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MGR/Sean from Belleville « Epiphone SG »
Published on 10/31/03 at 15:00I bought this guitar at Steve's Music in Ottawa, Canada. I paid $199 plus tax for it. I got nothing with it....no instruction book, not pamphlet...nothing.
It looks and (for the most part) feels like a Gibson SG. It's fairly light, great finish to it. I get a great sound out of it. I bought this guitar to learn how to play on...and so far, it hasn't really let me down. I wanted to learn how to play AC/DC mostly, and when you hear the exact sound that you hear on an album come out of your guitar....well, it's very encouraging during the sometimes stressfull and tedious learning process.
The tuners suck. This thing seems to go out of tune every three days. ( I play for at least an hour every night). I brought a friend of mine who I think is a guitar god...he's quite good...to play the top 5 guitars I wanted to buy. He liked the SG....but he told me to buy the SG 310 instead...it was only $70 Cdn more, and he said the tuners where night and day better. I guess he was right. But really, I don't mind tuning it frequently. In fact, I think it's good *ear* practice for me anyway. But if you're not a beginner, I think the tuners would be too frustrating for you.
Also, I found the strings that came with is to bee far too soft.
Solid. nothing more to say. I've heard about switch problems...but in he 1 month that I've had it....say the 50 hours that I've spent on it, I've never had a single issue with any of the controla other thant the tuners.
$199 and you can sound, pretty much, just like your favourtie musician!! Any better way to learn guitar? I haven't seen it yet! This is a really....really...smart buy for a new guitar player.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
It looks and (for the most part) feels like a Gibson SG. It's fairly light, great finish to it. I get a great sound out of it. I bought this guitar to learn how to play on...and so far, it hasn't really let me down. I wanted to learn how to play AC/DC mostly, and when you hear the exact sound that you hear on an album come out of your guitar....well, it's very encouraging during the sometimes stressfull and tedious learning process.
The tuners suck. This thing seems to go out of tune every three days. ( I play for at least an hour every night). I brought a friend of mine who I think is a guitar god...he's quite good...to play the top 5 guitars I wanted to buy. He liked the SG....but he told me to buy the SG 310 instead...it was only $70 Cdn more, and he said the tuners where night and day better. I guess he was right. But really, I don't mind tuning it frequently. In fact, I think it's good *ear* practice for me anyway. But if you're not a beginner, I think the tuners would be too frustrating for you.
Also, I found the strings that came with is to bee far too soft.
Solid. nothing more to say. I've heard about switch problems...but in he 1 month that I've had it....say the 50 hours that I've spent on it, I've never had a single issue with any of the controla other thant the tuners.
$199 and you can sound, pretty much, just like your favourtie musician!! Any better way to learn guitar? I haven't seen it yet! This is a really....really...smart buy for a new guitar player.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com