Sweetwater has the Epiphone Les Paul Prophecy Electric Guitar in Olive Tiger Aged Gloss on sale for $699. The other finishes cost $899. To me, the highlight of this guitar is the Fishman Fluence pickups. These are powered pickups, but not "active" in the high-output EMG sense; they offer three voices: vintage, modern, and single coil. In my experience, Fishman Fluence offers better and more diverse sounds than solutions like coil splitting.
Highlights from Sweetwater include:
Fuses classic Les Paul design with modern style, sound, and playability
Mahogany body with attention-grabbing carved hard-maple top — the tried-and-true LP tonewood combination
Multi-voice Fluence humbuckers provide vintage and modern humbucker tones, plus hum-free single-coil textures
Super-comfortable mahogany neck with an ergonomic asymmetrical SlimTaper shape
Fast-playing 12-inch-radius ebony fingerboard with 24 jumbo frets
Contoured heel makes accessing higher frets effortless
Ultra-modern weight relief for added comfort during marathon performances and extra-long sessions
The fishman pickups used to be available in the prophecy line of epiphone's, nice to see them being put in the lower end ones now too. This is a good deal on a great guitar! Thanks OP, thanks for posting.
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12-05-2022 at 02:54 PM.
FYSA, I ordered one of these this morning, and just got the call from Sweetwater confirming that I knew it was a back order (I did). I didn't know ETA though, I assumed maybe a few weeks out, but it looks like the estimate is Feb-March before the backorders are received and ship out. It is a rough estimate given guitar backorders are all over the place ever since the pandemic... just thought anyone considering backordering this would be interested in the *rough* ETA.
I have 2 Gibson Studio LP's and this still really interests me. It combines a lot of modern specs that I love. Any Gibson Les Paul players have experience with these 'modern' versions they'd like to share?
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I know, flooded with Fender's. I noticed that too.
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