I happened on the Epiphone Victoria goldtop at my LGS. Went in for a strat, but my son walked over with that goldtop and I just had to leave with it. It has turned out to be the best Les Paul I have ever played. It is much better than my Gibson Classic. The Classic sounds great, but I love that '57 neck on the Epiphone.
November burst is best!! Pickguard is a yes! That's part of the look of a les paul to me! I've been playing pauls since 1979!! Nice collection! Thanks for sharing!
For me it has to be the Gibson Anaconda I've wanted that guitar from the first time I ever seen that guitar.witj a very close second would be the Gibson November burst.
Nice comparison! I think the pickguard looks better with covered caps, in this case with uncovered pickups I would go with a fully nude look without the pickguard. November burst is a win!
Ha! we have a few Epi's 2018's and 2019's. Been playing a Pelham Blue Trad Pro 3 Les Paul tuned to e flat. Heavy guitar. Beautiful. Through mostly 90's Peavey and Fender Frontmans. straight in with Monster Cable. L.A. Jam nighter. 300 plus jams! Rock, Blues. Cheers!
Great video particularly in terms of the colour and top differences. I saw some Epiphones hanging next to Gibsons at a store recently and the colours epi choose are just too saturated and look cartoony by comparison, their gold top interpretation is especially horrible and not a fan of laurel boards in terms of how dry they look. They sound very good and are a great choice if your budget doesn't stretch though. A bit of feedback if I may, I'd lose the music backing track, I found the repetition quite hard to listen to over course of the video, your voice was very engaging and didn't need support :)
100% agree - the difference becomes apparent when they are side by side and “cartoony” is a great way to describe the over-the-top execution of the tops on the Epis. And thanks a lot for the feedback - this is super important to me, duly noted! Thanks man and hope to hear from you again!
That's to be expected... there should be a massive difference in all aspects when comparing two guitars with a $2700 price gap between the two. Wood quality and density, construction, materials, hardware, electronics. Both are great as mentioned and both are for different budgets.
I like the vermillion and the anaconda but I would have to have a November Burst and an AFD before those. Thanks for the comparisons! I do want a Gibson November Burst above all though. No pickguards for me.
Had a Epi Appetite Burst, and it was great, but this more orange than amber color very fast was too much for me ;-) Now I bought the Gibson and it plays & sounds better, the Flame Top is unbelieveable and the workmanship defenitely is some leagues higher than the Epi. But for the money you pay for the Epi, you get a more than good guitar!!! If I´d buy an Slash Epi again, I would prefer one of the other finishes, because they look more valued, than the Appetite. And: no pickguard ;-)
Update: I was lucky to get an unused 2013 Slash Vermillion of the 1200 pcs limited run. Man, this guitar is a hard competitor for the Appetite Burst...
No question that the Gibson's are no doubt where it's at. I'm definitely a Slash fan and a Gibson fan. However, for anyone looking for a guitar where they're gonna get a lot of instrument for their money......well. IMHO.....theres not a 3,000.00 difference (just guessing ball park). Great review! BTW....it may be me but maybe if you lay the instrument down across the scale, you may see a more accurate reading on weight? Just curious on thoughts about that? Have a great day to all.
I thought that the anaconda was going to be the best until you got a close up of that appetite burst and it’s the one man it’s just about perfect. All of them are excellent tops and I like the narrow flame too the November burst covers too much of the top to me. November and tobacco burst looks better on plain tops to me especially quirky plain tops with rings and knots ect.
Thanks man! Far from it though 😂 shot on my iphone - there are plenty of shots of my hand getting in front of the lens - which I didnt notice until after I uploaded 🤦🏻♂️😱 so yeah - Im starting out and its pretty rough… thanks man, really appreciate the support!
I thought Joe Perry's was a Tobacco burst? It also had pickup covers on. I think the darker les pauls look great with the pickup guard including the slash november burst.
Nice review but that Gibson Appetite top is nice but the quality of flame is very low for figured wood. I would expect much better flame for a high end guitar.
I have 2 Gibson LPs, 2 Epi Lps (one Vermillion). I agree that in sound the Epis are in the ball park. For me I find my Epis more than pleasurable enough to play and perform with.
