Is this the Best SG Ever Made? Maybe... | 2019 Gibson SG Modern Collection Ebony Fade Review + Demo
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Today we take a look at the NEW for 2019 Gibson Modern Collection "Modern SG." This guitar really took my by surprise. While it might look like just the same old HP High Performance SG that was offered earlier in 2019, these are VERY different spec wise when you get into the key details. To say they are the same, would be a complete insult.
I really enjoyed this SG... except for the neck diving.
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0:00 - Intro - Check Links In Description!
0:27 - SG History
1:31 - SG Modern VS HP
6:28 - First Impressions
10:53 - Inside Look / Specs
16:18 - Tone Talk
20:00 - Tone Comparisons
25:36 - Final Thoughts
27:08 - Case + Candy
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Is this the Best SG Ever Made? Maybe... | 2019 Gibson SG Modern Collection Ebony Fade Review + Demo
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Just as an update, the neck dive issue on this is just because they moved the strap button to the upper horn for some reason. I have this model and moved mine to the normal location and all is well with the world. They have corrected this fairly early on in production. And they also changed the tuners to lighter weight non locking ones. Though the locking tuners don't effect mine now that I moved the strap button.
Over all, this one is a keeper for me!
Aha. That would explain the contradicting information and confusion I've seen in some places about the strap button and locking vs. non-locking tuners.
Looks like my dream SG!
24 frets filling up that awkward space between neck pup and neck.
Output jack on the bottom.
Maple top is a surprise and I love the fade finish and most importantly - NO pickguard!
Hope the whole is at least equal to the sum of the parts!
As a metal guy, this is the only 2019 that really caught my eye. All 24 frets are pretty east to get at. The finish is a lil over the top. Give me a classic Cherry with a bat wing pick guard with the same specs... sold.
Metal guy myself...cherry red and bat wing pick gaurd does not equal metal to me, it equals vintage/classic. They need to make this a little bit longer scale length
Yeah, i think this looks more "metal" than the classic look too. Classic look in cherry pretty much equals Angus. ;)
Done hearing tologites! Always end it before you say it
Unleash The Fury longer scale? I do not see any reason for that. 24,75 scale gives certain tone to guitar which in my opinion is more metal than longer scales have. Think Dimebag and many others. There are allready big collection of longer scaled guitars if you want strat or dj0ntstick tone. But that’s just my opinion.
Maybe reverse the colors on the classic with these specs, nice black finish on the body with a rich red bat wing pick guard.
I've been watching your videos... and you are reeeeally underappreciated, deserves so much more subscribers, so much information.
Those last two frets really improve the look of the SG. The gap between the neck pickup has always bothered me (particularly on the small pick guarded SGs). It looks so good. The flamed maple top is also a nice fancy touch (I really don't understand why the modern Les Paul doesn't have a flame top.)
Awesome bro! She's a beauty, Congrats! 🎸🎸👍
The versatility of this guitar while being top tier quality is absolutely insane
Best demo ever ! We have all the information possible. Thank you.
Another great job on a great guitat! I haven't owned an SG in a long time. Nice playing guitars. Thank you
Rick
Im literally drooling over this! Im surprised on the choice not to put the Locking Kluson Style Grovers, I feel like they'd look better!
Looks good on ya Trog. Thanks for a great run through.
Great in-depth review. I wish there more of these! Thanks for posting.
Thanks! You are truly the Rick Steves of guitartours!
Love your demos!
Definitely among the greatest SGs I've ever gotten my hands on! My local music store held a Gibson 2019 preview about a year ago and I was blown away by the modern SG. The standards were definitely no slouch either. The Les Pauls weren't as great, though. Be that as it may, 2019 definitely is a great SG year judging by my experience!
I love mine!
As an SG lover. These are beautiful and the jack on the side is a great move.
That thing sounds great Trog!
Got myself the 2018 SG HP II, Mojave fade, and I absolutely love it. It’s a beast and the top is just beautiful
I ordered a blueberry burst today from Sweetwater. I bought it for the most part because of this video. Thank you. I had to sell 2 guitars to afford it, ha. You actually enjoy what you're doing and it shows!
stratos1975 I hope you are enjoying it. I just got one today, mostly motivated by how quickly blueberry bursts have been selling in my area. I’m stunned by how good it is. The playability is fantastic on mine and of course, it’s gorgeous.
7:35 that's exactly why I don't like SG's
Output Jack on the side...cool 👍
Looks like Gibson is really working on some cool NEW things.
That i like, don't think i like where the one strap button is though.
