Epiphone Firebird review

My review of my Epiphone Firebird sorry for the bad sound quality the mic on the webcam is not very good.

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• Epiphone
• Firebird
• guitar
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[tiralex]

Hi, im getting this from a frind with a dimebucker in the bridge and an invader on the neck, for 300 bucks, then will it be goog for metal, will it lose the amazing clean tone it has?

Thanks in advance

[Jrocknroller89]

@tiralex Well I dont have a ton of experience with those pick ups but I would guess that it would possibly lose the clean but it would have a much gainer overdrive sound. I would try it out before I spent the money on it and make sure you play it through your main amp so you have a good idea of what it sounds like.

[KyleAB5000]

i hear this has wierd tuners, what are they like

[Jrocknroller89]

@KyleAB5000 They are Steinberger ones, they are somewhat like the banjo style tuners on other firebirds. They basically go straight down and do not have the bend so the tuning key is away the headstock it is straight below the tuner. They are some of the best tuners I have ever used.

[sgguitarfan7]

can it be used for metal?

[Jrocknroller89]

@sgguitarfan7 Unless you want to immediately swap pick ups, no

[wedontknowone1]

are you better at guitar now?

[Blompcube]

@machone7I i don't really know what exactly you're replying to here, but that seems reasonable enough.

the low end gibsons aren't all that different from the higher end ones until you get to the custom shop, it's mostly cosmetic differences, although i think the quality control is a lot looser too, there seems to be a lot of iffy ones around. my LP studio is very good, but the only other good one i've played was one from the same batch belonging to a friend of mine.

[machone7I]

@Blompcube What he said is not true, but it's not that far from reality either. I bought a firebird studio a while ago, it sounds good, but it's definetely not great. The knobs for volume and tone fell off, etc. The sound is decent, though, as well as the neck and finish of the wood. Still, i have tried a few "cheap" gibsons, and i tell you, unless you go over 1500$ you won't get anything special. A Les paul 300$ more expensive produced a really similar sound to my firebird.

[EPI6fingers]

Epiphone Rules now! Gibson is a thing of the past!

[delgado4652]

I've had the guitar for about 4 years now, been playing for 7 years total and for whatever my advice is worth, I would recommend NOT getting this guitar. It looks great, ,and sounds decent, but there are drawbacks to it that make me regret not looking into first. For example, the guitar is very unbalanced, the headstock is heavy and gets tiring to hold up, it's very long and bumps into stuff a lot, and the neck is made of wood that slows down my hands in my opinion.

[machone7I]

@sgguitarfan7 It screams wuite good, but you need an amp that can generate a lot of gain, the guitar can't get much gain by itself with the humbuckers, but it's very versatile, the stock setup sounds quite good.

[KyleAB5000]

@Jrocknroller89

Thanks a bunch man, i was a little bit skeptical at first but now i can order my firebird with confidence :D (btw forgot to say, great reveiw ;) )