standard but it does not disapoint. I would, like Gibson, reccomend using their strings the tone is improved as well as the playability.
Not only is this guitar great to play....it looks fantastic! Mine is in the Wine Re finish and looks great !
DO NOT think you are buying a guitar that isnt gibson quality..this guitar is fantastic!

There is very little I can say against this guitar. But probably just the adjustment I had to make due to the finish as it needs more care than my old guitar. It does need polished due to the nitro-cellulose finish but I only do this if i have had a long session in the cold garage or if i have been sweating a large amount !

The constrution is faultless like most Gibson guitars it is hand made, so naturally there are little bits that are different but this just adds to the feeling that this guitar is an object of desire - not just a guitar ! It is of top quality, made in the USA so is not cheaply mass produced in Mexico or Japan. The guitar is of true Gibson standard (not the guitar)

Simply: The Best Guitar For The Money !

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ok, this is my first electric.(i had a cheap acoustic) reading many many reviews and playing guitars, i got this epi les paul studio. i heard from other people taht this guitar was awesome. i ordered the ebony($350) with a 25 r frontman($130) from musicans friend(free shipping).

when i opened the box, i was amazed. this kind of guitar for 350! the quality was great! everyone says to beware of green tuners when you get the ebony lp. but i got GROVER TUNERS!! but instead i got pearl dot inlays which is fine with me. i hooked it 2 the amp and started jamming it sounded great! the distortion sounds sooo good. when you play clean, if you set the tone correctly, it sounds so much like an acoustic. i played 3 housr everydfay for 3 weeks and nothing brokeded. this is a solid guitar. I LOVE THIS GUITAR!!! good jop epiphone!GET THIS GUITAR! WHAT ARE U WATHIN FOR?!!

i don't see anything bad for this lp

great pick ups, great body, GREAT tuners, the tune o matic bridge is so cool. if you get ebony, i recommend u get white pickgard. it looks cool on it. also as you no the pckups don't have cases and that's y the lp is so cheap for epie's. overall this guitar is solid and nothing getting loose or anything. finish is great.

the bottom line? BUY THIS GUITATR! i no it's a little expensive. me i had 200 and was gonna buy an ibanez but i looked a this babe and i saved up to get this. this guitar is for beginners, intermediets, and so on. you are gonna love it .WELL WAT R U WATIN FOR?! GO BUY THIS GUITAR!!!!

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I bought this guitar at a german internetstore called musik-produktiv.de for about 350€.

I like this guitar a lot. It's playability is just great. The action is set just right(they do that in the store for free before shipping...) and it looks beautifull. I got the wine-red model. The tone is very good to my ears. Nice bass, clean highs and a good sustain.

Nothing Actually. Not even the tuners. The guitar i have stays in tune for quite some time...

It is very well build, can't complain there. It is just a little bit heavy.

If you're a beginner or a moderate player buy this one. for the price you can't go wrong. I just love mine!

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I bought it from Musiciansfriend.com for about 350.

I like pretty much everything, it sounds good, and looks good. Very good guitar (especially for the money). If you're thinking about getting it, do it.

The only really bad thing is the tuners. But they aren't that bad...just could be better. I've seen lots of reviews about the cable plug being loose and stuff, but it's not loose at all on mine...maybe I just got lucky.

Very well made, no complaints here. Except the tuners. But if needed, they're easily replaced.

Very good guitar, good price, good everything.

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