Brandon Ivey
Lots of jazz guys playing 335 style guitars play sitting down thus the output jack being on the top instead of the side. If it’s on the top just get a 90 degree angle cable jack to reduce the chance of breaking something.
jack on the front is cool
@Brandon Ivey I also prefer the Top Mounted Jack. From the very beginning I used a 90 degree angled Good Quality Metal Plug. Never had an issue with it.
I'm a SG fanboy and I absolutely love the specs on that guitar
Gimme dat! lol Nice review mate, very detailed and it made me want one for sure!
i happened to have my norlan era sg ready to go and listening to the one your showing and playing along just to listen to what the differences are tone wise.i have owned mine for forty years and as much as i would like to buy a new one it just doesnt compare but im glad that you did the demo thank you and i like the colors of these new guitars.i have 3 strats but the sg is my #1 thanks and have a great day
I have a 2013 SG 61 Reissue. I love the way the guitar plays and sounds, but pretty much left it at home due to neck dive. Not anymore though, once I rectified the neck dive by 'doing the Mr Tony Iommi' ~ move the strap button to the top horn.
Just got one of the blueberry fade ones, and it is absolutely gorgeous! Sounds great, and certainly has plenty of bite. Yes, the neck dive is a problem, but a nice suede or leather strap helps a whole lot.
Thank you!! Finally someone finally demos the black one!!!!!!!!!!
Hey man enjoyed your video thanks for the info.
Awesome review🤘
Love the look of this thing. Colour is awesome...🎸👍
I had to come back and watch this vidio again..I realy like the look of these sgs and your demmo went realy well you seemed like you played it well. Happy Halloween buddy🎃🫀✌
The best guitar review ever made!!!! Thanks guy!!!!
Bravo! You did a great job showing this guitar. I own several SG's; vintage and made after 2000. I just might pick this one up. ;)
another great review!
Nice I could watch this all day.
I've never have played a lot of sg's,but the few I've played have Han tuning issues and I never felt comfort with my picking hand placement.but this new neck specs sound great,i like the flame top,the locking grovers,and of course something I've been crying about for years,the fantastic,ebony fretboard really excites me along w/the long neck tenon.I need too try one out dispute the incredible neck dive.I love the sounds of this model. Your playing gets better all the time.keep up the great work
Picked up a 2018 lefty HP-2 about a month ago, best guitar I've ever played, really have bonded with it. Best part is I have no desire to change anything or tweak it at all, as I tinker with anything, but this thing has everything I could ever want on a guitar, locking tuners, titanium zero fret nut, titanium saddles, bad ass electronics, nothing to do but play it...
Love the fact the frets go on top of the binding, no sticking there
I have only recently discovered your channel. Right now I play an Epiphone Sheraton as a real amateur but I am really learning a lot from your reviews about the ins and outs of guitars. Cheers.
Awesome video 🙂
You can very likely fix the dents in the ebony board by placing a water-soaked paper towel (folded a few times so the towel is thicker) on the dents and laying a hot soldering iron tip on the spots for a few seconds. The water will steam the wood and cause the dents to expand into bumps that you can lightly sand flat.
Stunning looking Guitar, I would be proud to own that one.
Thank you for your detailed review of the Modern SG. I should be in a position to buy one in a couple of months. I bought a 1961 SG standard way back in 1974 and was basically a slave to it for many years in club bands. I gifted it to my granddaughter in 2011. I hope to become re-acquainted with The guitar but this time under better conditions.
This is one of the best demos I've seen by you. Love the way you stay to the basics of demoing the sound-nothing fancy & every sound option is covered. I love SGs and love this one but that neck dive might be cumbersome. Great vid, Austin!
that's the one i want, thx for sharing man!
Thanks for this great review. I would love to hear your impressions of the 2020 Epiphone Modern SG as well.
I love this look so much, this and the other blueberry that looks like an ocean, really it's super classy and kinda exotic
Great tone demo.
Great stuff Mr trogly 🤟🤟🤟
I've had the Epiphone version of this guitar for over two years. It's almost exactly the same and is a fantastic guitar completely stock, second hand for $400. It's not my main guitar. My mainstays are super strat, modern style guitars with hard tails and humbuckers. The SG is my roots blues guitar. I moved the strap button to the top horn tip to alleviate the neck dive. It resonates/sustains, rings loud unplugged, stays in tune and the Epi pro buckers sound great. This thing has some serious honk to it and gives me the down home Allman Bros vibe I wanted. Never letting it go.
