Epiphone Signature Battle! Adam Jones VS Jerry Cantrell, which Les Paul is best?
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- In this video we see the Adam Jones Art collection and the Jerry Cantrell signature Les Paul customs go head to head in battle... Who will be the victor?
#epiphone #adamjones #jerrycantrell #lespaul
00:00 Intro
00:27 The premise
00:38 7 Categories!
00:59 Round 1 - Unique features
02:20 Round 2 - Hardware
03:20 Round 3 - Electronics
04:06 Round 4 - Accessories
04:31 Round 5 - Build quality
05:41 Round 6 - Cost
06:27 Round 7 - Value for money
07:19 THE WINNER!
07:26 Wrap up
07:49 Outro
Who has the best signature les paul custom guys?
Who the he'll are these people on the thumbnail?
Adam Jones on the left and Jerry Cantrell on the right, the guitars are their signature models.
Damn, if you don't know you probably shouldn't be here
@@shanerobinson3455 this is my daughter, she’s 11, be nice. 🙂
Oh,I apologize then brother
You forgot looks. A definite win for the Cantrell
I dunnooooo art on the back of the guitar aside, I’d lean towards the AJ on looks.
I'm lucky enough to own both of these guitars. They're both fantastic instruments. Best Les Pauls that Epiphone have produced
I really do enjoy mine, I should play them more really 😂
I would personally gravitate towards the JC based on the Wine Red color alone.
The first time I saw a Wine Red Les Paul Custom when I was still a kid back in the late 90's/early 2000s, I thought that was the most beautiful color I've ever seen on a guitar.
But the AJ deserves the win.
Yeah they are both great guitars to be fair, video was always just a bit of fun 😁
Nice video. I just received my Cantrell recently. The dark wine red is beautiful in person. I had the stock bridge replaced with a Duncan distortion. Also, I removed the pick guard and toggle switch poker chip which gives it a better look in my opinion. Overall, great guitar for the price!
I go between pick guard on and pick guard off, it was off for ages when I first got it but fancied a change. Great guitars!
Nice one mate. I have 5 les Paul’s. 3 Gibson and 2 Epiphone but love the Jerry Cantrell. Only my Gibson custom shop R8 is nicer but for the money I would hope so.
The Cantrell pickups are also unique for Epiphone and love it but seeing you changed it I might consider it as well to lower output pickups.
For higher gain stuff the 98t pickup is stonkin though!
Enjoyed this episode 👍
Thanks for the kind words, I had a Gibson up till about 10 years ago, it was an ebony custom from 2001, I bought it new at the time, it was when they were still making non custom shop customs, great guitar, wish I still had it but the two epiphones scratch that itch at least a little bit 😂.
@@JasonWharton82 I never played with really hot pickups. I have a Fender player plus SSS Strat and I love it. But I just joined a three piece pop-punk jam band and we play mostly 90's high distortion and I've always wanted a Les Paul with humbuckers. I've only been playing for six months so I'm not sure how much those Adam Jones pickups would limit my tone... thinking of just getting the epiphone Silverburst or white custom and buy the cases and grover tuners if it's cheaper. I'll have to go to Guitar Center and play one, but that Silverburst AJ is a beautiful unique guitar. I'd be happy with just a regular custom if I got more range in my tone. Any thoughts on tone with those hot AJ pickups?
@@greg6162 Seymour Duncan JB or Invaders are common choices for pop punk, Tom Delong used an invader in his signature strat, if you wanna go Gibson for pickups the Dirty Fingers was what Tom had in his Gibson sigs. Note that they are all pretty hot high output pickups though. The white/ebony/non AJ silverburst customs all come with grovers so one less thing to upgrade!
TOol for me is the most important band of my lifetime and their influence on me cannot be overstated. So in that regard the Adam Jones is almost priceless for me in terms of inspiring me to pick up my guitar for hours a day!!
I think that’s the most important thing, does it put a smile on your face and make you wanna play? If it does, who cares what anyone else thinks!
Tool is yaaaaaaaaawn. At least AiC had heart and soul.
I have the JC Wino Epiphone. Didn’t expect to buy one but it was at a local shop, I jammed on it, and because it felt good and stayed in tune I went for it. It is miles ahead of what Epiphone used to put out for LPs, and even the stock pickups are decent and sound much like Jerry’s real model. Overall, good bang for the buck. I’m going to try the Epiphone Adam Jones 79, and compare it to my own 1980 Silverburst. They should feel similar except weight, and I love Epiphone going with the open book headstock and LP Custom level staining all over. Pricey, but that’s today’s market.
