YOU Need A Les Paul

[beaubrummels]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

I'm there. I own 2 Les Pauls (and 3 Strats FWIW, for the trolls)

This is my #1, since 1994, original owner, bone stock.

Strats are the most ergonomic design, but the best sounding Strats suffer from one thing that just doesn't work in music: noise.
I own more Fenders than Gibsons, but I use the Gibsons 10x more often.
My Gibsons sound more consistent; I can use them as back ups for each other.
My Fenders are all over the map. None of my Strats sounds similar. I have to play them differently and can't even get the same sounds out of them.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

Playing Jerry's Les Paul Signature. Which is actually a 335
Made me appreciate a short scale neck
I got my Florentine in an effort to capture that sound






While it's not the same sound

The scale and ease of play was addictive

Then I got my Hummingbird



Same scale and neck shape but still not the 335

So then I found the real Gibson in my signature
It's a Les Paul Studio Custom. Swamp ash body and maple neck. The controls are where i like them master tone and volume all bunched together with the switch.

Then , still in search of that archtop sound I got the Signature of my Vanity thread



Still not an archtop
I had hoped to put a piezo under the top and blend the sounds.

What I wanted, I discovered last night, was a Dean Shire

Dean SHIRE AQA Semi Hollow Body Electric Guitar With Piezo, Aqua https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WW832NW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_kcBsAbEWM81BF

I hope this will satiate me for my New Year's resolutions are no more guitar purchases for 2018

Should arrive Thursday

 

[Clint 55]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

Troll troll troll.

LPs suck.

Troll troll troll.

 

[Ben1962]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

Yea man . I love my mpegs.

 

[Ben1962]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

I am an older guy. Just started playing like 3 years ago. I bought ALOT of music, love the guitar. From metal to cat guts, just something special about the guitar. I always had my faves and gotta say, NONE OF THEM PLAYED STRATS. I never realized it till I started playing, but I CAN NOT STAND ICE PICK SINGLE COILS. Its the tone, I just never have liked them. Nothing against the icons that played strats, I just never cared for the tones when cranked. The softer Hendrix is beautiful, but.... Nothing sounds like a Les Paul. Nothing is as beautiful as a Les Paul. And to those strat lovers out there, I respect your right to be WRONG LOL. Happy Safe New Years all, even the strat guys

 

[Clint 55]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

You can put humbuckers in a strat you know.

 

[Thundermtn]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

Yeah you can

 

[Clint 55]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

Props to you for rocking a girl's guitar!

 

[Gtrjunior]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

I’ve posted it in other threads but here’s my #1 of 3:

 

[Thundermtn]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

Props to you for rocking a girl's guitar!

Your words, not mine.

 

[esandes]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

The cavity under the pickguard of my US strat can hold a kilo of contraband. Sure it may kill tone but just imagine the rock star party it would bring.

 

[Clint 55]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

I wasn't confused as to who said what I said.

 

[esandes]

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[Wattage]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

**** to be honest I think you need multiple Les Pauls

 

[Jeffblue]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

A strat can't do what a Les Paul can do........and vice-versa. I love my Les Paul.......and my strat and tele partscasters. It is good to cover many styles of tones with the guitars that do them.

 

[cliffenstein]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

That’s just beautiful...really REALLY beautiful.

 

[Chistopher]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

The cavity under the pickguard of my US strat can hold a kilo of contraband. Sure it may kill tone but just imagine the rock star party it would bring.

Yeah, but you can get to it faster on a Les Paul.
And if we're talking sheer volume, a Super 400 has you beat there too. I could hide a house cat in one of those, permitted the guitar was built around it.

Edit: To the OP, congratulations on getting almost 80 posts in the first 8 hours.

 

[Jacew]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

Funny thing is that while I really like that classic LP tone, and have played few that felt and sounded great, I have never really wanted one.

There just something off-putting in the design for me. Good strat feels like a great piece of engineering. LP doesn't, it's just a piece of equipment.

 

[shupe13]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

Funny thing is that while I really like that classic LP tone, and have played few that felt and sounded great, I have never really wanted one.

There just something off-putting in the design for me. Good strat feels like a great piece of engineering. LP doesn't, it's just a piece of equipment.

And I agree as I feel a good Strat is needed (sonically) but I don’t enjoy playing them. I love how they look though.

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[evan47]

Re: YOU Need A Les Paul

No, Gordon Smith in the UK make a fine bespoke guitar akin to Gibsons.
They can build a replica at less than the price of an off the shelf Gibson.