Dr. Epiphone introduces the Epiphone GT Special and GT Explorer - Nevada Music UK

[TheGalwayFarmer]

£139? the price says it all

[RhysHammy]

those guitars wanna make me wrech...

[noobaliciouscovers]

please dont buy this im not a troll or anything but i mean you can get a LTD mh-50 with floyd rose for 250 bucks or well a ec-50 for the same price and if you want a explorer shaped guitar buy a js32 dinky or a LTD EX-50 they all sound emazing and are way bette than the epiphone special series the ltd 50 series are only 50 bucks more expensive but sound way better and look amazing.i just bought a mh50 with a floyd it is awesome and it is only 250 bucks!

[linfylionel999]

Is the gt special light?

[CMACHT000]

wich is stronger or better the special II Gt or the Explorer GT ? i mean for industrial and metal

[wwetnajeffhardy12345]

when you use the whammy bar does it go out of tune and can you do dive bombs on it

[maggot6639]

@wwetnajeffhardy12345 you would need a floyd rose type tremolo, with lucking nuts on it

[MasterShake43]

i bought a gt explorer. brought it home. nut broke. swapped it for another one. that one is still working. you get what you pay for...

[freakfreak12345]

Wow...he's been there for a long time...a year? Wow.

[TheXtremeGamer90]

Hey i want to sell my epiphone specia gt ! Send P.M if you want to know more info .

[justhere4dalulz]

@valdivia562 you should get a job and buy yourself a guitar instead of whining like a little bitch

[Masterfighterx]

The Explorer... Little smaller body.. Yeah well, its alot smaller!... And that headstock for an explorer? Fail xD

[tangypasta]

1:01 i thought he said "and and and you know?" rather than imitating the killswitch lol

[stonedrocker666]

i own that les paul, i have a review if anyone wants to watch it.

[Toxin932]

@stonedrocker666 i will!!

[stonedrocker666]

@Toxin932 thanks lol

[valdivia562]

my mom said that if i graduated out of high school in the top 5% i would get the explorer gt after i graduated college. thats so stupid though cause i dont think that achievement should be awarded with that shit maybe graduating middle school. at least and epiphone explorer goth, i mean common all of friends got $600 guitars their sophmore year of high school and arent even in the top 40%

[Metalhead121396]

@valdivia562 wow, that sucks...i graduated from 8th grade in the top percent of our class (2nd place...) and I got an Epiphone 1958 Goth Explorer ($400) as my first electric guitar, along with the Fender Mustang I ($100).

[valdivia562]

@Metalhead121396 damn you are so lucky man im still with my epiphone special 2 after 5 years now

[Metalhead121396]

@valdivia562 well, try to argue with your mom about why you should get a better electric guitar. if you're into metal, i say go ltd ex-360; the only reason i didn't get that is because i had a $500 budget (not including tax and warranty), and the ex-360 is $600. I've heard good things about it, though.

[valdivia562]

@Metalhead121396 well, i was supposed to get a dean zero or a gibson explorer at that time. its to late to get anything now, i dont have time to play now that im in college

[badrthanu]

do u ship to the middle east

[beatles4730]

i like the explorer coas its smaller and easier to carry around, and looks cool-- o and for you guitarists out there that love to piss people off, take it everywhere you go (if you watch deathkolck i started doing it coas of skwisgaar) and play it (get the little battery amp thing that sticks in the bottom of your guitar--with some LOUD headphones) you can really piss your teachers off to... ust for you metal heads still stuck in school coas your not old enough to drop out yet...

[meinarm]

@Mulishaman

Nearly every guitar with a whammy bar doesnt stay in tune

Only help : dont use it :-(

Sorry but i dont know what else to do

[CalTamaDrummer]

@meinarm i have quite a few tremolo fitted guitars, and they stay in tune. maybe your's is set up wrong if you have one.

