Its pickups are also Gibson 490R and 498T humbuckers – the same pairing you’d get from a Gibson Custom Shop guitar, which helps explain the inflated price. For many, the fact that Epiphone ...

Gibson has unveiled the Les Paul Studio Session ... a pair of ever-dependable 498T/490R humbuckers that had coil-splits, a push/pull phase voicing, and a Pure Bypass mode that takes the signal ...