Epiphone Les Paul Prophecy Electric Guitar - Olive Tiger Aged Gloss Reviews
The Epiphone Les Paul Prophecy fuses classic design with modern style, sound, and playability. It features a mahogany body, along with an attention-grabbing, carved hard-maple top — the tried-and-true LP tonewood combination. Multi-voice Fluence humbuckers arm you with vintage and modern humbucker tones, plus hum-free single-coil textures. This Les Paul is addictively playable courtesy of a super-comfortable, asymmetrical SlimTaper-shaped mahogany neck, a fast-playing 24-fret ebony fingerboard, and a smooth-feeling contoured heel. Benefit from rock-solid tuning stability and lightning-fast string changes by way of the Les Paul Prophecy’s Grover-locking Rotomatic tuners, while a LockTone Tune-o-matic bridge and Graph Tech NuBone nut facilitate incredible clarity and near-endless sustain. Eye-catching custom binding and a sharp-looking aged gloss finish put the perfect finishing touches on the Les Paul Prophecy.
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Highest Rated Reviews
PERFECT
I can't say enough good things about this guitar. Plays like a dream right out of the box. Totally regret not purchasing on sooner!
Simply awesome!
This is a awesome guitar,and I would choose it over several actual Gibsons I've played. Highly recommended,but A little helpful Advice for a case. This les paul has 24 jumbo frets, so it requires a case with a 42 inch internal length. It will not fit in the standard 40 inch les paul case.
I love the guitar
I am a strat fan and this is my first les paul type guitar. Obviously there is an adjustment but I'm having a blast with it. I know this is useless information for someone looking to try one. I knew the feel would be different but I was prepared for that. With all of that being said, if you order anything expensive, PAY FOR GOOD SHIPPING!! If you get free shipping it will be out sourced to knuckleheads in unmarked vans and roughly left outside in freezing weather. IF your order is out of stock make sure you get an exact time of expected delivery and let Sweetwater know to notify you if they change the date of delivery. I know many of us have day jobs that need warning when you take off for a delivery.
The Les Paul guitar I have wanted for years
The Epiphone Les Paul Prophecy is a truly great guitar for every type of electric player. Extremely versatile, it covers overdrive and clean humbucker sounds, single-coil sounds, and P-90 sounds - all of which are clean and clear with no hum or noise. 24 frets and the fast, offset neck reduces fatigue. I have been doing studio guitar work for 40 years and all the guitars I purchase are versatile and/or fill a specific need. Most of my instruments are more expensive than the Epiphone Les Paul Prophecy, however I will be playing this guitar on a daily basis. Epiphone improved the Les Paul with the Prophecy. Buy 2 and keep one in a case for posterity - it will go up in value.
Very, Very Good
I've been a Gibson player for 30 years, but these past 3 years or so I've been buying Epiphone, as I really don't play out or record much anymore and don't feel spending Gibson money is justified. My new Prophecy arrived a few days ago and I couldn't be more impressed with a new guitar at this price point. I also own the new Epiphone '59 Les Paul, and that guitar was also very impressive out of the box. I figured I had just gotten lucky with its level of quality until this Prophecy arrived. It was just as good.
It's pretty rare that I bond with a guitar this quickly, but I've bonded with both of these new Epiphones straight away.
This Prophecy is a different type of Les Paul, but every bit as playable and musical as the '59.
The fit and finish is better than most of the new Gibsons I've unboxed over the years.
I realize that this Prophecy is being marketed as a sort of "Metal" guitar, but it's a LOT more than that. The neck is instantly comfortable and the wide range of useable tones will cover any genre of music. I opted for the Olive Tiger finish, and it's one of the best looking guitars I've ever owned. It really gives off the vibe of a faded 70's Silverburst.
I've been anxiously waiting for the release of the Epiphone Adam Jones Custom, but I don't see how that guitar could possibly be any better than this one.
20-30 years ago, guitars of this level of quality would have cost thousands. Whatever it is they're doing over at Epiphone, I hope they keep it up.
Best bang for 7 hundred
Excellent premium Les Paul with Epiphone exclusive modern, burst bucket and P-90 voiced fishman pickups, ebony fretboard, locking tuners and worn and looking silverburst finish (Epiphone calls it olive) but looks like a 70's custom shop silverburst from a distance. Possibly the best Epiphone I have played (except for the Alex Lifeson LP) which I view as the best value Epiphone ever.)
