Is The Epiphone SG Special Satin E1 Any Good?

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@ChefAndy972 Жыл бұрын

I sold off my guitar collection when i found out my wife was pregnant. The only guitar i kept was a squier mini strat with the hopes my son would want to play some day. He picked it up a few months ago and has been jamming ever since. His 13th bday is coming up, so i took him to the guitar store to look at a bunch of guitars. We played just about everything on the wall. I was thinking squier, jackson, ibanez or something along those lines. He was kinda meh about all of them... The sales guy brought out an SG, and he fell in love. I said this is the guitar Angus young from ac/dc plays and he plugged it in and played back in black. Hah i had no idea he even knew that song (or who ac/dc was). He looked up at me with a big smile and said i want this one, but i want a red one. Tbh, this guitar wasnt even on my radar, i didnt know they even made one at this price point. I picked it up yesterday, cant wait to see the look on his face when he opens it up!

@Crypticmaskguitar Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome! I’m sure he’ll love it! Cheers -Ryan

@michaeld2716 11 ай бұрын

Dude, I have this exact guitar. The neck feels great, and finding a slim taper D is not easy. You have rocked at 4:35. You have some of the best original material. Thanks for sharing.

@Leon.16 Жыл бұрын

I started to play guitar 3 months ago again with my old 3/4 size Squier guitar which I got when I was like 6 years old and never got into playing it back then. Now 11 years later I buy this Epiphone and I finally have an idea what playing a solid guitar feels like!! Thanks for the review, I love this guitar and it's also quite cheap but still good!

@RickeyMathisII 11 ай бұрын

I have a SG... but my love is my three quarters Ibanez...and a 3200 R G Ibanez with Floyd Rose

@ralssii Жыл бұрын

2:23 you throw it so smooth omg😭

@fixitmyself 3 ай бұрын

Excellent review. And just as you called it, I bought mine to mod it. Grover tuners, Tusk nut, Gibson Classic 57s, CTS pots and an orange drop. I'm $900 into it. But here is the thing, I'm in Canada too and as you know, the cheapest Gibson SG is $1800 at L& M. My little $900 rocker plays every bit as good as the Gibson. I did spend about 30 minutes cleaning up the frets. I should mention that. And one more edit, as I was putting this all together this weekend I knew something was missing. I went back to L& M and picked up the same knobs that came on the original 61. 😅

@Crypticmaskguitar 3 ай бұрын

The Gibson gear knobs are basically the same as the “Musiclilly” ones on Amazon. You can usually get them for $10 Canadian. In case you go to buy them again in the future. Cheers -Ryan

@frankdardano3182 29 күн бұрын

A SG is cool, no matter who makes it. The incredible neck looks like an aircaft carrier. TOTAL ACCESS to the frets, like no other guitar. I bought a Gibson SG standard. Have a 81, ?es Paul custom, but I was around thirty when I got it. It looks brand new, but its too heavy for a over 70, like me. Love to play, even to tv commmercials. No more audience,stacks of Marshals,headaches, managers ripping me off,motel rooms,etc. I have a couple little Fender frontman amps, and a English session amp with a twelve for jamming in clubs.Like your tone, original stuff, much better to me then playing along with the record. I heard you , and you are good, and play sounds I like. Turn it up, maestro!

@MJPGuitar 3 ай бұрын

I bought the walnut one and threw a Gibson Dirty Fingers in the bridge that I had laying around. Awesome guitar for the money.

@massiveonigiri Жыл бұрын

love the review, im a intermediate guitar play, my current one is a ibanez pgm, but its a mikro, glad to see that this guitar is getting good reviews from every video

@jaymelynnmcintyre8574 11 ай бұрын

Awesome review and I think true and honest! I have 2 specials and unlike a few KZbin reviewers I've never gotten junk ones and I've never had to pay more than 50$ for a set up! Like some of them talk about in the 100$ lol you did a great review..and yeah I'm a gigging musician

@j7cc 8 ай бұрын

Always nice reviews. Enjoy the playing. Good demo's. 🤘🎶🎸✌️😎

@scottmuir5773 Жыл бұрын

I have the same guitar but mine was made in INDONESIA AND IT IS BRILLIANT

@palmergriffiths1952 7 ай бұрын

Same with the one I have but I did some upgrades on it. I changed out the tuners with Grover Rotomatics and the Bridge pickup I replaced with a Seymour Duncan Pegasus

@Stevierschannel 8 ай бұрын

I bought the Special Satin as the first electric and I followed it up with the Epi P90 a couple of months later. If anything, the Special is a great addition to anyones collection, and great for shredding when you want to crank the distortion and muck around. IMO, it is one of the best choices out there for its price range and features.

