I hate custom/signature everything. overpriced and everyone thinks you are trying too hard to imitate whoever sig you have and will make comparisons. plus everyone who has a signature anything used a nonsignature product before they signed that contract. I'd much rather have my standard/nonsignature les paul and regular amp and pedals.
@26OY Solid-body electric guitars are made of hardwoods & simple electronics, it isn't rocket science. Sure Epi's & Gibsons are different, there's no question about that. The real question is: HOW different are they and do those differences justify the ENORMOUS price difference? If Gibsons were made of gold, then I would say YES, they are worth the huge pricetag, but they are just wood & simple electronics. You're mostly paying for the name.
@singtobarrow It's more like Epiphone = Toyota and Gibson = Lexus, because Lexus and Toyota are the same company just like Epiphone and Gibson are. One is fancier and dressed-up, while the other is simpler and dressed-down.
@michah2007 "you get what you pay for" is kind of outdated, but to an extent, yeah, you kind of get what you pay for as far as gibson's range of products (including epiphone) goes, so long as you don't compare prices to other manufacturers putting out products that are of the same quality.
@michah2007 I agree with Blompcube. That saying is old. When I was a kid, cheap guitars were crap, but now they're all made with CNC machines and the quality is pretty good. And when I was a kid, most big companies charged fair & reasonable prices, but now many of them are greedy and they dramatically bloat their prices. Plus, they often cut costs by using cheaper Asian parts, yet they continue to raise their prices!
@michah2007 I agree with Blompcube. That saying is old. When I was a kid, cheap guitars were crap, but now they're all made with CNC machines and the quality is pretty good. And when I was a kid, most big companies charged fair & reasonable prices, but now many of them are greedy and they dramatically bloat their prices. Plus, they often cut costs by using cheaper Asian parts, yet they continue to raise their prices!
@michah2007 I agree with Blompcube. That saying is old. When I was a kid, cheap guitars were crap, but now they're all made with CNC machines and the quality is pretty good. And when I was a kid, most big companies charged fair & reasonable prices, but now many of them are greedy and they dramatically bloat their prices. Plus, they often cut costs by using cheaper Asian parts, yet they continue to raise their prices!
when you leave the shop with your gibson it retains it's value and can increase in time, when you leave with your epiphone, well it will sound good for sure, but in the end it will always be an epiphone.
@VaiTomarN0Cu Gibsons are nice but they're WAY overpriced. There are MANY guitars in the world that are made with the same or similar woods & electronics as Gibson, producing the same or similar results...and most of those guitars cost LESS. With Gibson you're mostly paying for the name. My Gibson is nice, but I actually like my $600 Korean-made Dean Cadillac BETTER!
@RPGuitarRP You're right! At the first time every amateur guitarist wants to play ,and sound like Slash,Alexi,Santana etc... I think the bigger problem is when someone is had been playing for years, and still try to be Slash, and buys guitars,amps,etc to be Slash.
(Sorry if my grammar is not totally correct, I'm Hungarian. )
@reaper8910 Yes, I agree people who have been playing a long time and who still try to imitate other people will never be as happy as somebody who has their own style and sound.
@RPGuitarRP Meh, there's nothing wrong with attempting to get a similar sound to an artist. Truth be told, the actual tone doesn't matter if your playing sucks. Good playing will make a shitty tone sound good and an amazing tone sound rubbish. People put too much stock into whether they do or do not sound like another artist, or if they even should or shouldn't aim for a specific tone associated with an artist. Good music is good music, who cares if you got their emulating someone else?
Where is the point of this video? Epiphone and Gibsons sound pretty much the same, everyone knows it. If you buy a Gibson is for the build quality and you pay for that. And don't come telling me that Epiphone has the same build quality of Gibson because that would just mean you never had both in your hands. You don't have enough money for a Gibson? Fair, go for a Epiphone and enjoy it till the end. You got the money and you care for build? Go for Gibson.
@Carlovfx i think that the point of this video is to demonstrate that you don't necessarily need to pay all that money for a gibson to get a decent "slash-esque" tone. the clue is in the title of the video.
@Blompcube I understand that but i suppose that's a quite common notion, that's why i didn't understand the point of the video. Maybe they are trying to communicate with that part of the market that is completely new to guitars, anyway those guys are funny as hell.
You can´t sound like slash with that cheap guitar. Doesn´t he use Gibson Les paul 58 wich value is over a half million. Anyways he uses rare collectors guitars.
@pomssi1 agreed, even if nobody else cares what you're using or knows the difference, you wouldn't want to play if you weren't happy with your tone, which is why you buy gear to please yourself. and those who do give a shit what you use are only judging you based on your choice. if you have cheap guitar they'll laugh at your cheap guitar and if you have an expensive one they'll say you don't deserve it. you don't need those guys anyway.
I've played some Gibson Les Paul's and SG's. None, I repeat, none of them stayed in tune very well. Unless you have 2K to spend on a Gibson, you're gonna get crap. I gig with two Epiphone Les Paul Custom Prophecies and I have no problems with either staying in tune and they sound great. For the price of one Gibson I have two Epiphones. I don't like buying Chinese, but as far as I'm concerned I got more bang for my buck.
@DrDragon63 if 'good guitar' just means how well they stay in tune, you may as well just buy the cheapest les paul look alike you can find and get some locking tuners...
