Epiphone Extura Prophecy Review

Loving this guitar!

Guitars Guitars Guitars 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.

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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!

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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… read more 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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Epiphonw extura prophecy

GREAT GUITAR!

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