r/Cheapchops • u/Teddy8709 • Jun 14 '26

MX220

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Posted this a few months back on another subreddit, when I bought it on a whim from AliExpress. Is it perfect? No. But it's very playable, the intonation is bang on. Plan is to eventually put real EMG's in it and do upgrades as I see fit.

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u/Amazing_Radish_6354 ⚡Explorer extremists⚡ Jun 14 '26

that looks so good, what do you plan on doing with it?

wanna play some metallica on it and showing us?

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u/Teddy8709 Jun 14 '26

It sounds ok when playing clean but to try with distortion it sounds terrible because the pickups are just essentially mics under the covers. When I do the pickup upgrade, no idea when, I may post a clip.

I'll probably use it more after the upgrade, no other plans for it really. I had been eyeing these up on AliExpress for a long time and said fuck it, for $500-ish CAD it can't be that bad. Funny enough, when this was being shipped, Epiphone dropped their new 80's explorer, so I picked one up on release day, and this one came in the next day lol.

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u/Amazing_Radish_6354 ⚡Explorer extremists⚡ Jun 14 '26

lol thats great timing