Epiphone Dot Studio Electric Guitar

Rosewood Fingerboard. Vintage Alnico Humbuckers.

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Overall User Ratings

Overall:: 9 out of 10
Features:: 8 out of 10
Quality:: 8 out of 10
Value:: 9 out of 10
I Want It:: 9 out of 10
Sound:: 9 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 9 out of 10
Support:: 7 out of 10

"amazing"

Overall:: 10 out of 10
Features:: 10 out of 10
Quality:: 10 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 10 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 10 out of 10

Submitted: 11/8/2007

Style of Music: punk

Musical Experience: active musician

Location: moscow pa usa

Feature:
this guitar feels great, looks greak, and sounds great

Quality:
it was made well. it has one volume knob and one tone knob its nice and simple

Value:
it sounds great

Desirability:
this semi hollow is beautiful i have the faded brown color it doesnt have any flaws at all

Sound:
this guitar sounds better than the faded gibson sg and its alot cheaper

Ease of Use:
it sounds amazing with a crate amp

Overall:
i expect to be satisified with this for a while. i plan on buying another epiphone in the future

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"This is what you are looking for!"

Overall:: 10 out of 10
Features:: 8 out of 10
Quality:: 9 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 10 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 5 out of 10

User: a customer from ispwest.com

Submitted: 5/7/2006

Style of Music: now I am doing 70's rock and some blues

Musical Experience: 30+ years

Location: Texas

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Feature:
Doesn't have too much in the way of tone switching. It has pickup selection switch, one vol, one tone control. But of those sounds all of them are something I didn't have with my other guitars. It's quite a drab looking thing and no dot inlays on the fretboard, I can't see them when I am standing anyway. It's not the showiest model that's for sure.

Quality:
Not a blemish. The frets are good but not polished. The frets are smooth on the edges, none sharp or sticking out at all. The neck is straight.

Value:
The sound is right on but the guitar is drab appearing, no flash. Super value though. It has all the things the BIG GUY has so of course it will sound like it. All maple body and neck and alnico humbucks and THE sound is there.

Desirability:
It sounds like the Gibson Lucille and it plays great, great action and it's lighter in weight than Lucille.

Sound:
I tried this one through a Marshall ModeFour along with every other Epiphone 335 type semi-hollow and I really liked the sound of the Studio. Then just to be sure, I played the Gibson Lucille model with the Varitone. On setting 1 the Lucille sounds exactly like the DOT Studio or vice versa. I couldn't find another sound on the Varitone that I liked anyway. The Studio has that midrange punch that sounds like 'ol BB and that's what I was looking for. You know it's right when you hear it. The DOT Studio is the one you want.

Ease of Use:
Mine weighs about 8 pounds and that's acceptable. The action is at 1/16 inch at the twelfth fret. The intonation was off, but there was plenty of room for correction.

Support:
I don't know

Overall:
This is what I went looking for and I found it. A guitar that played the blues so easy it just pours out of it. No muss, no fuss it's easy to get that great sound, I didn't fiddle around searching for it. It sounds like Lucille and anyone can afford it.

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"one of Epiphones finest:"

Overall:: 10 out of 10
Features:: 9 out of 10
Quality:: 10 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 10 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 10 out of 10

Submitted: 2/25/2008

Feature:
The simplisity of the hardware give it a great vintage look but i found the all black harware to be somewhat dull so i added gold scews and nuts on the headstock and humbuckers to more suit my tast.

Quality:
For the price of this guitar, I was amazed at how good the quality was on it. Very nice tuners (not cheap at all), and over all, very proffestional quality hardware.

Value:
The best thing about this guitar. Great proffetional proformance guitar for under 300 is rare.

Desirability:
Shes a looker.

Sound:
Very versitale and can play both blues and has a very impressive classic rock sound when the gain is cranked. dident notice any trembling on the body when gain is turned up full like you would with most semihollows which is a def. plus. Also has a good acoustic hum to it unplugged. this is a very nice touch for those whose get lazy and dont feel like plugging in there guitars.

Ease of Use:
The neck feels great on this guitar and reminds me of the classic wide 70's stratocaster neck. Makes playing blues alote easier.

Support:
Iv used epiphone support before for questions and they know there stuff.

Overall:
Given the great qulity of harware and overall build of this guitar, I expect many years with it.

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"Working Mans Guitar"

Overall:: 9 out of 10
Features:: 7 out of 10
Quality:: 9 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 8 out of 10
Sound:: 8 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 9 out of 10
Support:: 8 out of 10

User: a customer from centex.net

Submitted: 9/14/2006

Style of Music: Rockin-country-blues

Musical Experience: Active Musician

Location: Bend, Texas

Feature:
Basic, no pick guard which is ok, it actually looks pretty cool with the Black Hardware and pickups.