Great job, great guitars, sonically the epis just dont get it done. I love epiphones. All of mine are Gibson/Duncan loaded. , but that Gibson feel is hard to replicate...
Good comparison, but if someone's like me on a budget, I would get the Epiphone Slash because of the price point. Gibson are much better in sound, quality and a bit pricey, to some is overwhelming, overall good comparison on both guitars.
My favorite color out of the collection is the one that sounds and feels the best lol. But If I had a gun to my head? I would pick the Anaconda Burst. And it would be the Gibson. The green is just too cool and not as common as the others. Also, with the sound comparisons the Gibson Pups sound fuller, more rounded, and cleaner. I get that you can dial it in to get something similar, but I use my guitar tones and volume for sound most of the time. Pups as well as the wiring and pots are huge for me. Thanks for sharing.
At 16:18 where do you get "epiphone branded aluminum tail piece" from ? None of the Epiphone factory tail piece are aluminum. Gibson in the other hand used light weight advanced plating that could be aluminum.
The anaconda in my opinion has the best top, the vermilion the best fretboard, I think the vermilion have a thick red finish making the flames hard to see! The appetite have a lot of moviment, but in my opinion is lacking the waves! The November is really nice too, but I personally don't like the color!
If the epis had either the Gibson slash buckers,or the Duncan Slash pickups or Duncan regular APH2 set they would have sounded much closer and if the Duncan slash pickups were used in the epis they might even get closer to the slash sound as that is what slash uses
If Epiphone in the staining process put some browns and blacks and sanded them then added the amber the flame would of popped alot better. I feel they saved on time here where they could of made the colours pop here. I've seen people making their own diy kits doing this process and the results were great. They went a bit hard on the amber for the Epiphone AFD.
How are the necks on these compared to the standard 50s? I grabbed a 50s standard cherry burst 18 months ago and love the thicker neck. On Gibsons site they list Slash's signature with a 50s style neck. But some reviews note Slash's neck isnt quite a 50s neck? Opinion? Thanks for the review, can tell the Epiphone's top is not the same quality.
Very good question - to me they feel identical to the standard 50s neck. But I actually can make the comparison with a standard. So Im gonna do that and post a video comparing the two necks.
I have to admit that when I went in to get mine (see my profile pic), I was tossed between the November and the Appetite. My local dealer had one of each, and it really was a coin toss. They were similar in weight, feel, and tone. I have two 50's Standard Les Paul's, one in gold top and one in Appetite Burst. What, you ask? They don't make the 50's Standard in Appetite! I know, and I thought the same thing, so when this 2019 50's Standard came to my local dealer before the Slash models were announced, we all thought it might have been an unburst 60's finish. After speaking with the Gibson distributor, he could only say, "That wasn't supposed to get into the wild, I'll have to contact Gibson." At that point, the store said, "But this customer (me) has it on layaway." He informed them that he was obliged to let them know so that if the layaway did not go through, he would have to take it back. They called me, and I though I had a lot of time on layaway, I picked it up that day. It's my #1 guitar at 8.5 pounds, a gorgeous top, and a good story to boot. I have an Alpine White LP Custom I got a few weeks before the price hike, and that's the only Les Paul I own with a pick guard. Glad I got it before the price hike, because they went up by over a grand, and I saved $400 on mine, so the list price is $1600 more than I paid only a year or so ago! I love my Appetite, and I play it at most gigs now. You can find a video of me performing with it by looking for: Fitch & Company perform "Wanted Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi. I also link to a great video where I'm playing my 50's Standard in Appetite live at the end in a video called: When someone yells out for "Freebird" how does your band respond? [You can search for it that way as well.] I wasn't ready for the responses to that one, LOL. The title was more of a rhetorical question, and I got a lot of doozy responses. Some nice, some funny, and some downright mean! I guess it's the way of UA-cam comments sections. I would say that for future videos, consider the tone you're getting from the pickups. I'm listening on studio monitors and those bridge pickup demos were harsh at best. I couldn't see your guitar controls, but a slight roll-off from 10 to 9.5 or 9 would give you a less prickly and more smooth sound from your bridge the way the amp was set up. I rarely play with my volume and tone all of the way up, using them to control my sound on stage. You'd be surprised how wide open you can leave your amp if you have good volume and tone controls and use them along with pick attack. 4:23 I remove all of my pickguards (except on my Custom) and I just throw the screw back in. Makes it look less messy. You can see that in the Freebird video I mentioned above. If you feel so inclined, please give me a sub. I'm looking to reach more people, and it's the algorithm that we must feed. I have done the same for you as well. Thanks - Jim.