@sedwarg Read the whole post dipshit. What is it with you fuck-tards that take half a post and respond to it. You're about as useful as tits on a chicken. Go shove a fuckin' pencil up your nose and slam your face into a desk.
I'm a bit confused. They compare a Gibson Les Paul to an Epiphone Les Paul, saying Slash's rig costs thousands of pounds, but Slash doesn't play a Gibson Les Paul. For anyone who knows anything, Slash's iconic Les Paul is a custom guitar ghostbuilt by Kris Derrig. In any event, the comparison is at least accurate. For your average club musician, who just thrashes out cover tunes on the weekends, the only people who are even going to notice what brand your axe is is the guitar snobs.
@rbilleaud He does play Gibson's arsehole.. Yea he may also have a custom guitar among his other guitars, which are Gibson. If he didn't play Gibson guitars, why would there be a Signature Slash Gibson Les Paul for around £3500? Eeeeexactly.
@ImaVloggerUMad You really don't know what you're talking about do you? Most popular artists play guitars that are ghostbuilt specifically for them. Kris Derrig was one of the best, but there are a ton of them out there, do a Google search on Kris Derrig and it's all there in black and white including his relationship with Slash. As for signature models, it's all marketing. Gibson pays artists tons of money to slap their name on a particular model, but they don't play stock axes.
@OddTimeMan That's something of a surprise because in most cases artists are allowed to continue to use their ghostbuilts as long as the company logo is on the instrument. Not doubting what you say, but it just sounds odd. Ed Roman in Vegas does a good business in what he refers to as "star guitars" and you would swear these things are factory jobs, but they are 100% custom built by luthiers for a particular artist. Hamer used to do the same thing in their custom shop.
@rbilleaud The Gibson lawyers like to serve Cease and Desist letters, they've been doing it for decades. Replicas are illegal. They use trademarks without proper license. Gibson has their own custom shop with their own luthiers so guitarists can get a custom guitar from the source...legally. I think that's why it took so long for Slash to finally get an endorsement deal with Gibson. They didn't like that he was using fake Gibsons.
Stipped down to bare body and neck, there is absolutely no difference between an Epi and a Gibson. For my money, I'd buy the Epi, swap out the pups for Duncan Alnicos, maybe upgrade the tuners and that's about it and I'd have a better guitar than a stock Gibson labeled LP.
@rbilleaud without starting another silly argument about which is "better", epiphones and gibsons are constructed substancially differently and are not the same thing at all.
@Blompcube The Epiphone plant in Qingdao. China uses the exact same mahongany body and neck blanks, maple tops and construction methods as Gibson's Nashville factory, which is why I specified that stripped down to the body, with the exception of headstock design, you'd be hard pressed to identify which is which. I generally find that the finish on the Epi's is not as good as the Nashville Gibsons and of course the electronics and hardware, but even OEM Gibson hardware ain't the greatest.
@rbilleaud i'm not convinced - feel free to PM me a link to a reliable source. without that i have no reason whatsoever to believe that they are made from the same body and neck blanks, as i can see things that would suggest otherwise with my own eyes so long as the guitars have a transparent finish.
but yeah, gibson's hardware is sub-par for what you pay, and i actually think the bridge, tailpiece and tuners you get on epis are better quality than what you get on gibsons.
@rbilleaud Epiphones are made with Asian mahogany (Nato) and Gibsons are African mahogany. They are similar, but not exactly the same. Gibson used to use Honduran mahogany (considered to be the only TRUE mahogany) but now those trees are endangered and the forrests are protected.
@rbilleaud i think it was indian rosewood they were busted for - a lot of their models that "should" have rosewood fretboards now have baked maple instead.
Yes a les paul G is nice, and a epiphone, the real problem is some poseurs will not touch some because of a name on the neck, if it says Wallmart on the neck and sounds great ill take 1
You can always tell the inexperienced guitarist from the experienced the inexperienced guitarist always has to change the pickups or something on a guitar.
@EPI6fingers FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF YOU TROLL! YOU ARE A NO BODY! NO ONE CARES! YOU CANT TAKE THE TRUTH BECAUSE YOU SPENT $320 ON A RETARDED EPIHPONE MADE IN CHINA!! THAT YOUR PARENTS BOUGHT YOU WHEN YOU WERE 9 YEARS OLD!!! AND YOU TRY TO SAY ITS $1000
It's all relative. You want Les Paul sound without the mad price tag - its a no brainer - you go Epi. OK, not quite up to the USA Gibson standard, but what most people forget about is that you can replace the pups in the Epi with say some Burstbuckers and you are pretty much 90% there.I think it's mostly the Pups that let down the Epi's. They are 'Gibson Designed' but not Gibson made.
@Blompcube i have both, and they play the same and sound the same. The gibson you're paying for the name because the guy who sweeps the floor in nashville needs his piece of the american pie at $30/hr.
@beergut111 Though I hear distinct differences between the two, the real tone is in the hands. So whereas they dont sound exactly alike, in the right hands they both sound good. In the wrong hands they both sound bad.
@beergut111 so do i. and mine barely sound similar at all. you should really be able to hear a difference because it's like night and day, particularly when you're comparing chambered les pauls (most new gibsons) to solid ones (most epis) - although that's not to say one is "better" than the other because where there are differences there are differences of opinions too.
