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H Everybody. Welcome again
to one of the videos by Loudest reviews
Today we're going to be showing you
a re issue of the Epiphone Wilshire
This a classic design that Epiphone
started doing in the early 60s.
Originally came out with some other
humbuckers, the P90 single coils
Later on on 65, 66 they
they switch to this type of humbucker
the mini humbuckers
and that became a classic among rock artist
From Jimmy Hendrix, to Jhonny winters, Paul Gilbert
and it became really
after it got discountinued
a very sought after model
One of those in the vintage market, it will cost you
a lot of Doe, probably 5 to 10 grand for one of those
60s Wilshire models
and they actually sound amazing
This is without a doubt
a faithful reproduction of those
or at least one that sound really, really great
All right!. It's sounding a little loud in the studio
We're rocking!
As you can see the Epiphone Wilshire
excels when using distortion
and the bridge humbucker
I particularly love the very balanced
a little compressed sound
that of course has to do with the Fender Tone master
that I'm using now
It's a classic, you know, Marshall distortion
I think it particularly sounds amazing
with the minihumbuckers
in the bridge position
I'm going to play some other
power chord so you can
hear the distorted sounds that you may use
From classic rock, to more modern rock
even to some heavy styles
where you could apply, heavy, heavy distortion
to this humbucker
Combination of both
and when you go to the bridge
a little more mellow
If you don't hit it hard it will sound
less bright
This is more of a sound for soloing that I will try now
It sounds pretty interesting...
I like it!
If you want it you could
get a lot of harmonics
by doing the guitar thing
I think this is a guitar, could be use for any
rock style, wherever you're into blues
or more hard rock
The bat, the batwing
it looks a little bit like a batwing
and it gives it a retro look
that seems very cool to me
I like the appeal
you have the gold letters of Epiphone
and of course the classic logo
it features in this model
die cast tuners
I found them
in my few tunning sessions here at the studio
that they are very very precise
and they do not move
they don't let the string get out of tune very easily
I tend to check for tunning all the time
having played with guitars that go out of tune
very easily
and I have to say that this one stays in tune
perfeclty well
You'll have to abuse it a lot
so it could go out of tune
also the headstock angle helps a bit
to keep the tunning in place
The guitar is made out of Mahogany wood
the body and the glued in neck
In this case the finish we have is the
worn cherry red
Of course the fret board is Rosewood
Very balanced, when you switch
from one to the other
Neck
The combination of both
and now
the bridge
This is a little more
High sounding
and something else I really like about the guitar is that
when you use the combinationof both
each volume and tone
That's marked with the letter V and T
Of course this volume and tone correspond
to the neck pickup
and this two to the bridge
They can be combined
kind like a mixer
If you reduced the volume
It adjust exaclty the amount of volume you provide from
each microphone to the output
All in all, I would name this Epiphone Wilshire
re issue that Epiphone has
very generously sent over, we're going to send it back
don't worry, shortly
a winner. This is a winner guitar for sure
very inexpensive, affordable for all kinds of
guitar players
and it provides with quality of a very expensive guitar
Another important thing to mention
is that it's a very light guitar
I used to have a teacher that said
anything that's heavy is good. and I kind of agreed
with him
most guitar players
think that a heavy guitar is a good guitar
This would be an excemption
this a very light guitar
that sounds amazing
and it's very well constructed
Without a doubt I 'd give it a shot
and test it if you have a chance to do so
See if it fits your style
Most probably will. Because
it's a versatile instrument
that can be used
in most any style i'd say
Signing off, once again
Gervasio
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