Falloffthebonetone
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Les' favorite guitar! Details here!
http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Les-Paul/Gibson-USA/Les-Paul-Recording.aspx
Gibson Les Paul Recording is back!
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Les' favorite guitar! Details here!
http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Les-Paul/Gibson-USA/Les-Paul-Recording.aspx
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Funkfingers
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Re: Gibson Les Paul Recording is back!
Looks kinda flat - in the senses of non-glossy and not very arched across the carved top.
EDIT - Yes, I know that the re-issue model is nitro-cellulose. Compare the degree of sheen on the Gibson website images against the avatar of Reggie/ginormous.
Looks kinda flat - in the senses of non-glossy and not very arched across the carved top.
EDIT - Yes, I know that the re-issue model is nitro-cellulose. Compare the degree of sheen on the Gibson website images against the avatar of Reggie/ginormous.
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Rockstar216
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Fugly as hell and i'm someone who usually likes weird and outrageous designs.
Fugly as hell and i'm someone who usually likes weird and outrageous designs.
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Funkfingers
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Form follows function.
The LP Recording, Professional and Personal all have about them the look of Les' prototypes and "work-in-progress" instruments. Now, why should that be? :scratchch
Form follows function.
The LP Recording, Professional and Personal all have about them the look of Les' prototypes and "work-in-progress" instruments. Now, why should that be? :scratchch
Re: Gibson Les Paul Recording is back!
These were a terrible and idiosyncratic design back then...and, sadly, most people who play LPs, it is not because of what the *actual* Les Paul used. The idea might be good (they certainly sound unique, and certainly not like a normal LP), but I'd like to see it in a prettier package with better styling. This will pretty much only appeal to someone who used to own an original.
These were a terrible and idiosyncratic design back then...and, sadly, most people who play LPs, it is not because of what the *actual* Les Paul used. The idea might be good (they certainly sound unique, and certainly not like a normal LP), but I'd like to see it in a prettier package with better styling. This will pretty much only appeal to someone who used to own an original.
ratherdashing
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Re: Gibson Les Paul Recording is back!
I know Les loved his, but for everyone but him this is just about the most useless Les Paul you can find. I bet the ground lift and balanced line-level output made some amount of sense in the 70's, but find me an audio interface and/or mixer today that doesn't have an instrument DI built in.
I know Les loved his, but for everyone but him this is just about the most useless Les Paul you can find. I bet the ground lift and balanced line-level output made some amount of sense in the 70's, but find me an audio interface and/or mixer today that doesn't have an instrument DI built in.
jon the art guy
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Seems like the ultimate jazz solid body to me. Ultralinear electronics with wide range, all sorts of signal cleaning...hopefully a nice solid lot of mahogany. Plainly not meant for the standard LP fan. I kind of like its austere and purposeful looks, like the prototypical SG.
Sure wouldn't spend 3k on it though.
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Seems like the ultimate jazz solid body to me. Ultralinear electronics with wide range, all sorts of signal cleaning...hopefully a nice solid lot of mahogany. Plainly not meant for the standard LP fan. I kind of like its austere and purposeful looks, like the prototypical SG.
Sure wouldn't spend 3k on it though.
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MetalManiac
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Re: Gibson Les Paul Recording is back!
LOve it.
LOve it.
Falloffthebonetone
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This is actually the coolest looking les paul I've ever seen. Sounds like it would be the most versatile one too.
This is actually the coolest looking les paul I've ever seen. Sounds like it would be the most versatile one too.
the guy who invented fire
Fuzzy. Guitars
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I see this going very much the same way it did the first time...
They are cool guits and have their own thing for sure but most players have no use for them...
I see this going very much the same way it did the first time...
They are cool guits and have their own thing for sure but most players have no use for them...
Ashurbanipal
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Re: Gibson Les Paul Recording is back!
They're low impedance, which is what Les preferred.
They're low impedance, which is what Les preferred.
uOpt
Something Cool
Re: Gibson Les Paul Recording is back!