I'm glad to hear that you play blues on a sg
When I hear the,,ride on,, of AC/DC ..a blues world is opening
The sg hp is better ('more options) but bad tuning (it does not stay in tune)
the bb pro's are decent with too much brightness and not so powerful like 498t
the sh1 490r sound better for the beck (blues warm tone) so it's different here :tight and bright
the stock action was too high
what els e?
but good dip switch
Im a regular LP fanboy but that SG is stunning the grey too love these cool colours Gibsons playing with these days thats an SG i would love to have.
I would have to agree that this IS probably the best SG ever made. Even the coil taps sound decent. I would even concider buying one.
Trogly can you please edit a small picture of the amp settings on each tone? that would be amazing
Gorgeous!!!
Great sounding guitar! You got that Runt righteous!!
Always been an SG fan , this i really like.
Glad you like it. It’s a beautiful guitar for certain and all that matters is how much you like and play it. I think I’d prefer satin nickel on all my chrome pieces and 57’classics instead of BurstBuckers but that just my taste. The one thing that would be cool is if you want a neat trem system you should get the duesenberg les trem ii. It can be a little pricey in the US but it looks great and no drilling or permanent mods required. It’s literally plug and play
Speaking of Richlite, I never knew what exactly it was until recently. It a form of Micarta. It’s layers of paper and epoxy resin. The stuff is damn near indestructible. They use various types of textile paper made just to make Richlite with. I’m familiar with it because Richlite and Micarta are most often used on high performance and custom knives. Like military and survival knives. It’s the best handle material there is. It actually gets more grippy when it’s wet.
Dude! I was looking at the exact same demo model! I never got Round to figuring out payments. I'm glad you picked it up! I hope I can find one for a bit cheaper ina couple of years
It sounds great!
I suppose the upside to the finger smudge on the neck finish is that you've got a perfect distinguishing feature for if it went missing :)
Great review - thanks. I love SGs and play at home so a real possibility for me - would you say you could get a P90 sound from any of the coil split options? Ta.
Those pickups sound really good in that SG. I even like the sound with coil splitting, which I usually dislike in most guitars.
Oh,I keep forgetting to mention Austin, I like the new intro!
Love the spec on this one. The only things I would change out are the bridge/tailpiece (for heavier ones) and those clear knobs, not a fan of those at all. The tones are somewhere between an SG and a LP which I like a lot and then there are the split tones which give it an extra bit of diversity. I have to say, Gibson are on the right track.
Super easy way to balance your guitars. I use the stick on weights for balancing car tires. I stick some masking tape on the inside of the cavity cover and stick them to that.
IMO, the best figured SG's were the Supreme series. The blue and green were such beauties.
For the record, I love SG's so when I hear Gibson have made a pretty one, with a maple cap & ebony fretboard I'm interested. It looks like they've got just about everything right with the design of this one. I don't care for the coil split/tap nonsense (I'm yet to hear one that sounds any good) but I'm a bit picky with my guitars so if there are people that like them then hey, you do you. I'd still take the Pepsi challenge with this one against my '92 Standard though. I've played & owned a lot of them & although I've got a '61R that's pretty damned sweet, the '92 is the best SG I've ever played. I do think $2 Grand is a lot to pay for an SG however.
Glad the specs are improved on the SG Moderns. The flame top still looks too bling for my taste tho.
reminds me of the diablo series. they came out with a carved maple top... since that day I am a huge fan of this bodytype. And the neck doesnt feel heavy like the regular SGs
Its so freaking sick I MUST pick it up
Great review! I would absolutely love it if you would review the Epiphone version of this..the Epiphone Modern Figured SG which has a lot of the same features plus has the Peter Green “out of phase” switch as well as different humbuckers that do coil split. I’ve got one on order but it’s a couple months out so if you review and disapprove, I have time to cancel my order. I too am curious about the thickness of the maple cap and suspect that the figured portion may be a veneer. I’m hoping the total depth of the maple itself is similar to this Gibson. I think the maple kinda brightens up the tone. I can always darken the tone easily but I can’t brighten up a tone that starts off dark. Please review the 2020 Epiphone Modern Figured SG…
Yes ! You read my mind, this one had weight relief ? John Bohlinger of Premier Guitar reviewed this SG guitar and did not say it was weight relief or neck heavy.
Video "Reviewer" is a Millenial Dolt.
