Saying a LP is too heavy is like saying a Ferrari is too fast ...

[JMP/HBE]

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Ok......if we're playing the video posting game here... :laugh2:

If I were playing an LP I'd have knocked the pickup switch about 30 times..

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Some nippy jamming over "Mr. Crowley" (w/ my Jackson Dinky superstrat....cuz speed)...

 

[beaubrummels]

There is lot's about it that's just that. Slow fat necks, clunky heavy weight, (Really) bad upper fret access. Switch in the wrong place/gets in the way. Cuts into your ribs unless you have it dangling below your balls etc..

Like I said if you'er used to them you will find workarounds. But saying it's "ideal" is factually untrue.

He probably thought it looked cool. Randy's idols/guitar hero's were all probably 60's/70' guys playing Les Paul's.

Who's "We" :lmao: Why the insecurity? The thing is ,,you don't get it at all. You are coming from a place of butthurt. Is an LP an ideal guitar for shred ..no it's not. Feel free to disagree and next time list out the reasons why it plays faster than your average superstrat (like I did the opposite of).

I'd include myself in that 'we'. There's no 'butthurt' involved here. i don't think I would ever bother playing a Cort guitar myself either. In my experience, the ability to play at faster tempos doesn't come from guitar design and has nothing to do with the thickness of the neck, it comes from the player's practice; (but then I was classically trained at the Conservatory of Music in San Francisco, so what would I know.) Your assertion that the switch is in the 'wrong' place is plain silly. There's no right or wrong. The switch can be anywhere on the guitar, likewise with fret access, none of that will prevent a seasoned, practiced musician from getting the job done at any tempo on any guitar regardless of design. I didn't see where Securb said anything about ideal, but I did see he said it was a preference. You seem to prefer a particular design of guitar, that's cool. But you also don't really play, you just doodle as fast as you can and never play music with phrasing and melody and structure. Most of the time you are off time and out of tune, and worst of all you don't even seem to know it and just excuse it as your style. Hey, if you are enjoying yourself, have at it. But for someone who has learned music, plays music and practices music, it's almost insufferable to listen to. I sincerely hope someday you actually learn music and learn to play music, then you'll realize the particular design of guitar is not an impediment to playing whatever you want at whatever tempo you want. Sure certain ergonomic designs improve comfort in playing, but if you actually play music to start with, those improvements are more incremental.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Lol, we're back to "I can't make legit points so let me bash the guy's playing", :lmao:

The upper fret access IS bad, the switch IS in a crappy place for tapping (as can be seen in my video) knowing fully well from lotsa experience that everything you say is 100% water off a ducks back (I'm actually posting my playing and amking my points & you're talking/typing a lot..so pardon me for not caring or taking you seriously at all) as far as I'm concerned.....

 

[beaubrummels]

"Experience keeps a dear school, yet Fools will learn in no other."

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Sweet. Now try and actually make a point.

 

[beaubrummels]

Sweet. Now try and actually make a point.

It was made, and you missed it.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Me. "LP switchs are in a shitty place for tapping" *post's video that clearly shows this*

You: "No ..they're in a great place for tapping BUT I went to XYZ conservatory & your playing sukkz!!!!!lolololozzzz"

*Point made*

 

[Securb]

My Mockingbird which i am guessing fits your description of a shredder guitar has the toggle in the same place as a Les Paul. I have never hit the toggle by accident tapping on the Mockingbird or my Les Pauls. We all have different styles and approaches. The Les Paul works perfectly for me. None of the challenges you have described, the heel, upper fret access, the switch or the thick neck have been an issue for me or others. This is not a situation where someone is wrong or right. If a certain guitar style and knob layout works best for you, fantastic. You do you.

 

[beaubrummels]

Me. "LP switchs are in a ****ty place for tapping" *post's video that clearly shows this*

You: "No ..they're in a great place for tapping BUT I went to XYZ conservatory & your playing sukkz!!!!!lolololozzzz"

*Point made*

Nothing in your post is what was said.

You said switches were in the 'wrong' place. There's no such thing as the 'wrong' place for a switch. Your video just shows that you like to rest your thumb on the upper bout while tapping, so it doesn't work for you.

Neither I, nor anyone, said the LP switch was in a great or ideal place for tapping; I said if you are a practiced musician, the location of the switch is not an impediment to playing at any tempo.

If you read more carefully, you would have got the point.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Play what you want..and I'll play what I want. These are known issues w/ LP's and I'm sure it's not the first you've heard of them, whether you choose to acknowledge it or not..

I like your Mockingbird..but don't own one myself. Instead I have my Ironbird (no switch on top)

Personally nothing touches a superstrat for me.. and no I have no brand preference, unlike you guys with your Cort digs (who also make their own branded LP copies & Ltd LP copies galore & manufacture Epi's in their factory)

:bigthumb:

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Nothing in your post is what was said.

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Well, that was the gist of it.

 

[NegativeEase]

Another video I want to do -show the vibration of a guitar through the body and the effects -the materials and geometry of a guitar would determine if the waves traveling via the nut and tuners versus the bridge and tailplate meet at point and cancel each other, phase each other or amplify each other -every guitar would have slightly different characteristics.

 

[beaubrummels]

I think Top-L and I were talking about something similar in another thread - that age-old thing of contrasting what an electric guitar sounds like unplugged vs plugged in, and what are the reasons for the deltas; like is it better to have a resonant body and neck, or is it better to have a rock solid body and neck that don't really vibrate at all; and if it's resonant, what qualities indicate what it will sound like plugged in - does a thin acoustic sound mean a thick plugged in sound? or should it sound the same plugged in as it does acoustically?

Edit: damn! it was this thread! Too many pages.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Also wuv my Jackson :bigthumb:

 

[Phantasmagoria]

This one's inspired by musical conservatory's...

 

[Phantasmagoria]

And a Sabre doing what Sabre's do best (ie..shred) :bigthumb:

 

[Phantasmagoria]

If you (like me) want a better playing LP (slimmer neck/carved heel/wider & shallower lower horn for some actual upper fret access/no scarf joint/no gaudy finish/less heavy/belly cutaway) I suggest a guitar like my MIC AXL Badwater 1216 for $150.

Fun Fact: Almost every LP copy I have ever played has played better than an LP imo..

and the best part.^^ ...it's nice & slow-ish w/ not much tapping too like they appreciate at the conservatory. :bigthumb:

 

[Mincer]

Randy's tones are some of my least favorite of any guitar tones, but certainly LP tones (to me). I tend to prefer Fripp, Di Meola, & McLaughlin's LP tones a lot more.