Ernie Ball Music Man EVH vs Gibson Sg Standard Min Etune

The Ernie Ball Music Man EVH and the Gibson Sg Standard Min Etune are both electric guitars. The Ernie Ball Music Man EVH leans tight.

Similarity
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53% moderately similar

Shared genres
citedGenres both listings are associated with.
  • Electronic

Ernie Ball Music Man EVH

Unknown brand · electric guitar

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Price

$1494.01via Reverb

Description

The Ernie Ball Music Man EVH is a custom-built electric guitar created by Ernie Ball and Eddie Van Halen. Its contoured body, flamed maple top, and custom electronics deliver the articulate, high-gain tone associated with Van Halen's technique. The EVH model remains a signature instrument for shredders and hard rock players.

Brian May picked up a Gibson SG Standard with the Min-ETune automatic tuning system in the early 2010s, telling interviewers he'd always liked SGs but had never gotten around to owning one until then. The Min-ETune is a compact, battery-powered tuning module mounted on the back of the headstock, nearly invisible from the front, that can snap the guitar into any of twelve preset tunings or up to six custom-programmed ones at the push of a button. Beyond the tuning tech, the guitar carries standard SG Standard specs: a double-cutaway mahogany body, a slim 60s-profile mahogany neck, and coil-tappable 57 Classic humbuckers. May has no official signature tie to the model; it's simply a guitar he added to his collection for its own sake, distinct from the homemade Red Special that defines nearly all of his recorded and live tone.

Genres
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  • Hard Rock
  • Rock
Tonal lean
  • tight

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