Before I get excited about this I would have a very close look at the electronics and the pickup construction. In most cases reissues like this only look the part from the outside.
I always like the bass equivalent, btw, the triumph bass (was it the triumph?).
Before I get excited about this I would have a very close look at the electronics and the pickup construction. In most cases reissues like this only look the part from the outside.
I always like the bass equivalent, btw, the triumph bass (was it the triumph?).
uOpt
Something Cool
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Apart from low impedance which makes them more independent of the rig's input impedance and the cable.
More importantly these pickups do not have a resonance peak in an audible area. The electronics are active second class LPFs with resonance peak, which means you can freely pick the frequency of the resonance peak with a pot. This has always been a favorite Lemme point. The question is whether the resonance peak made from the active filter is really the same thing and/or as good as a natural resonance peak out of the coil.
Apart from low impedance which makes them more independent of the rig's input impedance and the cable.
More importantly these pickups do not have a resonance peak in an audible area. The electronics are active second class LPFs with resonance peak, which means you can freely pick the frequency of the resonance peak with a pot. This has always been a favorite Lemme point. The question is whether the resonance peak made from the active filter is really the same thing and/or as good as a natural resonance peak out of the coil.
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Funkfingers
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If you thought that EMGs were sterile, you are in for a shock.
In their Seventies "lawsuit" period, Ibanez made lookalike Recording and Triumph models.
Possibly the most (and only?) famous user of the LP Recording guitar other than Les himself is/was Steve Howe of Yes. Howe employed the instrument on his second solo album. I shall attempt to unearth a sound clip.
If you thought that EMGs were sterile, you are in for a shock.
In their Seventies "lawsuit" period, Ibanez made lookalike Recording and Triumph models.
Possibly the most (and only?) famous user of the LP Recording guitar other than Les himself is/was Steve Howe of Yes. Howe employed the instrument on his second solo album. I shall attempt to unearth a sound clip.
Rich_S
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Re: Gibson Les Paul Recording is back!
Don't forget Terry Kath of Chicago, who used a LP Professional (or Personal).
Oddball LP Personal Trivia: The first Guitar Player mag I ever bought featured Jan Akkerman on the cover. In it, he describes having a Les Paul modified, and it's clear from the photos it was a Les Paul Personal. He had a normal maple top put on it, and replaced the Professional electronics with normal humbuckers and the usual 2 volume/2 tone controls. Giveaways that it was originally a LP Personal are the angled fingerboard end and the slightly larger body with more rounded cutaway. Here's a link to the article: http://www.focuscollection.com/listings/pdf/guitarplayer.pdf
Here's what I suspect is the same guitar, looks like at some point he added a third pickup. Note also the mirrored trapezoid layout of the controls.
Back in high school, I had a friend who owned a lawsuit-era copy of an LP Recording. Very accurate copy, except it had a bolt-on neck. I don't remember the brand name on it, since he had a piece of electrical tape over it. It wasn't Ibanez.
Don't forget Terry Kath of Chicago, who used a LP Professional (or Personal).
Oddball LP Personal Trivia: The first Guitar Player mag I ever bought featured Jan Akkerman on the cover. In it, he describes having a Les Paul modified, and it's clear from the photos it was a Les Paul Personal. He had a normal maple top put on it, and replaced the Professional electronics with normal humbuckers and the usual 2 volume/2 tone controls. Giveaways that it was originally a LP Personal are the angled fingerboard end and the slightly larger body with more rounded cutaway. Here's a link to the article: http://www.focuscollection.com/listings/pdf/guitarplayer.pdf
Here's what I suspect is the same guitar, looks like at some point he added a third pickup. Note also the mirrored trapezoid layout of the controls.
Back in high school, I had a friend who owned a lawsuit-era copy of an LP Recording. Very accurate copy, except it had a bolt-on neck. I don't remember the brand name on it, since he had a piece of electrical tape over it. It wasn't Ibanez.
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Funkfingers
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The name Greco would have been nice.
The name Greco would have been nice.