[xXPROJECTCUREDXx]

@TheMasterOfPuppets78 GOTHIC, GOTHIC, GOTHIC! Lol, I am actually buying one for $350 and have already tested in out in advance. It has the body of a regular Explorer, sounds VERY, VERY good for music like Metallica and plays very well for small solos (I haven't tried it out for a solo like the one in "One"). Definitely worth it if you like Heavy Metal.

[mulishaman06]

ive got the special 2 gt it doesent stay in tune when i use the whammy bar especially the g and b string, when i dump the bar and return it the string ends up in a higher pitch? any ideas on how to cure this???

[THE76OHCREW]

um... the killswitch wasn't invented by epiphone. the one that epiphone uses on these guitars is called "kill pot" and its made by shadow electronics. just a little fyi

[Needleskaine]

@THE76OHCREW It wasn't made by anyone, many guitarists years ago purposely would have a pickup channel with the volume on zero and switch channels rapidly to get a killswitch effect, these people have just innovated on this idea.

[callmeMikey2]

@Needleskaine quite so. =) one advantage of this is that you can have mid tone, or switch your tone back and forth while playing, and still be able to killswitch. =D

[THE76OHCREW]

@Needleskaine yeah i meant the killswitch that they use on this guitar is the killpot. there are many different killswitch pots out there.

[Leviathan919]

Hello I'm Professor Nonsense

[iV3GAS]

Hi, was thinking about getting this guitar as i am moving away from my other guitar and was wondering its not to small is it? cos i like this size of my guitar now (Squire Strat) will they be in similar size

[jymi743]

epiphone sucks

i played 1 and it sucks ass

[andrewds98]

is it a good idea to upgrade to this after 9 months of playing from my squier bullet stratocaster, i just dont like the squier very much but i think i would like this blease reply

thanks :)

[DoNotCheckMyProfile]

@andrewds98 Go ahead and buy it....it sounds awesome and no one regretted this guitar..

[andrewds98]

@DoNotCheckMyProfile im gona rry 1 out

[andrewds98]

@DoNotCheckMyProfile actually looking at saving up longer for a gothic explorer

[DoNotCheckMyProfile]

@andrewds98 That's way up to you..But as you know, The gothic has the same pickups as the Special II $169.00 and the Special II gt $199.99.. 700t and 650R. But, checkout GuitarFetish. Their LesPauls are better sounding and they look almost exactly like Epiphone's Slash signature. and some say it sounds better. I wont' tell you more....see for yourself buddy..haha

[andrewds98]

@DoNotCheckMyProfile thanks for the help but just last sunday i got a jackson king v js30 for 180$ and it was really worth it

[DoNotCheckMyProfile]

@andrewds98 great....no problem...just keep on practicing on and on...good luck bro

[andrewds98]

is it a good idea to upgrade to this after 9 months of playing from my squier bullet stratocaster, i just dont like the squier very much but i think i would like this blease reply

thanks :)

[AlexSlams]

Dr Epiphone was struck off the register for removing a pickup without a license.

[andrewm9999]

HOLY FUCKIN SHIT THIS LES PAUL IS LIKE A 14 TIMES MUCH CHEAPER PRICE BUCKETHEAD SignATUre MODEL

[neonbreon]

any recommended gig bag for the Explorer GT?

[sgogiz1]

show us the firebird studio

[soroush246]

how much is this in US dollars ?

[RenegadeSniper7]

@soroush246 About $230

[maxmetal14]

What guitar do you recommend for around £180 - 240 for playing metal and that will sound good with a Line 6 Spider IV 75 amp?

Thanks

[asdfcrow]

@maxmetal14 A guitar with active emg's would be good, Epiphone pretty recently introduced the prophecy series, and they have quite a few nice guitars, they go for about $500-800, or you can just look at whatever suits you with emgs

[1OCBR]

Want To Know What Epiphone needs to make???/An Epiphone Les Paul Robot Guitar ,Just Like Gibson Did!!!!!

