Gibson SG Special Electric Guitar (Worn Cherry)

Comments about Gibson SG Special Electric Guitar (Worn Cherry):

My first Gibson guitar and I played it for 4 years. It still stands strong even after its fair share of abuse.

Comments about Gibson SG Special Electric Guitar (Worn Cherry):

I PLAYED A $3000 LES PAUL SOLID BODY THEN I PLAYED THE GIBSON SH AND THE WAS NO DIFFERENTS IN SOUND

Comments about Gibson SG Special Electric Guitar (Worn Cherry):

ive tried ALOT of guitars, from 335's to Strats, to les pauls to Paul Reed Smiths.Ive had this baby for about more then a year.In my opinion, this guitar is a little frizzy at first, what i mean is that it buzzez, goes out of tune, and can sometimes be really bad in treble. heres somethings i reccomend for this guitar.1, Buy Elixir Strings,2, play it and every 5 minutes play it back to normal tuning even if it doesent go THAT out of tune. and thats it, the feel is Great, the Bass or (rythmn) pickup is really really nice, although its a little too fat. it sounds too bassy though, its not thin by any mean so dont be expecting really clean Chords. the Treble pickup is gonna have to be backed out a little because i play alot through my headphones and the Treble is waaayyy to high through that treble pickup. so lower it. The electronics are real nice, same stuff on your 5,000 Gibsons. is it worth [$] Hell yea! nice feeling neck. actually, Perfect feeling neck! great Sound, Amazing resonance, No Feedback even at high volumes! and Amazing overall Guitar, even looks are appealing!

Comments about Gibson SG Special Electric Guitar (Worn Cherry):

this guitar is my first guitar.
I'm still enjoy when i play my guitar.
when you use it you can't easly play other guitars because it is difrent guitar (in good way ;)
i think it is easy to bent
example: bent 0.75 cm in fender = 0.5 cm in gibson(maybe less)
i will change my pick ups with angus young signature pick ups (i recommend to you to change yours )
finaly it is a good guitar :)

Comments about Gibson SG Special Electric Guitar (Worn Cherry):

Good feel & weight, I love the satin finish, very smooth (I can travel the neck with ease) and doesn't show smudges or fingerprints. Action just right for me, but can be easily adjusted. Good sound & tone out of the standard 490 pickups for most gigs, but better pickups can be installed if you want. Great price. Good for rock, but also good for blues and jazz.

Comments about Gibson SG Special Electric Guitar (Worn Cherry):

I use this guitar for Recording, Practice, and Live Shows. First off the 498t and 498r pickups are solid. They've been used through several productions of the Les Paul. The Neck pickup can get a little muddy if its cranked up to 10. I rolled the Neck pickup to about 7 or 8 and the Bridge pickup to 10. This guitar has great mids and highs.

The neck is pretty solid not to thin like Jackson guitars and not thick like 50's style LP's. Being faded and not painted is also a plus because your hand doesn't stick as much. The neck also plays pretty straight, much better than my EP LP and has pretty low action.

Tuning was an issue at first. I've resolved my issue by using different strings and stringing methods. I currently use Ernie Ball Regular Slinky Titanium coated (RPS). Elixer Nanowebs went out of tune very easy because of the coating on the strings. Also on your G,B, and E string I recomend looping the string twice through the tuners before stringing up. That made a HUGE difference with these 3 strings going out of tune constantly.

The bridge is nothing special, Tune-o-matic is a tune-o-matic. Pretty much the same if you've ever used a guitar with this style bridge.

Lastly if you are reading negative reviews. Stop and think about the people that are writing them and their skill level. Most people probably don't know how to properly setup their guitar or use their amp explaining fret buzz or bad tone.

Guitars right from the store will most likely 99.9% of the time require adjustments, from the neck to bridge. A bowed neck can cause bad buzz or to low of action. Bad tone can be a variety of things from off intonation, both volume pots on 10, tone pots being to low, bad amp eq, or just bad equiptment. (cables/amp/pedals)

