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Lindy Fralin out of Virginia, has EXCELLENT humbuckers called Unbuckers which are perfect for coil splitting. Slightly uneven wound, so when you split the humbucker into single coil, you get more output than just “half” the traditional humbucker. Not nearly the volume drop off, and very usable single coil even if they’re not quite as toneful in that mode as true single coils. I have these pickups in two great guitars. One Sheraton and a Gibson Les Paul. I’ve had them for years. I stand by them. And btw, their full humbucker sound is lovely, and as you would expect in a low-wind, lower DCR, PAF-style humbucker. Please check them out!

Thanks Jack. Most helpful guidance. Glad to see my guitar and amp combination in your video. I took your advice in an earlier video and bought the Sheraton instead of the Epi 335.

Just bought an Epiphone Sheraton II. Can’t wait till it arrives. I love that warm bluesy sound it has. Most of all, it’s the one guitar that you can basically play any style with!

Well, I don't have a Sheraton, but I've got a D'angelico Premier DC, gloss black, and it too has those great vintage rock tones. Sweet guitars! Love that sound!

Thanks jack.......insightful as always

You really are a great guitar player Jack! Keep up the great work...

Thanks for posting this, I just bought a Sheraton Pro II this will help me quite a bit 😎🎸

Great advice I am so happy I came across your tones. I am always experimenting with my 68 Bandmaster reverb fender amp in a 64 Vibroverb cab with the original CTS 15 in. Speaker and my 2011Shareton. I will watch it many times. Mahalo🙏

I don't own any ES style guitars yet, but I will someday. Great video Jack

Thanks Jack I play a sheraton 11 Pro and I've found it the most difficult of my guitars to get the sound I want your v I do is very helpful

I have two of these. Great build quality. I might put Epiphone mini humbuckers in one of them.

I love the tones that come out of my Sheraton! Tasty. Thanks for the tips.

Sad that I can not afford one now. I am saving. Shipping and taxes are a pain to me in Tanzania. Thanks for the information.

Great video, Jack. Another thing I've found that works wonders for a Sheraton "jazz tone" is to put Chrome lights on it. I'm not generally a fan of flat wound strings but they get the job done. Also... you're right that rolling off the tone on the guitar tends to muddy the waters... best to do that on the amp first and then maybe on the guitar a bit if it's not enough. Cheers

Hi. Thanks for your video. I' ve a Sheraton II made in Korea 1991. Great guitar. The sound that I was looking for

I have a 1995 model and it sounds great when I use the EQ like John Lee Hooker. Awesome guitar for blues, soul, classic rock and bossa nova.

I have a really nice 1989 Samick Epi Sheraton. An elderly gent owned it from new and rarely touched it until I bought it in 2020. It now has Bareknuckle Stormy Monday pickups, alpha pots and bone nut. It looks and sounds beautiful

I got the same guitar thanks for the tips will definitely do some experimenting. Mahalo

Just picked up a Sheraton II Pro from Musician's Friend for literally half price during their Open Box sale. For the money, there isn't a higher quality or more versatile electric guitar in the world. Cheers for the tips!

I've just been given A Shine 906 br. It's made in Korea same factory as Epiphone and is the factories own brand. Fitted with as bigsby It's basically a Sheriton clone I think. I've never owned a semi hollow before and this video is perfect for me right now. Great stuff thank you and subbed.

Mighty fine pickin' my friend!👍

Thanks for sharing! I play a sheraton 2 pro through a blues deluxe reissue.... for clean tones I have the volume around 4 or 5, little reverb 3 or 4.... other eg at 5.... on the drive channel I turn the bass up a little too .... kids say I shake the 2nd floor when playing rhythm. Mostly I shoot for BB King and John Lee Hooker tones.... on the drive.... well it's not really gainy... more a little dirty I guess- works for Sweet Home Chicago and sort of works for SRV- doesn't have his bite though. I agree with you about splitting coils, its better than nothing but a tele or strat is on the list, hopefully with texas specials. I also play through an orange micro dark... but only when am in a black sabbath mood... thought about selling that amp or trading it for a pedal...

Have early 2000's MIK (Samick) Sheraton II. Replaced PUPS with Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates at bridge and SD Jazz at neck. Independent coil taps. Natural finish. Just love this guitar!!!

Hey Jack I am new to your channel and I enjoy your content, always learn something. I have been playing acoustic for two years now. About a month ago I was lent a Les Paul copy with humbuckers so I picked up a little Yamaha thr5 practice amp. All of this is brand new to me as I am not around other musicians. As I was watching the video I kept stopping and trying out what you were doing. I learned an incredible amount. Thanks, you got me off to a good start.

Great information, I play the 1998 Korean model and I love it but I have a hard time with the PU

Thanks for the demo. I just ordered the pro and this tells me that it will do everything that all my others can do. Do t really like the neck on the PRS 594 or the Guild starfire 3. The LP and this one will be my go to.

Strat guy myself, but love the idea of the ES Thinline guitar. Have an Epi ES335 Pro in Teaburst. Based on a Gibby '58(?). This guitar is THE most sensitive to weather changes of all my guitars 🤣 Only guitar in the arsenal the can do Ten Years After!👍😎❤ Still trying to pair her up with the TMDR. Hope this video can help me bond with her. Great vid as usual. Thanks so much 👍😎🖖❤

Nice playing

Great video! Here I was thinking about my Sheraton and you put out a way for me to appreciate it more. I too do the middle pickup setting while dialing back tone and volume, particularly when playing 90s British Rock, like Oasis. Looking forward to trying those Blues settings.

