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Bro Knows Guitar
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Are Eastman Guitars BETTER Than Epiphone?
Eastman is a China-based instrument manufacturer, and Epiphone is the import brand for Gibson featuring mostly Chinese-made guitars. Eastman is certainly well less known, and they also command a slightly higher price than most Epiphones. Is it worth it? Hear my opinions in this video, and hopefully they help you decide. Personally, I think the Eastman sounds better, but that could be mainly due to the P90 pickups (in humbucker size.) I do think that the Eastman plays a bit better, but it is marginal and the Epiphone could certainly do well with a good setup. I believe that both of these guitars present an accurate reflection of value at their respective price points. Let me know what you ...
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Why the Sonic Mustang is Squier's COOLEST Guitar..
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Ever since Squire released the Bullet Mustang HH, I've believed it is simply their coolest offering, and at their lowest price point, how can you beat that? Check out the Sonic Series Mustang: California Blue, Flash Pink: www.fender.com/en-US/squier-electric-guitars/mustang/squier-sonic-mustang-hh/0373701526.html Limited Edition Black: www.fender.com/en-US/squier-electric-guitars/mustang/limite...
Improve Your Epiphone Guitar | Cheap & Easy | DG-335
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Welcome to Pineapple Guitars. Be sure to subscribe for future videos! Follow me on Instagram: broknowsguitar?igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw Gear I used in this video: Epiphone DG-335 Universal Audio Volt 276 Neural DSP Mesa Boogie Mark IIC Suite D'addario XL 10-46 Balanced Tension Music Nomad Frine Fret Polish Music Nomad F-1 Oil Music Nomad One Guitar Polish
Epiphone DG-335 Unboxing, Demo, and Thoughts!
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I've been tracking the progress (a fancy way of saying "waiting patiently until it comes out while scouring the internet for any news) of the Epiphone DG-335 since the fall (at least, maybe summer) of 2023. From Agnesi and Guekian's Instagrams, to live footage of the Foo Fighters. I was ecstatic to find out, on March 3rd, that it was slated for March 5th release, and I put my order in as soon a...
TWO FLYING Vs! 2004 vs 2011 Gibson Flying V Shootout - a Duel of the Fates!
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I took advantage of a rare opportunity to own TWO nearly identical Gibson Flying V electric guitars, one from 2004 and one from 2011. Both featuring ebony fretboards on a classic white finish, as well as 496R and 500T pickups. I can only keep one, drop a comment guessing which one it is! Looking for a Flying V on a budget? Check out Epiphone's current Flying V offering: amzn.to/3Lz8Nqj Equipmen...
The Working Musician's Custom Shop Fender? Road Worn 50's Telecaster!
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Let's check out the Fender Road Worn 50's Telecaster! My example is from 2019, but now you can get them in Fender's Vintera line of instruments from the Mexico factory in several different colors, as well as Stratocasters and Telecaster Deluxes! Featuring a road worn nitrocellulose finish, Tex Mex pickups, 7.25" fretboard radius, a large U neck shape, and aged hardware, this guitar is a perfect...
Yordan Alvarez’s First Major League Home Run 6/9/2019... I called it!
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I totally called Yordan’s first career Yordong. AIR YORDAN!
Carlos Correa’s Final Regular Season Home Run In An Astros Uniform October 3rd 2021
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Carlos Correa’s Final Regular Season Home Run In An Astros Uniform October 3rd 2021
Gibson SG Special 2018 Overview
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Signal chain for this video: Gibson 2018 SG Special - Vox AC15C1 - Sennheiser e609 To view the Gibson spec sheet for this guitar: legacy.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/2018/USA/SG-Special-2018.aspx Hello there! Welcome to Pineapple Guitar. New to creating on RUclips, I hope to add to the already fruitful community of online guitar players and bring some more insight on a lot of the things...
