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The Greco EG 800 (Les Paul Copy) Part 3: The Full Sound Demo!

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(PART 3 FEATURES SOUND EXAMPLES)
Time to check out my newest(old) guitar! This three part video series will tell you all about my experience buying a 1977 Greco EG 800 Les Paul Copy from Japan, via Reverb.com
In this third and final part, I'll show you how the guitar sounds, from clean sounds right through to screaming lead tones.
The signal chain is the Greco EG800 into my Line 6 Helix using an Impulse Response I made from Redwirez MixIR program. Amp modeling a Hiwatt, then a JCM800.
If you'd like to check out the seller I bought it from:
reverb.com/shop/shen-ye-s-gear-outlet

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25 авг 2024

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Комментарии : 56

@backlom 5 лет назад

Just watched the Greco vs Gibson and heard the original pickups, I’d would reinstall the original pickups. Original punched through that amp.

@orenfisher8948 6 лет назад

Sounds better than most Gibsons I've played/heard. Good one!

@LucasFowler 6 лет назад

Thanks! I couldn't be happier with this guitar.

@johnipennie2021 5 лет назад

That guitar sounds beautiful. Thanks for letting me hear that clean tone Lucas.

@avjake 5 лет назад

The harmonics at 10:34 are just sick. What a great sound. I want a set of those pickups.

@jeffsmiley3213 6 лет назад

Awesome tones man!! Gibson or not.... I always say, "if it sounds good, it is good" !!!

@LucasFowler 6 лет назад

Thanks! I like this guitar as much as any Gibson I've ever played.

@slashingbison2503 4 года назад

A les Paul is a les Paul ... A good les Paul dosent need to have ‘Gibson’ on the headstock Many late 70s early 80s replicas are fantastic especially if you go for the mid range and above. Tokais are especially nice 👍

@wolfgangkocks6494 Год назад

That's probably the best clean LP tone I ever heard! No harsh, woody bridge pu and no wobbly, boomy neck pu! Amazing! Thanks for posting. I never cared the headstock logo at all. I prefer to invest in substance. To that I'm in keen love to my 1979 EG900 blacky:-)

@Paulmccarthy6801 11 месяцев назад

Awesome playing awesome guitar. Have to pick me up one of these bad boys.

@mohdnaim3488 5 лет назад

awesome neck pickup tone!

@LucasFowler 5 лет назад

Thanks!

@cheesefrogsnail 5 лет назад

Great sounds, really stunning...i have just won an auction on yahoo japan for the same guitar or so and i wish it sounds the same!

@matthewward5813 5 лет назад

That greco is the bees knees dude... sounds awesome so e tastey licks as well...subbed!

@westrose7525 Год назад

Nice lick man

@wolfgangkocks6494 Год назад

To all who ask the PUs. Lucas somewhen tells these are stock PUs, so due to the 1977 cataloque and a EG 800T model, these stock PUs are Maxon (Nisshin Onpa) U-2000, Alnico 5 PUs. Better known are the higher graded Maxon PAF (EG900) and DRY Z PUs (EG1000 = sometimes traded up to 600€ a pair!).

@slashingbison2503 4 года назад

Sounds great, love MIJs

@johnpulaski3293 5 лет назад

Davy Knowles riff near the end. Well done. I own three Grecos and love them.

@LucasFowler 5 лет назад

I have 2 now and I love them both, more than my actual Les Paul :P

@johnpulaski3293 5 лет назад

@@LucasFowler Is this a challenge? :)

@malcolmhardwick4258 5 лет назад

Same here and I'm eyeing up another one 😆

@jazzydog 4 года назад

Sound so fantastic!!.

@NitroHasGame 5 лет назад

Holy fuck that playing man! That guitars looks and sounds stunning!

@LucasFowler 5 лет назад

Thanks!

@johnipennie2021 5 лет назад

Also, I too agree. the original pickups sound best. Did you use that Helix on your Greco vs Gibson video? That amazing unit has endless amp configurations with easy perimeter control. That may be why I thought the new pickups sound different. They still sounded great, maybe the difference I'm hearing is the Helix! You're also I think a fantastic guitarist! I think you could make $100 guitar sound good. What a great guitar that Greco is.

