Clarity is great, and the guitar has a balanced tone across the frequency spectrum. Acoustically, the tone is very dreadnought-like - it fits finger picking, but is better on strumming and flat-picking. It was especially interesting to hear a big acoustic guitar tone coming from the instrument in my hands, but play around with a lot of effects on the amped signal. The tone was akin to a pure hollowbody, only bigger. The tones I got out of this were incredible! I never heard a regular single coil pickup in the neck position of an acoustic guitar, but it is a very interesting sound, and I wish more manufacturers would do something like this. The finish looks very nice and well applied, and the guitar has a good balance. The one I played had some little marks on the end of the fretboard that look like tooling marks. This guitar is really interesting! It plays very well, and the build quality on it is pretty good. It has an ebony bridge and plastic pickguard, and Epiphone brand tuners. It comes only in vintage cherry sunburst finish.
It has a single-coil pickup at the neck, not a piezo, and volume and tone controls. It has a spruce top, and mahogany back and sides. This Epiphone EJ 160E is a China manufactured acoustic electric guitar.
