Epiphone Les Paul Nightfall Electric Guitar  

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Takes the classic LP Studio design and shifts gears—blasting it into new realms of supersonic shredability.

The Epiphone Nightfall electric guitar features a smooth, satin-finish hard maple neck with Epiphone's thin SpeedTaper "D" profile. The hard maple neck is fitted with a premium ebony fingerboard for smooth, long-lasting performance, while providing more clarity and pop than a weasel in HD.

The sturdy Epiphone Nightfall guitar neck makes it the perfect companion for the black, double-locking Floyd Rose® Special tremolo. The body is routed out beneath the tremolo, allowing you to raise the pitch up to 2-1/2 steps or dive-bomb until your strings go slack. It's combined with an R4 locking nut for improved tuning stability.

With the raging duo of an EMG-HZ-4A in the bridge and an HZ-4 in the neck, your solos will melt faces and your rhythms will be as chunky as homemade peanut butter. The passive pickups on the Epiphone Les Paul Nightfall do an incredible job of emulating their active counterparts—the EMG-81 and 85—yet require no batteries, so you'll never have to worry about showing up to a gig with dead pups. Each of these nearly silent 'buckers is wired to allow coil-splitting via push/pull potentiometers on both volume controls. This gives you a total of 8 tones when combined with the 3-way toggle—from shrieking, eyebrow-piercing freq-outs to chest-caving bass blasts.

Other features on the Epiphone Les Paul guitar include Grover machine heads, abalone inlay on the 12th fret, and Epiphone's own StrapLocks.

Features

  • Body: Mahogany
  • Neck: Hard maple
  • Neck shape: SpeedTaper "D" profile
  • Neck Joint: Set
  • Scale: 24-3/4"
  • Fingerboard: Ebony with 12th-fret abalone inlay
  • Neck pickup: Passive EMG-HZ-4 humbucker
  • Bridge pickup: Passive EMG-HZ-4A humbucker
  • Controls: 3-way pickup selector, neck pickup volume with push/pull coil-splitting, bridge pickup volume with push/pull coil-splitting, neck pickup tone, bridge pickup tone
  • Frets: 22 medium-jumbo
  • Bridge: Floyd Rose® Special tremolo with locking R4 nut
  • Nut Width: 1-11/16" (R4 nut)
  • Hardware: Black
  • Machine Heads: Grover 14:1 ratio
  • Finish: Gloss body and satin neck
  • Case: Sold separately

Put the kids to bed, Nightfall has arrived. Order today.

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Very nice, surprised me.

| Review By: Jon Paschke | 4 months, 6 days ago

2 people out of 2 found this review helpful

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I was pleasantly surprised on how well Epi did with a Floyd Rose, the neck suits it perfectly, ebony, flat with big frets. Great workmanship and painting on the guitar, the pickups are just OK, if I start playing it a bunch I'll probably swap them out but everything else is perfect.

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
10 yrs
Style of music you play:
rock - metal
Where you live:
USA

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My 2 cents

| Review By: Steve Ison | 4 months, 1 week ago

3 people out of 3 found this review helpful

Features:

Double locking nut, floyd, coil splitting, ebony fretboard, ect. What more could you want?

 

The guitar is quite heavy and unfortunately quite thick up high on the neck. Some people might find it difficult to reach some of the high notes on the lower strings. I do.

Quality:

I gave this a 6 because the guitar I got for some strange reason had a locking nut that was WAY too high to the point of being impossible to tune properly. I had to remove the nut, which was screwed and glued, grind it down and then shim it to the proper height. After doing that though, it plays super sweet now near the first few frets. Also the action was set super high, like a half inch off the board.

 

As others have mentioned, the pickups are kinda of tame. Not bad sounding, but fairly tame output wise. I plan on putting in something else in the bridge position. The neck position is ok IMO.

Value:

I give this a 9 because for the money, it is quite a good value.

Overall:

Overall this is a very nice instrument, only plan on having to set it up properly yourself or by a qualified tech. The neck is nice and flat, but rather a bit wider than other les paul styles I have played. The string spacing is also a bit wider due to the floyd, rather than a tune-o-matic.