@nickypeeps I couldn't agree more! It is one thing to have a person who is an inspiration to you, but learn to make your own music and sound, and don't spend time working on others music, unless all you want to do is spend your time in some back 40 tavern playing the latest hits.
@nickypeeps why are you looking at Epiphone guitars ? you should just sell the guitar you have and buy yourself a fender with humbucke's in it, alder has much better resonance than the wood used on Gibson's I have a Gibson Les Paul witch I absolutely hate now just a rip off, and my Kurt Cobain Mustang wipes the floor with them there really light and the resonance blows any Gibson Les Paul away, Slash's Les Paul ain't any different from any other Les Paul
@wipers86 i dunno shit about whatever you're talking about, and i dunno if what that guy said about solid body guitars is true, but i've grown to only liking the feel of big hollow and semihollow guitars. and i could care less about dropping $2500 on a 335, so i got a Dot and i love it. i put some seymore duncan pickups in it to make it sound thicker, and i play damaged blues sounds through a bass amp with a bass overdrive pedal and a reverb pedal. it's all lovely
@nickypeeps you don't understand what resonance means or that Fender is better than Gibson ? I've found the lighter the guitar the better sound the guitar has if it's decent wood of course
@wipers86 i don't know what qualifies one sound as being "better" than another, or why you think my guitar should sound like whatever idea the you have in your head is of what guitars sound like. i guess it would make sense if Fender was paying you to work youtube comment sections, but otherwise, it's a fucking mind boggling thought to have, let alone tell someone else
@nickypeeps well I thought you might have been interested in buying an Epiphone Les Paul, I was just letting you know that you don't have to buy an Epiphone or Gibson to get a real cool distorted sound, even though I've had an Epiphone and I don't like them amy vintage Les Paul was cheaper and the Epiphone never sounded that much different, I don't care for copies that's just my opinion, well it's obvious that Fender's are better than Epiphone's
It would be so nice if we could be showed how it sounds when played with a clean sound. Distortion sound has more to do with factors outside the guitar and is usually used as a means of disguising mediocre guitar playing.
@CrankCase08 distortion only hides the guitar's tone if you have a bad amplifier, or if you're using a massive load of gain. but most of those really bad amps don't allow many of the details of a guitar's tone to come through on the clean channel, either.
also distortion doesn't disguise mediocre playing - a lot of people think that when they first start playing but usually learn that it's actually in many ways more revealing once they learn to recognise the finer details.
@Blompcube Distortion adds a huge amount of compression, which heavily fattens the sound, adds a lot of harmonics, and adds a lot of sustain, all of which work well in making a guitarist sound more able than with a clean sound; it's more forgiving. Any overdrive/distortion effects pedal will go a long way to achieving this, as well as over-driven pre-amps. With such distortion even a cheap Stagg or Epiphone guitar can easily by made to sound as good as a Gibson.
@CrankCase08 distortion can only really even out inconsistencies in dynamic control by evening out the volume of each note as a result of compression. other mistakes like letting strings ring out that aren't meant to and things like that are a lot more obvious with distortion. in that respect its less forgiving. as i said before, not all distortion covers up the guitar's sound either - some pedals might do that, but tube amps like vox AC30s and marshall JTMs certainly don't.
@Blompcube It makes no difference what make the amp is because the principle of distortion is the same, albeit that valves have a different characteristic to transistors. The sound of strings played erroneously is easily merged into the overall thickness of a distorted sound, whereas this is not so without distortion. If there's no distortion you get a 'Plunk' sound, but with distortion that's turned into a gritty percussiveness.
@CrankCase08 those were examples of amps where the details of a guitar's tone remain very clear within the distorted sound. of course, they aren't hi-gain amps at any rate. some amps do amplify the detail a lot more clearly than others, even when distorted. i said in my first post, if you can't hear the guitar's sound, either the amplifier doesn't amplify enough tonal detail to begin with, or you're using so much gain that there's not much left of the original input signal anymore.
wow everything is way more expensive in the UK! almost double the prices in the US
Greg321m 1 day ago
I hate custom/signature everything. overpriced and everyone thinks you are trying too hard to imitate whoever sig you have and will make comparisons. plus everyone who has a signature anything used a nonsignature product before they signed that contract. I'd much rather have my standard/nonsignature les paul and regular amp and pedals.
Greg321m 1 day ago
@Greg321m I agree, considering signature amps especially are nothing better than their standard counter parts. *cough zakk wylde's jcm800*
inb4 it has 6550's so it's so much better.
VHT418 5 hours ago
Slash sucks camel dicks - he looks like one blew a load on him and he never showered it off.
theothertroll 2 days ago
When I started looking for my own sound i got slash's sound first because i liked it then found my own through his. Worked for me haha
TheWyattStarkman 2 days ago
It does not look the same
It does not feel the same
It does not sound the same
It was not made from the same wood and parts
And therefore...this two are not the same!
Don't belive those videos. Gibson is Gibson and Epiphone has shity sound
26OY 2 days ago
@26OY - Epiphones sound just fine - you're a fucking moron
theothertroll 2 days ago
@26OY Idiot.
Siggorillo 2 days ago
@26OY Solid-body electric guitars are made of hardwoods & simple electronics, it isn't rocket science. Sure Epi's & Gibsons are different, there's no question about that. The real question is: HOW different are they and do those differences justify the ENORMOUS price difference? If Gibsons were made of gold, then I would say YES, they are worth the huge pricetag, but they are just wood & simple electronics. You're mostly paying for the name.
