Epiphone Les Paul Custom Ebony 2020 - Demo/Review
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Hey guys! Here's my thoughts on the 2020 Epiphone Les Paul Custom.
Enjoy
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This is a great review……!
Nice and slow pace…. No loud talking and to the point….. Covers everything and explains in an easy to understand way …..👍
Dirty and clean tones ……. Perfect in my opinion…….!
Many years ago I learned to play on a Les Paul Custom copy ( Hondo 2) and this Epiphone appeals to me very much.
The custom is by far my favorite LP model. Unfortunately for me, ever since Gibson moved production of these from the standard production line to the custom shop, they are no longer attainable. I'm seriously considering the Epiphone koa wood LP custom.
It is a beautiful guitar muitas my friend!🤘
The LP custom has been built in the custom shop for nearly 20 years. I don't believe the price/quality changed all that much, as pre custom shop LPs sell used for the same kind of money. It feels like just yesterday where you could buy a used LP custom all day long for $2k or less.
this is an Epiphone not Gibson
Made in China
Thank you for the in depth review Andres! I bought the Silver Burst Custom version. Epiphone's stepped up its quality control big time! I love all aspects of it. Great buy!
Just tried a BB today I'm waaaay happy !!! Who knew ???
There is a silverburst of this guitar??
@@robertpaten Yes Rob. I bought an Epiphone Les Paul Custom limited edition in Silver Burst, released in 2020.
if the guitar was laquered with nitro, then silver burst will turn green after several years because nitro will turn yellow and gray plus yellow is green. i have '85 Gibson Studio with this effect
Two months ago, I got an Epiphone LP Modern...one of the tone knobs was easy to pull off...solution: use a screwdriver and slightly widen the split shaft...end of problem.
Nice playing, nice review. Thanks Davor.
Excellent demo , as usual my friend. Thanks for going through the electronics and hardware explanations too . Epiphone's are very good value for the money . Please keep the videos coming.
Much appreciated.
Thank you!🙏😊 That’s very kind of you! Hopefully tomorrow new guitar demo/review!😁💪 Stay safe!
Hey Senya! I believe they are all like this one. I didn’t do anything 😁
I had it a couple of days before shooting the video
Bela guitarra! Belo teste. Força André.
Cheers! Yep,no one sends a new Custom back! Keepers. We added Gibson pups and soon a real Gibson Les Paul was gathering dust ...so we sold it,kept the Epiphone. That Chinese neck,perfection.
Hey man, thanks for the review! My wife just gave me the very same model for Christmas. I love it, it instantly became my go-to guitar. As for the scratches you pointed out, there aren’t any on my guitar, so maybe that was just bad luck? Still, I totally agree, this is a great guitar and can’t be beat for the price. Rock on! 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
Great review!
Concerning the volume and tone pots coming off too easily , I would suggest taking the knobs off and with a slot head screw driver, very, very gently, pry the split shaft of the volume and tone pots a very small amount wider. You don’t need to spread the split shaft very much to make your dials fit snuggly. This has worked for me whenever needed, just be careful and never try this with plastic shafts, the CTS pots on this guitar are metal. Just passing along what has worked for me. You can decide if you think it is something worth trying. Cheers!
Thanks for the tip Grant! I have put it some paper around shaft, it’s doing the job so far.😁
@@andrerodriguesguitars my frend should take paper off widen shaft split is better fix
Good quality PTFE tape (as used by plumbers) is a safer method of securing knobs, imo. You can also be very precise with it.
Great review and fantastic playing too. I have the Matt Heafy version of this guitar which is similar to these.
They’re not Gibsons but they get you in the neighborhood and for the price are a great value. Add a nice set-up and possibly a few upgrades if you want and these are hard to argue with.
You can buy 4-5 or more for the price of 1 Gibson CS model. Sure, if you can spring for the Gibson and don’t look back. However, for most that’s not reality. The new IBG Epiphones are the best that Epiphone has ever been under the Gibson umbrella.
Do I have Gibsons? Yes I do. Do I have and enjoy Epiphones? Yes I do.
Very well done here!
Excelente!!
Eu tenho uma Epiphone Standard de 2002, e realmente esse novo headstock está mais legal.
Essa aí parece ser uma excelente guitarra, André.