Taking two years to cherry pick Gibson tops and comparing them to any old Epiphone top isn’t really a fair comparison. I waited for the perfect Epi November top and it dances like crazy. After swapping the pups for Slash’s own and a good set up, it’s a very sweet guitar for a third the price!
The Epis were also cherry-picked, so its fair in that regard. As I said, its absolutely fine, but in a A/B-type situation the Epi’s are visually outclassed and sonically there is a difference. Not better/worse, just different, where the Gibsons have more push and the Epis are more mellow.
Epi Appétite surprisingly for me. The light weight is bc its the golden age of chinese mahogany thats passed in Honduras w regulations China doesnt have
As far as Im aware the cheaper mahogany is African (Khaya is a another name), which is a species that is related to the American mahogany but is a different species and has similar but not identical properties. Its much cheaper as it grows much faster and is more likely less dense and hence less heavy. But here, Im seeing cca 20% less weight (4.4kg on the Gibson Anaconda vs 3.7 on the Epiphone), which seem unlikely without weight relieving.
Wow another vote for the November with scratch plate! I thought most people would hate it but Im surprised how many actually like it. Its funny how the image of a LP in my brain is WITH the scratch plate.
i can't stand the comments here. the only difference between the gibsons and the epiphones that i heard was the gain that the pickups had. when will people understand that the actual impact of the frequency response comes from the amp and the speaker? that's why the all sounded great
With my onstage performance I find Gibson's do not hold up as well as Epiphone ie not reliable. Their head stocks break more easily, plastic crumbles and I had a pick up fry in the bridge of a 1999 Gibson Les Paul Classic. Lower out put pickups respond better to pedals and effects. The output difference on these are negligible. I only play the Gold Top Epi Slash because I do agree with the flame tops not being pronounced. Which is strange because Epiphone puts much more aggressive flame tops on their non Slash models.
This a Epiphone Slash is a excellent guitar, however I think necesary change pickups to Seymour Duncan Slash. You must this comparation: ua-cam.com/video/Pq5SacgNBiM/v-deo.html
Didxmy own lil experiment with 7 epiphone guitars… save your money and get yourself a used newer Gibson Studio worth 100x the $$ in feel, sound, quality.
100% agree. Phil Mcknight of KYG is also a big fan of the Studios - best bang for the buck. Truth is, the Gibson feel seems impossible to replicate on import guitars.
@@ksmusiclounge1648 The body can be made of plywood take a Korean guitar or a 335 which one of my 12 Gisbons all Kalamazoo is 335 plywood and has great airy tone. Some Gibson flames have lack luster. I have 2 Heritage guitars of the old Kalamazoo factory and their flames kill any Gibson and quality does too. Nashville off the shelve Gibsons are buried in flaws and problems. We had to destroy several flawed Gibsons sent new to music shops in MI that were defective. Gibson just ordered them smashed beyond recognition with a sledge and dumpstered and photoed. They have major quality issues.
It’s such a shame Gibson cheaped out and put in house pickups in this line and didn’t include his legendary Signature Seymour Duncan’s. Low move imo. Especially considering the lash line of Epiphones had his signature SD’s and this line of Gibson’s didn’t. That’s seriously F€&ked up
You probably didnt watch the video - it came this way ex factory and actually quite a few people here prefer the look with the pick guard on in addition to this being one of the more spectacular tops on a Slash sig. Merry Xmas, mate! Peace!
After watching Slash and his guitar collection on UA-cam. It's worth noting that the original November Burst which is in the video November Rain belonged to Joe Perry which has the pick guard on it. Slash never really played this LP and only used the guitar for the video and then some time later gifted it back to Joe.
In no way is this a fair comparison... 3 grand to 600 quid. The Gibson all Def sounded much better, as God knows they should if someone decides to pay 5 times the price
When you are paying that more for a guitar everyone knows it’s for the feel and look of the guitar, because the electrics are going to cost a max £400 more so everyone knows it’s the finish and for me I think it’s worth it , I’m saving for the slash Gibson appetite amber
This was the best comparison on these I've seen. Thank you!