OddTimeMan 2 days ago
@OddTimeMan I'd say a large portion of it would be quality control. Gibsons are not the best example of this, but this is still a reason...
joeyplusamanda 1 day ago
@joeyplusamanda Yes, QC and the price of labor also factor in.
OddTimeMan 1 day ago
fun video! good stuff.
kimonui 2 days ago
like! just for the guitar censored word that we all knows!
MexicanWarrior121 3 days ago
Epiphone = toyota Gibson = `Ferrari
singtobarrow 3 days ago
@singtobarrow It's more like Epiphone = Toyota and Gibson = Lexus, because Lexus and Toyota are the same company just like Epiphone and Gibson are. One is fancier and dressed-up, while the other is simpler and dressed-down.
OddTimeMan 3 days ago
then you play the gibson and sound like Olympian
singtobarrow 3 days ago
It still sounds a bit lame
singtobarrow 3 days ago
Hahahaha I thought you meant it was super heavy at first when you said it was multiple thousand pounds!
codyoty 3 days ago
uhmmm slash uses Orange amps
MrJono546 3 days ago
gibson :)
henrylider1 3 days ago
Chappers did a fuckin paedo grin at the start there.
Fleeticus 4 days ago
Now show me a Frusciante sound for under £1000
videos4uman 4 days ago
What the song at 0:25?
an010497 4 days ago
@an010497 are you serious? you really don't know Sweet Child O Mine?
DjDMA 4 days ago
see the trick to sounding like slash is to play really sloppy
BsideExplorer84 4 days ago
gay!
kunkunero 5 days ago
lol
"its £399 of your hard earned english money"
"Yes but this ones £400 because I played it"
Slash comes along and plays it
"Yes but this ones £1000 because i played it"
:)
lonareyt 5 days ago
Your Videos are hilarious! Keep them up.
Neil4Speed 5 days ago
this is jus a example of you get what you pay for
michah2007 1 week ago
@michah2007 "you get what you pay for" is kind of outdated, but to an extent, yeah, you kind of get what you pay for as far as gibson's range of products (including epiphone) goes, so long as you don't compare prices to other manufacturers putting out products that are of the same quality.
Blompcube 6 days ago
@michah2007 I agree with Blompcube. That saying is old. When I was a kid, cheap guitars were crap, but now they're all made with CNC machines and the quality is pretty good. And when I was a kid, most big companies charged fair & reasonable prices, but now many of them are greedy and they dramatically bloat their prices. Plus, they often cut costs by using cheaper Asian parts, yet they continue to raise their prices!
OddTimeMan 6 days ago
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@michah2007 I agree with Blompcube. That saying is old. When I was a kid, cheap guitars were crap, but now they're all made with CNC machines and the quality is pretty good. And when I was a kid, most big companies charged fair & reasonable prices, but now many of them are greedy and they dramatically bloat their prices. Plus, they often cut costs by using cheaper Asian parts, yet they continue to raise their prices!
OddTimeMan 6 days ago
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@michah2007 I agree with Blompcube. That saying is old. When I was a kid, cheap guitars were crap, but now they're all made with CNC machines and the quality is pretty good. And when I was a kid, most big companies charged fair & reasonable prices, but now many of them are greedy and they dramatically bloat their prices. Plus, they often cut costs by using cheaper Asian parts, yet they continue to raise their prices!
OddTimeMan 6 days ago
If you check out my video, I've gone for a slash for under 20pence.
covfox 1 week ago
6:49 he had an orgasm XD
darkgamer240 1 week ago
careful with that pickup switch-- that thing is fragile.
rmordica 1 week ago
Ibanez
Octavio12341000 1 week ago
It's made of tree wood!....It comes complete with pick ups!..
..AND free into the body you get some controls...
aa it comes with a nut made of a material....A WOOD fretboard...with metal frets and gover tuners....YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME :P
sourceofflames 1 week ago 3
when you leave the shop with your gibson it retains it's value and can increase in time, when you leave with your epiphone, well it will sound good for sure, but in the end it will always be an epiphone.
MoochieMcGoo 1 week ago
what song at 2:48
MrRockinSG 1 week ago
@MrRockinSG velvet revolver-slither
dbdanny 1 week ago
6:48 the way he's shocked is hilarious.
4delay 1 week ago
could always switch the pickups from the epi, although im still a Gibson fan.
GusEmig 1 week ago
@reaper8910 i have to agree with you
choose whatever guitar YOU LIKE BEST. not what slash likes
shaingustin 1 week ago
@shaingustin Thank you :)
reaper8910 1 week ago
it's made of tree wood and with metal frets
YOU DON'T SAY??
Reconcile100 1 week ago
What...no whiskey this time???
Guitarplanet100 1 week ago
Epiphone sux...Gibson are magnificent which is why they cost a grip.
VaiTomarN0Cu 1 week ago
@VaiTomarN0Cu Gibsons are nice but they're WAY overpriced. There are MANY guitars in the world that are made with the same or similar woods & electronics as Gibson, producing the same or similar results...and most of those guitars cost LESS. With Gibson you're mostly paying for the name. My Gibson is nice, but I actually like my $600 Korean-made Dean Cadillac BETTER!