 

If you like to play metal lead or ryth you will probably want to invest in a better bridge pickup. Anyone else would probably be fine with the passive EMG.

 

This is one of the few les paul style guitars I have seen outfitted with a floyd, and one of the main reasons I bought it. And yes the bar is a bit undersized, you will have to give it one wrap of something to tighten it up.

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
27 years
Style of music you play:
blues, metal
Where you live:
dayton, ohio

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Epiphone Les Paul Nightfall

| Review By: Timothy Collins | 4 months, 3 weeks ago

3 people out of 3 found this review helpful

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The Floyd Rose tremolo and EMG pickups are a great touch to a great guitar!  They play and sound fantastic!

Quality:

After looking the guitar over  from top to bottom, I was very impressed at the workmanship.  This is my second Epiphone Les Paul, and I'm sure it won't be my last.  No flaws, dings, or scratches.  The glossy black finish was impressive.  This guitar plays great and very little tuning was necessary after it arrived.

Value:

With the cost for even a lower end Gibson Les Paul frequently exceeding $1,000, this is a very worthwhile and high quality alternative.  At half the cost (or less) than the Gibsons, this guitar provides just as much power and punch while not costing an arm and a leg.  Excellent choice for both the rookie and experienced guitar players.

Overall:

Fantastic guitar at a fantastic price.  My only recommendation would be to include a hard-shell case with this guitar.  This guitar deserves the protection it would provide during shipment.  Overall, a great guitar.

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
10 years
Style of music you play:
Rock/Metal
Where you live:
USA

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Epiphone Les Paul Nightfall

| Review By: SaxMan93 | 11 months, 1 week ago

9 people out of 11 found this review helpful

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Overall the guitar is a great buy. Everything is in nearly perfect shape, but for the price you couldn't get much better. Would I replace it if it broke or was stolen? Probably not. I'd probably go with a similarly priced Ibanez. Why? Because I hadn't realized how much the quality of their guitars had increased until buying an RG for my brother, and seeing that even the base models play extremely well and have great features. Do I recommend buying this guitar? Definitely. Just remember, it's a Les Paul, and plays like a Les Paul. Oh, and I forgot to mention this really sweet sticker on the back that says "Limited Edition/Epiphone Custom Shop" and you get a complete detail sheet from whoever set it up at the Epi Custom Shop.

Overall, the features were great. Perfectly straight neck, level tremolo, coil splitting capabilities, locking nut works perfectly, and the keys needed are all conveniently attached to the back of the headstock. Under further inspection and playing, some flaws and quirks are noticeable. Just a tip, unless you're ONLY playing metal type things, you'll want to replace the pickups soon. They don't have any headroom or dynamics, and stifle individual string voices, so the same note on different strings sounds as if a guitar synth played the same note twice. Coil-splitting fixes this a little, but still almost no "twang." Alternatively, the Floyd is AMAZING. Don't listen to all of the trem-hating reviews out there. This guitar will NEVER get very far out of tune if you know how to work a floyd, and string changing, for me, is even easier than on a fixed bridge.

The guitar looks and feels great. the finish is smooth and shiny, the neck has a satin finish, so if you play solos that include slides, you'll want to get some fingerease or the like. The paint was almost perfect except for a bubble in the cutaway area, and another on the back. Although, the paint is EXTREMELY durable.

This is a FANTASTIC guitar for the price. Nice, chunky neck, sweet sustain, great frets

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
No
Musical Experience:
Luthier/performing musician
Style of music you play:
Classic rock, alternative, metal, neoclassical, bl
Where you live:
Missouri

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good job epiphone

| Review By: errro | 11 months, 4 weeks ago

4 people out of 7 found this review helpful

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I bought this guitar around the holidays in 2010 and I have had a great experience with it the neck and the pickups really compliment this guitar and the push/pull potentiometers are a nice touch. Over all great guitar.
Do you own the product?:
Yes
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No
Musical Experience:
Musician
Style of music you play:
Rock, Heavy metal, grunge
Where you live:
New york

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