Thank you!!!!
I happened on the Epiphone Victoria goldtop at my LGS. Went in for a strat, but my son walked over with that goldtop and I just had to leave with it. It has turned out to be the best Les Paul I have ever played. It is much better than my Gibson Classic. The Classic sounds great, but I love that '57 neck on the Epiphone.
November burst is best!! Pickguard is a yes! That's part of the look of a les paul to me! I've been playing pauls since 1979!! Nice collection! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks papa blue! Very interesting to hear the opinion of a seasoned plater! The archetype image of a LP is with the pickguard on afterall…
The pickguard made the November burst come alive and I normally don’t like pickguard on LP but it lightened up the dark edges.
For me it has to be the Gibson Anaconda I've wanted that guitar from the first time I ever seen that guitar.witj a very close second would be the Gibson November burst.
I wish I had at least one of them, even the Epi ones.
Gibson Anaconda in person, is absolute killah.
November burst was my favorite, Looks and sounded better.
Yeah she’s special…
Those are some bad assed tops !
No pick guard hiding that wood.
TBH with or without this November burst looks amazing!
Nice comparison! I think the pickguard looks better with covered caps, in this case with uncovered pickups I would go with a fully nude look without the pickguard. November burst is a win!
I love them all, but to chose just one - Im in the Vermillion burst camp!
man i snagged an Epiphone slash AFD color for $499 brand new about a year. I am absolutly in love with it, no seriously. lol
Ha! we have a few Epi's 2018's and 2019's. Been playing a Pelham Blue Trad Pro 3 Les Paul tuned to e flat. Heavy guitar. Beautiful. Through mostly 90's Peavey and Fender Frontmans. straight in with Monster Cable. L.A. Jam nighter. 300 plus jams! Rock, Blues. Cheers!
Rock on man! Thnks for the comment!
@@ksmusiclounge1648 Coolness!!
Great video particularly in terms of the colour and top differences. I saw some Epiphones hanging next to Gibsons at a store recently and the colours epi choose are just too saturated and look cartoony by comparison, their gold top interpretation is especially horrible and not a fan of laurel boards in terms of how dry they look. They sound very good and are a great choice if your budget doesn't stretch though. A bit of feedback if I may, I'd lose the music backing track, I found the repetition quite hard to listen to over course of the video, your voice was very engaging and didn't need support :)
100% agree - the difference becomes apparent when they are side by side and “cartoony” is a great way to describe the over-the-top execution of the tops on the Epis. And thanks a lot for the feedback - this is super important to me, duly noted! Thanks man and hope to hear from you again!
That's to be expected... there should be a massive difference in all aspects when comparing two guitars with a $2700 price gap between the two. Wood quality and density, construction, materials, hardware, electronics. Both are great as mentioned and both are for different budgets.
More like a 2k differemce but yeah, agreed
@K’s Music Lounge In Canada, it's about $2800 difference. The Gibsons are $4299 and Epi's $1499. Before taxes!!
Just got a Novemberburst 😎
I like the vermillion and the anaconda but I would have to have a November Burst and an AFD before those. Thanks for the comparisons! I do want a Gibson November Burst above all though. No pickguards for me.
Had a Epi Appetite Burst, and it was great, but this more orange than amber color very fast was too much for me ;-) Now I bought the Gibson and it plays & sounds better, the Flame Top is unbelieveable and the workmanship defenitely is some leagues higher than the Epi. But for the money you pay for the Epi, you get a more than good guitar!!! If I´d buy an Slash Epi again, I would prefer one of the other finishes, because they look more valued, than the Appetite. And: no pickguard ;-)
Wow quite a few people actually prefer the pickguard!
Update: I was lucky to get an unused 2013 Slash Vermillion of the 1200 pcs limited run. Man, this guitar is a hard competitor for the Appetite Burst...
The vernillion is my favorite colorway on these!