OddTimeMan 1 week ago
@OddTimeMan They are overpriced, and I truly enjoy playing my Strat more, and I like my old Ibanez RG550...Gibsons are just sweet
VaiTomarN0Cu 1 week ago
The amp sounds great!
cecleung 1 week ago
My opinion is, everyone should find his/her own style, and sound. Don't try to be Slash, be YOURSELF!
reaper8910 1 week ago 84
@reaper8910 Well said!
cecleung 1 week ago
@reaper8910 It's amazing and a bit sad how many young guitar players don't understand this concept...
Benjiinsanity 1 week ago
@reaper8910 this is true, but you cant find yourself until youve experimented with everyone elses tones until you find 'yours'............
RPGuitarRP 1 week ago
@RPGuitarRP You're right! At the first time every amateur guitarist wants to play ,and sound like Slash,Alexi,Santana etc... I think the bigger problem is when someone is had been playing for years, and still try to be Slash, and buys guitars,amps,etc to be Slash.
(Sorry if my grammar is not totally correct, I'm Hungarian. )
reaper8910 1 week ago
@reaper8910 Yes, I agree people who have been playing a long time and who still try to imitate other people will never be as happy as somebody who has their own style and sound.
RPGuitarRP 1 week ago 10
@RPGuitarRP Meh, there's nothing wrong with attempting to get a similar sound to an artist. Truth be told, the actual tone doesn't matter if your playing sucks. Good playing will make a shitty tone sound good and an amazing tone sound rubbish. People put too much stock into whether they do or do not sound like another artist, or if they even should or shouldn't aim for a specific tone associated with an artist. Good music is good music, who cares if you got their emulating someone else?
YourFavoriteLesbo 4 days ago
drop 'D' tuning should be banned for 10 years
TheAgentAssassin 5 days ago 2
@reaper8910 great words!
Jackyy32 2 days ago
chappers will do slash
friekyguy 1 week ago
@arcenicum
Slash uses SD pickups genius.
b1gnasty69 1 week ago
HEY LOOK! The priest from the exorcist didnt die with the fall
RmNaNtCbScRrn 1 week ago
A true guitarist creates not emulates. Get something to enhance your own playing style, not to copy someone else.
andruless 1 week ago
@andruless
A true guitarist plays the guitar.
kaa3164 1 week ago
"How to be Slash for under £1000"
Why the fuck would anyone want that? Even a stratocancer has a nicer sound to it than Slash.
By the way, my main guitar is an Epiphone LP, but I put SD pickups in to get a nice tight tone instead of that sloppy loose Slash sound.
Arcenicum 1 week ago
AAAWWHHH!.....Don't wait!...Just click this--->6:47<---
GIBSON: DIE DIE EPIPHONE!! QQ
sourceofflames 1 week ago
Uh....maybe I'd sound like Slash with 100,000 hours of practice.
UncleJesse1 1 week ago
You should do a how to sound like John Frusciante video haha
MrMikkiFunk 1 week ago
got the exact same epiphone les paul
2009letitrock 2 weeks ago
Chappers is like a guitar pornstar: he gets play a shitload of really nice ones for money.
AraGuitar 2 weeks ago
@AraGuitar ...while the rest of us have to pay, right? :-P
Blompcube 1 week ago
slash has his one of a kind les paul hand made for appetite for destruction which wasnt a gibson
AAaaRrOoNn09 2 weeks ago
Where is the point of this video? Epiphone and Gibsons sound pretty much the same, everyone knows it. If you buy a Gibson is for the build quality and you pay for that. And don't come telling me that Epiphone has the same build quality of Gibson because that would just mean you never had both in your hands. You don't have enough money for a Gibson? Fair, go for a Epiphone and enjoy it till the end. You got the money and you care for build? Go for Gibson.
Carlovfx 2 weeks ago
@Carlovfx i think that the point of this video is to demonstrate that you don't necessarily need to pay all that money for a gibson to get a decent "slash-esque" tone. the clue is in the title of the video.
Blompcube 2 weeks ago
@Blompcube I understand that but i suppose that's a quite common notion, that's why i didn't understand the point of the video. Maybe they are trying to communicate with that part of the market that is completely new to guitars, anyway those guys are funny as hell.
Carlovfx 2 weeks ago
more murky than the gibson les paul
kamtyrocks 2 weeks ago
You can´t sound like slash with that cheap guitar. Doesn´t he use Gibson Les paul 58 wich value is over a half million. Anyways he uses rare collectors guitars.
P4nzerk93 2 weeks ago
@P4nzerk93 You can't sound like Slash even if he said "Here, come play my rig."
gonzo5648 2 weeks ago
@P4nzerk93 He USED to play Gibson replicas but now he has an endorsement deal with Gibson so he plays his signature Les Pauls.
OddTimeMan 2 weeks ago
aka how to be another crappy copy of someone for a shitload of wasted money .. great gear don´t make a great musician .
GoddamnMick 2 weeks ago
@GoddamnMick It doesn't make you better but it doesn't hurt to have a guitar that, you know, sounds decent.
pomssi1 1 week ago
@pomssi1 agreed, even if nobody else cares what you're using or knows the difference, you wouldn't want to play if you weren't happy with your tone, which is why you buy gear to please yourself. and those who do give a shit what you use are only judging you based on your choice. if you have cheap guitar they'll laugh at your cheap guitar and if you have an expensive one they'll say you don't deserve it. you don't need those guys anyway.