I customize all my guitars, except one lol! 🙂 and they aren't cheap from the start. :) I'm thinking of trying to scallop a fretboard on a neck I have extra that I don't use since the neck with scalloped frets that I bought from Fender was almost 900 dollars :\ That was the most expensive mod I did for my strat! Cost more than my 3 pickups combined, and t hose combined was like 500$
This like that hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby meme
EASTMAN not worth three time the EPI
Got a Eastman E1 omg amazing acoustic for 600 uk pounds
Great Video.
I cant buy anything from China. I played a tele I liked once but when I saw it was from China it was a deal breaker. China hates me so i don’t care to support their economy.
The new epiphone 345 Gibson inspired has custom buckers.
I own a 2004 and it has aged some to that creamy white you see. Also I love the black lined case, really shows off the guitar. Again as you stated, basically same guitar……I have read that the 2003-2008 was a great era for the V in terms of quality of build.
Not a really fair comparison. The Epi would be nicely compared to Sire, or Firefly, or some other Indonesian guitar. The Eastman is killing Gibson. They're handmade, usually come with an ebony board on a 25" scale, nice hardware, finishes, etc. They're cool, and the word is out.
The question should be..are eastmans better than gibsons? The answer?...yes!
Sounds the same so nice job
Thats what i do
Bare knuckle pickups
I can't even find a pawn shop atound here
Odd shape
Hows the pickups
are you sure its not a "Am-eastman"? ( a cheap counterfit of the genuine quality Chinese Eastman faked by sketchy American factories that sell on Aliexprss with terrible customer service in broken Manderin)
Better than Gibson if you believe some people.
Great video. Love hearing you talk about the guitar. We don’t always need to hear the guitar played. Your opinion matters. Thanks for the video. I will be buying one
What isn’t better than the crap Epiphone is making lately?
I have two Mustangs, nice guitar, great for blues.❤🎸.
As a lefty...I have to buy everything I want to experience...so, I've bought tons of guitars over the years. The T486 (335) is among the best sounding...even better than my Heritage 535. My Eastman SB59GT was very decent...comparable to LP Stnd but not as good in terms of finish QA...Eastman can be a little sloppy with stain/finish but their fret work is second to none. Got my T486 4 years ago for $1100 (normally $1250)...see then now for $1750. The neck is wide...so take that into account. Prefer the 335 neck (60's) shape.
They both sound great to me
That head stock is so ugly on a 335 style guitar. Deal breaker For me. But hey whatever floats your boat.
So funny back just a about 5 years ago I bought a Epi Dot 335. It was the worst guitar I ever owned. It was nice looking but it sounded like crap. And I absolutely hated the neck.I sold it like for $180. Last year I picked up a Sheraton with the Pro buckers. Looks Great and sounds alright. I like my Bridge pickup hotter and the it has a slim neck that I love. My only gripe is its so dam heavy.I know its over 9 lbs. When I bought it used I tried it out sitting and didn’t notice how heavy it was. I had to buy a no gravity strap to make it tolerable . Now that I’ve gotten older I really notice the weight of guitars. This last week I had 3 four hour gigs in a row and one of my weekly gigs is a giant Tiki hut built on stilts. The elevator is broken and we have to carry all our gear up the stairs . Then inside We have another flight of stairs to the loft. My back actually went out after I carried my equipment up those stairs Friday. I took 1600 mils of Advil to get through that gig.
Intonation is a bit weird on these, my brother got the Bullet version many years ago but never touched it, after I rescued it with new strings and a bit of neck work it was 90% solid. Good first guitar and definitely unique, plus a huge cult forum following for mods, but they have their issues
Nice playing, man! Myself, I like the Eastman better. I have a Peavey JF-1 (Also a semi-hollow body) and it's not leaving me any time soon. I don't know about actual Gibsons, but I know it'd slap Epiphones around any day. I never really had any interest in a semi-hollow body guitar, but someone made me an offer I couldn't refuse and since it was a new style to me, I figured why not? I'm really I took a chance on it.