[neutron54]

@1OCBR ew. no

[80smetalgod1989]

ahhh you know why they put the kill switch in, it was because on most epi you can mute one pickup as you have 2 volume pots (like sg, les) and the selector switch worked very well as a kill switch, as proved by randy rhodes. since this only has master volume and tone they had to put it in.

[lordsonny789]

GET OUT OF MY HOUSE NOW !!!

[joniiboy]

The strapbutton on that GT explorer is so badly placed its unbelievable

[kiwiredrum]

ok i just got this guitar but i got a problem and maybe you can help me... i live out of the USA and i cant find a hardcase that fits this guitar on the internet. please if anyone knows of some case please let me know. thanks :)

[jimmyvantorre]

all good and nice, but let us hear the guitar?

[ma666nel]

i would buy explorer if it was bigger this way this looks a children guitar... i'll buy an ibanez destroyer...

[datluigi]

@SitotiKurton I believe he means the GT Special, because the Explorer has a very good cutaway.

[TheRadiationSicko]

what's the difference between the vintage style tremolo(special 2 gt) and the tune-o-matic bridge(explorer gt)?

[datluigi]

@TheRadiationSicko Well, clearly one of them has tremelo and the other has better sustain and ability to stay in tune.

[jchang911]

i got this guitar xD

great buy

[kiwiredrum]

@Ryanmetalmatthew you my frien are an idiot :)

[MrRagingFury]

@McKillaaHUN I have little hands so it is great for me. :D

[McKillaaHUN]

@MrRagingFury :D :D 

[OrcMageRocker]

does the smaller body affect the tone or sustain?

and can you gt nice pinch harmonics out of the explorer gt?

[cagayakeguy]

i love that quilt top guitar in the backround at 3:10 in the bottom right corner

[maxti6]

Jeez @ corporate boredom.

I sure hope there is more action in the bandroom than in the boardroom.

But good lord the selection is to die for

One of the best walls around

[roqfreak97]

i mean the explore looks kinda sketchy i think it would look wierd when playing a show lol...

[Oblivion3200]

lol he's dressed like a chef

[crazyguitardude666]

i may have to buy one of these there only like £130

[MasterDeathLightning]

they killed the shape on that explorer

[peterisachenko]

he is cheap

[garofalo92]

who esle got a chance to see the MASSIVE typo on the gibson web site that says this poop special GT is 1300$ hhahaha lol

[revolutionday1]

At $139, I'll definitely take the Special II GT.

[TheBpw97]

@revolutionday1 Its 139 UK Pounds, not 139 dollars.

[revolutionday1]

@TheBpw97 Damn, that's rough :-( I kinda' figured there was some kinda' "catch" though, regardless. Thanx.

They'd sell more of these things than McDonald's hamburgers, if they really were $139 U.S. ;-)

[datluigi]

@revolutionday1 139 pounds. Which is roughly 300 dollars, a little less.

[RigorMortis203]

does this guitar come with a bag?

[skllz415]

wats better these guitars or the Jackson dinky?

[garofalo92]

@skllz415 depends what dinky .... the cheap ass JS series are about equal quality. but the higher end dinkys are better. more or les for metal. of coarse you can play any style of music on any guitar, dinkys have a thinner neck and hotter pups for metal, rather than a les paul with its thicker neck ( whitch i like ) and slightly less hot pups

[Emceetem]

Wish i had a epiphone... or somethinf sexy with a humbucker/singlecoil. Some type of behemoth like that.

I would get a telecaster....but i don't where i could get my hands on one of those bad boys in florida....

[sgogiz1]

i want that les paul in a sunburst collor

[devlinhc1996]

Can u buy it for 139 anywhere online

[TNTtributeband]

And What About the balance of the Explorer Gt ? A smaller body logically means a weight loss, so Is there anybody here to tell me if when you're wearing a strap, does the headstock fall down ?

[americanstriking]

is the explorer THAT small? I don't want a really small guitar but I can't tell by the picture. I would like it a little small but i don't want it like half the size of my stratocaster. can someone please respond.