Blompcube 1 week ago
@RobChappers 1:40 actually as i remember there was the heritage at first...
checkitoutguys1 2 weeks ago
i miss chappers' long hair XD
TnTMusic64 2 weeks ago
"It's made of tree wood ... with metal frets."
YES.
ChickenVendetta 2 weeks ago 44
@ChickenVendetta HAHAHAHAHa
Befooks 1 week ago
I've played some Gibson Les Paul's and SG's. None, I repeat, none of them stayed in tune very well. Unless you have 2K to spend on a Gibson, you're gonna get crap. I gig with two Epiphone Les Paul Custom Prophecies and I have no problems with either staying in tune and they sound great. For the price of one Gibson I have two Epiphones. I don't like buying Chinese, but as far as I'm concerned I got more bang for my buck.
DrDragon63 2 weeks ago
@DrDragon63 if 'good guitar' just means how well they stay in tune, you may as well just buy the cheapest les paul look alike you can find and get some locking tuners...
sedwarg 2 weeks ago
@sedwarg Read the whole post dipshit. What is it with you fuck-tards that take half a post and respond to it. You're about as useful as tits on a chicken. Go shove a fuckin' pencil up your nose and slam your face into a desk.
DrDragon63 2 weeks ago
@DrDragon63 The only thing you mentioned was staying in tune and something about chinese. I think you should go to anger management :)
sedwarg 2 weeks ago
Epiphones = cheap chinesse shit.
loombaron 2 weeks ago
@loombaron No
toster1995 2 weeks ago
My favorite is the Gibson LP Appetite for Destruction Fuckin' SWEEEEET!!!!
kk6downing 2 weeks ago
u shoulda just compared the epiphone slash model to the gibson slash model
bakejunt775 2 weeks ago
That doesn't sound like slash, that guitar was in tune and played in key...
waterkeeper03 2 weeks ago
Highly they are real grovers
Syngates12495 2 weeks ago
"It's made out of tree wood".
Antiks72 2 weeks ago
can someone tell me how that amp is? I've payed both the HaZE AND Class 5 and i can't decide.
deleonjayXXL 2 weeks ago
@deleonjayXXL blackstar ht-20 try it i had a haze and the blackstar blew it away
cubsfands29 2 weeks ago
how to be john mayer for under 1000. let me see ya. :)
OMERTA011 2 weeks ago
I'm a bit confused. They compare a Gibson Les Paul to an Epiphone Les Paul, saying Slash's rig costs thousands of pounds, but Slash doesn't play a Gibson Les Paul. For anyone who knows anything, Slash's iconic Les Paul is a custom guitar ghostbuilt by Kris Derrig. In any event, the comparison is at least accurate. For your average club musician, who just thrashes out cover tunes on the weekends, the only people who are even going to notice what brand your axe is is the guitar snobs.
rbilleaud 2 weeks ago
@rbilleaud He does play Gibson's arsehole.. Yea he may also have a custom guitar among his other guitars, which are Gibson. If he didn't play Gibson guitars, why would there be a Signature Slash Gibson Les Paul for around £3500? Eeeeexactly.
ImaVloggerUMad 2 weeks ago
@ImaVloggerUMad You really don't know what you're talking about do you? Most popular artists play guitars that are ghostbuilt specifically for them. Kris Derrig was one of the best, but there are a ton of them out there, do a Google search on Kris Derrig and it's all there in black and white including his relationship with Slash. As for signature models, it's all marketing. Gibson pays artists tons of money to slap their name on a particular model, but they don't play stock axes.
rbilleaud 2 weeks ago
@rbilleaud Slash now has an endorsement deal with Gibson so he can no longer play his replicas. At least not in public or in photo shoots.
OddTimeMan 2 weeks ago
@OddTimeMan That's something of a surprise because in most cases artists are allowed to continue to use their ghostbuilts as long as the company logo is on the instrument. Not doubting what you say, but it just sounds odd. Ed Roman in Vegas does a good business in what he refers to as "star guitars" and you would swear these things are factory jobs, but they are 100% custom built by luthiers for a particular artist. Hamer used to do the same thing in their custom shop.
rbilleaud 2 weeks ago
@rbilleaud The Gibson lawyers like to serve Cease and Desist letters, they've been doing it for decades. Replicas are illegal. They use trademarks without proper license. Gibson has their own custom shop with their own luthiers so guitarists can get a custom guitar from the source...legally. I think that's why it took so long for Slash to finally get an endorsement deal with Gibson. They didn't like that he was using fake Gibsons.
OddTimeMan 2 weeks ago
Stipped down to bare body and neck, there is absolutely no difference between an Epi and a Gibson. For my money, I'd buy the Epi, swap out the pups for Duncan Alnicos, maybe upgrade the tuners and that's about it and I'd have a better guitar than a stock Gibson labeled LP.
rbilleaud 2 weeks ago
@rbilleaud without starting another silly argument about which is "better", epiphones and gibsons are constructed substancially differently and are not the same thing at all.