Sweetwater set up was spot on and shipped in double box as usual.
Everything I wished Gibson would change
This guitar rips..
Relatively Lightweight
Neck is perfect..not chunky like older LP's
Pickups are phenomenal and my first experience with Actives..I could care less about single coil switch
Jumbo Frets sold me..I want them on everything
First time Ebony fingerboard user..Love it..glassy
It is beautiful! Sweetwater did an excellent setup!
Great Epiphone Guitar Les Paul Prophecy
This is absolutely the BEST Epi LP I have owned. Good playability and has a great tone!!
This guitar is perfect!!!
I absolutely LOVE this guitar! The split coils with the Fishman pickups are stupid. This guitar has so much going on, I would easily put it up against any Gibson Les Paul. I'm so happy that I grabbed one when it first became available.
LOVE this guitar
Take this review with a grain of salt as I am a new player. But I absolutely love the build quality of the guitar itself and have had several of my friends who are seasoned players look at and play the guitar, they all were very impressed. The lead guitarist for our own band is a live long Gibson player and now he is considering getting this Epiphone for himself.
95% of the way to perfect
Instead of listing all the things I love, I'm just going to say why it lost 0.5 star from a perfect 5.
Two biggest
- 9v batter cable is too short, was a pain in the butt to get the battery out. I ended up soldering a longer 9v connector in. By far the biggest issue, because seriously how hard is that to check in QC.
- No Case included, for the price it should come with one. Come on Epiphone, the '59 LE has a case, where's the love?
Smaller complaints
- PAF voicing on the Fishmans has a bunch of compression. It's not terrible, but it's definitely not the Burstbucker toan.
- Split coil is pretty meh. I've heard worse, but I don't see myself ever using it.
- Mild fret sprout.
Epiphone Les Paul Prophecy guitar
The multi-voice fluence humbuckers work great. The low noise from this battery powered active system really does work. The frets were rough and needed dressing and polishing. The neck feels wonderful. Mine was one of the lightest ones offered and it was no surprise it was a bit neck heavy due to the locking Grover keys. This was easily solved by replacing the stock metal tuner buttons with some plastic mother of pearl buttons. It now balances perfectly! I just love the 24 fret design.
Great guitar but….
Great guitar but the neck was warped out of the box. Once the neck was straightened and the nut slots had been filed down to improve the action, the guitar plays really well. All fixes I could do myself but for a lot of people this would probably had been a return.
Still great guitar but Epiphone QC could use some work.
Two stars for quality but buy easily could be a five star guitar at this price point. With the fixes it's better than some of my guitars 2 and 3 times this price.
Guitar
It alright. It ok.
Honest opinion
I loved this guitar right away. it feels good. it sounded great. i loved the two voicings on the fishman fluence pickups. i love heavy metal and the modern voice was great for that. the vintage voice was great for 70s hard rock and heavy blues and i used that tone a lot. i have one big problem with this guitar. after playing it for 2 years the pickups crapped out. they are now are microphonic. i can hear my voice through the amp if i speak into the pickups and it squeals and feeds back at evn moderate gain. i'm really disappointed and it's partially because of how much i loved it at first. those fishmans ruined it. i wasn't expecting the pickups to just die like that and i thought you shoud know.
Needs Improvement
This guitar was very difficult to get in 2021, when I saw it available I had to order it. My experience with Epiphone and Sweetwater had been fantastic in previous purchases, I bought a les paul 60s and les paul slash, and both are fantastic guitars, the did not need any setup at all, great playability out of the box. My experience with the prophecy was different: It took 3 weeks to get it delivered, FedEx really did not do a good job, when I finally got it I waited 24 hours before opening it (I followed Sweetwater recommendation). Out of the box it came with a broken string (high E) and some minor scuffs in the back. Also, it came with very high action. I went to the local music store got some new strings and when I adjusted the action to the same specs of my other 2 Epiphone les pauls I was very disappointed, there is fret buzz all over the place, I noticed it needed truss rod adjustment and it did not come with a wrench. Another trip to the hardware store.....Truss rod adjustment did not fix the fret buzz, I got a lemon. I hope Sweetwater honors the 30 day return window starting at the day of delivery and not the day of purchase as Fedex consumed 21 days of my return window........The pickups sound amazing but I really dislike the playability of this guitar and I need to send it back..
