This tanned sunburst beauty had been tempting us on various online guitar porn sites for several months until our popular reviews of the ES-335 and Casino suggested it was high time we hit the buy button. Could this be the 335 we wanted all along?... join us and find out!

If you don't like any of the talking or the playing bits in this video we've made it easy for you to skip along to the next chapter in case something more interesting is happening...

0:00 intro & coming up
1:02 introducing the epiphone riviera
4:40 closer look construction and parts
6:00 the frequensator
6:44 the mini humbuckers
8:31 switching and other stuff
9:08 unplugged sound / out of the box setup
10:25 a run through the pickups and controls
13:05 let's play something (part 1)
14:53 weight, pickups & neck data
15:46 let's play something else (part 2)
16:43 a very distinctive and cool guitar
17:02 let's play another thing (part 3)
18:10 so what do we think?
21:31 play out jam

Signal Chain Info:
Amp: Fender Super Reverb via AKG C414 & SM57
Drives (when on): Klon KTR / RAT

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