Sexy Sleek New Guitar: Epi LP Nightfall

After exhaustive research and much deliberation i ordered my Epiphone Les Paul Nightfall last night.

those of you who haven't yet seen this guitar may want to shield your eyes from its subtle but intoxicating beauty
http://www.epiphone.com/default.asp?ProductID=336&CollectionID=19

I am literally dizzy with anticipation. It should be here by next week, cant wait.




review to follow

By the look of the specs, this guitar rocks! Perfect metal guitar and then some. I'm going to Guitar Center and see if I can play one. $500 is a great deal for this!

Back from lunch and Guitar Center. They only had one on the rack and it was all the way on the top. I couldnt find anyone to get it down for me!

"Back from lunch and Guitar Center. They only had one on the rack and it was all the way on the top. I couldnt find anyone to get it down for me!"

Now thats service!

Yeah. There used to be a guy there that would look for guitars for me to try but he's gone. The service there blows now unless they know you're gonna buy a guitar. There's a couple of guys behind the counter where the effects and strings are that are pretty cool. But the guitar guys see me there once or twice a week sometimes and I never buy anything so they ignore me. I dont care.

Wow thats a snazzy guitar.

I've never really tried active pickups....hard to find one to test out being a lefty.

Enjoy man and congrats!

i can agree that the service at guitar stores is terrible, i went to one last week and straight up told the guy i was looking to buy a new guitar to gig with. i mentioned a few possibility and asked his opinion, he looked at me blankly and just said don't play to loud... :-/ so i plugged in and discovered that not to loud meant no higher than 2 on the volume. after the guy gave me a dirty look i thought to myself f**k this I'm buying online.



i think the EMG HZ-4 & HZ-4A are passive pickups, I've heard that of the HZ series the 4s run hotter than the 1s,2s and 3s but haven't compared myself (in part due to the lousy service at all the local guitar stores). as for the active/passive pickup debate im pretty sure thats a whole thread in itself

A Les Paul with a Floyd Rose and EMG pickups??!!!
For only $500?

If only i wasnt broke.

whoops, i thought all those emg's were active, sorry!

if it makes you feel any better after buying this and a hard case for it Im broke to



dont worry about it, i didnt even know the difference between active and passive pickups before a couple weeks ago :)

I grew up in customer service. It's not what it used to be. By trade, I'm a call center manager. Businesses are getting larger and switched gears from service to volume. The thought is, "if you're not gonna buy it, someone else will". It's kinda sad.

Epiphone Les Paul Nightfall Electric Guitar Features:

* Body: Mahogany
* Neck: Hard maple
* Neck shape: SpeedTaper "D" profile
* Neck Joint: Set
* Scale: 24 3/4"
* Fingerboard: Ebony with 12th fret abalone inlay
* Neck pickup: Passive EMG HZ 4 humbucker
* Bridge pickup: Passive EMG HZ 4A humbucker
* Controls: 3 way pickup selector, neck pickup volume with push/pull coil splitting, bridge pickup volume with push/pull coil splitting, neck pickup tone, bridge pickup tone
* Frets: 22 medium jumbo
* Bridge: Floyd Rose® Special tremolo with locking R4 nut
* Nut Width: 1 11/16" (R4 nut)
* Hardware: Black
* Machine Heads: Grover 14:1 ratio
* Finish: Gloss body and satin neck

it dosent arrive till monday :(

Looks pretty rad man. I am not a fan of Epiphone's or Les Paul's, but this really looks sweet. Only thing I would change would be the neck and pick up size to "thin U" and Jumbo. Never tried EMG passive pickups either, you'll have to upload a video of a tone test.

Rock on!

it arrived yesterday, its amazing... im gonna wait a month or so to write a full review so i can really get a feel for the good and the bad aspects and how it preforms under different conditions