Epiphone Elitist Tak Matsumoto Les Paul Standard

Epiphone Elitist Tak Matsumoto Les Paul Standard Guitar Review :: Electric Guitar Reviews

fully professional-quality

The ultimate Les Paul Standard, featuring a quilt-maple top and abalone fingerboard inlays – equipped with Gibson USA-made Burstbucker pickups, which are coverless humbuckers with “zebra” black and white coils, designed to replicate the pickups on the original sunburst Les Pauls of the 1958-60. This guitar features Green Keys by Gotoh tuners, rosewood fingerboard with abalone inlays, 1-pc Mahogany neck set at the 16th fret, 22 frets, 1-11/16″ nut width, 24-3/4″ scale, Book-Matched Quilt-Maple top, and Book-Matched Mahogany back.
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Sound of Epiphone Elitist Tak Matsumoto Les Paul Standard

• clean sound;
• enhanced resonance;
• the neck Burstbucker is so woody, warm, full, and articulate;
• the bridge pick up is loud and hot, and the neck is nothing but warmth;
• these are way more fluid and full sounding with a Hendrix-y bite to the neck BB2;
• no hum or electronic issues.

Pros of Epiphone Elitist Tak Matsumoto Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar

• long tenon neck which is only found on Gibby Custom Shop models now;
• you could play anything you want on this guitar;
• awesome playability;
• the binding sure gets lots of points;
• very solid, dependable for years ;
• close to a LS-150 ;
• these japanese guitars have long neck tenon and quality for less than half of their American made counterpart;
• might outstand the gibson;
• the bridge pick up is loud and hot, and the neck is nothing but warmth;
• almost identical to the LS100 or higher models in the Love Rock line.

Cons of this Electric Guitar

• lacking the nasal qualities of single coil pickup guitars.

Amps & Effects used by users – Fender Bassman, Marshall tube amp