Iron1
AmbassaDOOM of Red VVinter
Not sure how I stumbled onto these, but somehow while burning time on Youtube, I came across a video showcasing the Epiphone Muse line - and, of course, I've not been able to find that video again - maybe if I was smart, I'd just look thru my YT history for it, but whatevs.
Anyway, I dug the blue color and really liked what the vid had to say about how A) light these are and B) how versatile they are. I've only ever played two other LPs in my life and both were heavy and uncomfortable. So, knowing this line was thinner/lighter/had the fat guy carve was a definite appeal. Then hearing the crazy tone variety was another appeal. And, having so many of friends just gush over LPs all the time combined with the coolness of the Epiphone ES339 I just got made me think it was worth giving it a shot.
Then the same place I got the ES339 from gave me a killer deal on this one and once again, I couldn't say no.
It is hands down the most versatile guitar I've ever owned. With the ability to coil split & invert you get a pile of options and unlike other coil split guitars I've had before there's a seriously noticeable difference with each tone option. It doesn't do metal quite as well as my SS's but it does it well enough I doubt anyone in a crowd of drunks would care...
I have these three in my office, with a Boss Katana 50 on one side of my desk and a Fender Mustang GTX50 on the other side - between all that I can get any tone my pissant playing could ever want or need.
In researching/trying to find that first video again, I came across these three videos. Totally cracks me up that the most "successful" player in these vids has the absolute worst tones and doesn't do squat to really sell how versatile these things are... I guess it's simply because for being an old broad she's still very easy on the eyes.
But, her tones are laughably bad... like "How did you actually perform big gigs with that sound coming from FOH?" bad.
This one was a pretty good breakdown of features, etc.
And this guy feels the most "normal old dude" of the bunch, so took his opinion the most seriously.
Overall, the fit and finish is really nice - no blemishes, sharp fret ends, dead spots, etc. I doubt it's as nice as a $5000 Gibson, but it cost a tenth as much and I'd have no problems playing it on stage - so this cheap old bastard is happy.
Anyway, I dug the blue color and really liked what the vid had to say about how A) light these are and B) how versatile they are. I've only ever played two other LPs in my life and both were heavy and uncomfortable. So, knowing this line was thinner/lighter/had the fat guy carve was a definite appeal. Then hearing the crazy tone variety was another appeal. And, having so many of friends just gush over LPs all the time combined with the coolness of the Epiphone ES339 I just got made me think it was worth giving it a shot.
Then the same place I got the ES339 from gave me a killer deal on this one and once again, I couldn't say no.
It is hands down the most versatile guitar I've ever owned. With the ability to coil split & invert you get a pile of options and unlike other coil split guitars I've had before there's a seriously noticeable difference with each tone option. It doesn't do metal quite as well as my SS's but it does it well enough I doubt anyone in a crowd of drunks would care...
I have these three in my office, with a Boss Katana 50 on one side of my desk and a Fender Mustang GTX50 on the other side - between all that I can get any tone my pissant playing could ever want or need.
In researching/trying to find that first video again, I came across these three videos. Totally cracks me up that the most "successful" player in these vids has the absolute worst tones and doesn't do squat to really sell how versatile these things are... I guess it's simply because for being an old broad she's still very easy on the eyes.
This one was a pretty good breakdown of features, etc.
And this guy feels the most "normal old dude" of the bunch, so took his opinion the most seriously.
Overall, the fit and finish is really nice - no blemishes, sharp fret ends, dead spots, etc. I doubt it's as nice as a $5000 Gibson, but it cost a tenth as much and I'd have no problems playing it on stage - so this cheap old bastard is happy.
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