Members Aster1 Posted March 2, 2010 Members Share Posted March 2, 2010 I have heard good and bad on the Epi 160 and the main "bad" is when people were wanting it to have a good Acoustic tone unplugged and didn't have electric guitar strings on it to play it like it was more meant to be played. Amplified! Any feedback on that notion I've heard? Also, my Dealer here has a Indonesian made J-160E. Is that a better git than the MIC version? Didn't know that there were both locations available. I keep thinking about one for my Beatles songs and others. Let me know what the buzz is on M.I.I. vs M.I.C. 160's before I'd drop the hammer on it. Thanks Aster1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted March 2, 2010 Members Share Posted March 2, 2010 If you want to get both a good electric and a good "unplugged" tone, you have only two viable string options... Both designed with magnetic-p/u equipted acoustic guitars in mind. I, personally, liked the GHS ones better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fred Fartboski Posted March 2, 2010 Members Share Posted March 2, 2010 You might also want to search and post your question in the forums at www.epiphone.com and www.beatgearcavern.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DarkHorseJ27 Posted March 2, 2010 Members Share Posted March 2, 2010 Hey Terry, some people have told me that the GHS White Bronze and just nickel wound electric guitar strings, and that its a dirty secret that GHS doesn't want to get out. Any truth to that, or where they just running their mouths? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted March 3, 2010 Members Share Posted March 3, 2010 Hey Terry, some people have told me that the GHS White Bronze and just nickel wound electric guitar strings, and that its a dirty secret that GHS doesn't want to get out. Any truth to that, or where they just running their mouths? I've heard that, but the White Bronze are a very different formula than nickel-wound electric trings...sound quite a bit like Phosphor Bronze sets, actually. The DR's also sound pretty good, but were harder to find, almost 2X as expensive and never lasted as long before needing to be changed, so I used the GHS WHite Bronze for about 4-5 years, back when I used Lawrence sound-hole p/us. Neither, at that time, made a 12-string set, so I had to order strings and make up my own sets...Now GHS makes the GHS_WB-12L, DR still doesn't, as far as I'm aware. BTW, this is the ONLY way that you can to use a magnetic P/U on a 12-string w/o the unwound octaves being excessively louder than the wound strings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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