EPISODE BREAKDOWN: 0:00 - Start 0:07 - Opening Jam 1:06 - Intro Monologue 2:10 - First Glances: Headstock and Fretboard 5:02 - Second Jam 5:39 - First Glances: Body and Control Layout 11:29 - Pickups/Switches Tone Test CLEAN 12:24 - Pickups Tone Test GAIN 13:02 - Treble Bleed Circuit Test 13:34 - Final Thoughts/Verdict
EVERY SINGLE RUclipsR NEEDS TO DO THIS!!!!!! Thank you for people who click on wondering about certain aspects and don't have a lot of time. GREAT REVIEW, I think I will pass and save a little extra and....I'd rather have something I can trust, as I'm just learning.
Thank you for this, this helped me decide whether or not I'll be buying this guitar, and I will! I'm gonna go for the one in white. Thanks again for this it was a huge help!
Excellent review. You are a fine player, but allowed the guitar to display itself very well. Thanks. I appreciate the fact that you played without a huge slice of metal overdrive, etc. all the time. I just ordered this model from my pals at Sweetwater in the Metallic Salmon [gold]. Good luck.
Thanks for your compliments! Yea I do love stompbox effects, but I try to keep it at a manageable level, especially for these guitar reviews, you know. Sweetwater has good guys over there and their gear has never disappointed! I'm sure you're going to enjoy it.
Really like how you do a test - especially how you go through the pickup combinations with a very consistent, straightforward riff. In fact I think it's the best I've seen. So now I'm in the market - maybe your green one will show up on a used guitar sales site.
Disagree, certainly keep the Epi headstocks for the Epi models but the Gibson style models just need to Squier up and match the book. Great playing, great review.
This was an excellent review! Seems like a fantastic Epiphone release. I really like the pickups in the muse and of course the colors are wild. The phase switch is a great tonal option in my opinion, but I very much appreciate your take on each feature and complete honesty. Thanks again for a great in depth review.
I just bought the Joe Bonamassa Norm Burst Epiphone. Have not opened the box yet because I wanna document the unboxing and initial play quality. I wanna pick up one of these Muse SGs too though.
ive heard some hype about the JB models but never got a hold of one.. did they nitro lacquer that model? yea you cant go wrong with these i dont think.. less than 500 even with tax
great video i’ve been looking into one of these for a couple months now, just found a local retailer who has one in stock, gonna check it out asap, thank you!
Got a pearl white SG Muse coming Fed Ex tomorrow - $20 off and 12 pay with no vig made it a no brainer. I had my "real" guitars stolen decades ago and after replacing some with newer albeit cheaper guitars I don't think I'm really missing much as far as that "vintage" BS. I have a $350 Classic Vibe Strat (squier) that is stupid good and hard to match at the $800 level; the Gretsch Electromatics are SICK at about $500 especially the Duo Jet one with a Bigsby on it. So, instead of putting down $1200 to $1700 on my old stolen SG - now beaten and dinged at Norms Rare Guitars (lol) well - I'm going with this Muse and going to see if it can fill the SG niche in my herd. At my age my brain is tapped so I figure my SG pups should be, too. 🎸
nice the pearl white looked awesome online too.. yea i love my 61 reissue gibson but i also had a $200 squier that i played a ton of gigs with a loved it haha.. def not the pricetag that makes certain axes great..
I bought a red Epi SG Muse because I tried the Epi Les Paul Muse but wanted to be able to reach all of the notes all the way up to the highest frets on every string & I already own a 1960s reissue Epi Les Paul Standard Maple Fade & wanted to get some different sounds. I really like the C shape neck & that the frets are slightly spaced closer together making it easier to play for my smaller female sized hands even in the 1st to 4th fret positions. On my Les Paul I tend to play not so much lower than the 3 & 4 frets because on chords, my smaller than male size hands, I can't reach some of the chords and I am forced to play mostly Barre chords instead of open chords. But I can do everything on my Epi SG Muse. They're not kid's size guitars but the Epi SG Muse & Epi Les Paul Muse are very women friendly play wise. Oh, & many of the colours are appealing to women and girls. One thing I would get for the Epi SG Muse is a strap that doesn't slid on your shoulder to keep the guitar from taking a nose dive because the head stock and neck are heavier than the body. I found this out when I played my Epi SG Muse in church. It was very distracting and caused me to loose concentration while playing. Buying a better strap with suede padding to stop the nose dive from happening ASAP.