@unclebob4208 4 ай бұрын

I have the same guitar. As a Epiphone LP fan I was shocked at how thin the neck is. I put Vanson Alnico 2's in it. Pots and poly tone cap are fine quality. I almost always reach for it now, and not the LP.

@birdman316 Жыл бұрын

great playin bro! i checked out the same model at the guitar store after wrk today... checked out a similar one as well...same pricetag...but liked this model better... might visit GC on my next day off and carry a couple of strat models to see if i can trade em in on one of these...

@birdman316 Жыл бұрын

i took a bit of a beating on the 2 trade-in models but emerged happy n wildeyed with a epiphone traditional pro sg in gold yay yaa!!

@AdamAfterlife 5 ай бұрын

Imma be honest seeing the finish on the Gibson SG and the pickguard vs the pickguard on the Epiphone SG and Satin finish makes a big difference to me.

@brianpark492 10 ай бұрын

Killer tone from the Fender.Joe Walsh meets Kings X.👍

@DrunkenRhinoceros Жыл бұрын

Epiphone makes very nice guitars, especially considering many use gibson hardware.

@Crypticmaskguitar Жыл бұрын

The ones I have played so far have had some Mojo, for sure! I think you mean that some have Gibson Pickups with CTS Pots. Epiphones are made in China, so they use the Metric Counterparts to the Gibson Bridges. Cheers -Ryan

@jeremy2189 6 ай бұрын

Thinking of getting one of these and modding the hell out of it

@Crypticmaskguitar 6 ай бұрын

That's always my thought when I see these guitars haha! "Only for beginners???"... "Watch what I do to this one!". Cheers -Ryan

@BoundaryElephant 11 ай бұрын

All this shredding on a $290 guitar proves that, these days, there is no reason to spend more than $1000 on a guitar unless you just want a name or a custom model affiliated with a celeb or a historical model.

@Crypticmaskguitar 11 ай бұрын

You don’t need to spend over $1,000 to get a guitar that sounds like a guitar, that’s for sure. But when it comes to comfort, longevity, and fulfilling personal preferences: That’s when breaking that $1,000 mark might come into play. But as always it varies from player to player. Magic comes in all prices! Cheers -Ryan

@sercastamere9853 6 ай бұрын

Very very INCORRECT. Inflation has already pushed high quality ETHICALLY MADE guitars outside the $1000 range.

@deivys20071 6 ай бұрын

I have one of those :) If I want to upgrade the humbuckers, what do you recommend I put in?

@tyretro22 2 ай бұрын

Duncan Invaders pair well if you like some really heavy shit 😂

@jaymelynnmcintyre8574 11 ай бұрын

Exactly I thought the same thing it feels like a Jackson

@cepuner1131 10 ай бұрын

What gauge on your string?

@hermannpauwells1473 11 ай бұрын

first song name?

@Crypticmaskguitar 11 ай бұрын

I just make this stuff up as I make the videos… you are free to give it a name if you’d like. Cheers -Ryan

@125grizzle 8 ай бұрын

I have a couple of the Epiphone Les Paul Specials and one of these SG Specials. The guitars have the same electronics and same bolt on neck design. All have had to be setup and have had the tuners swapped out, which is a must. Really impressed with how well you can get these things to play. They stay in tune, have low-medium action and are fun to play. However, the SG just doesn’t have the balls that the LP’s have…sounds very thin. The only difference, other than body shape, is the SG is poplar and the LP’s are mahogany or mahogany like wood. The difference is crazy. I even swapped pickups and pots to see if it was the electronics. Put them in a different guitar and they sounded killer. Probably going to sell the SG…some guitars just don’t have “It”…no matter what you do to them.