Epiphone Swingster Guitar Demo - Nevada Music UK

[likuidflaememan]

Can you remove the trem bar?

[likuidflaememan]

@likuidflaememan Just the bar, not the whole bridge

[MRnofail]

i'm trying to decide between one of these epiphone swingsters and a custom goldtop LP, thoughts?

[Nickpatient]

@MRnofail They're VERY different. What do you play?

[MRnofail]

@Nickpatient since i wrote the comment i bought an eiphone lp standard (the guy with the custom was trying to rip me off with an overpriced look-alike), so i currently play the lp

[MRnofail]

@Nickpatient i've also tried a hollow-body guitar and the body and neck were pretty thick

[stormin1158]

Great demo. You get some sweet tones (clean and overdriven) out of this swingster and you demonstrated a good range of playing styles that this guitar would be suited to- so much more interesting to listen to than the official Epiphone demo. You sold me- Well done

[CrazyMangoGuitar]

not sure if i want one in this red colour or black.....proberbly black

[MrItsabeautifulday]

This, or a Gretsch g5120?

[Chibiharlz101]

@MrItsabeautifulday 5120 is absolutely stunningly perfect,, the best in its class for the price in my humble opinion.

[FreddoX1]

PLAY FREE BIRD!!

[yuckota]

i'm in love

[Yahweigh]

OOOOOOH!

[Vermillion2176]

I think it is funny that if Gretsch puts out a Gibby looking guitar Gibson freaks out and goes running to court. Gibson however can out this blatent copy of a Gretsch right down to the design of the pickups and it's OK. You could pull these pickups out and install TV Jones pickups and have a decent 5120 Gretsch I think.

Big Ron

[salogeo]

@Vermillion2176 this is epiphone not gibson

[ellonysman]

The headstock on Ep's are so dang ugly! Like some kind of european oldmans design! Change it! NOW, lol.....(snicker) please dont ban me, im canadian.hehe

[stratking69er]

why is the A string so out of line coming out of the bigsby ? Do you send them out like that ?

[jharmzz]

@stratking69er i have the guitar no its just that they havnt put it on properly you just need to make sure its straight but it doesnt even matter i didn't notice any dound differenc just looks a bit wierd but yeah it just they didnt make sure it was straight before tightening it

[diegoeche]

I bought the same guitar... I'm waiting for it to arrive. And it seems the guy who is demo-ing it also went to Metal-Camp 09 :)

[kennash1000]

I have this guitar in black, I use it to play with my band (rock/punk) and solo with a vocalist. Much better than I expected it to be. Build quality is excellent, and the series/parallel system for the pick ups works very very well.

I'm very pleased if you didn't guess.

[CHABA95]

I have this guitar, it's sick!

I like rockabilly, along the lines of, buddy holly, and eddie cochran..

was this a good buy, for what i'm interested in?

[SeadartVSG]

I suspect the pickups are Asian made. My swingster has a "Made in Indonesia" label on it, although the factory is supposedly in China. That being said the pick-ups are pretty impressive for a $600 guitar. Go try one out. If you are going for a rockabilly, classic rock (early 60's George Harrison, early Clapton etc) , blues, swing sound, turn up the volume and play it clean -sound is really good.

[stratking69er]

does anyone know if the pups in this guitar are USA or far eastern in origin ?

I had a quite nice Epi Les Paul, but the pickups were just awful. They sounded totally gutless and became very microphonic. The bill to replace and fit better quality humbuckers was over £150.

[SeadartVSG]

Amplifiers make a huge difference when demoing guitars. This sounds muddy with the distortion, but mine does not with my equipment. I tried the Gretsch 5120 because I used to play a 1964 Tennesesian in a band and was really disappointed, the neck was just not a Gretsch neck, and the pickups were not very good. SIde by side the swingster had a lot better sound in the shop. I'm still working on getting the settings to get the sound - good unplugged and I'm doing a lot of fingerstyle blues

[broodyart]

I looked at the electromatic, bad quality & goofy controls, & didn't feel good in my hands, f-holes not binded. [ gretsch WAS my dream, shame on fender! ] artcore, neck wasn''t right for me, nice- good price. SO, can't buy the gibson es, picked up the swingster, 3 different trips to store. Finally bought it! Wine red. "chet" bigsby, great controls, feels good. [ my #2 thumb knuckle doesn't bend, so I  play for a short time,neck digs in. No prob.w/ this guitar! ] Acoustic to screamin' covered!!

[LessThanJayms]

looks like it'd be a good QOTSA guitar

[TheHuMoCa]

would love to hear one of these hooked up to a twin reverb

[BartolomeoKa]

Very nice guitar! But... TUNE IT UP! =D

[notwfreak316]

i want the black one so bad!!!!

[DocHelliday]

@notwfreak316, those things just take care of themselves...

[goerge4]

the gretsch at this price range have awful pickups and they are not as adjustable..i specifically remember buying a 5120 and the bridge pickup couldn't go as high as needed..

this one has far superior pickups and the quality of build is excellent..

[goerge4]

the 5th string is off set on the bigsby ..

[gryfox34]

i'm in love!

[xbob23]

I wanna have one of this!

[Dugger1997]

I wish I could visit this sore!!! To bad i'm in a different hemisphere.

[shutthehellup6666]

this guitar is freeking amazing

[bluesman1981]

man i just picked one up a few days ago and i hated to put it down, i honestly like this better than the gretsch electromatic 5120, i've owned a few of them and well this guitar just blows them out of the water

[ferr811]

looks classy and sounds great, me likesss

[MeanGreenMovies]

@ferr811 have you had a go of one? today i went to the guitar shop to test a load of guitars (it was the first time ive ever done that) and i wanted to test a bigsby because im thinking of buying a bigsby to put on my guitar, and i saw this in the orange colour, so i went to the room to test it and got absolutly MEZMERIZED by the guitar! i had already tested high end ibanez and some gibsons but this just blew me away! so if your thinking of getting this, dont think twice, its brilliant!

[taraldsvik]

Beautiful guitar



[MOSEKETEERS]

im torn between this and a epiphone casino does anyone have a opinion of which is better

[BubbaFart]

@MOSEKETEERS Not really a matter of which is better but rather which YOU prefer. This guitar has humbuckers with coil tap which splits the coils to make a single coil sound. Whereas the Casino has P-90 single coil pickups. Me? I love P-90s. They're my favorite pickups, but they can be microphonic and can hum when you crank up the volume, but nothing NOTHING snarls like P-90s when you crank them up. Just listen to George Thorogood's guitar tone. Also this one has the Bigsby...

[donbstewart123]

@MOSEKETEERS This one is based on the ephiphone joe pass. This is more of a jazz box guitar (and rockabilly type guitar). the casino does not have a wammy bar and is more like a gibson es-335 type. it depends what you like - check out the grestch electromatic as well.

[jharmzz]

@MOSEKETEERS guessin youve already chosen one i've just bought this guitar

and deeply regret it not because its a bad guitar or anythin like that its really good smooth and comfortable to play but you really should just keep a look out for a second hand guitar and youll be able to get somethin twice as good for the same price or cheaper do a bit of research look for demos and stuff like that

[antihax91]

Stunning cleans. I'm really tempted by these guitars, though it sounds a little muddy when it's overdriven.

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[RDblues47]

nice demo - so refreshing to hear nice clean sounds !

[Splittail01]

im torn between this or a Gretsch, i seriously dont know what one to get as that orange is lovely

[Guitarplar]

Geeeze...it's about time somebody posted something about the new swingster. How do you guys like it?

[sadycon]

u_U i want that guitar...