The JC is awesome, was one of the best epiphones I’ve ever had!
I need to know how thin the AJ neck is. Is it a slim C? I have one in my cart but don’t want to pull the trigger until I know
I’m afraid I moved both of these guitars on back in November but the AJ is definitely not a chunky neck I can say that at least.
Can you make a video comparing the sound of each guitar? I'm a massive fan of both guitarists and am interested to see how each guitar differentiates in sound. :)
Unfortunately I don’t have either of them anymore, I decided to downsize my collection and upgrade to a really high end guitar but I did make videos on both of these guitars individually if you want to hear what they sound like some more.
I love that wine red finish, gotta be the Cantrel 👍
But silverburst….
Enjoyed your video here, very entertaining to watch! I have the Jerry Cantrell and am very happy with it. I really like the Adam Jones but I'm not a "collector" and nice as it is, imo, it's just way too much $$$ for a Made in China Epiphone. That's a personal choice though. Nice to see Epiphone doing these interesting special releases! 🙂
Thank you for the kind words, yeah I totally get it with the cost, unfortunately I think we are gonna see a lot more of these kind of prices from all the brands.
Adam Jones guitar!
One of them yes.
I have the Adam Jones and mine doesn’t have any finish flaws at all, no sharp fret ends or anything else to speak of. As far as the tuners, it should be mentioned that the tuners it comes with are basically the same as what would come on the same 70’s era Gibson Customs…so it is accurate in that regard. I also have a regular Epi Custom and the Adam Jones stays in tune much better despite it not having the Grover’s…which I attribute to superior nutwork out of the box. The AJ is stacked with features that the Wino can’t match including a much nicer case, volute, accurate neck carve, accurate bridge pickup etc. For what you get I think the AJ is actually the better buy, not to mention the limited nature of it and artwork etc. The Cantrell is really a sig. model in name and looks only unlike the AJ which is actually more accurate than the Gibson AJ model to AJ’s actual guitar.
Yep, video is just a bit of fun really comparing the two examples I have.
I have no idea who these guys are and couldn't care less about what guitars they play. I happen to like the "Wino" because of the color and the fact that it has an ebony fingerboard. I would swap out the pickups and add a Bigsby.
I was mostly the same except I knew who they were.
When it come’s to personal preferences, I do prefer the cantrell model. I love Jerry as an artist, I love the color on the wino, I love the build quality. And some art on the back shouldn’t be an almost $3-400 price jump.
There is a little more to it than the art work, some specific spec differences that would have required some re-tooling I imagine but still, it’s definitely a pricey guitar that’s hard to justify. I love it though 😂. Jerry is a clear winner though, really can’t say enough good things about that guitar.
@@JasonWharton82 that’s what I’m sayinn! Lol
Silver burst is my least favorite finish. But I much prefer the specs of the 1979 Jones Epiphone non-art model over both of these guitars. The only thing I would change on the '79 would be installing locking tuners, preferably Schaller locking tuners or Grover locking tuners.
… and the price. 😂. I do really want one though, I too much prefer the ‘79.
I only have one Les Paul right now, so the '79 will be a welcome addition to my inventory! I'm more of an SG guy which is probably why my back and shoulder is still in good shape !!!🎸@@JasonWharton82
I got Jerry Cantrel wino. It's supringsly 2 piece body and one piece neck. With factory pickups sounds great in bridge but sucks on neck position.
Mine is definitely not a one piece neck, I can see the join at the headstock pretty clearly but perhaps I’m missing what you mean. I always find epiphone neck pickups a bit muddy.
I think the cheaper you go with any guitar, you can always upgrade the pickups & tuners, even the electrical for the DIY Epiphone => Seymour Duncan sound & 3rd party perception of better upgrades. I think that Epiphone has sweat the details of their pickups. There is a reason SD doesn't make guitars, easier to make pickups only & be a supplier for every guitar brand. I have $ 100 guitars that to a certain volume level are every bit as good as anything else I've ever heard. I don't know which is used more in a studio recording environment, but both brand & 3rd party brand pickups seem to be able to pull that off. Set up is critical that any of them are or aren't adjusted properly to finest output signal. And all that can go out the window in the pedal board chain & even the pre-amp of the amplifier itself. No one handling of the signal path is greater or less than the other. And of course it's the musician that plays the music. Simple rule for me, if I can't make good music with a $ 100 guitar, one that cost 10-50 times is going to be the same level of awful noise I'm making with the $ 100 guitar. And unless someone is giving me the 10-50 times costlier instrument as a reward for being that entertainingly good on stage, I simply haven't earned it, regardless of what my payscale is for what I am able to earn a living at doing, that most likely is unrelated to making good music.
