Yamaha Revstar Standard RSS02T P90 vs Epiphone Worn SG P90 | Affordable workhorse guitar shootout!

Today, we’re comparing two of my favorite personal guitars: the affordable P90-equipped workhorses that are the 2022 Yamaha Revstar Standard RSS02T P90 model in Swift Blue, and the 2020 Epiphone SG Classic Worn P90 model in Worn Inverness Green!

Revstar Standard P90 at Thomann: https://thmn.to/thoprod/539429?offid=...
At Sweetwater: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/XYKByb

Epiphone Classic Worn P90 SG at Thomann: https://thmn.to/thoprod/482597?offid=...
At Sweetwater: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/0Z1aQE

Now, I'm a huge fan of P90s, and I love both these guitars for various reasons. They’re both loads of fun to play, feel great, and sound fantastic – but they’re also quite different in other ways, which makes them ripe for comparison!

The $429/€379 Epiphone SG is a stripped back rock machine. You get a satin mahogany body and neck, Epiphone Pro soapbar P90 pickups, and a D-shaped slim taper neck with 21 medium jumbo frets on an Indian laurel board. The scale length is 24.75” and the fingerboard radius is 12”.

The Revstar is basically twice the price of the Epiphone at $799/€779 – but it’s obvious where the extra money goes. Here, you get a chambered mahogany body and a maple top, with a mahogany neck and a rosewood board. The neck is carbon reinforced, and the 22 jumbo frets are stainless steel. The satin neck is a medium to chunky C shape, while the scale length and fingerboard radius match the Epiphone at 24.75” and 12” respectively.

You get way more tonal options on tap with the Revstar too. While the Epiphone offers you the standard 3-way switch, the Revstar has a 5-way – including in-between Stratocaster-type sounds – and a Focus Switch. Activated by pulling up the tone knob, the Focus Switch is a passive boost that gives you a push in volume and aggression, as well as a jump in your low and mid frequencies. Oh, and the Revstar comes in a deluxe padded gig bag too – not too shabby!

Despite all this, though, these guitars are both ‘mid-priced’ electrics that many will see as filling a similar sort of role in their collection. In this video, I really show off all the sounds both guitars have to offer as I play them in as many genres as I can, from country, folk and indie, to pop, rock, blues, punk, metal and more.

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

00:00 Hello!
00:16 Intro and what we’re doing today
02:00 Epiphone SG specs and info
03:56 Revstar specs and info
06:49 Today’s rig and plan

Clean Sounds
07:36 Clean tone reference chords on all pickup options
08:32 Funky rhythm chords
08:58 Blues progression
09:20 Country ballad arpeggios
09:33 Southern rock arpeggios
09:52 Strummed country pop
10:11 Ascending indie chords
10:25 Bluesy Americana riff

Overdriven Sounds
10:48 Upbeat barre chords
11:11 Droning indie riff
11:44 Choppy barre chords
12:01 Open string indie pop
12:16 Indie rock octaves
12:40 Fat indie rhythm chords
13:09 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
13:24 Driving classic rock riff
13:53 Airbourne inspired rock riff
14:15 Classic rock riff
14:27 Groovy classic rock riff

Heavy Overdrive Sounds
14:53 Hard rock riff
15:09 Glam rock riff
15:24 Classic hard rock riff
15:41 Hair metal rhythm sound
16:01 Alternative rock riff
16:24 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
16:50 Pop punk melodic lead riff
17:05 Punk rock power chords
17:18 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
17:32 Modern rock palm-muted power chords (Drop D)
17:55 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy riff (Drop D )

Metal sounds (all in Drop D)
18:11 Metal chugging riff
18:44 Heavy metal lead sound
19:00 Hardcore punk riff
19:23 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang
19:47 Classic metal/sludge riff

20:23 My thoughts
21:01 Looks
21:43 Price
22:19 Build quality and hardware
24:24 Playability and necks
25:22 Weight
26:45 Sounds and pickups
29:34 What other similar guitars are out there?
31:09 My conclusions
32:14 Which guitar do I prefer?
32:57 Thanks and goodbye

My setup was as follows: I ran the two guitars into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, also using my Revv G3 for 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 head: https://thmn.to/thoprod/447827?offid=...
Revv G3: https://thmn.to/thoprod/437353?offid=...
Focusrite 4i4 (the new 2i4): https://thmn.to/thoprod/467952?offid=...
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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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