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Today we will give an overview to a guitar that I feel real passion, The Gibson SG Special Faded. For my part, besides the guitar I love, I will say that feature the Vintage Rock sound, solid and powerful, a true sample of the sound of my oldest favorite group: AC DC. But we'll see a little more in depth. There are deals in all colors, in many webs, noted for its price, given that Gibson is a brand especially wasteful, say for their high professional level instruments, making suspicious of its quality, because the price currently ranges the 600/700 euros. Is it a guitar to match the professional standards of Gibson? Even if you know that Gibson does see their price differences depending on the quality of its finishes, more than other elements needed, such as materials, sound ... in this case does not affect the level of the instrument. Despite this highlights their differences over their older sisters (standard and higher models), finishes, pads, sound ... the analysis will focus on the experiences seen in a period of more than three months playing it every day, we see further analysis: [...] The Gibson case is for an amateur like me to drop just looking at the stifle ... really nice and cared so much for Gibson as the dealer, but not all good qualities, and here comes my surprise when I see that the Gibson inside the box I find that this model of guitar, more economical, including its "Gigbag": a case with Gibson logo beautiful and huge, but thin and soft to have it saved fine, but delicate to transport. The truth is that it gives a little serious than a guitar at this level, from the moment it leaves the factory, not a rigid accompany. In my case, I bought a hard case ... I think in this case Gibson, has been very generous. At the end of the instrument with these characteristics, deserves all the care we can give. Another detail "saving" by Gibson, it did not contain any tools to tweak the soul or the hardware of the instrument in general: NOTHING. Luckily I have tool for this, but unless the data sheet, book publicity typical Gibson, etc ... GUITAR COVER + and counting. Finally, I took the guitar and I could see that the guitar is a real Gibson, stunning, finished in wood, a guitar "old." A little gem. THE GUITAR IN DETAIL: The guitar is related to her older sisters in their form and structure, body SG traditional, typical of Gibson humbuckers (a 490R in the neck and 490T at the bridge). It consists of four black knobs, soft touch, Gibson multilayer pickguard black, and in my case, the finished version FADED SPECIAL: highly polished finish and very fine in both the mast cone body, protected by a layer of cellulose nitrate, very best for finishing a guitar, and expensive, which gives a perfect finish to wood, and that directly affects the sound that follows the guitar, letting the wood breathe and not encapsulate other models, rather "painted" which wrapped the body in a coat of paint, changing the sound of the guitar. For me personally the details of a body without pictures, I think to keep in mind, the original sound of their own timber, essential. Faded finish, however it can, with continued use, to focus their damage in contact zones, such as the neck, waist, body, arm, neck of the mast to the blade ... causing more wear. In my case to dampen the wear and tear, cleaning concentrate cleanups CERA, for this type of wood, specially made for the maintenance of guitars, never limpiéis with household products because they contain chemicals that are aggressive the instrument. Items only for guitar, that's what make them. Currently, only the clean (the body) with a soft, dry and products, and always sleeping in hard case. More cleaning of Gibson SG Special Faded - Click here - BODY OF THE GUITAR: The timber carrying the body of the SG Faded, is a body mounted on two pieces of mahogany, as always in Sg, very light and handy, it really is a joy to its management, being so light, play with her is much more it bearable. The mast, soft wood and polished, made of mahogany as the body is also the traditional model of Gibson, a little thinner than on other models (chosen for this reason at the time by Angus Young, as he tells it about their taste for guitars of this age, 70), 22 frets and rosewood fingerboard, a real pleasure for the sound of the guitar, rosewood being an excellent combination for this model in wood, without paint. Recently, I learned that in this rosewood, the use of lemon oil, is really an ally in the maintenance of the guitar, since the end of doing the cleaning with the oil, the result was perfect: the wood palisades perfectly absorbs the oil, being a porous wood rosewood, and feeds the oil, allowing us to have it clean and well kept pitch throughout the life of the guitar. Fretboard cleaning with lemon oil - Click here - VISTA ONCE THE GUITAR, HITS: I could not resist plugging in the guitar to see how it sounded my new acquisition, but before plugging in, I did a little strumming, and called me a lot of attention so resonant that it is this model guitar, the wood, your pitch ... their sound is unplugged really warm and powerful. This has already promised, is an important feature, the sound of "closet", this case is wonderful, the sound is loud and clear, but with a very pleasant and warm vibration. The touch, masts used to more "Fender, Ibanez, ESP ..." before we could open my hand to this new mast, but not too much, since it does not reach the dimensions of an acoustic or classical guitar, this is more Fine. Its simplicity in mast I liked the finish of the mast toward the paddle is comfortable and let the position run about, although somewhat uncomfortable by the lack of Binding, and lasts in this profile of the mast, the height of the dishes (in my case) might have thought he would have to get used