Epiphone Broadway

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broadwayThe Broadway was produced by Epiphone for many years throughout it’s history, recently the Epiphone Broadway has been given a revival through the release under the Elitist series of Epiphone guitars.

The Epiphone Broadway is a hollow body semi acoustic electric guitar. The guitar has a 25 ½ inch scale and features two Epiphone humbucker pickups, four control knobs (two volume, two tone), and a 3-position toggle switch. The top is laminated spruce, the back and sides are plain maple. The guitar features a chucky but fast roswewood fingerboard. The Epiphone Broadway is fully hollow, (without the center piece found in traditionally ES335 style guitars). The Broadway also has a spruce top providing a rich acoustic sound.

The Broadway was produced by Epiphone for many years throughout it’s history, recently the Epiphone Broadway has been given a revival through the release under the Elitist series of Epiphone guitars.

The guitar was created with one thing in mind – Jazz. And given this premise it does it very well indeed. As with all Jazzers it benefits from thicker gauge strings to get that fat sound. The Broadway benefits from a fine acoustic sound. Once plugged in with a touch of reverb the guitar produces that classic jazz sound. That said it doesn’t like being overdriven and in those situations is prone to feedback. Luckily the broadway is fairly quiet when idle with little hum or noise.
Tonally, as said the guitar produces some excellent jazz tones, variations can be achieved by rolling back the volume or tone controls and you can brighten things up a bit by running both pickups together. With the right amp at your side you can produce some very authentic tones.

Problems are minimal – as with all Epiphone’s the pickups are not in the same class as true Gibsons but the pickups here add a level of character to the instrument. The Broadway’s tailpiece is a Frequesator and some purists may argue that it degrades the tone but that is easily fixable if required by swapping with a stop-tailpiece. The guitar is also fairly large and may take some getting used to if you’ve never played an archtop before. However, all these problems are small and do not detract from a fantastic guitar.

For a jazz guitar the Epiphone Broadway is excellent, producing a fat warm tone with a variety of range and given Epiphone’s pricing represents superb value for money.

For more information on the Epiphone Broadway – visit the Epiphone guitar website

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