No question that the Gibson's are no doubt where it's at. I'm definitely a Slash fan and a Gibson fan. However, for anyone looking for a guitar where they're gonna get a lot of instrument for their money......well. IMHO.....theres not a 3,000.00 difference (just guessing ball park). Great review! BTW....it may be me but maybe if you lay the instrument down across the scale, you may see a more accurate reading on weight? Just curious on thoughts about that? Have a great day to all.
Thanks man! No not really, you need a single point of contact with the scale, plus I dont want to ding them while taking the weight :-)
I thought that the anaconda was going to be the best until you got a close up of that appetite burst and it’s the one man it’s just about perfect. All of them are excellent tops and I like the narrow flame too the November burst covers too much of the top to me. November and tobacco burst looks better on plain tops to me especially quirky plain tops with rings and knots ect.
Yeah the Appetite has the wide flames, ultra mega cool. Im more of a fan of narrow flames though and Im a sucker for red.
Nice professional video
Thanks man! Far from it though 😂 shot on my iphone - there are plenty of shots of my hand getting in front of the lens - which I didnt notice until after I uploaded 🤦🏻♂️😱 so yeah - Im starting out and its pretty rough… thanks man, really appreciate the support!
The real November burst (Joe Perry 59) had a pick guard. Pick guard on.
Thanks man! This will likely be a controversial comment 😅
I thought Joe Perry's was a Tobacco burst? It also had pickup covers on. I think the darker les pauls look great with the pickup guard including the slash november burst.
@@ksmusiclounge1648 I just thought it was named after the 59 in the November Rain vid, which was the Perry 59. Who knows. Anyway, nice collection
Yup thats what he said on the Gibson video where he showed his collection
Nice review but that Gibson Appetite top is nice but the quality of flame is very low for figured wood. I would expect much better flame for a high end guitar.
I have 2 Gibson LPs, 2 Epi Lps (one Vermillion). I agree that in sound the Epis are in the ball park. For me I find my Epis more than pleasurable enough to play and perform with.
Great job, great guitars, sonically the epis just dont get it done. I love epiphones. All of mine are Gibson/Duncan loaded. , but that Gibson feel is hard to replicate...
Absolutely. Its hard to explain but that “Gibson feel” just isnt there. Thanks for the great comment!
Good comparison, but if someone's like me on a budget, I would get the Epiphone Slash because of the price point. Gibson are much better in sound, quality and a bit pricey, to some is overwhelming, overall good comparison on both guitars.
Thanks Robert - fully agree
Gibson is much better in quality? I don‘t think so..
My favorite color out of the collection is the one that sounds and feels the best lol. But If I had a gun
to my head? I would pick the Anaconda Burst. And it would be the Gibson. The green is just too cool
and not as common as the others. Also, with the sound comparisons the Gibson Pups sound fuller, more rounded,
and cleaner. I get that you can dial it in to get something similar, but I use my guitar tones and
volume for sound most of the time. Pups as well as the wiring and pots are huge for me. Thanks for
sharing.
Thanks for sharing man!
At 16:18 where do you get "epiphone branded aluminum tail piece" from ? None of the Epiphone factory tail piece are aluminum. Gibson in the other hand used light weight advanced plating that could be aluminum.
nice video - ty
Thanks!
No gold top?
The anaconda in my opinion has the best top, the vermilion the best fretboard, I think the vermilion have a thick red finish making the flames hard to see!
The appetite have a lot of moviment, but in my opinion is lacking the waves!
The November is really nice too, but I personally don't like the color!
For me the Vermillion wins, maybe it doesnt show in the camera well but its gorgeous
If the epis had either the Gibson slash buckers,or the Duncan Slash pickups or Duncan regular APH2 set they would have sounded much closer and if the Duncan slash pickups were used in the epis they might even get closer to the slash sound as that is what slash uses
Yeah true. with a Gibson or SD pickup the sound would have been much closer race
Great vid!
If Epiphone in the staining process put some browns and blacks and sanded them then added the amber the flame would of popped alot better. I feel they saved on time here where they could of made the colours pop here. I've seen people making their own diy kits doing this process and the results were great. They went a bit hard on the amber for the Epiphone AFD.
No one's talka about the jumbo frets .that's the best feature
November burst nice sound
How are the necks on these compared to the standard 50s? I grabbed a 50s standard cherry burst 18 months ago and love the thicker neck. On Gibsons site they list Slash's signature with a 50s style neck. But some reviews note Slash's neck isnt quite a 50s neck? Opinion? Thanks for the review, can tell the Epiphone's top is not the same quality.
