Oct 11 2010
The Epiphone Masterbilt EF500RCCE Will Satisfy Beginner And Professional Alike
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The Epiphone Masterbilt EF500RCCE is perhaps one of the the best values in an acoustic fingerstyle guitar that you can find for under a thousand dollars. This unit is designed from the ground up (or should I say from the head stock down ) for the performing fingerstyle artist . Fingerstyle musicians will love the size and feel of this guitar as well as the sound produced unplugged or amplified. This guitar looks as good as it sounds.
The head stock is a good place to start checking out the EF500RCCE. The vintage styling of the offset head stock and gold small button open gear tuners are Epiphones return to its historic roots.The nut width on this guitar is one and three quarter inches, perfect for fingerpicking. The mahogany neck supports a rosewood 25 and a half inch scale fingerboard with diamond inlays. The Mahogany neck is dove tailed into the parlor guitar sized Rosewood body. The parlor size body balances out the sound of the guitar which is perfect for fingersyle music.
Lush jazz and classical tones are radiated from the solid Cedar sound board and will improve with age. Cedar sound boards do break in quicke than other tone woods. The solid Rosewood back and sides will produce the renown complex tonal harmonics than perfectly complement the Cedar top. These woods work together to make a palette of sonic colors that are perfect for the solo instrumentalist.The top lower bout is cut away to allow those finger pickin’ fingers to have access to the upper frets. The eSonic 2 pickup system made by Shadow electronics captures and amplifies the vibrations from the strings through the solid tone woods. The Nanoflex pickup captures sound from under the saddle. The Nanomag is in the sound hole at the lower end of the neck. The under saddle pickup and the pickup at the neck will each hear the sound differently. The pickups are useable individually or can be blended together for an awesome stereophonic experience.
If you are in the market for a guitar that doesn’t cost as much as a used Ford, the Epiphone EF500RCCE should be on your list of possibilities whether you are a beginner or a professional fingerstyle guitarist
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