Great playing. Did you hold your pick like that before Chris Buck. Ha. My guitar teacher back in 1965 taught me to do that. Played a 1971 sg in the glory days, to me, this sounds better than les Paul muse. Great job.
Funny thing you mention it being a modern SG without 24 frets, for about 500 you can get my axe of choice the SG Modern with 24 frets and locking tuners. But I want one of these babies too, they come in so many colors.
@Sawbones Quad Where can I get the varying colours on the SG Modern 24 ? I have only found the modern 24 in a brown to charcoal Burst color ? I like the 24 frets but on an 22 fret SG you can get the notes easily playing slid or have your neck modified with a neck extension addition of 2 more frets running from the neck heel to the neck pickup but you lose the neck plate. It is a luthier experienced fretjob that does not run much $. The neck scale can stay OEM with the frets extending from the 22nd fret on to the 23rd to the 24th fret with the added fretboard extension lying over the body from the neck heel to the neck pickup as you see the fretboard butt up to the neck pickup on 24 fret guitars with 24.75 to 25 to 25.5 scale lengths.. The mod can be cost effective and if you know luthier works/ arts craftsmanship, then the modification is a breeze. Now the SG Modern 24 fret model, I do not know wether it has a 24.75 or a 25 or a 25.5 scale length ready to go for just approximately $50 to $75 more than 5he $500 Epiphone Muse SG and LP 22 fret models. You can do all kinds of mods on guitars to extend fret ranges but it's simply easier to do with a bolt neck rather than a set neck and providing your neck heel has a gap between the neck heel and the neck pickup. The thing is the colour choices. I am thinking maybe a Pearl White or Almond Metallic Muse and I do not know about the colours available on the SG Modern 24. I know I do not want Black or usual same o' same o' colours. Champagne Metallic would look GR8T or Blind the eyes and mind ! ! ! 😎😁 Peace & Play On Fret Bro . . . 😎🤘🎸👍 DDHarris 5-8-2020.
@@donaldharris8826 Unfortunately, I wish they had the Trans Ocean Fade the Gibson varieties have as well! But I love the black for the metal Iommi meets Adam Jones aesthetic!
I enjoy your playing and sound man, playing like a slide player, for which Derek Trucks comes to mind. 😎 I like the SG fret access up and down the neck over that of the LP, I wish the SG had the LP Headstock and the SG Tuners as options on both models of the muse. I am gonna get myself one within the next couple days. I just gotta decide on the colour SG. I will slick the back of the neck up without using lubes, but maybe sand and polish the back of the neck finish into a satin finish. OMG man I cringe every time I see someone bend a set neck back and fourth, especially depends on the tilt back angle of the headstock. 😵 I got hit in the head by a neck that snapped because of whammying the neck. 🤭 I have a LP that I put one of those string trees on so that all the strings come out and away from the headstock straight out from the nut so the strings have no Hang ups in the nut slots issues, and they work great. I have heard that these guitars have high fret, buzzing issues, but I know you gotta play the wracks out and adjust the new guitars out and go from their. I can always send a guitar back and get another one if the neck has issues, especially with the frets. The neck and it's fretwork are the 1st and foremost of importance on any stringed instrument in the playing of such IMHO ! ! ! I got great fretwork guys and gals that I know and trust to get my axes to attain to their lowest possible no buzz playing action, because I can always change the action, string guages and setup intonation, especially to play slide or play in alternate tunings. GR8T Video Demo and Musicianship Joey Anthony ! ! ! Peace & Play 🎸 On Fret Bro . . . 😎🤘🎸👍 DDHarris 5-7-2020.
