New Epiphone Grabber and Vintage Gibson Grabber comparison! How does the new Epi stack up?!

Hey gang! Thanks for tuning in! This guitar Spotlight features your old pal Clay pitting a brand new Epiphone Grabber Bass against a vintage original 1978 Gibson Grabber! Aesthetics and an array of sounds between both are compared in this deep dive into the Grabber!

Time Stamps:

0:00 - Intro
2:03 - Visual/Aesthetic Comparison
12:42 - Epiphone Full Power Clean
13:10 - Gibson Neck Clean
13:34 - Epiphone Full Power Clean w/ Pick
14:01- Gibson neck clean w/pick
14:32 - Epiphone coil tap clean
14:59 - Gibson bridge position clean
15:24 - Epiphone clean coil tap w/ pick
16:27 - Gibson bridge clean w/ pick
16:53 - Gibson neck w/ overdrive
17:32 - Epiphone full power w/ overdrive
18:13 - Gibson Neck Overdriven w/ pick
18:50 - Epiphone full power overdriven w/ pick
19:28 - Gibson bridge overdriven w/pick
19:54 - Epiphone coil tapped overdriven
20:22 - Gibson Bridge Overdriven
20:56 - one more round of Epiphone
21:35 - conclusion

Let us know your thoughts by leaving a comment below!!!

All bass guitar sounds generated using a Line 6 helix with the Cali400 ch. 1 amp model and clawthorne drive overdrive model.

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[jjerkamillo]

Much better follow-up video, thank you for taking your viewer's opinions into consideration!

[RussInCanada]

Epiphone completely missed the point. Grabber means you can grab the pickup and move it.

[TSBASSIST]

I think if Epiphone wanted to make the new Grabber more comparable to the original, they should have included a 3-way toggle to go between north coil, south coil, and both in humbucking

[lakselv]

Ngl that when you coilsplit that Epiphone, it sounds super good.

[echopark]

I’ve got the new black one and it’s amazing. Just as good if not better than the original

[michaelblaney]

Im not a fan of having a music man size humbucker i this bass 😮

[strongbad]

Can't believe I'm saying this, but I thought the Epiphone sounded better 🤷

[gabyartes]

The price is outrageous for an epiphone

[Joe.Shmo.Eskimo]

While it's annoying that we don't get the proper sliding pickup, at least they used a music man sized pickup so that way it'll be easy to swap it out for a pickup that you like and get a solid tone out of it

[fdetaboada]

People complain but in this comparison, I hear almost no reasonable distinction between these two basses.

[DMSProduktions]

Both sound good, BUT the Gibbo still sounds BETTER! A lot fuller with more low freqs coming thru! BETTER pick up!

[anotherstart]

I restore the originals, I’ve done Many of the Gibson. The original neck is the worst design they ever did. Looking forward to playing one and see the modern construction

[ZachShannon]

I think that all the visual differences, while relatively minor, add up to tell you just how little effort they put into this. Gibson/Epiphone have always treated bass as a second class instrument, and this just makes it all the more obvious. It sounds good, I'm sure it feels good, but it's not a Grabber, and it's disappointing to see one of my favourite styles of bass have so little justice done to it.

[greendayray]

So the mike dirnt version has 3 pickups but no natural finish option…and the standard epiphone version only has the one pickup option…why epiphone? Why?? Lol

[bro-im-just-walking-here]

i would've liked if the pickup was slidable & the neck was 34, 5 inch like the original, but that said to my ears the Epiphone just sounds better 🤷‍♀

[-eye-willy]

$1000 FOR AN EPIPHONE BASS? you can get an actual Used gibson grabber for that much