The Ultimate Gibson vs Epiphone Slash Comparison! 

This was the best comparison on these I've seen. Thank you!

I happened on the Epiphone Victoria goldtop at my LGS. Went in for a strat, but my son walked over with that goldtop and I just had to leave with it. It has turned out to be the best Les Paul I have ever played. It is much better than my Gibson Classic. The Classic sounds great, but I love that '57 neck on the Epiphone.

Gibson Anaconda in person, is absolute killah.

November burst is best!! Pickguard is a yes! That's part of the look of a les paul to me! I've been playing pauls since 1979!! Nice collection! Thanks for sharing!

Great vid!

For me it has to be the Gibson Anaconda I've wanted that guitar from the first time I ever seen that guitar.witj a very close second would be the Gibson November burst.

November burst was my favorite, Looks and sounded better.

TBH with or without this November burst looks amazing!

Nice comparison! I think the pickguard looks better with covered caps, in this case with uncovered pickups I would go with a fully nude look without the pickguard. November burst is a win!

Those are some bad assed tops ! No pick guard hiding that wood.

Nice professional video

nice video - ty

I wish I had at least one of them, even the Epi ones.

Ha! we have a few Epi's 2018's and 2019's. Been playing a Pelham Blue Trad Pro 3 Les Paul tuned to e flat. Heavy guitar. Beautiful. Through mostly 90's Peavey and Fender Frontmans. straight in with Monster Cable. L.A. Jam nighter. 300 plus jams! Rock, Blues. Cheers!

Just got a Novemberburst 😎

I like the vermillion and the anaconda but I would have to have a November Burst and an AFD before those. Thanks for the comparisons! I do want a Gibson November Burst above all though. No pickguards for me.

Great video particularly in terms of the colour and top differences. I saw some Epiphones hanging next to Gibsons at a store recently and the colours epi choose are just too saturated and look cartoony by comparison, their gold top interpretation is especially horrible and not a fan of laurel boards in terms of how dry they look. They sound very good and are a great choice if your budget doesn't stretch though. A bit of feedback if I may, I'd lose the music backing track, I found the repetition quite hard to listen to over course of the video, your voice was very engaging and didn't need support :)

How are the necks on these compared to the standard 50s? I grabbed a 50s standard cherry burst 18 months ago and love the thicker neck. On Gibsons site they list Slash's signature with a 50s style neck. But some reviews note Slash's neck isnt quite a 50s neck? Opinion? Thanks for the review, can tell the Epiphone's top is not the same quality.

I thought that the anaconda was going to be the best until you got a close up of that appetite burst and it’s the one man it’s just about perfect. All of them are excellent tops and I like the narrow flame too the November burst covers too much of the top to me. November and tobacco burst looks better on plain tops to me especially quirky plain tops with rings and knots ect.

That's to be expected... there should be a massive difference in all aspects when comparing two guitars with a $2700 price gap between the two. Wood quality and density, construction, materials, hardware, electronics. Both are great as mentioned and both are for different budgets.

At 16:18 where do you get "epiphone branded aluminum tail piece" from ? None of the Epiphone factory tail piece are aluminum. Gibson in the other hand used light weight advanced plating that could be aluminum.

Great job, great guitars, sonically the epis just dont get it done. I love epiphones. All of mine are Gibson/Duncan loaded. , but that Gibson feel is hard to replicate...

I have 2 Gibson LPs, 2 Epi Lps (one Vermillion). I agree that in sound the Epis are in the ball park. For me I find my Epis more than pleasurable enough to play and perform with.

Nice review but that Gibson Appetite top is nice but the quality of flame is very low for figured wood. I would expect much better flame for a high end guitar.

My favorite color out of the collection is the one that sounds and feels the best lol. But If I had a gun to my head? I would pick the Anaconda Burst. And it would be the Gibson. The green is just too cool and not as common as the others. Also, with the sound comparisons the Gibson Pups sound fuller, more rounded, and cleaner. I get that you can dial it in to get something similar, but I use my guitar tones and volume for sound most of the time. Pups as well as the wiring and pots are huge for me. Thanks for sharing.

Had a Epi Appetite Burst, and it was great, but this more orange than amber color very fast was too much for me ;-) Now I bought the Gibson and it plays & sounds better, the Flame Top is unbelieveable and the workmanship defenitely is some leagues higher than the Epi. But for the money you pay for the Epi, you get a more than good guitar!!! If I´d buy an Slash Epi again, I would prefer one of the other finishes, because they look more valued, than the Appetite. And: no pickguard ;-)

If the epis had either the Gibson slash buckers,or the Duncan Slash pickups or Duncan regular APH2 set they would have sounded much closer and if the Duncan slash pickups were used in the epis they might even get closer to the slash sound as that is what slash uses

No gold top?

No question that the Gibson's are no doubt where it's at. I'm definitely a Slash fan and a Gibson fan. However, for anyone looking for a guitar where they're gonna get a lot of instrument for their money......well. IMHO.....theres not a 3,000.00 difference (just guessing ball park). Great review! BTW....it may be me but maybe if you lay the instrument down across the scale, you may see a more accurate reading on weight? Just curious on thoughts about that? Have a great day to all.

The real November burst (Joe Perry 59) had a pick guard. Pick guard on.

