Voodoo Les Paul

[dmandude123455]

At my local guitar shop there is a guitar, a Gibson les paul, all black with a red skull at the 5th fret. I was told its a Voodoo LP, it has the same specs as a studio. Anyone know anything about them?

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Voodoo Les Paul

A Voodoo is a Swamp Ash Studio with the special "goth" finish and different pickups...

The Swamp Ash Studio is a Studio with a solid Swamp Ash body, mahogany neck and an ebony board...

 

[astrozombie]

Re: Voodoo Les Paul

While it isn't my cup of tea, swamp ash has been praised by some for its sound qualities, and les paul studios are great les pauls.

try it, if you're into it, great.

 

[SabbathFan0220]

Re: Voodoo Les Paul

Swamp ash body, mahogany neck, ebony fretboard, black hardware. The body has a weird ebony stain with some red left in the grain. The pickups are "Black Magic double-slug 496R/500T, black/red coils." That inlay is a real turn off for me, I remember seeing those in stores like five years ago.

 

[BloodRose]

Re: Voodoo Les Paul

I think it would be cool without the skull inlay. nice to see some colored bobbins and the finish is kinda cool. But the inlay makes it cheesy.

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: Voodoo Les Paul

Yeah, the inlay uglies it up just a little too much . . . other than that I kinda like these guitars.

 

[lex666]

Re: Voodoo Les Paul

Not my flavor, but if you like, it, go for it.

IMO, Les Paul = mahog + maple.

Never tried a swamp ash LP tho. Try it. It might be something totally different and totally awesome.

 

[Elfunkenstein]

Re: Voodoo Les Paul

Personally I think studios play like crap, but if you like it go ahead. There have been many guitars where, when I saw the specs I thought I'd hate it, but turn out to be great playing guitars.

 

[Wattage]

Re: Voodoo Les Paul

Played one when they came out, thought they were kind of fugly but in an interesting way. Can't comment on it tonally but it played pretty well from what I remember.

 

[SrDeMaFp]

Re: Voodoo Les Paul

I played the SG version and it played and sounded great. That inlay just ruins it for me, though or else it'd be with me right now.

 

[Alex79]

Re: Voodoo Les Paul



I have one and love it. The guitar has two problems though:

- the stock pots suck, they're probably 300K. I couldn't believe how much tone they sucked from that guitar.
- the 500T, which is IMO not a very good pickup, sucks even more in this guitar. Count on replacing it ASAP.

The guitar has less of a midbump than normal LesPauls, way clearer highs and a fairly big bottom end. I installed a Miracle Man first in the bridge - a real metal machine. I've since gone for an AirZone and it works very well, beautiful rock tone.
I heard people also have good experiences with EMGs in this guitar, Jesper Stroemblad from In Flames used a Voodoo V very often.

 

[Alex79]

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Some more pics of the guitar

 

[xxxplorer]

Re: Voodoo Les Paul

I almost got a Voodoo explorer when they were out to company my gothic explorer

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: Voodoo Les Paul

They are cool. My girlfriend at the time almost bought one when they were new.

 

[80's_Metal]

Re: Voodoo Les Paul

They look cool as heck!

 

[CTN]

Re: Voodoo Les Paul

I dig. A helluva lot better than the other abominations they pass off as guitars nowadays.