Great playing! Great tones! I have the exact same model (I got it on the cheap, from a guy who was closing his music shop), but I can't really dial in the tones I'm after. I play mainly clean tones (jazz, funk, and mildly overdriven blues). My main amp is a Hughes & Kettner Stateman, and I also use amp simulations (Mustang Fender, Line 6 Pod HD and a Valeton I got for half the price). My main criticism is that the stock pickups generate harsh and unpleasant harmonics if I dial everything at 10. But the tone gets muddy and ill-defined if I dial the volume back, even just a little. I've noticed the shrill harmonics issue on other Epiphone models, such as the Joe Pass, which is why I didn't buy one when I was looking for a jazz box. I mostly use the neck pickup, I really don't like the bridge pickup. Another thing: the pickups are not balanced: the bridge pickup is a lot weaker than the neck pickup. As a consequence, I find myself constantly raising or lowering the height of each pickup in order to get a better balance between both pickups, and messing around with the pots a lot, while I should really be playing. As for rock or hard rock tones (I don't do chug-chug), all I get are shrill and ill-defined tones, not the creamy overdriven goodness I'm looking for. Maybe my amp is not the best platform for overdriven tones. Or maybe I got sub-standards pickups. Most probably, my technique sucks. I am now contemplating swapping the stock pickups for Wilkinsons. But I'll maybe give the stock pickups another chance after watching your videos :) One last thing: at least on my guitar, the neck is heavier than the body so it tends to sag whenever I play at gigs.

Jack, I always enjoy your videos. In this video, as in all your videos, when you talk about a certain setting, I can tell that what you are playing is in fact you actually exploring that setting...you're not just playing riffs but expanding on what you are hearing/sensing from the tone produced, via chords and fills. You the player hear it (as do we the viewer) then you go some more so we mutually explore the idea. Nice! I have a 1999 Epi Sheraton II, btw. Only within the past few weeks have I taken it out of its case and started giving it the attention it deserves. With amp eq around noon, an keeping guitar knobs where they need to be I can nail Johnny B. Goode.

One thing most people don't refer to, when talking about sheratons they actually have built in coil-split. Which means that the humbuckers can be Split Up into one single coil Pick up each. You can achieve this by pulling the volume knobs. (It will make the sound clearer but it might bring a bit of hum and the Output will be lower) This will make this sooo much more versitile than most guitars i played before!

Hi Jack, thanks so much for this video & the Casino how to as well. I'm trying to figure out the Cake - Fashion Nugget album tones; kind of airy, boomy, lo-fi distorted jazz tone maybe? I think the jazz demo of the casino comes close. Would a sheraton be better in this context?

about to get my hands on a 2002 model.

Thank you for another Sheraton video, and a good one. My current goal is to get good enough with my first guitar (Yamaha acoustic) to justify buying another one. I'd like an electric and I'm pretty sure this is the electric I'd like to have. Or a G&L Tribute S-500, depending on what I can find used when the happy day finally arrives.

Hi Jack you are making some great videos. In 2004 I bought a 2002 Epiphone Jorma Kaukonen Riviera Deluxe made by the Peerless Factory in Korea. I have always been impressed with the workmanship and the sound of this guitar. You have given me some great ideas to try.

Aside from the push pull is there any difference with the pickups?

I have a sheraton II non pro version. Should I upgrade the pickups to probuckers? Or something else?

90s EPI Sheratons Are Great!

Great that you give Epiphones a lot of love Jack. I have just bought a Riviera with a Bigsby (the Jorma Kaukonen model). Do you have any bigsby Epiphones?

Glad to see you not playing only blues through this. My favorite user of this guitar is far-far away from blues; Brian Aubert of Silversun Pickups.

Hi Jack, what year is your Sheraton ii? I have a 2006, and my bridge sound nothing like yours!! Yours is amazing!

Hey Jack, I'm thinking of putting some HB-sized Gibson p90s in my Sheraton. Any thoughts on that? I think it will take out some of the muddiness in the tone. It's a Pro II so it should have very good stock wiring and hardware. The Pro Buckers are good pickups, but I've a feeling it will take the p90 bite great

I've been considering a Sheraton for a while now. You can get used ones pretty cheap these days. Why are they so much brighter than like an Epiphone dot or ES-335? Just different pickups?

Just aquired one...loving it so far however one of the push/pull tone pot knobs keeps sliding off! Any fixes?

On the section were you demo both pickups on, with one of the volume pots backed off, unfortunately couldn't hear the difference due to the high gain your using, probably be more noticeable on a clean sound,good video though,cheers from London,UK.👍

I have a 2005 from Korea, also in black. Use it for jazz, in fact I prefer it to my €2000 FGN which is quacky

Great channel. Just subscribed. Can I get a similar sound like your opening blues straight into simple vox pathfinder 15 or do you have something else going on?

Great video Jack. Can you compare Sheraton with new les Paul custom,they both use same pickups so do they sound same?

I can't decide between the Epiphone Sheraton 2 Pro or the new Epiphone ES-335. The 335 sounds amazing.

It sounds beautiful. I've heard it's quite heavy, does it make it a bit uncomfortable to hold? Thanks

Do they still make the Sheraton or is there just the Sheraton 2? And does the Sheraton 2 pro have the pull pots for coil splitting as I don't like them. Thank you

Is the bb king of the same quality in your opinion?

I see the E on the epiphone but I read 'euro'

point is is it more walue then all dis casinos

when this guy learns to truly sit in the pocket the sky is the floor.

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Best coil splits goes to.......................Carvin

Made in Korea or China?

It’s a shame you don’t show the knobs