Vintage Guitars V100PCS | A beautiful affordable plaintop with stacked P90 pickups! Review & Demo

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This is the 2024-spec Vintage Guitars ReIssued V100PCS – an affordable singlecut plaintop fitted with a pair of powerful Wilkinson stacked P90 pickups!

Vintage V100P ReIssued Electric Guitar in Cherry Sunburst:

The V100PCS stands out among the army of affordable Gibson/Epiphone Les Paul inspired axes for a couple of reasons. First, it's a lovely looking guitar - and having a plain top, as opposed to a flame maple job, is fairly rare. Then there's those stacked Wilkinson P90s, which should give us that lovely gnarly P90 raw with some added fatness, and reduced hum to boot!

The rest of the guitar is exactly what you'd want from an authentic LP-type on a budget: mahogany body and solid maple cap, with a mahogany neck and a rosewood fingerboard. You also get Grover tuners, a Graph Tect NuBone but, and those lovely Wilkinson pickups as part of the equation.

For slightly under $500/€500, then, this is quite a bit of guitar for your money... but how does it measure up against the competition from the likes of Epiphone? That's what we find out here! In the video, I put the guitar through its paces in as many different genres and styles as I can, from country, folk and indie, to pop, rock, punk, metal and more.

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:18 Introduction to the Vintage V100PCS
01:13 Specs and info
03:58 Today’s rig and plan

Clean Sounds
04:57 Clean tone reference chords on all pickup settings
05:12 Funk rhythms
05:25 Country ballad arpeggios
05:37 Country lead sound
05:43 Country strummed chords
06:02 Blues progression
06:13 Neo soul pop riff
06:23 Soul pop riff (all pickups)
06:39 60s rock rhythms
06:50 Cowboy chords/tone control test
07:44 Ascending droning indie chords

Overdriven Sounds
07:58 Kings Of Leon inspired riff
08:04 Choppy barre chords
08:12 Droning indie open string riff
08:34 Fat indie rock rhythm chords
08:52 Upbeat indie barre chords
09:16 Volume control roll off test
09:36 Indie octave chords
09:47 Southern rock picked arpeggios
10:07 Edgy indie barre chords
10:21 AC/DC inspired riff
10:36 Quacky rock riff
10:45 Airbourne inspired rock riff
10:56 Driving rock riff
11:11 Classic rock riff
11:21 Hendrix inspired riff

Higher gain drive sounds
11:38 Van Halen inspired rock riff
11:56 Classic hard rock riff
12:13 80s rock riff
12:33 Melodic hard rock lead
12:54 ZZ Top inspired riff
13:04 Glam rock riff
13:19 Chunky alt rock chords
13:42 Alternative rock riff
13:56 Pop punk riff
14:08 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
14:22 Punk rock power chords
14:35 Less Than Jake inspired punk riff
14:46 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
15:02 Modern rock palm-muted chords (Drop D)
15:26 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy riff (Drop D)

Heavy Distortion sounds (all in Drop D)
15:42 Metal chugging riff
15:59 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang
16:11 Hardcore punk riff
16:25 Heavy metal lead sound
16:41 Rammstein inspired industrial metal riff
16:54 Modern pop metal riff
17:05 Hardcore punk breakdown
17:19 Classic heavy metal/sludge riff

18:00 My thoughts
18:47 First impressions and looks
19:28 Weight
19:48 Build quality and hardware
20:54 Playability and neck
21:54 Sounds and pickups discussion
24:32 What other similar guitars are out there?
26:47 My conclusions on the Vintage V100PCS and why you should buy it

My setup was as follows: I ran the V100PCS into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, also using my Greer Lightspeed and my Revv G3 pedals for overdrive and heavy distortion sounds. The amp went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 at Thomann:
At Sweetwater:

Greer Lightspeed at Thomann:

Revv G3 at Thomann:
At Sweetwater:

Focusrite 4i4 (the new 2i4) at Thomann:
At Sweetwater:
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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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