Don’t take the vid too seriously, it’s just a bit of a side by side on these two models! I’m all for good quality cheap guitars though, I just picked up a Squier classic vibe jazzmaster, pickups sound decent to me!
I own both and the Adam Jones is far and away the one I play more (and it never goes out of tune). My Cantrell was not well made and goes out of tune constantly, even after fixing the nut, etc. I love Jerry but not a big fan of his guitar, sadly. My particular Adam Jones (Veil of Bees) is immaculately crafted. I own the Gibson version and it is damn near as nicely made. The Jones will probably appreciate much more over the years.
Yeah it’s a shame there’s such inconsistencies across production, when epiphone nail it they really do nail it.
Can you tell me about the shape and thickness of the AJ?
Or you can just get the basic Epi Les Paul custom and mod it yourself. Got the Alpine White $649 about the door and modded everything from the wires, capacitors, pickups and lock tuners. …spent a little less than someone’s stock custom
It wouldn’t be aged teardrop silverburst or wine red though!
@@JasonWharton82 oh ok. I just wanted to try a Les Paul style guitar and basically just a guitar for standard E-flat tuning. I put gold/gold post super distortion in the bridge and a white with gold posts Steve Morse in the neck. StewMac premium wire kit, push pull CTS pots, gold Grover keystone machine heads. Gold knobs … Probably sounds better than both Adam Jones and Jerry Cantrell Epi, but who cares. 🤷♂️
..,I personally like to do my own mods, I don’t buy prefab stuff. Definitely one of a kind and more unique that way. Looks pretty badass and sounds better than it looks. ..and there’s only one out there
Ive got both. I love both. But i truly feel the cantrell is the winner. The adam jones is a bit of a guilty pleasure in tht its an unusual piece of collectable art - i dint see myself truly unleashing on it, whereas the jerry is a sweat it out meat and potatoes workhorse that gives results that you wont be affraid to put to really good use.
Also, i am not a snobby guitar collector, but i do feel part of why i got the adam was because of the artwork. However like my george harrison hand painted rocky fender guitar, i am too affraid to play it for fear of damaging it. They look fantastic and therefore ARE art pieces. In saying that, the adam is safer to play and easier to protect the artwork, but the harrison rocky stratocaster WILL scrape paint away if your pick hits it.
Yeah I get the feeling I would be reluctant to gig the Adam Jones but not so much with the JC.
The Jerry is weight relieved.
Dude did you even read the spec sheets for these guitars? You 'upgraded the pickups'. To what? Why? The brand? Weird. The 498T is a clone of a gibson pickup. It's a perfectly cromulent pickup
Clearly not, I also used a blindfold when picking it out in the shop.
No Matt Heafy Origins Les Paul Custom?
I don’t own one to compare no, but too outside of my tastes to be honest.
@@JasonWharton82 No worries Jason, just wondering if you've tried one. I own the Epiphone black Heafy & gold Slash Victoria-fantastic Epiphone models! My prize is my '13 Gibson Gary Moore Les Paul Standard. Keep informing us, rock on Jason 😎👍!!!
If they are anything like the AJ/JC models then they will be solid guitars for sure!
Cantrell
Is that the one you prefer or you just like the way the name feels under the fingers when typing?
The clapping and bells is horrible, aside from that it would have been a great video
The clapping and bells in this comment are horrible. Aside from that it would have been a great comment.
No sound comparison just speak?
Just a bit of fun, spoiler, they both sound like Les Paul’s with relatively hot pickups.
@@JasonWharton82 ok thnx that is not helping me 🤷
I have videos on both guitars if you want to know my full thoughts with lots of playing. Really though, they sound very similar, for me it’s a choice between the features and overall look, go with the one you prefer the look of. The Adam Jones comes with a Seymour Duncan distortion in the bridge whereas the Jerry Cantrell comes with Epiphone pickups.
@@JasonWharton82 ok thnx 👍👍