New parts coming for my Gibson USA LP Studio guitar.

[Marcel]

Yep, mine is a 2016 50's tribute with uncovered 490R and 498T PU's.... the video explains it all... lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44VCUXjcdl4

[DrNomis_44]

Yep, mine is a 2016 50's tribute with uncovered 490R and 498T PU's.... the video explains it all... lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44VCUXjcdl4

Mine's a 2013 vintage Les Paul Studio model, so that makes your guitar about three years younger than mine, I think the silver shields on my guitar's pickups do something to the midrange frequencies cause when I played it through my Marshall amp, the tone was very midrangey, fortunately it's a tone that I really like.


That Les Paul in the video clip is a nice one, the bridge pickup sounded like it wasn't adjusted properly with respect to the strings, or it could have just been due to how youtube handles audio.

[Marcel]

That Les Paul in the video clip is a nice one, the bridge pickup sounded like it wasn't adjusted properly with respect to the strings, or it could have just been due to how youtube handles audio.

I was surprised to hear the YouTube one sounding so bright/brittle/thin on the bridge PU. Same look yet completely different sound to the one in my hands. Crunch/dirty and lead are pretty similar to the video through my JVM210 combo.

As it stands right now I have a few HB loaded hard tail Mahogany body axe's, all of which can sound pretty darn awesome in their own right, yet there is still something which sets the Gibson apart from the rest of my LP style herd. On the 'Fender' side there is none that come close on the emotional/feel/tone dimension as to beat the Denim Tele, although the MIM loaded 40yo ply body strat is not that far behind with the G-LP and SD rails loaded Alder strat build lingering in seemingly equal third.... which just shows that when there is more than one axe to choose from personal taste accounts for a lot in parts choices and playability preference for any axe.... lol