Epiphone Les Paul Standard
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“Epiphone have always made good guitars,” the “father” of Les Paul Lester Polfuss once praised the Gibson subsidiary, and few people since then are ready to question his word. The Epiphone LP Standard is a really good instrument, built in the best Gibson Les Paul tradition, but much cheaper than it in price, since since 2002 Epiphone branded guitars have been manufactured exclusively in China, in Qingdao at one of the Gibson factories.
<LP Standard will please with an abundance of body colours, of which the consumer is offered as many as four: Cardinal red, Pelham Blue, Metallic Goldtop and Ebony, or to put it more simply: red, pale blue, yellow and black. By the way, most guitarists note that it was the black version of the LP Standard that turned out to be the most successful of the entire line. Either a batch of wood of higher quality went to it, or God knows it ... But not a single colour, as they say.
Body and neck
The body of the guitar is made from a single piece of mahogany, and even this tree can "sing" in skillful hands. Let's add here a glued neck from it and a rosewood fingerboard and we get the triumph of a dense oily sound with excellent resonance. On a clean sound, LP Standard sounds warm and gentle, and on overload it is dense and “meaty”.
Electronics and accessories
Closed Grover tuners and the Tune-O-Matic bridge hold the system stably, the scale is easy to tune, but the bridge and neck humbuckers with Alnico magnets, although they do not phon, sound rather weak and not very legible. Many musicians note that the sound of the Epiphone LP is more "blurred" than the original. On overload, this is almost inaudible, but playing chords on a clean sound turns into a mess, while on a Gibson every note is heard clearly. The problem is solved by changing the sensors. For example, the same "Seymour" (Seymour Duncan) humbuckers will add a dense growling midrange to the sound on overdrive, and, as some argue, will easily outdo Gibson in the belt and on a clean sound. However, you can go even further: change and shield the entire wiring and install “eternal” Gotoh locking pegs, so that even a very demanding and biased critic would have nothing to complain about.
Epiphone LP Standard is for those who want to play a real Les Paul, but are not ready to overpay for a big name.
