Only guy on RU-vid who understood the alternative rock DNA of this guitar. I'm really intrigued by the fact that you see NOBODY playing one. It's fresh groung!
Love these pickups - I'd use these as an all-purpose replacement for early Beatles Rick & Gretsch sounds: Thinner than Gibson, enough chime and twang, while thicker ( _dummer_ sounding?!) than Fender tones. Love 'em.
I bought one of these shortly after I noted they were available. In January 2024 I bought a Crestwood 150th Anniversary and compared the pickups. My original white Crestwood sounded anemic and and listless in comparison. I installed a set of Lollar Firebird pickups and changed it into a really great guitar. It’s a drop in mod. It’s now a keeper moreso than than the 150th anniversary model.
In my experience (I own two), a typical Epiphone is an excellent guitar. I love the brand. I know that they are effectively a division of Gibson, but I am in denial about that. Epiphone rules!
Definitely play this a lot before you buy it… you always should, but definitely do so with this…. The tremolo is always in the way, the knobs are hard to reach, and the tremolo is in the way again …. The neck is GLOSSY AS HELL. Like im wondering if the neck is just gloss with a rosewood fretboard….. it feels cheap. It sounds pretty good, and I like the mini buckers…. But the neck is wacky as hell ….. it does look sexy as hell……. Looks are 10/10
I don’t know what it is about these guitars… something in the construction, perhaps, but they consistently remain some of the worst sounding guitars I’ve ever heard. I’ve really tried to like them, but they just sound ratty, devoid of clarity, anemic, and so absolutely piss-poor, whether played clean, or overdriven. Thanks for posting.
Shows how completely subjective tone is! I think some people love the very qualities you've described negatively, and would use completely different words to describe the tone. Anyway, I doubt you would like these narrow HBers in _any_ guitar (personally I love 'em). Maybe you'd like this body with the P90s - or with wider HBers.
@@pbasswil Yes, tone is subjective; that said, inordinately greater numbers of people “subjectively” like HB, Strat, and P-90s (all of which I adore) more than the relative few who like these mini-hums. Pickups aside, I’ve got them in a guitar that sounds really good - everybody was loading ‘em in to inexpensive models 10 or 15 years ago. The Firebird mini’s are, however, a different game altogether. Variety is the spice…
@@vampyros1 Ha, I always seem to like the minority choice, in all fields. I like less popular bands, less popular cars, less popular books/websites, and I never vote for the candidate who ends up winning. Anyway, vive la differance! Cheers.
