This video is a demo of an Epiphone Emperor Swingster that I was trying to sell as of December 2017.
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@djmojolosangeles8190 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful guitar, sounds great and thank you for reviewing it! I can't wait for my Delta Blue to arrive :)
@michaelthiele25622 жыл бұрын
Great review.. Didn't think that the swingbuckers would sound so nice 😎👍
@prohaskaman4 жыл бұрын
Were you able to play like that before you had the guitar, or does that come with the guitar? If it's not included, would you consider throwing it in for a few extra bucks?
@glenfenderman5 жыл бұрын
I just bought a brand new cherry red one, and I love it!
@jixxxxer172 жыл бұрын
are you still loving the guitar today ? I'm thinking of getting one anything I should know if you don't mind me asking, Thanks 1
@1066wastrel4 жыл бұрын
can`t believe this, not only do I have a Swingster (which is not for sale) I also have a Loar guitar which is sat on Steve`s left!
@daveo32412 жыл бұрын
nice demo!
@lewisbirkett44283 жыл бұрын
Looks and sounds great but only having 20 frets is a buzzkill. I gotta have 22, 21 at the very least
@auntjenifer77742 жыл бұрын
I play this guitar and didn't even notice it doesn't have more than 20 frets 🤷 but I guess I like to "boomer bend" and stuff like that 🤣
@AngelMartinez-qs3cf6 жыл бұрын
Hey Steve I am really digging this guitar I know you sold it but I have a question can it handle bars rock, not metal, like Beatles, Rolling Stones, AC/DC Black Sabbath, stuff like that?
@trucks2byhalia6 жыл бұрын
would work great for Beatles and Stones and lighter blues rock than AC/DC, but it's not ideal for Sabbath. An SG (as Iommi and Young use) or other solid body Gibson/Epi would be better for them. The hollowbody swingster would likely give you a lot howling feedback issues with all that distortion.
@AngelMartinez-qs3cf6 жыл бұрын
Okay thank you.
@TheElrondo4 жыл бұрын
...and still there is no Singel Coil mode...it's parallel or serial wiring to come close to Filtertrons wich Gretsch wired parallel.
@trucks2byhalia4 жыл бұрын
Yes, I stand corrected. The parallel setting (tone knob pushed down for this guitar) gives you a brighter, less powerful sound, roughly analogous to a single coil or lightly wound humbucker. The serial setting (tone knob pulled up) gives a beefier, more wound Gibson humbucker. When I still had the guitar, my preferred default mode was to set between the two pickups and have the bridge in series and the neck in parallel.
@jixxxxer172 жыл бұрын
does this have a full center block or are they totally hollow body ? Great review and demo.
@Grinfingrz52 жыл бұрын
The Swingster is a full hollow body (no center block). I love my Swingster Royale!
@jixxxxer172 жыл бұрын
@@Grinfingrz5 Thanks for the info, I was going to buy one on my local CL but it's made in Korea so I'm hesitant, the uploader, Steve Brewer mentions that the Korean made are not up to par in quality, but I'm not sure where his is made. Peace !
@trucks2byhalia6 жыл бұрын
it is sold.
@w.c.fields73556 жыл бұрын
Steve , How would the Swingster do with Surf Music ?
@trucks2byhalia6 жыл бұрын
It will work well. The Bigsby vibrato bar is great. I think the most important thing for that is having a good amp with spring reverb (e.g., fender deluxe reverb) or a good reverb pedal (e.g., catalinbread topanga spring reverb).
@mountainstartemple60416 жыл бұрын
probably darn well .... I tried one at a Long & McQuade and I love the Chet Bigsby arm .... the pickups go from 'series' to 'parallel' (not really split coil) but you get the thinner single coil-ish sound and humbucker-ish sound out of them .... I like the versatility of this guitar! A second hand model is there and I want it!
@themessiahsgovernmentofint21696 жыл бұрын
The Chet Bigsby is the best tremolo arm I have used. When I first tried this guitar at Long & McQuade I was amazed at the tremolo. I have a Les Paul type guitar with a regular bigsby and all I can say is you want the Chet because the regular bigsby's are terrible! Also be fore warned that it is hard to string any bigsby type guitar so take that into consideration if you are changing strings regularly.
@therealsi-b11416 жыл бұрын
It's def good for 'Smurf Music' :)
@willmurphy69963 жыл бұрын
you can play swing on anything. Swing was born from cheap often broken and beat up instruments. It started during the depression when nobody had much and they would use buckets and guitars hobbled together from broken shit. Just think of finding a fender tele and a martin dreadnought and the fender is fucked up but the neck is good and the martins neck is cracked but the body is good. They would cut away and join the two. Swing actually created a new sound that they are still trying to perfect in the electronics of pickups.
@MrTennisgolf2 жыл бұрын
Would have been nice and useful to hear without the effects.