Blompcube 2 weeks ago
@Blompcube The Epiphone plant in Qingdao. China uses the exact same mahongany body and neck blanks, maple tops and construction methods as Gibson's Nashville factory, which is why I specified that stripped down to the body, with the exception of headstock design, you'd be hard pressed to identify which is which. I generally find that the finish on the Epi's is not as good as the Nashville Gibsons and of course the electronics and hardware, but even OEM Gibson hardware ain't the greatest.
rbilleaud 2 weeks ago
@rbilleaud i'm not convinced - feel free to PM me a link to a reliable source. without that i have no reason whatsoever to believe that they are made from the same body and neck blanks, as i can see things that would suggest otherwise with my own eyes so long as the guitars have a transparent finish.
but yeah, gibson's hardware is sub-par for what you pay, and i actually think the bridge, tailpiece and tuners you get on epis are better quality than what you get on gibsons.
Blompcube 2 weeks ago
@rbilleaud Epiphones are made with Asian mahogany (Nato) and Gibsons are African mahogany. They are similar, but not exactly the same. Gibson used to use Honduran mahogany (considered to be the only TRUE mahogany) but now those trees are endangered and the forrests are protected.
OddTimeMan 2 weeks ago
@OddTimeMan Yeah, I had heard Gibson got busted a few months ago by the Feds for buying protected wood. In that case, I think it was ebony.
rbilleaud 2 weeks ago
@rbilleaud i think it was indian rosewood they were busted for - a lot of their models that "should" have rosewood fretboards now have baked maple instead.
Blompcube 2 weeks ago
Thumbs up if you think EPI6FINGERS should die in a hole.
PimpMyForzaSport 3 weeks ago 13
@PimpMyForzaSport preferably in his moms hole, where many other men have perished b4
VaiTomarN0Cu 1 week ago
gibson =more sustain
leonoff89 3 weeks ago
Yes a les paul G is nice, and a epiphone, the real problem is some poseurs will not touch some because of a name on the neck, if it says Wallmart on the neck and sounds great ill take 1
guitargold77 3 weeks ago
@guitargold77 walmart sucks
jakefortwice 3 weeks ago
good stuff man lol!
ElectricTN 3 weeks ago
chappers is a legend
zimbo08 3 weeks ago
its made of tree wood :L haha
freddykrugar10 3 weeks ago
Pimpmy come get your mother fuck face I'm done with her oh and tell that douche bag father of yours I said thanks
EPI6fingers 3 weeks ago
You can always tell the inexperienced guitarist from the experienced the inexperienced guitarist always has to change the pickups or something on a guitar.
EPI6fingers 3 weeks ago
@EPI6fingers You can tell an inexperienced guitarist from an experienced guitarist...oh wait, no you can't.
jquinn57 3 weeks ago
Today's Epiphone you don't have to change anything on them.
EPI6fingers 3 weeks ago
@EPI6fingers FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF YOU TROLL! YOU ARE A NO BODY! NO ONE CARES! YOU CANT TAKE THE TRUTH BECAUSE YOU SPENT $320 ON A RETARDED EPIHPONE MADE IN CHINA!! THAT YOUR PARENTS BOUGHT YOU WHEN YOU WERE 9 YEARS OLD!!! AND YOU TRY TO SAY ITS $1000
PimpMyForzaSport 3 weeks ago
@PimpMyForzaSport "No one cares"? It looks like the person who replied with a childish comment in all caps seems to care quite a bit =3
omnipossum92 3 weeks ago
vintage v100's are better then epiphones
OfficialSilverViper 3 weeks ago
vintage v100's are better then epiphones
OfficialSilverViper 3 weeks ago
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OfficialSilverViper 3 weeks ago
vintage v100's are better then epiphones
OfficialSilverViper 3 weeks ago
7:16 sounds more like Zakk Wylde then Slash xD
RWGuitarplayer 3 weeks ago
It's all relative. You want Les Paul sound without the mad price tag - its a no brainer - you go Epi. OK, not quite up to the USA Gibson standard, but what most people forget about is that you can replace the pups in the Epi with say some Burstbuckers and you are pretty much 90% there.I think it's mostly the Pups that let down the Epi's. They are 'Gibson Designed' but not Gibson made.
Stratboy999 3 weeks ago
there is no "VS"...both guitars are identical.
beergut111 3 weeks ago
@beergut111 well, they look the same, but that's where the similarities end.
Blompcube 3 weeks ago
@Blompcube i have both, and they play the same and sound the same. The gibson you're paying for the name because the guy who sweeps the floor in nashville needs his piece of the american pie at $30/hr.
beergut111 3 weeks ago
@beergut111 Though I hear distinct differences between the two, the real tone is in the hands. So whereas they dont sound exactly alike, in the right hands they both sound good. In the wrong hands they both sound bad.
TheProgmagog 3 weeks ago
@beergut111 so do i. and mine barely sound similar at all. you should really be able to hear a difference because it's like night and day, particularly when you're comparing chambered les pauls (most new gibsons) to solid ones (most epis) - although that's not to say one is "better" than the other because where there are differences there are differences of opinions too.
Blompcube 3 weeks ago
IS THIS AN EPISODE OF "THE YOUNG ONES"..???
DIOSpeedDemon 3 weeks ago
a little bit out of tune in the awesome gibson, huh?
davizin1 3 weeks ago 4
Is he wearing a wig?
vausemike 3 weeks ago
i love ur job as well...
DavidMultiCanon 3 weeks ago
A wood fretboard? Holy cow!