to the "new skills" on the other hand, make it special, crude, old .... SIMPLE. As for me, more a virtue than a fault. I focused, to get used to your touch, I say, very well polished and worked on the neck, really nice and smooth to the left, focusing on the fingers and positions, rather than the pure size of the mast, everything perfect. As to the dishes, for my tastes are a bit "high", highlighting the first, that despite being more "vintage", I think that little achieved. I had some cerceo until I worked on the bridge, the string height , pitch, intonation .... And while not fitting the distributor to come, the work was small and very specific: to work frets, bridge height to my taste, pitch and intonation. Another detail to be polished of the guitar is undoubtedly his saddle (PLASTIC), which makes clear that the fit and especially his intonation, they will not be easy, and it did, because in my case even their poor finishing led to the third string will come out of the saddle, when you stretch after a time, say after a month or so. The saddle, definitely a negative point in the model that I have received from then being plastic, I would rather is a general defect manufacturing to include plastic instead of bone, clearly. And finally the bridge, the typical Gibson, a tune-o-matic chrome rear with easy access for changing strings and inserted into the body after golpedor, ie the wood, giving it a sustain on guitar, especially Gibson Made in no doubt. The strings also typical of Gibson's house, albeit with 0.10 warm sound, the absence of some important nuance, in my case I changed to a "Regular RotoSound 0.10", nickel, which I recommend for SG models, by their resonance The change in sound was spectacular, bright but with weight, warm ... fantastic. Also I have a good reference for these models Addario brand, in this case also of 0.10. In general terms, the sound and these strings, stopping very well and I will mention, but I will respect what I ordered from the factory, without the variations that I wanted to include him on guitar. Connects to AMP: In this case, Gibson has been included as the SG Special pickups 490R in the neck and 490T bridge. The cleaning power of these pills and talk a lot about why Gibson sold at the price it sells. Rock Sound typical Alnico II pickups, although its sound gives more than a genre, blues or rock .... As I have seen in the mounting pad is two drivers, so all we could do a series connection of them. The echo of that match two tablets, speaks clearly of the sound we get is the same but graduated several records, however his blues sound is excellent and a very elaborate sustain. As in other models of Gibson, I flipped to the infinite sustain Gibson .... It's real! RECORDS OF THE GIBSON SG SPECIAL FADED: After checking in different positions of pills, that the guitar "Ruge" as an adult lion, I began to see from scratch, they had the pills: The clean sound with no effects or gains, is a clean sound, really warm and blues, which surprised me because, it is the mahogany finish of the SG, which gives other applications, where the sound is fantastic. If anything, the hue to highlight is that it is a bit sharp, but their sound is fat and very warm. As I say, the echo of that wood is not painted, gives a resonance to the guitar, the highest quality. Sound sound is quite different from SG Standard, and that makes it more vibrant, more raucous ... more wood and less paint, it shows a lot. The finish is really beautiful: On my Marshall amplifier with the gain or sugar cane, I can drool a while, listening to that sound so sought after by me, that from its beginnings ACDC Bon Scott ... a Hard Rock and powerful, without artifice, with a very tight and sustain it makes you want to leave your fingers stuck for hours and hours ... Harmonic is another detail in this guitar a pleasure to hear, so that in a matter of pills, you could say they are more than acceptable sound medium-high range. The pills, equal to both remember, if you give ample room for varied timbres, emphasizing their total balance, with strong media and good treble, making a direct sound body and balance, very in line with Gibson at the time, very full and heavy sound very clearly oriented to rock no more, very resonant and active. In short, much to my ACDC rock fan from the days of Bon Scott, only add to their rock sound reminiscent of Highway To Hell, Rock and roll damation, ACDC stinks. A dream for fans of Angus and Bon Scott, at that time genuinely ACDC sound, tough, strong, pentatonic .... Sound Malcolm & Angus Young, a true Guitar Rock

Comments about Gibson SG Special Electric Guitar (Worn Cherry):

This guitar is amazing. i picked it up for [$] but i sorta had a little too much to spend for this. I bought a hardshell case and sold the gigbag for 50 bucks.and i bought a pair of EMG actives for that type of ESP rocking sound. i was wrong. EMG's go wrong with this guitar. The 490 pickups arent really that good.... i had to buy another pair of humbuckers and instead i bought P90's. they were amazing. unfortunately my clumsy head mistaked wiring something i added a killswitch (im an idiot) on the sg and the treble pickup wasnt quite functioning for a while. so i finally installed a 498 pickup at the bridge and changed the neck for a 490R. sounds amazing now.After you restring the guitar, it starts to get out of tune. ALOT. and your gunna wanna keep the normal strings for about 2 or 3 months.....

Comments about Gibson SG Special Electric Guitar (Worn Cherry):

This SG plays & sounds great. Just make sure you get it professionally set up, and slap on a set of Grover tuners to solve the problem of keeping it in tune, and you're good to go.

Comments about Gibson SG Special Electric Guitar (Worn Cherry):

i got it and it had bad pickups, necks, knobs, bridge, and toning. it sucks