[PIRANHAWILLKILLYOU]

yeah man, its pretty small. i would say 1/3 the size of a strat. lets just say im a little guy, and the guitar looks weird on me.

[NecroJohnie]

Explorer GT ONLY 129 pounds?

[killerkrayon]

@NecroJohnie lol...man that's a real heavy guitar

[Sparta729]

yeah, i own the Epi special 2 gt

[UltimateZane]

is it any good?

[Sparta729]

@UltimateZane excuse my launguage, but hell yeah. it is.

[UltimateZane]

@Sparta729 especially the Special Gt? cuz it looks awesome i just dont noe much about it

[Sparta729]

@UltimateZane yes the Special Gt is amazing. i happen to own one.

[igouroum]

i got the les paul standard plus top cheery sunburst it rox =)

[R4ND0MREVIEW5]

i think ill get the explorer gt then evntually put emg's in it

[card1100]

@R4ND0MREVIEW5 stock r very close to EMG's or Duncans lots of people buy an epiphone if they cant afford a gibson but epiphones pickups r very very very very very very very very very same to gibsons

[1FISHEY]

kill ok him and his mouth

[LiderWolf]

i loved the les paul it´s opaque just i don´t liked the floyd rose

by the way i got a les paul special ii that´s why that les paul like me xD

[TheW0rldsGame]

I am Getting The Explorer for my bday =) it is going to be my 2nd guitar.

[tjsr21]

killpot - original? thats been around for millenia. And anyone with a soldering iron could fit one on anything in 5 minutes...

[WannabeGuitarLegend]

I think he's talking about having it on the tone pot, but that also isn't original either, they're made by Shadow Electronics and there are definitely guitars by other companies that have it. And you can just buy the tonepot/killswitch on its own

[card1100]

how good of a guitar is thsi can i play tharsh metal / death metal and good clean tones with this ? and good distortion ?

[zorky101]

i dont like the pick guard....

[meinldrums]

I have ordered Special GT:D

[DGKALLDAYskater]

holy shit . 139 dollars ?

[NevadaMusicUK]

UK pounds I'm afraid...

[mataaremotorola]

@NevadaMusicUK  Epiphone explorer gt its better than Ibanez grx20?....

[NevadaMusicUK]

I'd get a ibanez grg170 or a yamaha pacifica 112, but hey, that's just me. The explorer is better than the grx20, better built from better stuff.

[mataaremotorola]

@NevadaMusicUK thanx :)

[COHEEDxWORLD]

@mataaremotorola no

[avatarcollides2day]

@mataaremotorola hell jyeah

[NOTHINGTOSEEtheband]

@NevadaMusicUK would you please give me the details on the michael shenker guitar you can see on the bottom right at 2:25

[AniodD]

@NevadaMusicUK 139 Yen.... 0_o

[jtm95]

@DGKALLDAYskater still its like 200 dollars....

[card1100]

@DGKALLDAYskater in the us 139 pounds is $200 is in the us

[Rangerhalt1]

@DGKALLDAYskater It's 200 dollars at Guitar Center. If you ask a local guitar store that's not a big chain I'm sure they can give you a better price. Guitar Center is good for finding guitars and they're prices so you can haggle with smaller stores. :P

[OverSlyZed]

@DGKALLDAYskater Pounds.

[MegaJaybee]

the only problem with the explorer gt is where they put the knobs.

[FerretWeed]

Ive already ordered the 'Epiphone Les Paul special II GT' and im getting it on monday! CANT WAIT!

[TheReaping2113]

I've had my Epiphone Explorer GT for about a week now, and I must say I'm very happy with it. The flat black color gives it such a nice finish, and the stock pickups are indeed high output. This is a great guitar for starters!

[Charbarhousemusic]

Chapman Guitars' ML1 also has a Shadow Killpot.

[SchecterMusic]

Whaaaaaa..ha..ha..ha..ha

[Deluxeta]

DR EPIPHONE ROOOOOOCKS ;D! I want more!

[BassDude50000]

awesome, epiphone!