Agree! And you mentioned it too.. Kinda... The middle position on this guitar sounds outstandingly good…. I noticed the first time you switched to it... And then you mention it later in the video... The guitar itself is not 100% me though I am an SG guy, but the sound is so good on this guitar!... Will def. be looking out for one in the future... Sound over look baby :D
Fantastic review and very thorough. I've yet to play one and was concerned about neck dive. Interesting that the neck is called a slim taper, but the measurements (0.85 at 1st fret, 0.95 at 12th fret) are the typical measurements of the Gibson rounded C neck profile like what is on the ES-335's. All of the slim taper necks that I have are typically 0.81 thickness at the first fret.
That is a stunner!
"A little wammy bar." 👍😄🤣
I just got mine & put the little whammy bar on but I can't get it to dive bomb, what gives?
I've just bought a 2017 SG, which is lovely to me! Sold exclusively through Amazon, originally - or so I'm told. Can't find anything about it anywhere - even Gibson themselves are mysteriously quiet about it...
I got so tired of the neck dive on mine, I drilled the tip horn and relocated the strap button. Bow I love my sg modern, wish they woulda just done that at the factory. It really is a great sg with some unique tones.
To my knowledge the 2017-2019 LP Standard (T) had asymmetrical slim-tapered neck profile and compound fretboard radius. I'm glad they did the same to the Modern SGs.
Paulo Saraiva my 2016 LPS (T) has the same neck specs going on. Not a new thing, just re-marketing by Gibson..🎸👍
That thing sounds awesome
My inner guitarist geek just kicked in soooo hard 😍🤤 I think I’m pinching a tent
I like the flame
always wish i didn't hate the horns. I love lightweight guitars, love gibson, and the SGs were played by the great Big Brother & The Holding Company on Cheap Thrills, one of the great guitar albums. The band later switched to Fender (sponsor) but those old psychedelic SG tones were incredible
has an amazing sound
I’m more of a traditionalist with SGs;, red or black. But this is absolutely gorgeous! Want!!!!
The split settings work surprisingly well with dirt.
This is the best SG I've ever seen. They're good guitars and always have been but this is my favorite by a longshot
That's beautiful. Reminds me of SG Supreme (maple top & 24 frets)
I will DEFINITELY pick one of these up at the end of the year when guitar center will have these close to a grand b-stock.
How likely is that? This one seems more competively priced than the HP version from last year. Thick maple cap, compound radius, ebony board.. I'm guessing these will sell
😂 Let me know how that works out for ya!
Well as a Jackson Guy, gotta admit that's a neat SG and would buy it. Ebony Fingerboard, compound radius and 24 frets and maple top. Not bad
Liking this '19, SG axe, mucho.
nothing like an old vintage Black SG
but still, i love this Guitar for what it is
I love This new management
Hey Trogly, to get a good feeling for the neck profiles, Wildwood apparently measures the thickness of each guitar that comes through their shop at the first and twelfth frets. 0.84-0.95 is reasonably chunky. Since I've been looking for a chunky axe, their website has been a great resource as far as figuring out which factory models come with a profile I might like. (60's LP is like 0.8-0.9, 50's is like 0.9-1.0, putting your SG directly between the two).
For my part, I hate having the output jack on the side of the guitar. Anything involving fixing two round surfaces to one another is going to be less reliable than flat ones, and there's nothing more annoying than a loose output jack. Also, my preferred angle while sitting seems to be guitar on a strap, resting between my two legs, which for obvious reasons complicates the side output jack. Give me a classic style SG output jack type coming out of the front of the guitar and I'll be happy.
:49, door number 3. At one time, the '64 SG Standard outsold EVERYTHING for years on end. Glad its carried on.
Man, i have been all over youpoo guitar channels... And i have never seen one do as detailed of reviews as you do... 👍👍👍🤘🤘🤘💯💯💯
Now you need to do Fender & PRS reviews 😂😂👍👍
Shecter & Jackson/ Charvel reviews would be welcome also
Great gitter and it sounds as good as it looks
This is the SG ive been wanting,thicker body,maple top and locating the jack on the side of the guitar.
I've owned 3 Gibson SG's of which none have had neck dive, my Epiphone on the other hand has the worst neck dive I've ever experienced . I would suggest trying as many as they have to find one that is not a neck diver ! That said, nice demo man !
Thank you so much for this in-depth review -- I own this very axe.. damn cool --- wear a jean shirt and a spiked leather strap? This is just sick... come on... maple + mahogany body.. Ebony - Mother f pearl .. splitting pickups .. black flame .. the sounds are great ... i played a old school 78 LP custom for lifetime .. the wt. difference .. ya see i have my custom and light wt.. and nice cutout 24 neck..