Thanks so much Donald! I appreciate your kind compliments :) I know there’s so many cool colors to choose from! You’ll enjoy it for sure. Let us know which one you went with when it comes in :)
Joe i bought one 6 mo ago im not thrilled with the color it was the only one they had pink but it dose play well.. my question is sustain i dident think the sustain was that good on mine, and im not sure how to set this guitar up .. thank you for you honest review any help would be great..
Great review of the guitar! Do you know what's under the extra plastic piece between the neck pickup and the fretboard? Like would the guitar still look fine (except for the extra screw holes of course) if you took that piece off to make it look more like a normal SG, similar to like taking the pickguard off a Les Paul?
Trogly took that piece off and it looked good. Everything was painted, no seams or anything like that. It would look just fine without that extra piece - sans the screw holes of course, lol. I assume they put it there for the sake of tradition.
I have strats, lps, a tele I was just wanting to get a sg to have the 4 body styles. I looked at the Muse at GC and since it was a new version I was hesitant to buy. Your vid made me really think about getting one , so did it holdup to your expectations....?
I liked it yea! I’m a little more, “traditional” in the guitars I keep. So, personally I like something with a little more “vintage vibe”. But, the Muse played really nice. I didn’t have any fret leveling issues like some people had awhile back. And the metallic finish is siiick, I think.
Thanks buddy. Great review. I did an impulse buy on Ebay. I bought my buddy the Scarlett red job. Looks tits! Has a 61' pickguard. This thing looks cool .My buddy just bought bar and I figured that he needed a new axe.
I bought in almond gold I love it yes there’s things but that’s epiphone I love the jack on the side it not in the way The other is the show custom better quality I love it I love the both Prices 👍 they are worth it
The Epiphone website says the tuners on the SG Muse are Epiphone Lightweight 3+3 18:1 but you said they were Grover tuners. Really doesn’t matter but I was curious
I just checked Epi's site again to see, and yea you're right now it doesn't say Grover 18:1 anymore. That's interesting. GC, MF, and ZZounds still says "Grover 18:1 Rotomatic" but Sweetwater has them listed as "Epiphone 18:1". At the time of the video, I'm pretty sure I pulled the specs from Epi's site to be sure I was reading from them. I wonder if that's something that has changed, or if I misread at the time. Got me curious too Nick haha. Thanks for the sharp eyes.
Man you did your homework very well spoken now the shaft get a screwdriver and in between the shaft stick the screwdriver to widen the tip the knob should go in pretty snug
Joey Anthony Guitar does it have the flat bottom that other Epiphones have? I tried a couple of SGs at a Guitar Center, and didn’t like the D shaped neck.
Epiphone calls it a Custom C profile. To me it feels like a Standard SG shape (with that thinner feel) mixed with a 60's Les Paul shape (giving it that slightly more rounded quality).
EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
0:00 - Start
0:07 - Opening Jam
1:06 - Intro Monologue
2:10 - First Glances: Headstock and Fretboard
5:02 - Second Jam
5:39 - First Glances: Body and Control Layout
11:29 - Pickups/Switches Tone Test CLEAN
12:24 - Pickups Tone Test GAIN
13:02 - Treble Bleed Circuit Test
13:34 - Final Thoughts/Verdict
EVERY SINGLE RUclipsR NEEDS TO DO THIS!!!!!! Thank you for people who click on wondering about certain aspects and don't have a lot of time. GREAT REVIEW, I think I will pass and save a little extra and....I'd rather have something I can trust, as I'm just learning.
The Epiphone sounds like a winner and that green sparkle finish looks great. Your guitar solo was amazing. Thanks for doing the videos.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the Muse video series!
Thank you for this, this helped me decide whether or not I'll be buying this guitar, and I will! I'm gonna go for the one in white. Thanks again for this it was a huge help!
The white is pretty sick looking! Thanks, and enjoy Matthew
I got this In white also. The black around the pickups make it stand out to the rest I feel. Great guitar
Ending jam sounds like the strokes I dig it!
Excellent review. You are a fine player, but allowed the guitar to display itself very well. Thanks.
I appreciate the fact that you played without a huge slice of metal overdrive, etc. all the time.
