Modding An Epiphone Lp? |
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Modding An Epiphone Lp? |
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Nov 5 2008, 01:23 PM |
- Upgrade Tuners? Yes! Quality tuners will absolutely be of help keeping it in tune. Though, my Epi LP does well with the original ones. So let's say, if it's a problem to keep it to stay in tune then it's well worth it. - Change pickups? (any recommended p-ups?) Yes absolutely. The original pu's (at least on mine) are a bit smooth in tone. Does Jazz and blues very well, better than a lot of brand pickups IMO. But what I did was to move the bridge pu to the neck position and put a Dimarzio Super distortion in the bridge. For jazzy and softer tones I run the neck pu and for a rocker more gritty sound I use the bridge. You can add any combination of your likings. EMG81/85 is a populat choise. JB/59' or JB/Jazz another. There are so many. Find out what you like for your guitar to sound and you'll get plenty of suggestions from ppl here. - Maybe some aesthetic modifications (paint/decals/volume knobs...) Decals on a guitar spells u-g-l-y Paint will cost you a bit but knobs, pu frames and pots and smaller things sure. - Bridge (is it possible to add a vibrato to an LP model?) -+ anything any you guys at GMC think would be cool it's possible. I think Gibson has or is coming with a FR model. Spells the same as decals, u-g-l-y. Some Bigsby like would look better but I rather think of LP's with tuneomatic. You could change the bridge and string holder to a high quality one for maybe better tone. As I said before, I'm a complete noob. Any advice would be helpful. And if you think anything would work, could you plz give an estimate of the price. Obviously, if you don't think it's worth it, then say. No idea about the price. Probably not worth it for a modded Epi, it's not unlikely you could get a new Epi for the price of the modifications... but then you'd be stuck with two Epi guitars you'd like to mod -------------------- My bands homepage
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Nov 5 2008, 02:04 PM |
I'm not sure i would have gone through all the troubles of adding a vibrato (Bigsby vibs seems easy to install though) or aestetic modifications, but i can definetly recommend changing the pups and tuners.
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Nov 6 2008, 01:42 AM |
VOlume knobs, pickups and tuners should be replaced first, everything else requiers a bit more work. Also replacing everything with golden hardware can really look cool with the right color.
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Nov 6 2008, 06:01 PM |
Cheers guyz, some great advice there!
I'd forgotten how bl@@dy good the community is here at GMC! I think I'll get to moddin my LP soon! |
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Nov 6 2008, 06:46 PM |
I have a modded epiphone les paul, They guy that had it previously did it, pickups are seymor duncan, came out sweet, good tone.
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