Members peppe1096 Posted June 14, 2014 Members Share Posted June 14, 2014 Hi, Yesterday I bought this guitar. When I play with the amp it sound very harsh. I try a lor of settings, but nothing. The amp is a Peavey Backstage II (I Know it isn't good), but is it possibile that My guitar has basswood body? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knotty Posted June 14, 2014 Members Share Posted June 14, 2014 Hi' date=' Yesterday I bought this guitar. When I play with the amp it sound very harsh. I try a lor of settings, but nothing. The amp is a Peavey Backstage II (I Know it isn't good), but is it possibile that My guitar has basswood body?[/quote'] Possibly, but I doubt that is the problem. Most japanese made guitars are basewood. The Ibanez RG range is a great example. A fair few players with signature guitars specify basewood for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soundcreation Posted June 14, 2014 Members Share Posted June 14, 2014 Possibly, but I doubt that is the problem. Most japanese made guitars are basewood. ??? Unless it's an Elitist, it's not made in Japan. and most japanese guitars are not basswood. not that basswood is a bad thing.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chordite Posted June 14, 2014 Members Share Posted June 14, 2014 How old is it and are you certain (ie you bought it from a Gibson dealer) that it is not a Chinese fake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GilmourD Posted June 14, 2014 Members Share Posted June 14, 2014 Possibly, but I doubt that is the problem. Most japanese made guitars are basewood. The Ibanez RG range is a great example. A fair few players with signature guitars specify basewood for it. If it's a real Epi LP Standard then it's not basswood. It'll be Mahogany body and neck (although not the same species of Mahogany that Gibson and most others use) and it'll have a maple cap on the body. Sometimes it's an alder cap, however. Regardless, the Standards have a cap. As far as harshness... Basswood will never sound harsh. In fact, it's got a very smooth, midrangey tone with a soft (but present) treble. What year is this guitar? Can you post a pic of your serial number? Epiphone's changed out their pickups recently. The old pickups used to either be very muddy sounding or particularly harsh sounding. It may just be an issue of the low-end pickups they used to use. The newer pickups (ProBuckers) are actually quite nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knotty Posted June 15, 2014 Members Share Posted June 15, 2014 ??? Unless it's an Elitist, it's not made in Japan. and most japanese guitars are not basswood. not that basswood is a bad thing.... I thought they were, in terms of numbers , if not models. But you know japanese guitars much more than me. My main , badly put point was that basswood would never make anything sound trebley. My MIJ 94 strat is basswod and sounds great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FormerlyBassred Posted June 15, 2014 Members Share Posted June 15, 2014 SOunds like electronics issue... Are the tone knobs turned up? is it on one pickup or both? Have you tried it/do you have access to another amp, just to see if it does the same thing if you change the amp... Basswood isn't going to make the guitar sound harsh, you could bolt a good pickup to a piece of any kind of wood and it should collect the vibrations of the strings and make a decent sound if the pickup is OK/worth half a crap... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sammyreynolds01 Posted June 15, 2014 Members Share Posted June 15, 2014 The only Epi I know that has a basswood body are the Epiphone Specials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Buttcrust Posted June 15, 2014 Members Share Posted June 15, 2014 Some people think a "harsh" Epiphone is good. "Harsh" is a relative term, please describe "harsh" in non relative term. What is "harsh" ??? Be specific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soundcreation Posted June 15, 2014 Members Share Posted June 15, 2014 I thought they were, in terms of numbers , if not models. But you know japanese guitars much more than me. My main , badly put point was that basswood would never make anything sound trebley. My MIJ 94 strat is basswod and sounds great. I think it's impossible to say. Fender Japan has quite a few basswood models but just as many ash and alder. Ibanez RG's are generally basswood but most of their other lines aren't, like the S series. And pretty much none of the companies I'm into that make the fender and gibson copies....ever use basswood for them. Of course because japanese guitars are more used by the "shred" community and that community has traditionally used basswood in their guitars they do for sure make a lot of them. But they make a lot of all kinds of guitars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaleH Posted June 15, 2014 Members Share Posted June 15, 2014 Drop the pickups down as low as you can. See if there is a difference. You may beable to work them back up and find a sweet spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chordite Posted June 15, 2014 Members Share Posted June 15, 2014 Let's play "Where's Peppe?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted June 15, 2014 Members Share Posted June 15, 2014 I also suggest checking the Pickup height. Hold the last fret down and try adjusting the height down so you have about 3mm clearance between the top of the pickup and the strings on both sides. That should rule out the pups being too close. The rest is likely the amp or speaker. The gain channel on the smaller Peaveys can be pretty harsh in compared to other amps. I have a little Studio Pro and its gain can be fairly grainy and harsh in comparison to other amps. Its usable with the right guitar, but the guitar does have to have a good setup to avoid hearing beating between strings. What I do is just use the amp clean and get the drive from boxes. Just dial up the best clean tone you can get and use a stomp box for your tones. I wouldn't jack with the guitar or mod it to sound good based on what you hear from that amp because its really not good enough to evaluate the guitar. I'd wait till you try the guitar through some good amps before making any of those decisions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JTEES4 Posted June 16, 2014 Members Share Posted June 16, 2014 ....and turn down the treble on the amp. And/or turn up the bass on the amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.