Very good question - to me they feel identical to the standard 50s neck. But I actually can make the comparison with a standard. So Im gonna do that and post a video comparing the two necks.
Video reply is up! Check it out!
Amazing video, thanks for all the defails
Gibson November No. 1 Epiphone appetite number two
I have to admit that when I went in to get mine (see my profile pic), I was tossed between the November and the Appetite. My local dealer had one of each, and it really was a coin toss. They were similar in weight, feel, and tone. I have two 50's Standard Les Paul's, one in gold top and one in Appetite Burst.
What, you ask? They don't make the 50's Standard in Appetite! I know, and I thought the same thing, so when this 2019 50's Standard came to my local dealer before the Slash models were announced, we all thought it might have been an unburst 60's finish. After speaking with the Gibson distributor, he could only say, "That wasn't supposed to get into the wild, I'll have to contact Gibson." At that point, the store said, "But this customer (me) has it on layaway." He informed them that he was obliged to let them know so that if the layaway did not go through, he would have to take it back. They called me, and I though I had a lot of time on layaway, I picked it up that day. It's my #1 guitar at 8.5 pounds, a gorgeous top, and a good story to boot.
I have an Alpine White LP Custom I got a few weeks before the price hike, and that's the only Les Paul I own with a pick guard. Glad I got it before the price hike, because they went up by over a grand, and I saved $400 on mine, so the list price is $1600 more than I paid only a year or so ago!
I love my Appetite, and I play it at most gigs now. You can find a video of me performing with it by looking for: Fitch & Company perform "Wanted Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi. I also link to a great video where I'm playing my 50's Standard in Appetite live at the end in a video called: When someone yells out for "Freebird" how does your band respond? [You can search for it that way as well.] I wasn't ready for the responses to that one, LOL. The title was more of a rhetorical question, and I got a lot of doozy responses. Some nice, some funny, and some downright mean! I guess it's the way of UA-cam comments sections.
I would say that for future videos, consider the tone you're getting from the pickups. I'm listening on studio monitors and those bridge pickup demos were harsh at best. I couldn't see your guitar controls, but a slight roll-off from 10 to 9.5 or 9 would give you a less prickly and more smooth sound from your bridge the way the amp was set up. I rarely play with my volume and tone all of the way up, using them to control my sound on stage. You'd be surprised how wide open you can leave your amp if you have good volume and tone controls and use them along with pick attack.
4:23 I remove all of my pickguards (except on my Custom) and I just throw the screw back in. Makes it look less messy. You can see that in the Freebird video I mentioned above.
If you feel so inclined, please give me a sub. I'm looking to reach more people, and it's the algorithm that we must feed. I have done the same for you as well. Thanks - Jim.
Thanks for the comment Jim! Cool story, Im definitely going to check it out!
Taking two years to cherry pick Gibson tops and comparing them to any old Epiphone top isn’t really a fair comparison. I waited for the perfect Epi November top and it dances like crazy. After swapping the pups for Slash’s own and a good set up, it’s a very sweet guitar for a third the price!
The Epis were also cherry-picked, so its fair in that regard. As I said, its absolutely fine, but in a A/B-type situation the Epi’s are visually outclassed and sonically there is a difference. Not better/worse, just different, where the Gibsons have more push and the Epis are more mellow.
What pick-ups does slash use?
He used SD pups and Gibson made him this signature set for his signature models.
Epi Appétite surprisingly for me. The light weight is bc its the golden age of chinese mahogany thats passed in Honduras w regulations China doesnt have
As far as Im aware the cheaper mahogany is African (Khaya is a another name), which is a species that is related to the American mahogany but is a different species and has similar but not identical properties. Its much cheaper as it grows much faster and is more likely less dense and hence less heavy. But here, Im seeing cca 20% less weight (4.4kg on the Gibson Anaconda vs 3.7 on the Epiphone), which seem unlikely without weight relieving.
Gibson Anaconda best look and sound
November w/ scratch plate !! Cheers !! ( gibby that is..)
