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Epiphone Nighthawk Custom Reissue

Other Shape Guitar from Epiphone belonging to the Nighthawk series

SlapKid SlapKid

«  unfortunately spoil all the microphones »

Published on 06/20/11 at 13:24
Current model, 300 Roros it's cheap considering the quality of stringed instruments.

I loan, and I had the original loan also last year.
The handle is constant, the profile is a D rather flat in the middle, everything passes on it short.
The frets great questions, not exceeding one and the edges are perfectly polished so you do not swear.
Set neck, with no reinforcements on the back of the head, as the original.
Mechanical better than the original, they are here and they are grover very good agreement, but their weight imbalance a little scratch.

The pickups are and split, but only the single is doing so.

This guitar is very well done, it's serious.
The micro and the bridge have serious air nickel, while the mechanical chrome (color colder-metallic), good ...

UTILIZATION

The weight is correct, I think it varies a lot depending on the specimen tested against.
The interesting thing is that the head of the microphone is as thick as a serious sg, and then it thickens a little. The chamfer on the back is top the table but reported flat is beautiful. It is immediately comfortable in it.
As the body is more than the puny paul ben truncated the head usually so ugly it goes well, it's beneficial!

Access ozégu very well, are lit in Ibanez anyway so ...

Note the output jack, often they forget to put a lock washer on the other side of the small plate, which is why it keeps turning ...

SOUNDS

THE sound is very good vacuum, hot with pep and a fine gloss in the middle ground, not tampered with good sustain.
So the base is very solid.

Hype is the cat, frankly. It's clutter-draft, the definition and intelligibility absent. No acute usable either. Waterloo koa.

The microphone has no serious pep, raplapla, in fact jazz is not bad. The split is used only to lose the level and busted parasites, the sound is brighter, however.
The microphone is pretty simple, but still quite coarse. At least we have some acute and look more catchy, phew.

The microphone is dull and acute ill-defined, not its location is favorable (compare with the location of its counterpart on a les paul, much closer to the bridge) in fact. So it's probably not entirely his fault is not it.
Good news, however, the three do not feedback and we can play hard with.

I note that the original sounds much better plugged in, so it is a history of microphones in my opinion.
As such, the epi is a zero level, a strat harley benton beast puts his total dough!

Tested on the same tweed bassman, not really as bad amp ... And the ear of a 3 Mustang as well.

OVERALL OPINION

The question is whether change microphones worth it. For the serious choices so there is ok. For the acute through the 59's or jeff beck special version with seymour duncan, basta (and in view of the provision of micro last named is probably the best).
Roros is still 200, and must be installed ...

Personal I would, I like this epi, great violin, and little choice of microphones also little control of cabbage!
That said, it is 500 Roros Roros more than 100 of the true sg special, suddenly you think about it before signing eh ...

For the record, I liked the original level but not at his guitar, and here is exactly the opposite.

As it stands I would use the ear with a rather aggressive and loud amp, go to the almost random: a marshall! This is the best marriage to animate this epi.