Les Paul or SG? (Page 2 of 2)

BrownSound wrote:

I admit you will over-pay for a Gibson LP, but you will get a hand-crafted finish and a human to do QA on it.  With an Epi, you get a mass-produced ax with no QA.  However, it's up to you whether it's worth the price-drop or not.
Did I mention I wanted ALL the Epiphone Zakk Wylde models?

Sorry.  I think I am going to be sick.

Rock on!

For one, my Epiphone SG sounds better than a stock Gibson, and it's BONE STOCK. It DID come with active EMG pickups, I'll admit, which helps a LOT. The EMG's will outburn the Gibson pickups everywhere, in my experience. My Epi has also had NO problems, unlike a few of the Gibson Les Pauls I've played and literally had the tone knob fall off in my hand. It's a solid-feeling guitar with a mahogany neck and body, rosewood fretboard, set neck construction and flawless finish. I think it's damn good for ANY brand name. From what I can tell, it's kind of like the SG version of the Zakk Wylde LP's. I prefer the SG shape over the LP style, I think it's more ergonomic and better looking. I honestly don't see what the hype about the Les Paul's are. Don't get me wrong, I love them and I want one, but they are certainly not the be all end all of electric guitars.

SGinCYQX wrote:

BrownSound wrote:

I admit you will over-pay for a Gibson LP, but you will get a hand-crafted finish and a human to do QA on it.  With an Epi, you get a mass-produced ax with no QA.  However, it's up to you whether it's worth the price-drop or not.
Did I mention I wanted ALL the Epiphone Zakk Wylde models?

Sorry.  I think I am going to be sick.

Rock on!

For one, my Epiphone SG sounds better than a stock Gibson, and it's BONE STOCK. It DID come with active EMG pickups, I'll admit, which helps a LOT. The EMG's will outburn the Gibson pickups everywhere, in my experience. My Epi has also had NO problems, unlike a few of the Gibson Les Pauls I've played and literally had the tone knob fall off in my hand. It's a solid-feeling guitar with a mahogany neck and body, rosewood fretboard, set neck construction and flawless finish. I think it's damn good for ANY brand name. From what I can tell, it's kind of like the SG version of the Zakk Wylde LP's. I prefer the SG shape over the LP style, I think it's more ergonomic and better looking. I honestly don't see what the hype about the Les Paul's are. Don't get me wrong, I love them and I want one, but they are certainly not the be all end all of electric guitars.

Or we could get rid of all electrics and replace them with nice lil Martin acoustics..get an effects pedal if you need to hear that weird screamo sound.  A solidbody is cut out of a solid piece of wood with a bandsaw in about 2 minutes and has some holes drilled in it, it gets painted and off it goes.  An acoustic has to be bent, glued, inlayed and all kinds of shit, painted, laquered... which takes about 21 days if done by hand.  The end product is better and better sounding

Tibernius wrote:

I play a no-name Les Paul style guitar, never played an SG, but I'd go with the LP. It's much more versatile. Les Pauls have been played by bands from Kula Shaker to System of a Down.
If you get an SG you are pretty much limited to Rock and Metal.

Try these, decent quality and very cheap:

www.wesleyguitars.co.uk

Um, no. Not even close. I play blues, jazz, metal, rock, even classical on an SG. Derek Trucks plays blues on an SG. It's the player, not the guitar. Les Pauls are really not that versatile, neither are SG's. They will always sound comparatively darker and moodier than guitars with SC pickups. If you have not played both, you really don't know, I'm afraid.

I prefer an SG to a Les Paul, but I'd advise that you don't get either. First off, they are both overpriced and secondly, they are overpriced. Both are great guitars of high quality and most have a great sound, but I think you could get a comparable guitar for half the price. I Play a Schecter C-1 with Seymour Duncan pickups and I did a side-by-side comparison of my guitar with an SG-Standard and I think that my Schecter is a superior guitar that plays and sounds better (I bought a sweet tube amp with all the money I saved too!).

SGinCYQX wrote:

I highly prefer SG's.

I Think SGinCYQX only prefers SG's because he probably has a cheapo copy of one, perhaps an epiphone..polar white maybe with EMG pickups.  Les paul is by far better, especially if you get a semi-hollowbody.