Epiphone Frontier FT110 - Old (1962) vs New (2021)
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Something special today… we have an original Epiphone Frontier to compare to the brand new model! Yep! We have a 1962 Epiphone Frontier (FT110) and the brand new FT110 (2021 Reissue) made right here in Bozeman, MT. Does old beat the new in this comparison?? Let us know in the comments.
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Wow, they both sound similar. Yes, there is a clear difference in sound with the 1962 sounding like a matured wooden instrument. However, this is the one time I could hear how the same model might mature. Nice instruments.
Solid Demo. I absolutely love the tone of both. I am jealous of whoever ends up playing them over the years. Hats off to your friends and neighbors who had a hand in building the new one.
😎 Cool! I can hear more bass in the 60 year old guitar but both look and sound great. Thanks for the comparison.
I believe the Old FT110 has matured towards a strumming guitar where the young one is not there yet, but sound much alike.
Thanks for showing us these Guitars 🙏
What a winner I just bought one and love it the color in person is awesome
Great video, both guitars sound amazing! The 62 had a light cleaner sound to my ears. Both excellent. Great comparison. Thanks enjoy your videos.
I actually prefer the sound of the new one.
Nice demo Quinton and Paul. Thanks
Through headphones the 62 had more depth on the low end. I suspect it is the 60 years of top aging making that happen.
Many guitar makers went to a thinner neck/narrower nut in the 1960s because smaller handed players were on rise younger folks and more ladies.
I had thought it was because there were proportionally more novice players, who seem to gravitate to narrower and thinner necks, feeling that they are easier to play....
Not even close...The vintage oozes awesome and sounds even better.
Hey Quinton those square shouldered dreads are dwarfing you, yet you've been working out?
This is a surprise. That 62 with the tone-killer saddle has so much low-end beastly woof! The 21 less power, slightly more toppy, but nice. I'd take the 62 for the big sound and vibe.
It would be nice to see how the Masterbilt Epiphone Frontier at $899 compares to the USA made Epiphone Frontier at $4,499. It is worth 5 times the amount for US made versus Indonesia or China?
They're pretty close, but the vintage one is more open,, but that comes with age. Also maybe more mids on the new one...
Sunburst sounds darker. Both amazing sounding guitars.
Please review side by side new Frontier FT110 and the Indonesian built Masterbilt Frontier.
Curious about the neck width. I played a vintage one the other day and I truly loved how skinny the neck felt. Do we have a size comparison between the two?
awesome compare, how neat to have the original and reissue on hand at once!! 51 old 49 new imo. also nice tequila sunrise inspired licks!
IMHO, the '62 version sounds a bit more robust; which is probably to be expected. Nice job guys!
the vintage sounds to have more mids while the inspired seems a bit more scooped in the mids. at least on my studio monitors, it's like the vintage is more the classic gibson sound where the new is kinda in the realm of like the gibson songwriter where it's still a gibson but with that sorta martin nod. At least on these monitors.
Sorry but this is not the ‘’ inspired by ‘’ but a genuine USA made one , made by Gibson at their custom shop… it is a high end guitar and to me it sounds fabulous. Nothing to compare to a far east production
The biggest difference to me is the new one has a lot more highs where on the old one, the highs are semi muted and maybe more midrange as well. It's almost as if the new one has a brand new set of strings where the old one has older but not completely dead strings on it.
@Shred...
I agree.
It comes down to bracing and the bridge, or, more specifically, how the braces and bridge are tuned, because, if you leave braces, and or the bridge, tuned with a midrange, then a mid-range is what you get. If you leave them treble-tuned, then a lot of high pitch, on every note, is what you get.
You can build 100 guitars with all the same specs, and if you do not take care to tune the braces and bridge exactly, then the results are like what we have here - mildly dissimilar.
@@beasheerhan4482That is also the effect of aging. Picking softer will get more vibrations on an aged top.
The effects of bracing would be more applicable when comparing new guitars.
@@shred5 Bracing and bridges always make a huge difference, Dear Shred, because they provide most of the harmony and color of the instrument, but, yes, an older top, assuming it has been played and loved a lot, is all set to respond in a way that new tops can only dream.
Sold my '64 s/b one when flat broke at Uni in NYC for $350...can't believe what they get for 'em now -great fun guitar., sunburst much cooler though, Gibson vibe rules!
What’s the name of the song?
Could you compare the Epiphone Masterbilt Frontier vs the new USA one? Thank you!
I sure wish Gibson would re release the Blueridge Custom from the early 70s. I know they can't use the same woods but I think it was the body and bracing that made it special. I used to have a 1972 one that had been restored and even with all that work is sounded amazing. That the low end was like nothing I've even heard from a dreadnaught.
To my ear the natural one is just slightly brighter
Quentin must have been internally conflicted. Wait can i say something good about this epiphone? Well maybe because it was made right here in Bozeman. I’ll try …
The original frontier blows away the gibson dove. The frontiers came with a porcelain like saddle aswell as a Brazilian rosewood saddle. I have a Brazilian rosewood one and its thr best combo of maple and brazillian. Regardless, the guitar is not meant to be a bluegrass guitar, its for the singer songwriter but don't get it twisted the frontier is quite punchy
Looks and sounds cool. For $9999 you can have both 😊
Well, I just want one of them.
Old is better to my ears, both beautiful guitars though.
The new one can be bought for less, without cracks on the body, cracked bridges, worn frets, shrinkage on the finish. You’ll get a better sized fretboard, better woods and the technology to just simply make a better guitar. Play it for a few years and it will sound amazing. I narrowed my next guitar to the New Frontier, or a Gibson Dove.
The Old Frontier is a rare unicorn that is probably the only one you can actually buy is amazing shape. However most will be nightmares.
Vintage frontier vs a vintage or new jumbo
This guitar sounds so good! The Inspired by Gibson version sounds a lot warmer.
”inspired by Gibson” is made in china but this guitar is made in USA.
I would never pay three to four grand for a guitar with epiphone on the headstock unless it was a vintage Kalamazoo model.
The old one sounds like a Gibson. The new one sounds like an Epiphone
The 62' sounds good. Not great, but good. The 2021 (build by Gibson in Montana, all solid) didn't tickle my ears. I think the USA built Gibson-Epiphone Texan sounds great, this model and it's Maple b&s just doesn't do it for me.
They really look good. They sound almost identical.
Gibson best!
dont want to sound like a tight ass here .but the tone difference is minimal but guessing the price difference is max.so i would take the epi .i really do not believe that many would know if it was not shown on here .
But the new USA Epiphone Frontier is $4000. I don't think the old one in that good shape would cost much different, or would it?
New one is louder…tone is the same 🤷🏼♂️
The new one sounded like it had new strings compared to older strings on the vintage example I like them both.