Can you guess which pickup/guitar?

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maxime1122

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I'm doing some comparison these days between my Les Paul, and I though it would be cool for you to guess the order of the guitars used in a clip.

In the clip, I was using 3 of my Les Paul (in no particular order):
- Gibson Custom Les Paul Axcess (Gibson 498T/496R)
- Gibson Les Paul Studio (Gibson 498T/490R)
- Gibson Les Paul Traditional (Seymour Duncan APH-2 Set)

Can you guess the order of the guitars used in the clip? Which one did you prefer?

https://youtu.be/HelRaA1zlIg

Both


They were plugged straight into a Marshall 1959SLP Super Lead Plexi, through the same cabinets (Marshall 1960AX and 1960BX). One Celestion Greenback G12M-25 was mic'ed with a Shure SM57 straight where the dustcap and cone meet, about 1" from the grill cloth. No post-processing was applied to those tracks (no EQ, no reverb, etc.).

Thanks!
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Re: Can you guess which pickup/guitar?

I here them as being in descending order of overbrightness. For me, the only question is whether the bright overtones are those of the Slash style pickups or of the double locking vibrato and its corresponding cavity?

I suspect;
1) Traditional/APH-2 set
2) Axxess
3) Studio
 
Re: Can you guess which pickup/guitar?

1) APH2 (they sound like lower output).
2) Access (bright tone and harmonics)
3) Studio (warmer version of above)

I like the second one.
 
Re: Can you guess which pickup/guitar?

Funkfingers said:
I here them as being in descending order of overbrightness. For me, the only question is whether the bright overtones are those of the Slash style pickups or of the double locking vibrato and its corresponding cavity?

I suspect;
1) Traditional/APH-2 set
2) Axxess
3) Studio
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No sure to understand, which one is brighter? And, which one do you like most?

Thanks!
 
Re: Can you guess which pickup/guitar?

Brightest = 1.

Don't particularly like any of them. (See post #2.) Sorry. :(
 
Re: Can you guess which pickup/guitar?

Teleplayer said:
1) APH2 (they sound like lower output).
2) Access (bright tone and harmonics)
3) Studio (warmer version of above)
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That was pretty much my thought as well and none of them really sounded great to me. Not a criticism, that's just not my thing.
 
Re: Can you guess which pickup/guitar?

maxime1122 said:
No sure to understand, which one is brighter? And, which one do you like most?

Thanks!
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I think the second one in your sequence is the brightest pickup / guitar combination. To me that's a good thing for a LP, so its my pick out of the three.
 
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