@pocketsdoesstuff3880 5 лет назад

My suspicion is those pickups were Maxon. Possibly identical construction to Ibanez Super 70s, especially since what Ibanez did was basically throw a new name on pickups that already existed, which I believe were made by Maxon. What research I have done claims that in their day, a lot of people loved them and those that didn't tended to swap them out for DiMarzio's. Somewhere I read that if you feel like they are too microphonic, wax potting them can fix that. But I think their being microphonic may have only been an issue when they had the metal covers on them anyway.

@666kiker666 4 года назад

awesome sound you have there dude!

@LucasFowler 4 года назад

Thanks :)

@vaughnwebbermusic 5 лет назад

Awesome guitar

@LucasFowler 5 лет назад

Thanks!

@cool555breeze 3 года назад

Prices have SKYROCKETED this past year...

@tuco8734 2 года назад

Awesome, I bought a Greco EG500 Super Real from 1979, love it . These guitars have gone up in price considerably the last year or so , still a bargain compared to a Gibson though.

@IamtheActionman Год назад

They have gone up big time. I'm eyeballing an EG800 and it's up there at almost 900 USD. I'm in Canada and our dollar sucks atm so I'm looking at over 1200 that's with shipping and possibly duty.

@randallmarshall593 3 года назад

Awesome tone. Thanks for the videos. Can you demo it with just a Marshall and no extra effects for a stripped down listen? Also how much difference do you hear in person of this guitar vs your 3 pickup guitar?

@smflyboy 5 лет назад

That sounds fantastic. Would love to get my hands on one of these. Looking around right now. What size strings are you using? 10's? 9's?

@LucasFowler 5 лет назад

I use 11's on almost everything. Thanks!

@smflyboy 5 лет назад

@@LucasFowler Thx! I use 11's also, but 10's are more comfortable for my bends. Enjoy your videos! I was up late last night looking at Greco's haha.

@Shafano 6 лет назад

Hey bro could you please do a video on how you have your line 6 helix setup? I really like the tones you get out of it and im thinking of getting one in the near future probably the LT model.

@LucasFowler 6 лет назад

Absolutely!

@Shafano 6 лет назад

@@LucasFowler Thank you so much brotha!!!

@LucasFowler 6 лет назад

No problem. Prince Vegeta for life!

@omarcusihuaman4261 5 лет назад

I got one and because of that i don't care of any gibson les Paul. Eg800 '72 i rescue it from a local evil reseller here in Peru, he doesn't know untill this day what guitar is this.

@malcolmhardwick4258 5 лет назад

Does it have the pancake body build ? Not that it matters much as it sounds fab ☺

@allphase 4 года назад

I would like to know if body is pancake too? Pancake= excellent tone/sustain! My 74 LP Custom 20th Anniversary body is pancake. So is my Rick Turner Model 1... I just purchased a Greco EG 800GS Gold Top with P-90’s to add to the collection!!! 🥰😄👏🏼

@waynefrench6611 3 года назад

Yep. He did mention in one of his other vids it’s a pancake body with a maple neck. He didn’t mention a volute but it probably has one as he also said it’s essentially a copy of what Gibson was kicking out of the factory at that time (1977)

@adityap8746 3 года назад

Absolutely awesome sounding Greco! Have you faced the the usual tuning issues on the Greco that Gibsons are apparently known for?

@LucasFowler 3 года назад

I haven't run into any tuning issues, but I did eventually change the tuners to locking grovers, for ease of string changing.

@adityap8746 3 года назад

@@LucasFowler Thanks Lucas! Appreciate the response.

@luiszamot9711 3 года назад

Can you leave the link of the seller of this one?

@bryanborghi 5 лет назад

which pickups have this guitar?

@ErebosGR 6 лет назад

The neck pickup reminds me of Petrucci's Flight of the Bumblebee and I wouldn't change it, but the bridge pickup sounds to me very generic and nondescript. Maybe a Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates replacement? ;) Sweet tones and a great guitar, nonetheless!

@LucasFowler 6 лет назад

I'm considering going the 70's route and putting a Dimarzio Super Distortion in there :) (with a series/parallel switch of course)

@ErebosGR 6 лет назад

Not really a fan of the Super Distortion (apart from Al di Meola's tone) but I'm sure you'll make it sound awesome.

@LucasFowler 6 лет назад

I wouldn't use something like a Super Distortion for all my pickups needs, but this guitar does have kind of a 70's thing going on...I do quite like Seymours, Pearly Gates sound great, maybe even a Custom 5!