MisterJetta 3 weeks ago
A cara que ele faz em 6:49 kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
didibestbr 4 weeks ago
wouldn't it be more of an accomplishment to sound like yourself?
nickypeeps 4 weeks ago 158
@nickypeeps I couldn't agree more! It is one thing to have a person who is an inspiration to you, but learn to make your own music and sound, and don't spend time working on others music, unless all you want to do is spend your time in some back 40 tavern playing the latest hits.
SandpiperN121PP 3 weeks ago
@nickypeeps LOL Why did you click on the video?
TheOzzySabbath 2 weeks ago
@TheOzzySabbath i don't remember. i have an epiphone dot, so i guess i was probably looking up epiphone things and found this corny fucking video
nickypeeps 2 weeks ago
@nickypeeps why are you looking at Epiphone guitars ? you should just sell the guitar you have and buy yourself a fender with humbucke's in it, alder has much better resonance than the wood used on Gibson's I have a Gibson Les Paul witch I absolutely hate now just a rip off, and my Kurt Cobain Mustang wipes the floor with them there really light and the resonance blows any Gibson Les Paul away, Slash's Les Paul ain't any different from any other Les Paul
wipers86 2 weeks ago
@wipers86 With solid-body electric guitars, MOST of the tone comes from the electronics, not the wood.
OddTimeMan 2 weeks ago
@wipers86 i dunno shit about whatever you're talking about, and i dunno if what that guy said about solid body guitars is true, but i've grown to only liking the feel of big hollow and semihollow guitars. and i could care less about dropping $2500 on a 335, so i got a Dot and i love it. i put some seymore duncan pickups in it to make it sound thicker, and i play damaged blues sounds through a bass amp with a bass overdrive pedal and a reverb pedal. it's all lovely
nickypeeps 2 weeks ago
@nickypeeps you don't understand what resonance means or that Fender is better than Gibson ? I've found the lighter the guitar the better sound the guitar has if it's decent wood of course
wipers86 2 weeks ago
@wipers86 i don't know what qualifies one sound as being "better" than another, or why you think my guitar should sound like whatever idea the you have in your head is of what guitars sound like. i guess it would make sense if Fender was paying you to work youtube comment sections, but otherwise, it's a fucking mind boggling thought to have, let alone tell someone else
nickypeeps 2 weeks ago
@nickypeeps well I thought you might have been interested in buying an Epiphone Les Paul, I was just letting you know that you don't have to buy an Epiphone or Gibson to get a real cool distorted sound, even though I've had an Epiphone and I don't like them amy vintage Les Paul was cheaper and the Epiphone never sounded that much different, I don't care for copies that's just my opinion, well it's obvious that Fender's are better than Epiphone's
wipers86 2 weeks ago
@wipers86 obviously
nickypeeps 2 weeks ago
And on the Epiphone... Jesus Christ!
ThirdGenerationDGAF 4 weeks ago
Dickheads.
saxby01 4 weeks ago
i watched this video at least 27 times
shakar92 4 weeks ago
can you do how to be acdc or KISS for under £1000?? this was so helpful
SGmanSam 4 weeks ago
that guy is fucking funny..
Musicmaker703 1 month ago 45
No epiphone is that good there buddy distortion or no distortion epiphone guitars are brilliant period.
EPI6fingers 1 month ago
It would be so nice if we could be showed how it sounds when played with a clean sound. Distortion sound has more to do with factors outside the guitar and is usually used as a means of disguising mediocre guitar playing.
CrankCase08 1 month ago
@CrankCase08 distortion only hides the guitar's tone if you have a bad amplifier, or if you're using a massive load of gain. but most of those really bad amps don't allow many of the details of a guitar's tone to come through on the clean channel, either.
also distortion doesn't disguise mediocre playing - a lot of people think that when they first start playing but usually learn that it's actually in many ways more revealing once they learn to recognise the finer details.
Blompcube 1 month ago
@Blompcube Distortion adds a huge amount of compression, which heavily fattens the sound, adds a lot of harmonics, and adds a lot of sustain, all of which work well in making a guitarist sound more able than with a clean sound; it's more forgiving. Any overdrive/distortion effects pedal will go a long way to achieving this, as well as over-driven pre-amps. With such distortion even a cheap Stagg or Epiphone guitar can easily by made to sound as good as a Gibson.
CrankCase08 1 month ago
@CrankCase08 distortion can only really even out inconsistencies in dynamic control by evening out the volume of each note as a result of compression. other mistakes like letting strings ring out that aren't meant to and things like that are a lot more obvious with distortion. in that respect its less forgiving. as i said before, not all distortion covers up the guitar's sound either - some pedals might do that, but tube amps like vox AC30s and marshall JTMs certainly don't.
Blompcube 4 weeks ago
@Blompcube It makes no difference what make the amp is because the principle of distortion is the same, albeit that valves have a different characteristic to transistors. The sound of strings played erroneously is easily merged into the overall thickness of a distorted sound, whereas this is not so without distortion. If there's no distortion you get a 'Plunk' sound, but with distortion that's turned into a gritty percussiveness.
CrankCase08 4 weeks ago
@CrankCase08 those were examples of amps where the details of a guitar's tone remain very clear within the distorted sound. of course, they aren't hi-gain amps at any rate. some amps do amplify the detail a lot more clearly than others, even when distorted. i said in my first post, if you can't hear the guitar's sound, either the amplifier doesn't amplify enough tonal detail to begin with, or you're using so much gain that there's not much left of the original input signal anymore.
Blompcube 4 weeks ago