Epiphone Extura Prophecy Electric Guitar - Purple Tiger Aged Gloss Reviews
What do you get when you combine the elegance of an Explorer with the unimpeded fret access of a Futura? The answer is the Extura Prophecy. This Epiphone-exclusive design packs the high-performance features discerning guitarists demand, with state-of-the-art electronics, fleet-fingered playability, and top-shelf hardware. The Extura’s resonant mahogany body boasts a radical angular design that’s crowned by an eye-grabbing flame maple veneer. Multi-voice Fishman Fluence pickups make this solidbody electric guitar a tone chaser’s dream come true, unleashing both vintage and modern humbucker sounds, along with hum-free single-coil textures. And it’s the perfect tool for breaking speed records, thanks to its ergonomic, asymmetrical SlimTaper-shaped mahogany neck and its fast-playing 24-fret ebony fingerboard. Grover-locking Rotomatic tuners, a LockTone Tune-o-matic bridge, and a Graph Tech NuBone nut round out this axe’s pro-level appointments. The Epiphone Extura Prophecy includes distinctive single-ply binding and a sharp-looking aged gloss finish.
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Insane Bang for the Buck
The quality and features of this guitar at this price point are crazy. The main draw are the awesome Fishman pickups. The modern voicing has the high-output clarity of EMGs, the PAF-inspired pickups will get you that classic Gibson humbucker sound. The coil split voice is okay; not as bell-like as a Fender but it will do the job if you want clean. My guess is most people who get this guitar wont spend a ton of time playing clean (I typically dont). The asymmetrical taper neck feels great and the satin finish helps it feel super fast. The frets are nice and smooth. It's in the same quality tier as my LTD Snakebyte (with the added bonus of a graphtec nut, which the LTD doesn't have) at almost half the price (obv not a signature model, but I digress).
If you're still reading this you're obviously considering this guitar, so stop reading and just buy it already! Shout out to Noah for another great sales experience from Sweetwater!
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I got one some time back and I have to say...it is a KICK *** metal guitar! it too can play clean and bluesy... overall a great guitar.
Loving this guitar!
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Just love this guitar, so happy getting it.I'm sure it will be around for a long time. It feels really nice right out the box. The price is definitely worth it. Thanks Sweetwater, im a happy camper.
10 out of 10
In think evry guitar player needs an axe like this in their arsenal. This guitar is great for a beginers all the way to the touring musician. Sounds amazing whether playing along with the blues, or shredding some old school Metallica. THIS GUITAR IS A MUST HAVE!
plays and sounds like a $1500+ guitar
This is my second Epiphone Prophecy Extura. The first one was purchased here and was shipped padded in a box that was padded in another box. Well, FedEx found a way to damage the guitar. Well, unfortunately I needed it to be replaced. Sarah Lambert (my sales representative) jumped to my rescue and sent me this one. Being the first one was only cosmetically damaged I ended up trying it out before shipping back. DUDE! It played great right out of the box with just a slight tuning correction. Intonation was dead on. The action was not as low as I like but it wasn't high either. Think happy medium. I absolutely fell in love with it and could only hope the new one would play as well. When this one arrived, it was practically identical. So, I lowered the action and tweaked the Intonation a tad to make it like I wanted. No buzz, no dead frets, and plays perfect.
The frets are perfect (both guitars) as far as playing. No sharp fret edges high or low. The only thing is they are not rounded edges like higher end guitars but they are in no way a hindrance. Feel smooth and nice. The inlays look awesome and the ebony is nice and dark. The fishman fluence pickups are amazing. You can split the coils (I could not care less for this feature) but the big thing is the other two voices. On the modern setting with my amp setting brings the nastiest and meanest SLAYER tones to life. The passive setting gives me that dark TOOL tone I love. Through my drop pedal (integrated into my Fender GTX100) I can get absolutely awesome Slipknot/ Korn tone, and with a little adjustment to the amp some Killer Mastodon. These pickups are NOT just great metal pickups, although they do absolute deliver all you want without being muddy. They clean up and play as beautiful as you could ever ask. The Fishman Fluence pickups in these Prophecy guitars are supposedly different from the standard Fishman Moderns. All I can say is that these are WAY better than anticipated. On the active setting think EMGs without the EQed mids. On the passive, they sound more like some Duncans (I believe they are based on the Gibson Burstbucker pickups).
Now for the flamed maple. Mine has some movement which is wicked cool. Cosmetically this is much nicer in reality and the pics do not do it justice at all. Even the HD pics Sweetwater shows can't deliver how beautiful the guitar really is.
The neck is absolutely amazing. The finish being kind of a low gloss (not exactly matte) is fast and easy to glide. The binding is nice and better than I expected. The nut is cut perfect and everything works and looks great.
Are there better guitars out there? Yes but nowhere near this price point. You would be forced to spend 50%-75% more to get something equivalent or better. With me receiving two different ones and both being phenomenal examples, I have to say thats good odds that these are well built guitars. I own guitars from Gibson, BC Rich, Schecter, Sterling, and Epiphones. Although most of my guitars are very nice mid range products the Epiphone Prophecy is the nicest (even over my Gibson thats awesome itself). If you like pointy Metal guitars, you might need to take a good hard look at these Exturas. Ive seen nothing that compares. Not even close.
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GREAT GUITAR!
Overrated
I fell in love with the looks of this guitar. I have had it for a year and it's been in the shop twice
because it breaks strings way too easily. The last time it was still under a year warranty, so Epiphone replaced the bridge. It still breaks strings. There it sits in it's custom, expensive case that I bought, collecting dust. Don't waste your money. Also, the active pickups eat batteries like there is no tomorrow. I have an Epiphone Les Paul that was about $ and it is better than this guitar. What a major disappointment. It sounds good, it plays OK but not great.