About 18 months ago I bought an Eastman T64/v (ES-330/Casino inspired with varnish finish and Bigsby B7) for around 2k Euros (approx. 2,140 USD) as a backup for my Collings IC-30 LC (current price over here 8.6k Euros / approx. 9,220 USD)... I sold the Collings within 6 weeks and got a second Eastman... I had a look at the just released new Gibson ES-330 (around 3.6k Euros) last week and left the shop laughing - it is absolutely terrible... Eastman and Tokai eat Gibson for lunch.
Serious question. I understand you looked at the ES-330 in person. Could you please elaborate, what's terrible, etc? I have a T64/TV and since getting it I've been lusting for a US Epiphone Casino, and now there's this new Gibson, but maybe it's just GAS. In other words, talk me out of it! LOL
@@MoogerTuber Well, of course you should buy what you are happy with... The two samples of the ES-330 that my dealer had did both have issues: The worse one had several cosmetic issues (dust/dirt under the finish in multiple places, the binding was uneven and partially painted over, there was already a blind spot under the pickguard), there were dozens of superficial scratches on the finish (we took it out of a still sealed box), there were clearly visible and tangible tooling marks all over the fretboard, and there was a huge amount of wood chips all over the case, clearly indicating that there was no cleanup and proper work at all - I did not get to take the pickups out, but I am fairly certain they looked as terrible as the ones in Trogly's review video. The second one looked a lot better, it did have a few tooling marks on the fretboard, but they were in ok territory, there was also a huge collection of wood chips in the case and falling out of the f-holes. The worst thing though were the pickups in the second one... whatever the opposite of 'matched' may be - this was it. There was a huge volume difference between the pickups, and the neck pickup was actually louder and brighter than the bridge... No idea how to achieve that... Admittedly, this could well be (and most likely is) related to the pots or capacitors and not the pickups (just because it makes zero sense), but I am expecting a guitar at this price point to be flawless and not require a repair job on day one. As I said, buy what makes you happy, but the two guitars I checked were not even in the class of a Guild, Stanford, Sire, or Ibanez costing less than a third of the Gibson - and they were galaxies away from a Heritage or Eastman.
@@uwedasler425 Wow, shocking! Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I saw a B-stock ES-330 at Thomann, so I guess that explains how a guitar might have been returned so soon after being released.
Not fair at all. Compare the Epiphone to a Sire maybe.
eastman used to be incredibly cool.............. then they stopped using nitro finishes..............
They use true tone now, which is very thin and will wear similar to nitro. I have a few vintage varnish models, which the finish leaves nitro for dead.
I have a 21 T486. It is highly figured and came stock with Seymour Duncan '59 in the bridge and a SD Jazz in the neck. It is flawless with a very nice case. Picked it up used. I might change out the neck pickup for something a bit brighter but other than that, I'm very pleased. I'd love a Gibson but since it's not my main guitar, I'll stick with the Eastman. I've not come across a Epi that was as nice. But they can be found anywhere unlike the Eastman. If you don't have a semi hollow you should try one for sure.
Of course, Eastman is better than Gibson too
not a fair comparison , Eastmans are far superior than any epi and most Gibsons!
Nice breakdown dude
I've owned several 335s; Epiphone, Tokai, Heritage, Gibson and now an Eastman and I must say that the Eastman is far and away the best of them all. Excellent fit and finish, appointments, playability and even just to look at. If you can get over the Eastman label I would put it over the Gibson. It's a stunning, totally handmade guitar. As an entry level, the Epiphone is a good place to start though.
Good stuff. Excellent playing. Please keep up the good work.
P.S. Remember, asking price, and purchase price are 2 different things. I see stuff listed on Reverb all the time for new retail list, give, or take a few bucks, but people are just trying to minimize their losses after fees. A lot of people that just don't know how stuff in this world work.