I just ordered this model from my pals at Sweetwater in the Metallic Salmon [gold]. Good luck.
Thanks for your compliments! Yea I do love stompbox effects, but I try to keep it at a manageable level, especially for these guitar reviews, you know.
Sweetwater has good guys over there and their gear has never disappointed! I'm sure you're going to enjoy it.
Excellent review! Loved that you kept the playing simple to allow us to really see the difference. Definitely buying it 🔥
Very good review. Nice and calm. I ordered the purple passion sg now for my glamrock band. I hope the tuners are metal and not plastic...
I love your review style. Very nice and calm voice and pleasant to watch. Thank you for your hard work.
Really like how you do a test - especially how you go through the pickup combinations with a very consistent, straightforward riff. In fact I think it's the best I've seen. So now I'm in the market - maybe your green one will show up on a used guitar sales site.
Disagree, certainly keep the Epi headstocks for the Epi models but the Gibson style models just need to Squier up and match the book. Great playing, great review.
haha i respect the phrase “Squier Up”. thanks for the compliments!
This was an excellent review!
Seems like a fantastic Epiphone release. I really like the pickups in the muse and of course the colors are wild. The phase switch is a great tonal option in my opinion, but I very much appreciate your take on each feature and complete honesty.
Thanks again for a great in depth review.
Thanks Michael! Yea I think Epi knocked it out of the park with these. Great piece of gear.
Bought this exact one, love everything about it
Super pro SG review! Yeah ! very well done ! We look forward to your next guitar post!
Thank you!
Great playing and review. Thanks. That green looks awesome 👍🏻👍🏻
thank you! glad you enjoyed
yea it does look sweet
Tasty playing and great sounds!
My 2020 SG had that same issue on the binding. There were several high frets too. I had them fixed and the guitar is playing well.
How you fixed them??
I just bought the Joe Bonamassa Norm Burst Epiphone. Have not opened the box yet because I wanna document the unboxing and initial play quality. I wanna pick up one of these Muse SGs too though.
ive heard some hype about the JB models but never got a hold of one.. did they nitro lacquer that model?
yea you cant go wrong with these i dont think.. less than 500 even with tax
great video i’ve been looking into one of these for a couple months now, just found a local retailer who has one in stock, gonna check it out asap, thank you!
You’re welcome Darek! Enjoy!
Got a pearl white SG Muse coming Fed Ex tomorrow - $20 off and 12 pay with no vig made it a no brainer. I had my "real" guitars stolen decades ago and after replacing some with newer albeit cheaper guitars I don't think I'm really missing much as far as that "vintage" BS. I have a $350 Classic Vibe Strat (squier) that is stupid good and hard to match at the $800 level; the Gretsch Electromatics are SICK at about $500 especially the Duo Jet one with a Bigsby on it. So, instead of putting down $1200 to $1700 on my old stolen SG - now beaten and dinged at Norms Rare Guitars (lol) well - I'm going with this Muse and going to see if it can fill the SG niche in my herd. At my age my brain is tapped so I figure my SG pups should be, too. 🎸
nice the pearl white looked awesome online too..
yea i love my 61 reissue gibson but i also had a $200 squier that i played a ton of gigs with a loved it haha.. def not the pricetag that makes certain axes great..
I bought a red Epi SG Muse because I tried the Epi Les Paul Muse but wanted to be able to reach all of the notes all the way up to the highest frets on every string & I already own a 1960s reissue Epi Les Paul Standard Maple Fade & wanted to get some different sounds. I really like the C shape neck & that the frets are slightly spaced closer together making it easier to play for my smaller female sized hands even in the 1st to 4th fret positions. On my Les Paul I tend to play not so much lower than the 3 & 4 frets because on chords, my smaller than male size hands, I can't reach some of the chords and I am forced to play mostly Barre chords instead of open chords. But I can do everything on my Epi SG Muse. They're not kid's size guitars but the Epi SG Muse & Epi Les Paul Muse are very women friendly play wise. Oh, & many of the colours are appealing to women and girls. One thing I would get for the Epi SG Muse is a strap that doesn't slid on your shoulder to keep the guitar from taking a nose dive because the head stock and neck are heavier than the body. I found this out when I played my Epi SG Muse in church. It was very distracting and caused me to loose concentration while playing. Buying a better strap with suede padding to stop the nose dive from happening ASAP.