Bela aquisição! 👍🏼
O meu irmão também tem uma standard de 1998!😅 Boas guitarras mas pesaaada!! Esta é uma boa guitarra, só que agora pôs me a pensar em comprar a versão Gibson!😬🤑🤑
My main question was the tuning stability so thanks for pointing it out :)
Yeah, so far can’t really complain
Hey man,,I use this guitar too, but it produced 2010..great playbility, and I swap the pickup
It became the crazy guitar 😁🤘🤘
Hey! I did the same thing, swapped the bridge pickup for a Bareknuckle Nailbomb 😁🤘
Great playing! 🤘
Fala André, tenho uma Fender Strato e to querendo pegar uma Les Paul Custom… meu medo é a grossura do braço. Você curte o conforto? Entendo que é mais grosso que a Strato.
Timbrão! Mas, a mão do guitarrista falou alto aí! Toca muito!
Abraços
beautiful guitar , havnt seen it myself but i like the changes .
Great playing man
Hey! Thanks for watching!🤘
@@andrerodriguesguitars my pleasure
i got 2 ....... a 2017 Ebony , and a 2020 Alpine Custom, i changed the pickups to gibson 490r498t
, the probuckers are ok, but and i might get seymor duncan P-rails(2017 ebony) to take advantage of the coil taps. this guitar is so versatile, and plays like a dream Les Paul should.........
Great guitars indeed! I’m thinking of buying a white one too😬😂
Or putting Dimarzio's pickups and coil split toggle switches.
@@bruceanthony8345 i just put seymor duncan P-Rails to have coil split/parallel / coil taps ,phase what a big difference........ so much bite and sustain.
I have the same guitar with the koa top and it’s a banger, but I still want this black beauty as well. Just looks so sharp! Had a Firefly copy which was nice but I sold it. Not the same without the ebony fretboard
Epiphone doesn’t make the black beauty , the black beauty is an actual model and it’s the three pickup lesPaul custom
I got a 2020 used Ebony for only $400. 1,000% worth it!
Never played an Epiphone I liked, Might have try this one?
Swap the pkups out and that's a badass fiddle !! 💥👍
I would swap the pickups for a 490R/498T set, get rid of the "quick connect" wiring and put some orange drop capacitors in there. Change the tuners to "keystone" gold and be done with it!
@@killerdude35 I played one today was comfortable beyond dude.
I was wondering if the neck was going to be slim taper profile or modern C it was
60s slim taper so comfortable right off
I'm just happy can't decide between an Alpine white and a black beauty for 769 I think
Guitar Center or 729 I'm not sure - get them both pull the pickups add RS50s wiring kit
this ridiculous quality bang for your buck compared to all this price spiked Les Paul frenzy
going on now !! 👍
@@lfader just picked up a 2021 model in black for $400
@@Nightshade1881 Nice score - they feel look play substantial !! 👍
Thank you
Thanks for watching Dylan!🙏🤘
A beautiful guitar. Good review.
The things that made me not want to buy an Epiphone was the headstock. I'll consider this brand now, kinda sad I bought a LPCS Chibson because I hate she headstock/horn shapes of other brands.
Good review!
Thank you Elian!🙏😊
Hey man everything sounds massive! Do you remember which fm3 amp/ir/preset you used here at 8.40-9.30? String gauge? Thanks!
Hey Jimmy! Thank you!🙏😊 It was the Cameron CCV from the the Brown Pack that I have for sale. Can’t remember, but I think that this preset uses 2 IRs.
Excuse me Sir, what amp pedals or plugins are you using? Sounds rad!
Hi Victor! Just Fractal FM3😁🤘
looks sick to me
Great demo.. Sadly i’ve just purchased one from new and it sounds awful.. I’ve a Blackstar practice amp and a Marshall valved amp and on both it sounds awful.. It stays in tune ok but? What are you playing yours through here? any pedals? i just don’t know where to go with mine perhaps it’s going to have to be sent back..
I just got mine and it sounds amazing. I’m using a GX100 and running it through two Katana Artist (power amp input). Start with your eq’s at zero and adjust treble, mid, bass, then presence in that order. Do this with your eyes closed so you are not shocked by the eq numbers and you’re only going off sound!
It’s a better choice than the Gibson, because the Gibson has got weight relieve, bad pickups, nashville bridge, etc. This Epiphone with better electronics and pickups is a winner.
