Epiphone Les Paul Ultra II Electric Guitar

Featured Features
Building on the heritage of the Epiphone Les Paul Ultra (introduced to an adoring public in 2005), the Les Paul Ultra II has all of the touches and specs you've come to love in the Ultra, with a few extras hiding beneath the hood. What would a Les Paul be without a pair of fat, warm humbuckers? This model doesn't disappoint, utilizing two in-your-face AlNiCo Classics. The body is chambered Mahogany with a quilted Maple cap for light weight and heavy tone. The slim-taper set neck is made of Mahogany, and when coupled with the Epiphone-engineered LockTone bridge and tailpiece, the sustain rings loud and clear. These guitars are available in Faded Cherry and Midnight Ebony finshes with gold hardware, and to top it off you'll find Grover die-cast tuners on the 3-to-a-side headstock.

A Change Would Do You Good
If this guitar were just built on the features we've already mentioned, the Ultra II would be a tick in the win column. But Epiphone didn't rest on their laurels, and they take this guitar right over the top and into the upper stratosphere of tone. I bet you noticed something going on just after the 22nd fret on the bound Rosewood fingerboard, didn't you? That, my friend, is the Fishman NanoMag pickup, and arguably the coolest feature of this guitar.

More Than Meets the Eye
Fishman has fortified a tremendously strong reputation building acoustic pickups, preamps, and effects for many years, so it should come as no surprise that the Fishman designed NanoMag pickup built into every Ultra II is a must-hear. The acoustic tones are stunning and complex, with just the right amount of shimmer and shine, but what about changing the tone? We're glad you asked. Flip the instrument over and you're treated to another surprise. That fingerboard-mounted NanoMag pickup has its very own Treble, Bass, and Gain controls, conveniently located on the normally-blank control cavity cover... try saying that 10 times fast. The front controls are also a bit of a departure from the norm. Instead of your usual array of dual volume and dual tone controls, the Ultra II sports neck and bridge volumes, a master tone, and a NanoMag volume for blending tones when using the mono output jack. Wait, mono output jack? That's right--the Ultra II has stereo outputs for either completely splitting the electric and acoustic signals, or for blending the two. Many players are sending the magnetic electric pickups to a guitar amp, and sending the acoustic NanoMag signal to an acoustic amplifier. Better yet, throw the acoustic output into a DI and right into the house to inject your strumming straight into the mixer. Everything is powered by an internal 9v battery, but don't fret--even if your battery dies, your passive humbuckers will still function perfectly well.

The Epiphone LP Ultra II is a revolutionary instrument in material, engineering, tone, and purpose. Featuring a combination of worldly good looks, classic and time-tested craftsmanship and specs, and modern, innovative features, this is a guitar ready to take on the world.

The Epiphone Les Paul Ultra II is all the Les Paul you expect, with enough extras to make it a new must-have instrument for any serious player. Epiphone has a habit of starting revolutions. In 2005 , when most people said it couldn't be done, the world's favorite luthier said that yes, it could, and invented the first Les Paul to feature a chambered body, giving even more guitarists the change to enjoy killer Les Paul tone and sustain. That model was the Les Paul Ultra.

Now Epiphone is doing it all over again, as the original Les Paul Ultra is joined by the new Ultra II. You might not be surprised by the name, but when you check out this groundbreaking hybrid model, you would believe what Epiphone has done.

Some things haven't change. Like the original Ultra, the Ultra II features a chambered mahogany body topped with a quilted maple cap, meaning that it weighs far less then a Les Paul Standard wile offering the same timeless tone and endless sustain - but that's not the reason why the new Ultra II is set to steal the show.

The real revolution comes from the Ultra II's pairing of twin Alnico Classic humbuckers (which supply the beefy electric tone that has always been the Les Paul's calling card) and a fingerboard-mounted NanoMag pickup (with dedicated tone controls and output jack) that lets guitarists unlock shimmering acoustic tones on the stage and in the studio. Whether you're playing clean fingerpicked passages or digging in with the pick, this revolutionary hybrid model as it covered.

Technical Info

Body: Mahogany, Chambered

Top: Quilted Maple Neck: Mahogany, slim-taper, satin finish, glued, set

Fingerboard: Rosewood, 12-inch radius, 22 medium jumbo frets

Scale: 24.75 inches

Nut Width: 1.65 inches

Neck Pickup: Alnico Classic, NanoMag

Bridge Pickup: Alnico Classic Plus

Bridge: LockTone Tune-o-Matic

Tailpiece: LockTone Stopbar

Controls:
- Neck Volume
- Bridge Volume
- NanoMag Volume
- Master Tone
- 3-way Toggle
- NanoMag Treble
- Nanomag Bass
- Nanomag Gain

Output Jacks: 1/4-inch mono, 1/4-inch stereo

Power: 9V battery

Tuners: Grover die-cast

Hardware: Gold

Audio Samples

Adds NanoMag pickup with separate output for acoustic simulation.