Great guitar

Luckily I managed to pick one of these up in black with the white neck binding that I LOVE. It also has the smaller pickguard that the one on the stock image. Over the years I've upgraded this with a Gibson 500T in the bridge and 480R in the Neck. I changed the knobs to the old vintage top hat. I gutted our the coil splitting electronics and added hand wired CTS electronics. I changed the truss rod cover to a blank one. I also changed the nut to a bone nut.

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Impressive sound and quality, by the price.

A very good instrument, relative low price (in Brazil); multi mission guitar once you have in your hands humbuckers with coil-splitting and phase switching, making very versatile, at least to my band, tha covers a lot of artists.

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Great beginner solid body guitar

Having picked up the acoustic guitar again at 39 after a 25 year hiatus, I was ready to dip my toes back in to rock'n'roll and bought one of these bad boys for my 40th birthday. Only about A$750 including case.

I'll be the first to admit - I didn't buy this for sound quality, but for looks. I love Angus Young and AC/DC so this was the closest thing to Angus I could get without spending $$$$.

The G-400 Pro - or SG Pro as it says on the headstock - is a nice little unit that you can really thrash out some good tunes with. I use it with a Fender Mustang GT-40 digital practice amp, so I am not pushing the envelope with sounds. But it can certainly rock out those hard rock sounds. The dual humbucker pick ups are nice, if uncomplicated units, and the split coil affect is a nice-to-have.

One issue I have had with it is that early on the G-String would keep pulling out of tune, or playing out of tune. There was a real twang to the sharp side of the note and it rang out above all else.

It's not totally gone, but I have see it get better. This guitar was made in China and I bought it from store and plugged it straight it, no mods or anything. I tried a Epiphone Dot this week and interestingly that had the same issue.

Mine is improving - the music shop owner recommended a few little fixes like graphite on the nut etc - and overall it's a delight to play good hard rock'n'roll and blues.

Nice guitar, but a bit lacking for the price

I got this in December 2018. I mostly play metal and although the pickups are alnico and relatively low output they do a pretty good job when your amp is set right for them. I think the guitar came with a high fret or something because even with the neck relief at the perfect point you can only get a medium action before you get fret buzz. I clean my guitar pretty often and am gentle with it, but within a week or 2 of having it the pickups and bridge were already very tarnished and dirty looking. The whole guitar also scratches very easily, which isn’t that noticeable until you hold it under a light and realize there are literally hundreds of them. It’s a decent guitar, but with the shortcomings it had I would’ve expected it to cost like $250 instead of $420.

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Excellent value

If your budget wont stretch to Gibson then Epiphone do an excellent job of making more affordable models. The SG is an absolute rock machine with its humbucker pick ups. It's not a one trick pony though! Amongst the lightest weighing electric guitars out there. Only negative for me.....neck dive! But you get used to that.

Great first guitar!

Looks really great and plays really well. Very resonant. Pickups give you that nice and chunky sound. I barely use the coil-splitting feature but it's decent. Durable but the pots got a little finicky overtime, although that's nothing that can't be fixed. Only real problem I have is that this guitar likes to neck dive.

Great tone with some minor hardware problems

I got this guitar as a Christmas gift from my mom and ever since then it's been my main guitar ever since. I run it into a Vox DA15 and overdrive it with a TS9, and it is great for the stuff I play and even some clean tones. One thing I will say is that I has a problem with the nut around the output socket coming loose and falling off, but that hasn't happened in a while. Overall, it's a pretty good guitar for the price.

Very Versatile

This guitar offers great versatility with its humbucker and single coil mode pickups. The best of both worlds in a single guitar and at a reasonable price.

Nice for the money

I bought this guitar in the summer of 2015 and sold it in the winter after buying my LP Jr. (I needed some funds), but I occasionally regret it. This guitar, in Pelham Blue, had a very cool sound and a nice feeling glossy neck. I'm a sucker for affordable guitars, because you can mod them if you want but you really do not have to. I recommend to anybody who likes hum buckers but doesn't want to spend big money. Would be a great gigging guitar.

Gives you the sound of a true SG without the vintage price tag and with the added tonal variety that you’ve come to expect from Epiphone.

This SG features Alnico classic pro pickups and push/pull coil-splitting. I cannot say enough about how incredible this guitar is. I am blown away by how great it feels and plays. I never expected something like this for the price. I got this just to have a "cheap" guitar that I could travel with, leave in hotel rooms, lean anywhere, get dinged up, let people borrow, etc. What I got is waaaay to awesome to consider a "dispensable" guitar, so to speak. Since 2014.