Quality:
Mine is a blem in worn brown but the only flaw I found was a slight faded spot which is hardly noticable with the satin finish , the setup was good right out of the box, you might want to put on some thicker strings though.

Value:
Your not gonna find a guitar this fine for so little

Desirability:
Its very sweet

Sound:
I play through a 63 model Fender Delxue amp and the Studio Dot sounds just short of what I desire so I use a compressor and a overdrive pre-amp and whaalaa , she sounds so sweet. This guitar has great sustain, great midrange tone and big balls in either neck or bridge pickup for solos.

Ease of Use:
With only 2 knobs and a switch its very smooth shifting the gears on this Dot Studio, the neck is fast and feels so good in your hand, its hard to put her away.

Support:
Have not talked with them so I'll give em a 8 just for the fact they make a good guitar for the bucks and that shows good intentions

Overall:
I can't own enough guitars so I'll always be looking for another but I plan on keeping this Dot Studio for a long time, shes great for the Bars and Honkey Tonks I play in Texas where you might fear bringing your High Dollar axes. The only think I don't like is how noticable the orange Epiphone sticker is through the top S hole and the fact that they burned 2nd on the back of my headstock, shameful.

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"YOU HAVE TO GET THIS!!!"

Overall:: 10 out of 10
Features:: 10 out of 10
Quality:: 10 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 10 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 10 out of 10

Submitted: 2/19/2007

Feature:
great. with only one tone and volume switch, it's so easy to use and set up. simple and fun.

Quality:
fantastic and unbelievable. i got my epiphone dot studio for only $250. i couldn't ask for a better sounding guitar with this amazingly low price. once again, no problems were expected with this guitar; and i did not receive any at all.

Value:
very good. i will always use this guitar for every gig.

Desirability:
yes very good. the black hardware matches up greatly with my "worn cherry" color. it gives it a kind of "hey! look at me" feeling to it.

Sound:
fantastic. couldn't ask for a richer, more experienced sound. perfect for any type of music.

Ease of Use:
no problems with this guitar. no buzzing or ringing. just plain music for everything. the ease is very "easy." nothing too hard for anybody.

Support:
not really sure. never needed it. but im sure it's fine.

Overall:
i expect to be satisfied for a very long time. no complaints.

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Epiphone Dot Studio Customer Review

Overall:: 7 out of 10
Features:: 5 out of 10
Quality:: 5 out of 10
Value:: 7 out of 10
I Want It:: 7 out of 10
Sound:: 9 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 5 out of 10
Support:: 5 out of 10

User: a customer from yahoo.com

Submitted: 5/15/2008

Style of Music: alternative, indie rock and doom metalz

Musical Experience: musician

Location: maryland

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Feature:
not a whole lot of features on this guitar. I like it that way. too many options just distract you from making music. I like to just keep it simple. two pickups, one volume, one tone is all you need.

Quality:
epiphone quality control is really spotty. sometimes you get a really great guitar guitar but more often than not there will be some minor issue somewhere on the guitar. mine had these weird scratch marks on the edge of the fretboard. I was able to mostly sand them out.

Value:
for a semi-hollow guitar to be in the range is just amazing to me. you get what you pay for with the quality but even still it is a great deal.

Desirability:
get the gloss black. those other ones are ugly as hell. the picture on here is not correct. it looks flat black and has binding. in real life it's super glossy and has no binding. I think it looks cooler than the standard dot.

Sound:
this is a great sounding guitar. I assumed this guitar would come with your standard muddy epiphone pickups but to my surprise these pickups are really great. they have a brighter jangle to them than your standard humbucker. They almost sound like p-90s but with slightly more snap.

Ease of Use:
the tone knob doesn't quite shave off enough highs. otherwise everything works real well. the tuners are real smooth and hold it in tune real well. also, it has a really fat neck. I happen to like it that way but a lot of people seem to like these super thin speed metal necks.

Support:
never dealt with them

Overall:
this guitar looks cool and is one of the best sounding gibson/epiphones I've played. what more could you want?

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Epiphone Dot Studio Customer Review

Overall:: 5 out of 10
Features:: 5 out of 10
Quality:: 6 out of 10
Value:: 8 out of 10
I Want It:: 5 out of 10
Sound:: 6 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 1 out of 10

User: a customer from yahoo.com

Submitted: 5/12/2008

Style of Music: rock and blues

Musical Experience: hobbyist

Location: wynne ar.usa

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Feature:
It came with a small cable, and was supposed to have a hard shell case, but it didn't, and so far zzounds has yet to send one. I asked two different sales people before I ordered and both said it had a case. I don't know what else to say but good luck when you order.

Quality:
for a china made guitar it plays good, set up was a little off.

Value:
for the price it's not bad.

Sound:
I think it sounds fair, I own a wildcat and it does'nt sound as good .

Support:
can't give it any better till I get a case.

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