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Epiphone Zakk Wylde Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar Bulls-Eye
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Epiphone Hit a Bullseye? 
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This guitar has two passive standard EMGs equipped, which immediately signals that this guitar is for rocking, and rocking hard. I enjoy rocking, but also play some laid back blues and the odd ambient jam session. I must admit that I enjoyed playing this guitar through a Marshall (where Les Pauls belong) with the EMGs. They complimented each other well, with a threatening low end and a sharp high end, ala Mister Wylde himself. I found the guitar lacking in versatility when I tried playing some cleaner tones. Sure, it kept its nice low end, but it just doesn't seem to have a character of its own when on clean and not overdriven to the hilt.
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| Action, Fit, & Finish |
The guitar was set up fine. It has a typical Gibson-esque neck, with similar action. The electronics were flawless.
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| Liked about it |
1. It is aesthetically pleasing. It just looks rock 'n' roll.
2. The EMGs are great for metal, great true metal tone for those pinched harmonics.
3. The action was great, stick on some very heavy strings and you should sound like Zakk in no time.
4. The price tag: for the price you are getting something far superior to a Epiphone Les Paul standard, yet not quite a Gibson. And therefore falls in between.
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| Didn't like |
1. Lack of versatility. Found it lacklustre when playing other genres outside of Rock/Metal. This is a MAJOR drawback for me and will affect its overall score drastically, as I enjoy playing various stlyes of music, and being so limited in a 700euro+ guitar is too much for me to swallow.
2. This guitar is HEAVY. And I don't mean it in the metal way. Its just HEAVY. I've never felt a guitar with so much weight in the body!!
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| Overall satisfaction: |
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3.0 |
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Awesome guitar
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Very rich sound,pups are really great and not only for heavy riffs,clean tones are good but would be better if it comes with a split switch.I play from 70's,80's and 90's pop rock to hair metal to dream theater and it covers everything.Of course it doesn't has a trem but tonewise speacking,it covers all those styles.
Through my meas triaxis+2.90+marshall 1960B cab it sounds really great.
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| Action, Fit, & Finish |
It came with a factory very low strings action with no buzzes.Neck straight and very solid.
It's a shredder's les paul.
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| Reliability & Durability |
Finishing is awesome,after 2 years it's still brand new.
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| Customer Support |
No problems.
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| Liked about it |
1- Pups are awesome.
2- Fret job and neck are perfect.
3- Finishing is very good.
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| Didn't like |
1- It doesn't has a trem.
2- No split switch.
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5.0 |
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Forget being a gibson snob when there's value to b
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The guitar runs through a 100watt tube amp and 4x12, i more often than not use this guitar for playing drop tunes for grindcore or melodic death metal and i run the guitar with rotosound nexus 10's strings. The standard emg h4/h4a hz pickups are enough for the majority of people and will admittedly grind along nicely as well as produce vintage tones with some manipulation of the tone and volume controls, Think along the lines of vintage hot humbucker tone and you are almost certainly going to know what to expect. The pickups bass response can get a little unclear and muddy under heavy distortion and are definitely better at lead tones rather than pumping heavy riffs.
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| Action, Fit, & Finish |
The finish and setup is beyond immaculate on my guitar showing that gibson really have upped the ante in their Chinese factory and are obviously doing their upmost to produce a good quality guitar that represents value. The neck is 60's profile and is a good handful but not uncomfortable and made from is maple and has a oil finish up to the headstock join where the ivory paint starts again featuring the zakk wylde logo. the frets on the rosewoos fretboard are well installed and the custom markers made of perloid are perfectly installed with no drops or raises. Only a few complaints exist with this guitar, firstly is the very poor quality nut, its quite soft and prone to strings sticking, considering the supposed high gain nature of this guitar i would expect the control cavities to have been copper or alu lined rather than graphite painted, still this is nomial considering the great value this guitar represents. I would say that the bullseye finish and the association with zakk wylde will not suit every one, but i'm not a big ZW fan but found the guitar a great value representation of a U.S. les paul with a big heavy body (10.4 lbs) and excellent hardware! Its a gibson in all but name!
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| Reliability & Durability |
The guitar has been superb so far i have had a new nut fitted and changed the pick ups and pots to suit my needs. The nut rectified any tuning instability i had through string snags and it plays perfectly every time i pick it up, as an all round guitar it would be very easy to live with. Having compared the guitar to quite a few U.S standards i would now pick this, its far better than any i've so far tried. I use the guitar as my main drop d stage guitar and intend to keep it as i've found nothing better!
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| Liked about it |
The fit and finish
grover tuners
quality hardware
feel of the neck
Good weight
value for money
Paint job
Great platform for an outstanding guitar
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| Didn't like |
The nut
Poor shielding
Zakk wylde association
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| Overall satisfaction: |
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4.0 |
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