Hey team!
I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience playing the Les Paul Axcess Customs, and if so, whether the Axcess heel joint makes a noticeable difference when accessing the upper frets and whether the thinner body has a significant affect on the sound.
I've made some sales recently, and have been saving for a while, and I think I'd like to spoil myself with a new Lester. I'm an LP player at heart, and my Gold Top is my baby, but she could use a sister to keep her company. I'm eyeing an LP axcess stoptail, but they're impossible to find in stores to demo, so without being able to readily get my hands on one, I'm wondering if you all have any experience with them (I'm not interested in the Floyd rose, but rather, the stoptail version, because I want that girthy LP low end, and I don't really use trems)
I play plenty of "weedily wees," so upper fret access is fairly important to me. That said, I've been playing LPs for ~20 years now, as my first "real" guitar was an MIK Epiphone that I loved, played for years, sold, and occasionally still miss. All that is to say that I can "get buy" playing the upper frets on a traditional LP, but am wondering if the axcess heel joint will push me over the to edge to feeling downright comfortable in the upper register.
As far as tone goes, we all know how THICC a proper LP sounds. I'm wondering whether the thinner body on the Axcess – supposedly 6mm thinner – detracts significantly from that sound. I know some folks will say that pickups are the PRIMARY driver of your sound, or that "everything contributes to your sound soooo of course it will affect it," but I guess my question is more about whether I would feel like it sounds like a proper Lester, or some other derivative that just has the same shape.
Thanks in advance!
I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience playing the Les Paul Axcess Customs, and if so, whether the Axcess heel joint makes a noticeable difference when accessing the upper frets and whether the thinner body has a significant affect on the sound.
I've made some sales recently, and have been saving for a while, and I think I'd like to spoil myself with a new Lester. I'm an LP player at heart, and my Gold Top is my baby, but she could use a sister to keep her company. I'm eyeing an LP axcess stoptail, but they're impossible to find in stores to demo, so without being able to readily get my hands on one, I'm wondering if you all have any experience with them (I'm not interested in the Floyd rose, but rather, the stoptail version, because I want that girthy LP low end, and I don't really use trems)
I play plenty of "weedily wees," so upper fret access is fairly important to me. That said, I've been playing LPs for ~20 years now, as my first "real" guitar was an MIK Epiphone that I loved, played for years, sold, and occasionally still miss. All that is to say that I can "get buy" playing the upper frets on a traditional LP, but am wondering if the axcess heel joint will push me over the to edge to feeling downright comfortable in the upper register.
As far as tone goes, we all know how THICC a proper LP sounds. I'm wondering whether the thinner body on the Axcess – supposedly 6mm thinner – detracts significantly from that sound. I know some folks will say that pickups are the PRIMARY driver of your sound, or that "everything contributes to your sound soooo of course it will affect it," but I guess my question is more about whether I would feel like it sounds like a proper Lester, or some other derivative that just has the same shape.
Thanks in advance!
