OGD - Epiphone Emperor Regent
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2023 5:22 pm
When I was back home for Christmas, I picked this up from my parents' place.
I got this second hand when I was in my late teens and played loads of gigs with it. When I got it, I intended it to be my first foray into acoustic guitars (or acoustic adjacent), but I always played it pretty aggressively as a big, unwieldy electric paired with a Fender Champion 600 for heavy Tom Waitsy blues stuff.
It's in good shape, but was in bad need of a clean and set up, so I've spent a week or so tinkering with it, properly sanding the the bridge's base to fit the shape of the top of the guitar etc, getting everything right on it. Letting it settle a little now before tweaking intonation and truss rod, but it's playing very nicely already.
When I was taking it part, I was curious about what the pickup was. These are normally gold, so I always wondered if it had been replaced at some point. When I unscrewed the mounting bracket from the next, I noticed that the shaft of the screw was in fact gold. I think the previous owner had spray painted the pickup and done a decent job of it. They've also added a Fishman piezo bridge with a separate output, but I've never used that because I don't have a pre-amp and I'm not particularly interested.
It sounds great acoustic or plugged in. Acoustic it has nice note separation and a lovely, sweet singing voice that makes you want to keep playing simple lead lines on it. Plugged in it has a big, thick, fuggy, bassy sound that I love, but with a bit of rasp from the roundwounds that I've put on it. Very lively plugged in.
Plus, it's gorgeous.
I love this guitar.
I got this second hand when I was in my late teens and played loads of gigs with it. When I got it, I intended it to be my first foray into acoustic guitars (or acoustic adjacent), but I always played it pretty aggressively as a big, unwieldy electric paired with a Fender Champion 600 for heavy Tom Waitsy blues stuff.
It's in good shape, but was in bad need of a clean and set up, so I've spent a week or so tinkering with it, properly sanding the the bridge's base to fit the shape of the top of the guitar etc, getting everything right on it. Letting it settle a little now before tweaking intonation and truss rod, but it's playing very nicely already.
When I was taking it part, I was curious about what the pickup was. These are normally gold, so I always wondered if it had been replaced at some point. When I unscrewed the mounting bracket from the next, I noticed that the shaft of the screw was in fact gold. I think the previous owner had spray painted the pickup and done a decent job of it. They've also added a Fishman piezo bridge with a separate output, but I've never used that because I don't have a pre-amp and I'm not particularly interested.
It sounds great acoustic or plugged in. Acoustic it has nice note separation and a lovely, sweet singing voice that makes you want to keep playing simple lead lines on it. Plugged in it has a big, thick, fuggy, bassy sound that I love, but with a bit of rasp from the roundwounds that I've put on it. Very lively plugged in.
Plus, it's gorgeous.
I love this guitar.
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