Wow another vote for the November with scratch plate! I thought most people would hate it but Im surprised how many actually like it. Its funny how the image of a LP in my brain is WITH the scratch plate.
@@ksmusiclounge1648 Cool ! I find it uncomforitble to play a Les Paul without one,, don't know, maybe it's just the way I play .
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Thanks!
i can't stand the comments here. the only difference between the gibsons and the epiphones that i heard was the gain that the pickups had. when will people understand that the actual impact of the frequency response comes from the amp and the speaker? that's why the all sounded great
With my onstage performance I find Gibson's do not hold up as well as Epiphone ie not reliable. Their head stocks break more easily, plastic crumbles and I had a pick up fry in the bridge of a 1999 Gibson Les Paul Classic. Lower out put pickups respond better to pedals and effects. The output difference on these are negligible. I only play the Gold Top Epi Slash because I do agree with the flame tops not being pronounced. Which is strange because Epiphone puts much more aggressive flame tops on their non Slash models.
NOVEMBER BURST
Thnks man! She’s gorgeous. Most interesting top by far, I agree. Im just a sucker for red guitars.
This a Epiphone Slash is a excellent guitar, however I think necesary change pickups to Seymour Duncan Slash. You must this comparation: ua-cam.com/video/Pq5SacgNBiM/v-deo.html
Thanx will do!
@@ksmusiclounge1648 And…Excellent video 👍
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Didxmy own lil experiment with 7 epiphone guitars… save your money and get yourself a used newer Gibson Studio worth 100x the $$ in feel, sound, quality.
100% agree. Phil Mcknight of KYG is also a big fan of the Studios - best bang for the buck. Truth is, the Gibson feel seems impossible to replicate on import guitars.
Gibson tops are not all equal and have nothing to do with tone mainly that is the pickups.
PRS would disagree :-)
@@ksmusiclounge1648 The body can be made of plywood take a Korean guitar or a 335 which one of my 12 Gisbons all Kalamazoo is 335 plywood and has great airy tone. Some Gibson flames have lack luster. I have 2 Heritage guitars of the old Kalamazoo factory and their flames kill any Gibson and quality does too. Nashville off the shelve Gibsons are buried in flaws and problems. We had to destroy several flawed Gibsons sent new to music shops in MI that were defective. Gibson just ordered them smashed beyond recognition with a sledge and dumpstered and photoed. They have major quality issues.
Wow, now THAT I didnt know!
The Epiphons sounds dark
It does sound a bit duller but only in an A/B context and nothing a bit of EQ tweaking couldnt handle tho.
Turn the volume up on the Ephiphons, they might sound like the Gibsons.
All guitars were turned up all the way
@@ksmusiclounge1648 ok the the Gibsons are louder, makes sense.
It’s such a shame Gibson cheaped out and put in house pickups in this line and didn’t include his legendary Signature Seymour Duncan’s. Low move imo. Especially considering the lash line of Epiphones had his signature SD’s and this line of Gibson’s didn’t. That’s seriously F€&ked up
Today these Ephis are at €599 and Gibson's at €2499. A BIG difference. 🤷
Wow just saw the prices on Thomanm - I think they must be burning through old inventory at 599 for the Epis... The Gibsons are around 2800 still.
Can’t believe you drilled a hole in that. It’s a slash guitar. The hole dropped your investment by 50%!
You probably didnt watch the video - it came this way ex factory and actually quite a few people here prefer the look with the pick guard on in addition to this being one of the more spectacular tops on a Slash sig. Merry Xmas, mate! Peace!
After watching Slash and his guitar collection on UA-cam. It's worth noting that the original November Burst which is in the video November Rain belonged to Joe Perry which has the pick guard on it.
Slash never really played this LP and only used the guitar for the video and then some time later gifted it back to Joe.
Good point
Gibson November Burst wins
Off
On!
In no way is this a fair comparison... 3 grand to 600 quid. The Gibson all Def sounded much better, as God knows they should if someone decides to pay 5 times the price
When you are paying that more for a guitar everyone knows it’s for the feel and look of the guitar, because the electrics are going to cost a max £400 more so everyone knows it’s the finish and for me I think it’s worth it , I’m saving for the slash Gibson appetite amber
@@jmdyt3626 my favorite also