I bought this epiphone. OK guitar. Sounds pretty decent acousticly. Had a good price. electronics. Sweet that's what i need. It replace a fender acoustic electric that was pretty cool but did not like microphones. I played the thing in the store for about 20 minutes, just dicking around. I rent a rehersal space from this store, so I'm in there all the time and I have a good relationship with them. When I was playing it in the store i just didn't bother to plug it in. Every acoustic-electric pickup and preamp sounds like crap to me. As long as it has a couple bands of EQ I can run it into my Art tube MP and my amp and get a decent sound. "I really don't care" is what i said to matt when he asked if I wanted to plug it in. bad mistake.
Well, the preamp just didn't work. So I take it back and 2 months later I finally got it back. Epiphone no longer uses that particular pre-amp and after much haggling by the store, they finally send out a replacement under warranty. The tech manages to get the different preamp installed with out having to make any changes. OK great I have my guitar back. First I recorded it miced up with the 603's I just got that same day (good timing, very happy day for me.. lol) and it sounded pretty good. A nice workable guitar sound, almost surprising from a $400 guitar. But i got this guitar mostly for live use. Plug it in, tweak the EQ.. man that sounds sweet ripping through the tube mp. (relativly speaking still sounds like crap cause that what acoustic-electrics are) I play a few songs, working on my acoustic set. I'm pretty happy, then i start to realize that the high e strings volume is about twice as loud as the rest of the guitar. so much so that it is utterly useless for some tunes. So now I'm just kinda stuck with it. I guess maybe I could go through a bunch of crap with epiphone and the store and get something done about it, but that seems like wasting my breath. I'll go into the store today and talk to the owner about it, and see what my options are with them.
What could cause this problem in the first place? anyone had a similar experience? Is there something i could do to the saddle or with the pickup to balance out the strings a little? The lower strings are lower volume wise all the way through, not in a real noticable way, the high e string is the real problem.
shot myself in the foot with this one i did.
Well, the preamp just didn't work. So I take it back and 2 months later I finally got it back. Epiphone no longer uses that particular pre-amp and after much haggling by the store, they finally send out a replacement under warranty. The tech manages to get the different preamp installed with out having to make any changes. OK great I have my guitar back. First I recorded it miced up with the 603's I just got that same day (good timing, very happy day for me.. lol) and it sounded pretty good. A nice workable guitar sound, almost surprising from a $400 guitar. But i got this guitar mostly for live use. Plug it in, tweak the EQ.. man that sounds sweet ripping through the tube mp. (relativly speaking still sounds like crap cause that what acoustic-electrics are) I play a few songs, working on my acoustic set. I'm pretty happy, then i start to realize that the high e strings volume is about twice as loud as the rest of the guitar. so much so that it is utterly useless for some tunes. So now I'm just kinda stuck with it. I guess maybe I could go through a bunch of crap with epiphone and the store and get something done about it, but that seems like wasting my breath. I'll go into the store today and talk to the owner about it, and see what my options are with them.
What could cause this problem in the first place? anyone had a similar experience? Is there something i could do to the saddle or with the pickup to balance out the strings a little? The lower strings are lower volume wise all the way through, not in a real noticable way, the high e string is the real problem.
shot myself in the foot with this one i did.