Great playing. Did you hold your pick like that before Chris Buck. Ha. My guitar teacher back in 1965 taught me to do that. Played a 1971 sg in the glory days, to me, this sounds better than les Paul muse. Great job.
Thanks Dale! Yea I gave Chris' "claw" a solid try for a few months haha.
My teacher taught me to put it between index and middle finger. Anyway, ama subscriber now.
Funny thing you mention it being a modern SG without 24 frets, for about 500 you can get my axe of choice the SG Modern with 24 frets and locking tuners. But I want one of these babies too, they come in so many colors.
@Sawbones Quad Where can I get the varying colours on the SG Modern 24 ? I have only found the modern 24 in a brown to charcoal Burst color ? I like the 24 frets but on an 22 fret SG you can get the notes easily playing slid or have your neck modified with a neck extension addition of 2 more frets running from the neck heel to the neck pickup but you lose the neck plate. It is a luthier experienced fretjob that does not run much $. The neck scale can stay OEM with the frets extending from the 22nd fret on to the 23rd to the 24th fret with the added fretboard extension lying over the body from the neck heel to the neck pickup as you see the fretboard butt up to the neck pickup on 24 fret guitars with 24.75 to 25 to 25.5 scale lengths.. The mod can be cost effective and if you know luthier works/ arts craftsmanship, then the modification is a breeze. Now the SG Modern 24 fret model, I do not know wether it has a 24.75 or a 25 or a 25.5 scale length ready to go for just approximately $50 to $75 more than 5he $500 Epiphone Muse SG and LP 22 fret models. You can do all kinds of mods on guitars to extend fret ranges but it's simply easier to do with a bolt neck rather than a set neck and providing your neck heel has a gap between the neck heel and the neck pickup. The thing is the colour choices. I am thinking maybe a Pearl White or Almond Metallic Muse and I do not know about the colours available on the SG Modern 24. I know I do not want Black or usual same o' same o' colours. Champagne Metallic would look GR8T or Blind the eyes and mind ! ! ! 😎😁 Peace & Play On Fret Bro . . . 😎🤘🎸👍 DDHarris 5-8-2020.
@@donaldharris8826 Unfortunately, I wish they had the Trans Ocean Fade the Gibson varieties have as well! But I love the black for the metal Iommi meets Adam Jones aesthetic!
Awesome ! Thanks.
Same here on treble bleeds
Nice review - thanks. Can you get a P90 sound from any of the coil tap combinations?
Thanks! To me it didn’t feel like a P90 with any of the combinations.
I enjoy your playing and sound man, playing like a slide player, for which Derek Trucks comes to mind. 😎 I like the SG fret access up and down the neck over that of the LP, I wish the SG had the LP Headstock and the SG Tuners as options on both models of the muse. I am gonna get myself one within the next couple days. I just gotta decide on the colour SG. I will slick the back of the neck up without using lubes, but maybe sand and polish the back of the neck finish into a satin finish. OMG man I cringe every time I see someone bend a set neck back and fourth, especially depends on the tilt back angle of the headstock. 😵 I got hit in the head by a neck that snapped because of whammying the neck. 🤭 I have a LP that I put one of those string trees on so that all the strings come out and away from the headstock straight out from the nut so the strings have no Hang ups in the nut slots issues, and they work great. I have heard that these guitars have high fret, buzzing issues, but I know you gotta play the wracks out and adjust the new guitars out and go from their. I can always send a guitar back and get another one if the neck has issues, especially with the frets. The neck and it's fretwork are the 1st and foremost of importance on any stringed instrument in the playing of such IMHO ! ! !
I got great fretwork guys and gals that I know and trust to get my axes to attain to their lowest possible no buzz playing action, because I can always change the action, string guages and setup intonation, especially to play slide or play in alternate tunings. GR8T Video Demo and Musicianship Joey Anthony ! ! !
