Sergio Gutierrez

If you can buy the Gibson, do it, I get it, if I could I've done it too, but if you don't have that kind of money, this guitar is the one for you, more common to find, it has the same wood, the same pots, and the same Gibson Dirty Fingers, the only differences are the Sperzels locking tuners in the Gibson, but the Grovers are great so, is not a big deal, the headstock off-course, and the finish, one is Lacquered and the other is Nitrocellulose. I've seen reviews, and also hear them both, and the sound IS the same, even seen Tom himself playing one of this Epiphones, Gibson is just the made in usa and the prestige. If you can find one good deal, do it, you won't regret it.

For any rock, metal player it will be a nice workhorse, reliable, potent, loud, etc.. only downside for me is the weight, is heeeeavy...

I have a couple of guitars, all tune differently, this are on my Drop D Les Paul, normally I used Regular Slinky on my other Les Paul, but when I Drop D-it, the low E get really floppy, but with these it doesn't happen, so if you planning to use a drop d tunning for a short scale guitar I guarantee you will nailed with this ones

SX is really a decent guitar manufacters for the money, the make quality instruments for affordable budget, and how they do it? By cutting down the budget for the pickups, so if you pick up a couple of Fender Jazz Pickups, either Custom Shop, American, Texas or MIM, is going to make a hell of upgrade for your sound. (Also if you are picky and dont want to have the SX brand logo in the headstock, any generic jazz neck would fit if carefully installed)

So, I'm a guitar player who recently started to play bass, and didn't want to spend big bucks on my first bass, so after I bought a Squier Jazz Bass, I paired with a this Fender Rumble 15 V3, the thing is that, for home practice, learning and beginning is a decent amp, but if you crank it up a bit high it starts to cringe and muff, so there that, but for learning purposes and practicing in home is a decent amp

This was my first 100 watt amp, and I have to tell you, is really really good, and does the job. Of course it's solid state characteristics make it sound worse than a tube amp (fender has a couple of those) but still decent, it has a lot of build in effect, reverb, trem, delay, flanger, etc... also it comes with a thing fender like to call, amp type, you can select from a variety of classic amps, from Fender Tweed, to some Blackface types, Orange- ish, Vox-ish, Vintage Marshall-ish, Modern Marshall-ish, some Hot Rod like Fender DeVille, boutique amps like Egnater, a couple heavy gain amps, like EVH 5150-ish and Peavy-ish, and Fender Acoustasonic sound. It includes it footswitch

I always had solid state amps, and also played a couple of decent tubes amps, Laney Iron Heart and a Vox NT50, but nothing beats the Marshall tone. I know this ain't a 60's plexi or a JCM, but for starting in the tube amp world is nice. Loud enough to be heard over a drummer, a lot of headroom, I was impressed by that, but even tho, you may not get that pura clean tone cranked, for that you may need a 30 watt at least, but if you don't have a problem with a little of cranked tubes sound in your cleans your gonna be ok. Sad it doesn't have and fx loop, if you need one i suggest looking for a Origin 20H or a DSL 20H