Epiphone El-oo Pro Natural Mahogany Limited Adition Review
Review: Epiphone EL-00 Pro Audio-visual-Electric Guitar
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The L-00 (forth with similar 50-0 and 50-1 models) was one of the best flattop audio-visual guitar bargains, from its introduction during the Bully Depression all the way through the mid Nineties, when collectors discovered how truly incredible these "upkeep" guitars are.
Though the guitar had a small body, its light X-bracing, sparse finish and high-quality materials added upward to provide sweet tone, assertive output and incredibly even rest, which made L Series flattops a favorite of blues and fingerstyle guitarists like Robert Johnson and Norman Blake. In recent years, the price of an original L-00 has soared to the $iv,000 to $7,000 range, simply the new Epiphone EL-00 Pro brings the model back to its original low-toll/high-performance status and includes the modern upgrade of a built-in Fishman Sonitone preamp and Sonicore pickup organisation.
Features
True to the original, the Epiphone EL-00 Pro is built with a select mahogany body, solid spruce height, mahogany cervix, rosewood pivot bridge and rosewood fingerboard. With its 14th-fret neck-to-body juncture, leap top and back, and tobacco sunburst finish, the EL-00 Pro most closely resembles the 1937-'41 incarnation of the 50-00. Modernistic improvements include a compensated bridge saddle, rounded SlimTaper D-profile neck and Grover mini-push button 14:1 tuners.
The most significant modern upgrade is the Fishman Sonitone preamp and Sonicore undersaddle pickup. The preamp is mounted inside the soundhole, with master volume and principal tone controls mounted at the edge of the soundhole virtually the low E string, which preserves the EL-00 Pro'south vintage acoustic aesthetics. In fact, it's difficult to tell that this is an acoustic-electric guitar unless you peer within the soundhole.
Functioning
Like the original L-00, the EL-00 Pro sounds much larger and bolder than its small body suggests. Its bass is big merely not overwhelming, allowing the mids and treble to share equal sonic stature. The Fishman Sonicore pickup and Sonitone preamp deliver warm, rich acoustic tone that perfectly complements the EL-00 Pro's vintage vibe, which brand this guitar a natural choice for fingerstyle and audio-visual blues players.
The D-shaped neck profile is much more comfortable to play than the hefty deep Five-profile necks plant on the original models, and with its splendid fretwork and compensated saddle, the EL-00 Pro'south intonation is much more than spot on, as well. Overall, the EL-00 Pro offers the perfect alloy of vintage vibe and modernistic performance, making it the all-time acoustic guitar bargain since the original Depression-era L-00.
List Toll $499
Manufacturer Epiphone, epiphone.com
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Based on a vintage 50-00, the EL-00 Pro offers several modern upgrades, including a D-shape neck profile, compensated saddle and Grover tuners.
The Fishman Sonitone preamp and Sonicore undersaddle pickup deliver warm, rich amplified tones while preserving the guitar's vintage audio-visual appearance.
The Bottom Line
With its vintage looks, classic tones and mod upgrades, which include a Fishman preamp/pickup organization, the EL-00 Pro is an incredible deal for guitarists who beloved small acoustics with big sound.
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Chris is the co-author of Eruption - Conversations with Eddie Van Halen. He is a 40-year music industry veteran who started at Boardwalk Entertainment (Joan Jett, Night Ranger) and Roland Usa earlier condign a guitar journalist in 1991. He has interviewed more than 600 artists, written more i,400 product reviews and contributed to Jeff Beck's Brook 01: Hot Rods and Rock & Gyre and Eric Clapton's 6 String Stories.
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