Peace & Play 🎸 On Fret Bro . . . 😎🤘🎸👍 DDHarris 5-7-2020.
Thanks so much Donald! I appreciate your kind compliments :)
I know there’s so many cool colors to choose from! You’ll enjoy it for sure. Let us know which one you went with when it comes in :)
Joe i bought one 6 mo ago im not thrilled with the color it was the only one they had pink but it dose play well.. my question is sustain i dident think the sustain was that good on mine, and im not sure how to set this guitar up .. thank you for you honest review any help would be great..
Great review of the guitar! Do you know what's under the extra plastic piece between the neck pickup and the fretboard? Like would the guitar still look fine (except for the extra screw holes of course) if you took that piece off to make it look more like a normal SG, similar to like taking the pickguard off a Les Paul?
Thanks! You know I'm not too sure honestly. Unfortunately I don't have the Muse anymore to test out the results for you. So I can't really say, sorry.
Trogly took that piece off and it looked good. Everything was painted, no seams or anything like that. It would look just fine without that extra piece - sans the screw holes of course, lol. I assume they put it there for the sake of tradition.
I have strats, lps, a tele I was just wanting to get a sg to have the 4 body styles. I looked at the Muse at GC and since it was a new version I was hesitant to buy. Your vid made me really think about getting one , so did it holdup to your expectations....?
I liked it yea! I’m a little more, “traditional” in the guitars I keep. So, personally I like something with a little more “vintage vibe”.
But, the Muse played really nice. I didn’t have any fret leveling issues like some people had awhile back. And the metallic finish is siiick, I think.
Thanks buddy. Great review. I did an impulse buy on Ebay. I bought my buddy the Scarlett red job. Looks tits! Has a 61' pickguard. This thing looks cool .My buddy just bought bar and I figured that he needed a new axe.
I bought in almond gold I love it yes there’s things but that’s epiphone
I love the jack on the side it not in the way
The other is the show custom better quality I love it I love the both
Prices 👍 they are worth it
The Epiphone website says the tuners on the SG Muse are Epiphone Lightweight 3+3 18:1 but you said they were Grover tuners. Really doesn’t matter but I was curious
I just checked Epi's site again to see, and yea you're right now it doesn't say Grover 18:1 anymore. That's interesting. GC, MF, and ZZounds still says "Grover 18:1 Rotomatic" but Sweetwater has them listed as "Epiphone 18:1".
At the time of the video, I'm pretty sure I pulled the specs from Epi's site to be sure I was reading from them. I wonder if that's something that has changed, or if I misread at the time. Got me curious too Nick haha. Thanks for the sharp eyes.
Joey Anthony Guitar yeah! I thought I saw it listed as Grover 18:1 on this too. I know the Les Paul Muse has Grover 18:1. Anyways thanks for the reply
yea I wonder if its a change over or a typo. Interesting stuff. Thanks again man!
but does it hold tune?
Man you did your homework very well spoken now the shaft get a screwdriver and in between the shaft stick the screwdriver to widen the tip the knob should go in pretty snug
Good idea! I Teflon taped the shaft and it tightened up. But the screwdriver thing would be good to try. Thanks!
Do you still have that guitar
14:22 - "it's a solid guitar". Was this a pun?
Haha I forgot that I said that
Does it stay in tune?
Where is made this guitar? Thanks
China I believe
Hey
I’ll buy it from you
So sorry Jack, she sold several months back.
I’ve heard the neck profiles on these are like Music Man. Is this true?
not sure.. ive never had the chance to play a MM..
but i can tell you that the neck on this is a little more rounded than the neck on my Gibson ‘61..
Joey Anthony Guitar does it have the flat bottom that other Epiphones have? I tried a couple of SGs at a Guitar Center, and didn’t like the D shaped neck.
Epiphone calls it a Custom C profile. To me it feels like a Standard SG shape (with that thinner feel) mixed with a 60's Les Paul shape (giving it that slightly more rounded quality).