On an expensive guitar it is possible to have a bridge with non-adjustable saddles and still be intonated properly – almost all acoustics do. But on a properly set up guitar, you can achieve a state of tuning where all the chords at least sound good. No guitar plays every chord perfectly in tune, nor does any piano. If your intonation is off, some chords will sound good and some will be out of tune. A guitar with the intonation set well is a joy to play, because all of the chords sound good. That means you can dial in the intonation of each string and fine tune it, literally. The bridge on a good guitar has adjustable saddles. Put cheap wood with cheap tuners and you have problems. But on a cheap guitar like this, where the water content of the wood is questionable (as is the wood quality,) you’re already going to be going out of tune. On a great guitar made of great wood that has been properly aged and the water content of the wood is super low, you actually could get away with cheap tuners. But cheap tuners have two problems – they have low ratios so it’s harder to dial in the exact pitch you need to be in tune, and they can slip a bit, which causes the guitar to go out of tune. Manufacturers can save money by using cheap tuners because brand new guitar players might not notice the difference. A good set of tuners can be had for around $50, and a great set can be had for around $80. Tuners do an important job – they help keep the guitar in tune. In this article I said the tuners and bridge suck on this guitar. This last bit is for those of you who don’t know much about electric guitars. If you HAVE to have a guitar for $99, buy a used Squier Affinity Strat. Save your money until you have $200, then buy used. This is like that no-name DVD player at WalMart for $9.99. But the Epi LPS is a junk guitar and you’ll eventually get rid of it. Epiphone makes some great looking Les Pauls, and if looks really matter to you and you’re not loaded, a used Epi Les Paul can be a good deal. I think they’re very good at them and charge a reasonable price. Honestly, I think Epiphone’s real strength is in semi-hollow body guitars. And the 339, which I bought for $199, is a great budget guitar. I own an Epi Les Paul Standard Plus, and an Epi ES339. This guitar sucks, but I’ll still pick it up in Guitar Center and play it every time the thing’s on sale. To say this thing rocks for the money!” I get it. Some of you are thinking “This article is STUPID! I bought one of these things, and I love mine, and I clicked on this link because I wanted that Budget Guitarist guy to say what I wanted to hear. Would I buy one of these used for $50? Um… nope. And now you’ve got a total of around $200 into this guitar, and you could have bought the GFS Slick SL60 for around that, and it is a WAY better guitar. If you’re going to bother recording this thing, you ought to replace the tuners and the bridge. But it goes out of tune because the tuners suck and the intonation is bad because the bridge sucks. If you have a home studio and you are broke, and you want something, anything with a P90, this is an option. Does the Epi at least deliver that? Well… pretty much sorta kinda? To me, it sounds like an inexpensive P90. You want that raw rock and roll crunch sound. It’s more versatile.īut if you’re buying the Epi LPS, you’re buying it for the P90 pickup. Certainly you can get less hum and buzz out of the Bullet. IMHO it also sounds better, though that’s subjective. And if you compare the Epiphone Les Paul Special to, say, a Squier Bullet, the Epi doesn’t fare well. But let’s get back to the Epi version.Įpiphone will always be compared to Squier because Gibson owns Epiphone and Fender owns Squier. The fact that Gibson charges a grand for it is laughable. The Gibson Les Paul Special is a great playing and sounding guitar. Both the P90 and humbucker versions of the guitar have been popular with rock stars, so now Gibson sells it for a mere thousand dollars. The original Gibson Les Paul Special was supposed to be an inexpensive slab body guitar for students. The other thing I can tell you is that this is not a very good guitar.īut for $99 on sale, is it worth buying? No. One thing I can tell you for sure is that the color of the body doesn’t affect the tone. I’ve played this guitar in the store several times over the past few years. You are tempted to buy this thing every time Guitar Center puts it on sale for $99.
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