Hang in there Bro Knows. I am a RUclips addict, and you have the right stuff. Believe me. People know the difference between a sales pitch, and a review. At least I do. SUBSCRIBED. Keep up the good work.👍
I own an Eastman T486B. Short version: There is no comparison unless you compare and instruct Gibson's Murphty Lab Custom Shop to build you an identical ES guitar for thousands of dollars more.
No comparison. I have a few Epiphones but bought them with the intention of modding pick-ups, wiring and hardware so I can customise them to my liking - so many excellent boutique pick-up makers out there (Monty's, Bare Knuckles, Lollars etc. etc) and Gotoh hardware strikes me as a premium option. I can get a well made Epi Les Paul / Casino 'perfect for me' and still be well inside the cost of a Gibson LP Standard or the US made Casino. That said after finally having the chance to try some Eastmans last yearI will definitely be buying the SB59.v and a Juliet . . . easily as good as any of the Gibson Custom Shops I have tried.
Thanks for the review. I've been curious about Eastman guitars.
In my personal opinion there is no comparison. Eastman Guitars are simply amazing. My shop sold Eastman for years. The only other Guitar that you could consider better made were the Taylor acoustics.
hello, best wishes for your videos, and keep posting. My experience with the 'varnish' and 'relic' finished Eastman Les Pauls is that they are ''on-par'' with a gibson custom shop. It's strange therefore to me, to see them compared to Epiphones. Have a great day.
just wanted to point out that the bullet and sonic are different; the neck radius and the pickup size (?) is different, i know that modding bullets is a tad harder because the pickups are weird and the neck radius on the bullets is 11-12 inch vs the sonics being 9.5
I love this guitar. I owned a Custom Shop Tele that was very similar and while I don't have both of them to compare any longer, I'd say this one is damn sure close enough to me for a few thousand dollars less. My only gripe is with my particular set of Tex-Mex pickups--they are ridiculously noisy to the point of being unusable and I'm finally replacing them.
Johnny Winter played a Mustang a lot in his earlier years and not a a learner guitar. He filled concert halls and fields with this guitar. Grunge did make them popular again.
I grabbed a Mustang and a DuoSonic a few years ago and threw some Lollars in them. One set was vintage Mustang inspired, the others were a hotter more modern take on them. They are pretty sweet.
Enjoyed your video (subscribed). I own that exact same blue one made in 2017 in Indonesia, 12" radius fretboard, contours (arm & tummy cuts), and Humbuckers/3 way switch. I actually like the stock pickups/switching/tuning keys (*just tighten them up everywhere).
I bought the Bullet mustang (in that exact blue colour) about 7 years ago and it got me back into playing after a 10 year break. - something about the neck, I dunno. Never played the Sonic version but I would guess very similar. Excellent value for money.
Would love to see how dialed in you can get with this platform. $199 is hard to pass up
Literally 95% of the video is talking... Everyone can search for the information you’re talking about. We want to HEAR the guitars!
@@sovka8394 thanks for the feedback! I watch a lot of channels that talk about the guitar industry and I quite enjoy it as that’s how I learned a lot of what I know. Some people may find the info interesting but would not have known to search out the information for themselves. I noticed there are already a lot of videos on youtube giving sound examples for these guitars. Usually those videos have “review” or “demo” in the title if anyone would like to search for them. I chose the title for this video because it’s an accurate description of the video and what I wanted to put out there. I’m sure I will do more demos and reviews in the future, perhaps on this guitar and potentially when I do some modifications to it.
@@BroKnowsGuitar I still think the majority just wants to hear the guitar sound. That’s how I found your video, I searched for the Squier Sonic Mustang HH. I’m glad you’re taking it as a feedback. Keep making videos.
@@sovka8394shut up your missing the point of the video
@sovka8394 Hi! So usually when people want to watch a demo video, they search for a demo video, not an informational. Hopefully this helps!!!😇
You don't speak for everyone. This is exactly the type of guitar videos I'm looking for. I'm tired of watching someone stroke their ego with blues licks, and I just want to listen to someone talk about the gear. If I'm in the mood to watch videos, I don't really want to listen to music.