I don’t know if I ever bought a Gibson again, I find it really hard to pay that amount of money for that guitar. But, you know the GAS thing..😂😅
Custom is not weight reliefed. Its One piece body and neck. Nothing wrong on the Nashville Bridge. Pickups are doe superior on the gibson doe, still doe a gibson custom is a +3k model
Great Video!:) I'm planning to buy a guitar but i'm hesitating between this model Vs epiphone les paul modern x) is there any difference in the playability... or something that makes the one better than the other? they look similar and i'm having trouble deciding which one should I get (btw I play Neo Soul/Jazz/R&B)
Hey! Thank you! I never tried the modern but I was between the two too, they should sound pretty similar, I believe the only difference besides the bells ans whistles in the modern is the neck profile. Still, they are both to the thinner side
This one has slightly more nicer licks while the modern has some new specs.
For the styles you say you’re into, try finding an older Korean made 3 pickup “black beauty.” They are the most versatile and best quality versions of this guitar.
Eaí, André! Tranquilo? Não conhecia teu canal. Me inscrevi aqui! Parabéns pelo trabalho! Onde tu comprastes essa guitarra? Quero comprar uma desse modelo, mas branca.
Olá Paulo! Obrigado!!🙏😊 Olha, comprei na Thomann na Alemanha, paguei 600€. Também tinha a branca, muito bonita também!😁🤘
@@andrerodriguesguitars obrigado, André! Tá morando nas Europa? Tá cada vez mais surreal comprar instrumentos aqui no Brasil, 😔. Parabéns novamente pelo trabalho! Abração!
Sou português amigo!😁😂 Aqui também não está fácil como costumava ser, com o covid mesmo lojas como a Thomann estão com muito material em falta🤷🏻♂️
hey I know this video is older but what are the 2 chords that you play at 8:22?
Superb demo,can you tell me the exact weight of it?
Thank you!🙏😊 Yes I can! 2.4Kg/~5Pounds. My Les Paul weights the double or more😅
@@andrerodriguesguitars thanks a lot man😄
Oh, I’m sorry, I thought this was the Strandberg video😬😅 This guitar weights 7 to 8 Pounds.
@@andrerodriguesguitars no prob🙂
@BidenSniffzKids Clitton honestly I don’t know, I’m used to kg, I would say 5Kg, not sure in pounds
Hi. Did you change those pickupringscrews? Those black one's
Hey! Nope, all stock😊
Found out that they start using black screws when they updatet it with the larger split diamond 👍👍t
The 2021 Epiphone Custom Koa Les Paul is said to be the best Les Paul of 2021 American Master Builder Scott Lewis over at the Qingdao Epiphone facility definitely beat Gibson on this one
Hey! Didn’t know about that! I have the Slash Goldtop one here in the studio and I am liking it so far, never tried the Koa, definitely need to check it out!
Thanks for watching!!
Cheers 🍻
i just have been to a store to try this guitar… exact same issue with the knobs. I know it is an easy fix, but I just CANNOT accept paying nearly 700 EUR in a guitar that comes with such an absolute ridiculous flaw. Not happening… Also, I have played the much older Epiphone custom model, and realising that this new re-issue doesn’t have coil splits was a major set back to me. Just like that, you loose half the tone possibilities. This guitar is nowhere near its price range.
Yep, that’s pretty much it.. check the Revstar RS620 video that I made. Unless you don’t like the visual that’s what you want in that price range.
Cheers
@@andrerodriguesguitars indeed i absolutely do not like the visual… no way I would even hold that Yamaha.
Ahh yes. The CTS pots everyone is talking about. Problem is, if you get the left handed version, they don't use lefty pots. Normally I can deal with that, they just turn the other way. But in this case they wired them backwards. Which basically makes the pot useless. All of the volume or tone adjustment is in the last 20%. Terrible experience. Looks like I'll have to rewire it. Too bad for the price. They could've used left handed pots. Everything else is perfect.
Essa ou uma Epi 1959?
Não faço ideia 🤷🏻♂️ Ainda não experimentei a 59😅
I wish they would have put a 59 neck on it. ☹️
Yo WTF ? They’re supposed to be made in Japan right ?😨
No, they're made in China.
if they were made in japan theyd be like 2 grand and better than gibson lol. Dissapointing that theyre made in china... i would have hoped for korea and settled for indonesia. ill have to see one for myself
@@bc454irocz89 then why in this video he says it’s made in Japan? 😳
These Epiphone guitars just don’t have the tone. Save your money and buy a Gibson.
Definitely not on the same level of Gibson, I already had Gibsons, not sure if I will buy another again, just because, in my humble opinion, they are totally overpriced… and i prefer Yamaha Revstar and SG. There’s a lot to choose from these days, nothing against Gibsons, i used to be a big fan back in the day