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When all these baritone guitars started coming out, I thought the idea was rediculous. Basically, I just thought of it as the guitar industry bowing down to a generation of guitar players who had to use incredibly low tunings to cover up the fact that they couldn't play.
Well, I was getting my car serviced yesterday, and the shop happens to be in the same plaza as Guitar Center, so I went over there to kill some time. I wasn't really looking for anything in particular, just checkin stuff out, but a clerk was following me everywhere asking if I wanted to try every item I looked at, so I gave in and picked up the Les Paul I was closest to and went over and found a 65' Twin Reverb Reissue to plug into. I was really diggin the looks of the les paul, black with brushed metal features. I currently have a platinum LP with black knobs, pickups, guard, etc, so I thought it was kinda neat...basically the inverse of what I already have.
And then I plugged in. Now, granted, this was a 65' reissue I was playing through, so I knew good tone wasn't going to be hard to find, but I was amazed at how well the guitar played and sounded. I flipped the tag up to see if they had any details about what exactly was in it, and thats when I saw that it was a baritone. I couldn't believe I was playing the guitar I was so against. I don't know if it was the fact that I was playing .13's, or perhaps the longer scale (and therefore, more string to give fuller tone) but I loved it. Then, after thinking about it a while, a baritone guitar tuned to standard is really no different than the difference in scale from a gibson to a fender. After playing this guitar, I think I'm gonna work on uping my string guage a bit (which I'll do on my tele first, since...thats my beater) and if all goes well, and has pleasing results, I'll see about doing the same for my LP.
I guess the moral here is that I judged these guitars before I ever really gave them a chance.
Well, I was getting my car serviced yesterday, and the shop happens to be in the same plaza as Guitar Center, so I went over there to kill some time. I wasn't really looking for anything in particular, just checkin stuff out, but a clerk was following me everywhere asking if I wanted to try every item I looked at, so I gave in and picked up the Les Paul I was closest to and went over and found a 65' Twin Reverb Reissue to plug into. I was really diggin the looks of the les paul, black with brushed metal features. I currently have a platinum LP with black knobs, pickups, guard, etc, so I thought it was kinda neat...basically the inverse of what I already have.
And then I plugged in. Now, granted, this was a 65' reissue I was playing through, so I knew good tone wasn't going to be hard to find, but I was amazed at how well the guitar played and sounded. I flipped the tag up to see if they had any details about what exactly was in it, and thats when I saw that it was a baritone. I couldn't believe I was playing the guitar I was so against. I don't know if it was the fact that I was playing .13's, or perhaps the longer scale (and therefore, more string to give fuller tone) but I loved it. Then, after thinking about it a while, a baritone guitar tuned to standard is really no different than the difference in scale from a gibson to a fender. After playing this guitar, I think I'm gonna work on uping my string guage a bit (which I'll do on my tele first, since...thats my beater) and if all goes well, and has pleasing results, I'll see about doing the same for my LP.
I guess the moral here is that I judged these guitars before I ever really gave them a chance.
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