The anaconda in my opinion has the best top, the vermilion the best fretboard, I think the vermilion have a thick red finish making the flames hard to see! The appetite have a lot of moviment, but in my opinion is lacking the waves! The November is really nice too, but I personally don't like the color!

Good comparison, but if someone's like me on a budget, I would get the Epiphone Slash because of the price point. Gibson are much better in sound, quality and a bit pricey, to some is overwhelming, overall good comparison on both guitars.

November burst nice sound

Amazing video, thanks for all the defails

All 👍👍

November w/ scratch plate !! Cheers !! ( gibby that is..)

Epi Appétite surprisingly for me. The light weight is bc its the golden age of chinese mahogany thats passed in Honduras w regulations China doesnt have

Gibson November No. 1 Epiphone appetite number two

Gibson Anaconda best look and sound

This a Epiphone Slash is a excellent guitar, however I think necesary change pickups to Seymour Duncan Slash. You must this comparation: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Pq5SacgNBiM.html

I have to admit that when I went in to get mine (see my profile pic), I was tossed between the November and the Appetite. My local dealer had one of each, and it really was a coin toss. They were similar in weight, feel, and tone. I have two 50's Standard Les Paul's, one in gold top and one in Appetite Burst. What, you ask? They don't make the 50's Standard in Appetite! I know, and I thought the same thing, so when this 2019 50's Standard came to my local dealer before the Slash models were announced, we all thought it might have been an unburst 60's finish. After speaking with the Gibson distributor, he could only say, "That wasn't supposed to get into the wild, I'll have to contact Gibson." At that point, the store said, "But this customer (me) has it on layaway." He informed them that he was obliged to let them know so that if the layaway did not go through, he would have to take it back. They called me, and I though I had a lot of time on layaway, I picked it up that day. It's my #1 guitar at 8.5 pounds, a gorgeous top, and a good story to boot. I have an Alpine White LP Custom I got a few weeks before the price hike, and that's the only Les Paul I own with a pick guard. Glad I got it before the price hike, because they went up by over a grand, and I saved $400 on mine, so the list price is $1600 more than I paid only a year or so ago! I love my Appetite, and I play it at most gigs now. You can find a video of me performing with it by looking for: Fitch & Company perform "Wanted Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi. I also link to a great video where I'm playing my 50's Standard in Appetite live at the end in a video called: When someone yells out for "Freebird" how does your band respond? [You can search for it that way as well.] I wasn't ready for the responses to that one, LOL. The title was more of a rhetorical question, and I got a lot of doozy responses. Some nice, some funny, and some downright mean! I guess it's the way of RU-vid comments sections. I would say that for future videos, consider the tone you're getting from the pickups. I'm listening on studio monitors and those bridge pickup demos were harsh at best. I couldn't see your guitar controls, but a slight roll-off from 10 to 9.5 or 9 would give you a less prickly and more smooth sound from your bridge the way the amp was set up. I rarely play with my volume and tone all of the way up, using them to control my sound on stage. You'd be surprised how wide open you can leave your amp if you have good volume and tone controls and use them along with pick attack. 4:23 I remove all of my pickguards (except on my Custom) and I just throw the screw back in. Makes it look less messy. You can see that in the Freebird video I mentioned above. If you feel so inclined, please give me a sub. I'm looking to reach more people, and it's the algorithm that we must feed. I have done the same for you as well. Thanks - Jim.

NOVEMBER BURST

i can't stand the comments here. the only difference between the gibsons and the epiphones that i heard was the gain that the pickups had. when will people understand that the actual impact of the frequency response comes from the amp and the speaker? that's why the all sounded great

Taking two years to cherry pick Gibson tops and comparing them to any old Epiphone top isn’t really a fair comparison. I waited for the perfect Epi November top and it dances like crazy. After swapping the pups for Slash’s own and a good set up, it’s a very sweet guitar for a third the price!

With my onstage performance I find Gibson's do not hold up as well as Epiphone ie not reliable. Their head stocks break more easily, plastic crumbles and I had a pick up fry in the bridge of a 1999 Gibson Les Paul Classic. Lower out put pickups respond better to pedals and effects. The output difference on these are negligible. I only play the Gold Top Epi Slash because I do agree with the flame tops not being pronounced. Which is strange because Epiphone puts much more aggressive flame tops on their non Slash models.

Didxmy own lil experiment with 7 epiphone guitars… save your money and get yourself a used newer Gibson Studio worth 100x the $$ in feel, sound, quality.

Can’t believe you drilled a hole in that. It’s a slash guitar. The hole dropped your investment by 50%!

Turn the volume up on the Ephiphons, they might sound like the Gibsons.

The Epiphons sounds dark

Gibson November Burst wins

Today these Ephis are at €599 and Gibson's at €2499. A BIG difference. 🤷

It’s such a shame Gibson cheaped out and put in house pickups in this line and didn’t include his legendary Signature Seymour Duncan’s. Low move imo. Especially considering the lash line of Epiphones had his signature SD’s and this line of Gibson’s didn’t. That’s seriously F€&ked up

Gibson tops are not all equal and have nothing to do with tone mainly that is the pickups.

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In no way is this a fair comparison... 3 grand to 600 quid. The Gibson all Def sounded much better, as God knows they should if someone decides to pay 5 times the price