Epiphone Les Paul Studio Review | BELIEVE The Hype?

Deep dive review of the Epiphone Les Paul Studio. Is this an amazing guitar for the money... will it suit you and just how good does this guitar sound and is it good to play?

Chapters:

00:00 Quick unboxing
00:20 Coming up...
00:30 A WARNING - Epiphone can change the specs?!
00:50 First Impressions + body thickness measurement
01:27 The New Epiphone Kalamazoo Headstock
01:47 Body materials
01:54 What about the Gibson Les Paul Studio?
02:15 The Sweet Tune-O-Matic Bridge and Stop Tail Bridge Piece
02:25 Epiphone Alnico Classic Pro Pickups & Inside the Pickup Cavities
02:36 Three way switch quality
02:41 Scratchplate - on or off?
02:58 Fretboard material and quality
03:14 The tuners - what are these doing on here?!
03:46 The Nut
04:06 The neck profile & measurements
05:06 Studio vs Traditional Pro fret edges
05:50 The set neck comfort
06:08 Let's get picky about Q/C!!!!
06:28 Inside the Pots cavity.... CTS?
06:47 Pickup resistance
07:16 Sound demo - Humbuckers vs Split Coils
09:23 Humbuckers Only - Clean Tone
10:01 Humbuckers Only - Overdriven
10:35 Weight
10:49 Overall Thoughts
11:15 Bonus - Fun Joe Perry Mod...!

[appetiteforguitar]

What do you think of the Epiphone Les Paul Studio? Let us know in the comments.... Also a correction - the pickups are Alnico Classic Pro Humbuckers. Still excellent sounding pickups.

[toddmcmakin]

I own one of these and have owned it for maybe 6 months now. It's a very nice playing and sounding guitar, especially for the price. It's a little less articulate than some other LPs I own, but it has a very nice warm tone that is appealing. The fit and finish on mine is just about perfect. I did just a little filing on the nut slots, but the frets were great and well polished (an issue I have had on many of the Epiphone guitars I have purchased). Overall, I'm impressed! The coil tapping also sounds pretty good on this guitar. Thanks for the great review! As a reminder to anyone buying these, make sure to adjust the pickup height to your liking before forming an opinion.

[Redleg]

Terrific thorough review. Not too many other reviews would have taken off the pickups and showed the actual measurements.

[LeopoldShitzalot]

The Epiphone Pro buckers are made the same exact same way and with the same exact materials as the Gibson burst buckers and the pro buckers are highly acclaimed pickups

[HeartYougdda]

As you said, in the specifications of the guitar, Epiphone writes that the tuning machines are Grover but I and so many other people when we bought this guitar realized that they are Wilkinson instead. Do you know what happened?

[LeopoldShitzalot]

Epiphone was restored back to premium brand back in 2019/2020 by JC Curliegh.. epiphone was never meant to be a budget brand in the first place and they weren't until Norlin ruined them when they took over Gibson..JC Curliegh ends that BS in 2019/2020

[JGAbstract]

Ive only ever owned fender styled guitars. But i played the wine red in stores. I want it.

[robertoalfalla]

Nice Review! Thanks! I just Started learning guitar at 65 years old... have a nice fender DG-60 to learn on and I'm thinking this for my 1st Electric... Your thoughts?

[whiterat]

Going to take your word for it and order one soon cos I love the look - I have a 2 Gibson Juniors and a Gibson Custom and never totally got the hype for the money - prefer my Tokai LP Custom to play and hoping this new Epiphone is equally as good

[richierick]

Do these have treble bleed circuits?? I just played one in guitar center and the way it cleans up with just the volume knob is incredible. My Les Paul custom doesn't even clean up so nice

[patrickbryant-cncy]

I have the same model with the wilkinson tuners. I don't have the g-string tuning problems people complain about. The darkness of the top also differs. Mine is darker than some others. The pickups are on the warmer side as stated, but are full and rich. I've only had to adjust intonation slightly on the d and b strings. My favorite sound with mine is the clean channel on a Mesa dual rectifier amp sim and celestion greenbacks with a tube screamer used as a boost.

[yarriddictus]

Wait it has splits coils? I own this guitar and never knew haha

[aircraftnut]

I was given one for a wedding gift this year. I was sad to realize mine didn’t have coil splits 😢

[barshivan]

Bro i want to buy one of these and it seems pretty well but in turkey economy is not very good so one of these are 18000 turkish liras it makes like 650 dolars now my question is if i buy one of these can i use it more than 2 years and is ist worth the price because this will be mine First electric guitar and i want to buy something good

[rigodon]

Got this as well! Very happy about it. Might mod it but nothing wrong with. Just one thing tho: these are not Probuckers but Alcnico Classic Pro (it says it on the back of your pickups as well: "ACP"). These aren't the same as Probuckers.

[Waqq]

A wine red epi studio was my first guitar that i got on sale for about $400 usd and i could not have asked for a better guitar to start off with. The bit of extra money spent above the sort of $200 starting point from squire/epiphone goes a very long way

[HeartYougdda]

Amazing guitar like your review! You are for sure one of the BEST web reviewer

[hollyc]

you got ripped off lmao. wilkinson tuners are like 1/4th the price of grovers. and why are they all scratched?
dont get me wrong, they're great quality tuners, you're definetly paying for the name on the Grovers but I'd still be pretty annoyed if I didn't get a discount because I could've just sold those grovers or put them on another guitar and bought the wilkinsons for like 20 dollars on amazon.

[kjmdrumz]

I’d be pissed if my guitar was supposed to have Grovers and it came with Wilkinsons. Sorry.

[dadkingcoffey]

The gibson smokehouse burst looks so much better