Metalheads! Confess & Brag
I might be able to if I knew the commercial in question.
Leif
Adventurer
Okay, turns out I was wrong -- the commercial is actually from 2011. Here's a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I4xBCq_cpw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I4xBCq_cpw
Howlin' Wolf's Smokestack Lightning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXy7x9ynrQE&sns=em
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXy7x9ynrQE&sns=em
Leif
Adventurer
I was messing around on ultimate-guitar.com just now, and imagine my surprise to find this post(!):
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/showpost.php?p=32282211&postcount=11
Speaking of the dicussion there, I have an Epiphone SG Special, and it plays just fine. I also have an Epi Les Paul special, and sometimes the tuning machines slip a bit and just seem a little wonky. But my SG Special and my Epi Les Paul 100 (yes, I know, I own three Epis, alright? Sheesh!) seem to be free of these issues.
What I want is an Epiphone G400 with Grover tuners (sells for around $350.00), but the Guild S-100 with open-faced Grovers is also tempting, although it is about $450.00 more ($799.00). Both are made in east asia, the Guild in Korea and the Epiphone in China, Japan, Singapore, or somewhere over there.
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/showpost.php?p=32282211&postcount=11
Speaking of the dicussion there, I have an Epiphone SG Special, and it plays just fine. I also have an Epi Les Paul special, and sometimes the tuning machines slip a bit and just seem a little wonky. But my SG Special and my Epi Les Paul 100 (yes, I know, I own three Epis, alright? Sheesh!) seem to be free of these issues.
What I want is an Epiphone G400 with Grover tuners (sells for around $350.00), but the Guild S-100 with open-faced Grovers is also tempting, although it is about $450.00 more ($799.00). Both are made in east asia, the Guild in Korea and the Epiphone in China, Japan, Singapore, or somewhere over there.
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Between those two, I'd go with the Guild. I've heard nothing but good about 'em.
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Leif
Adventurer
I thought I'd post the Sweetwater catalog entries for both. Not the Epi is on sale for the rest of August.....
Guild:
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/S100CR
Epiphone:
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/EGGVWBCH
Guild:
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/S100CR
Epiphone:
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/EGGVWBCH
If you're buying sight unseen, I'd REALLY go for the Guild over the Epi. Anyone can make a gem or a lemon, but you can't tl without trying. Guilds are, on average, better made than Epis- though you will see Epis used by pros- and your odds are just that much better of getting an acceptible instrument with the Guild.
And Sweetwater has good policies, FWIW.
And Sweetwater has good policies, FWIW.
Leif
Adventurer
Oh I've been VERY pleased with Sweetwater! Ok, you've convinced me. I'll start saving up to get the Guild S-100, and stifle my unholy urges to buy yet another Epi. (It won't be hard, really -- I've already been doing it for months now. I've lusted after two different G400/G350 models for better than a year. Guess part of my brain knows what's what.
But dos the Guild have coil tapping? I've been reading about that recently, and I understand (was told) Thatcoil tapping is superior to coil splitting. Funny thing -- I have an Electra Phoenix that I bought new in the fall of 1983. It's got a S-H-S configuration and two tone controls with a push-pull function. What I don't understand is why it needs two push-pull knobs when it has only one humbucker. Could one be a coil split and the other a coil tap? Wouldn't having both on one guitar yield a division by zero error or something?
But dos the Guild have coil tapping? I've been reading about that recently, and I understand (was told) Thatcoil tapping is superior to coil splitting. Funny thing -- I have an Electra Phoenix that I bought new in the fall of 1983. It's got a S-H-S configuration and two tone controls with a push-pull function. What I don't understand is why it needs two push-pull knobs when it has only one humbucker. Could one be a coil split and the other a coil tap? Wouldn't having both on one guitar yield a division by zero error or something?
