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Interestingly, it's got quite a bright tone overall, was expecting it to be a bit darker, especially on the neck pickup. So in reality, it's not too dissimilar to my current guitar, but a bit thicker in the low end, so less of a harsh transition for me sound-wise. It's got tonal options for Africa with all the splitting/phase options, and the split coil cleans are particularly pleasant. Nice low and mid gain tones which I'd expect from the Epi Probuckers, which are pretty good alrounders; doesn't quite have the tightness for metal chugs like ceramics, but for what I'm playing these days (current band sounds like a combo of Jimmy Eat World and Paramore) some gain adjustments and harder noise gating has solved this.
Aesthetically, it's a real looker in the Mojave Fade, which IMO is the nicest colourway offered and it's the first Epiphone I haven't hated the headstock on (I'm not goin to go all singlecoil on it though
). Even the LP pickup-selector positioning, which is normally been my biggest hate about the design due to my tendency to strum towards the neck and constantly knock has been minimised by the body curves make it lower in profile to the point where I haven't yet found it as an issue. Plus, it's surprisingly light too and sits nicely slung mid-low which isn't normally for me, but seems to work nicely.Not sure if it'll replace my long-standing and much loved old Ibanez AXS32 (because the flat as radius on that thing is a joy to play) but it's certainly got a lot going for it.
