The quality control of Epiphone has improved over the last 18 months. They can be quite a good guitar. However I went shopping for a new guitar recently and heard nasty things about Epi pickups. I tryed a 2002 Epi Les Paul custom and it sounded great until we cranked the volume on the amp and it howled like a love sick wolf gazing at the moon. Not nice. The guitar itself was great but the pickups made me spend my money on something else.
Re: Epiphone....are they really that bad?
The quality control of Epiphone has improved over the last 18 months. They can be quite a good guitar. However I went shopping for a new guitar recently and heard nasty things about Epi pickups. I tryed a 2002 Epi Les Paul custom and it sounded great until we cranked the volume on the amp and it howled like a love sick wolf gazing at the moon. Not nice. The guitar itself was great but the pickups made me spend my money on something else.