Epiphone SG Standard VS Gibson SG Tribute

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Guitars Used:
Epiphone SG Standard
Gibson SG Standard Tribute

Amp Heads Used:
Hughes & Kettner TriAmp Mk II
Fender Super Sonic 22
Friedman Runt 50
Marshall Origin 50
Orange Rockerverb 100 Mk III

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:20 I Already Know The Common Comments
01:09 TRY THE GUITARS FOR YOURSELF!
02:01 5 Sound Samples
02:17 Hughes & Kettner TriAmp Mk II |Clean |E Standard
04:00 Fender Super Sonic 22 |Trying To Be Joe Walsh |Eb Standard
05:12 Friedman Runt 50 |Mountain Rock |Drop C#
06:24 Marshall Origin 50 |Fake Punk |Drop C
07:36 Orange Rockerverb 100 Mk III |FULL ON METAL |Drop B
09:54 Similarities and Differences
17:09 About The Epiphone

[IndyRockStar]

Bought a used Epiphone SG Pro, loved it, and it made me want the Gibson SG. I bought the Gibson SG 61' Reissue. I bought a new Epiphone Les Paul Custom, loved it, and once again it made me want to the real Les Paul Custom. I ordered the Gibson Custom Shop LP Custom from Sweetwater today. Love the Epiphone and Gibson. An Epiphone is in different class of guitar and great for what it is. I will use both my Epiphones and my Gibson guitars. It completely depends on the quality of the venue I'm playing.

[Olegstuff]

I think the main differences in sound are due to the Alnico 2 Gibson and Alnico 5 (probably) Epiphone pickups.

[davidcarson]

Got an Epiphone sg Inverness green with p90s about 2 yrs ago. It's open grain wood finish. Absolutely love it....

[michaeld]

You have some very good riffs, throughout your channel. Great timing and imagination.

[sidgb]

My take on it is epiphone guitars are good enough if you don’t have the budget for a Gibson. I don’t know why they’re built Epiphones in China 🇨🇳 because Indonesia 🇮🇩 is the best place for affordable Far Eastern made guitars that do rival the quality of USA made guitars.
The bottom line is the two guitars being reviewed today will need some work to get them perfect and I’ll take a low end Gibson over high end epiphone any day of the week.

[jimmyjames]

Great playing demo! Like to also note that the Gibby has plekked frets. Agreed it's best to try before buy, even within the same model from one individual to another there's bonding for one and not the other. I'm a sucker for Gibson natural grain body woods (LP and SG) and I'm ok with nitro satin but I try to only buy used as new Gibson prices in Canada are unaffordable. About the neck flexibility, SG neck tenons are really too short in general though Gibson has slightly longer ones for some models, maybe Epi SG tenons are particularly short.

[greggaravet]

Great review, I own both and have gig with them. The biggest difference to me is in the neck. The thicker neck of the Gibson is more comfortable over a long gig than the thin neck of the Epiphone. I also had to work on the frets of the epi But did not have to with the Gibson, due to the plec. That said once the Epiphone was properly set up it plays very nice. If the tributes were still available from Gibson, I would get another one.

[AngelMartinez-qscf]

Hey you're right on target regarding the comments. Thank you posting this. You once said, that you didn't like Epiphone Guitars. I have the SG '61 Re-issue, and the SG Special Ebony with P90s. Love those guitars. I wanted to get an Epiphone, but I don't know, It's been a while since I tried Epiphone guitars. What I found is that based on what I played their pickups are cheap. I've played an Epiphone Les Paul Studio and a Gibson Les Paul Studio, and I can honestly the Gibson sounded and felt better. The Epiphone Les Paul Studio I feel it's like the little train that could: I Think I Can, I Think I Can. But No. The clarity and sound was better on the Gibson. Is it worth the $1699 that I paid for it? Probably not. Thank you for doing the comparison.

[charleslanphier]

They sound equally awesome to me so I showed this to my friend Jimmy Page and Jimmy said he couldn't tell them apart either. Then w e took some heroin and worshipped Satan who also plays an SG btw, a black one of course. Then me and Satan and Jimmy sat around talking guitars for a while. It was fun.

[crypticreality]

Excellent original riffs as always. The Epi gives the Gibson a run for their 💰 sound wise. Obviously fit and finish are where the Gibson runs away with the blue ribbon

[IndyRockStar]

The Gibson T SG seems to have more mid range growl. I think I would give the edge to the Epiphone sound in this comparison. It would likely come down to feel for me.

[sniffrat]

Sounded as near as makes no difference the same to my (tin) ears. Great playing mate

[TheGhostGuitars]

Just my opinion. The Gibson sounds better in the clean, but where the rubber meets the road, its the Epi with it's stronger mids that cuts thru better in the mix when yer playing with any amounts of gain. The Gibson in compariaon gets more and more muddier as ye add more gain.

My pick is the Epi, especially if metal is in the playlist. Whilst the Epi may not have a sweeter voice for the cleans, I can work with it thru the use of some pedals, like an EQ.

[TheGhostGuitars]

I know what ye mean, mind ye this is with some Strats. I have a lot of Strats, but the surprise is that the 3 Strats I bonded to the most are not the ones one would think are premium guitars. My #1 Strat is a 1980s Stage CS-327 Strat Copy. My #2 Strat is a 2003 Squier SE Stratocaster. My #3 Strat is my 2000 Fender Starcaster S1. My 1992 Fender Mexican Standard Stratocaster and my 2010 Fender Japanese Standard Stratocaster are #5 & #7, respectively. What's #6? My 2008 Squier Standard Stratocaster.

[crypticreality]

If one were looking for a 50-100 wart combination amp, playing the style such as you do (which is similar... but not as good as yours), what amplifier would you recommend? ORANGE, MARSHALL, PEAVEY, ETC?

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[benwright]

Is the body exactly the same size and shape and thickness?

[shawn_ten_toes]

I have nothing against epiphones, but I also didn't bond with an Epiphone SG I bought a few years back.

[csabaolah]

Hi! My Epiphone Les Paul is always out of tune when I bend the G string. Its horrible.

[SajidWaikhom]

Epiphone has some undesirable boomy lower-mid frequency to my ears. Gibson 490 pickups sound very balanced and yet ballsy at the same time.

[stockholm]

A guitar that doesn’t stay in tune is *not* a good guitar. Period.