Epiphone Les Paul Ultra II Electric Guitar

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with traditional LP design lets you rock like legendary Les Paul players. However, the Ultra's body is strategically chambered to not only reduce the weight, but to add subtle acoustic overtones. Taking advantage of this design, Epiphone teamed up with the premier German acoustic pickup maker, Shadow to take the Ultra to the next level. The result is the Ultra II. The goal of the Ultra II was to create a more versatile guitar that was capable of not only real Les Paul tone, but also acoustic like qualities but without adding a lot of controls and changing the overall appearance of the legendary Les Paul. Unlike other instruments that attempt to create a completely new guitar design, Epiphone went about this differently by starting with a proven electric guitar design and adding to it. At the heart of the Ultra II is the NanoMag pickup. Referring to it's small size and it's composition, the NanoMag is a completely new kind of magnetic pickup that combines 3 Samarium Cobalt magnets with on board, active electronics to produce a low impedance pickup with absolute linear response and an uncharacteristically wide frequency range. Voiced specifically for the Ultra II, the NanoMag is embedded in the fingerboard after the 22nd fret. Positioned at this harmonic rich "sweet spot", the NanoMag is able to capture all the harmonics from the lowest to the highest with incredible accuracy. All with ZERO noise or artificial coloration. This again is diffe
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