Gibson Les Paul Standard

The Les Paul guitar was not immediately accepted by the music community when it was first introduced. However a few notable artists and musicians decided to take a chance on it and I agree would be one of the best hard rock guitars and pretty much all around guitars in modern history. There really isn't a guitar that is able to get this thick juicy tone but had the first ability to play in pretty much any style of music. It's extremely versatile guitar because of its ability to play decently and clean settings but go all the way up to hard rock and metal settings.

UTILIZATION

* Body: Mahogany
* Top: Carved maple
* Back: Mahogany
* Neck: Set mahogany
* Neck Profile: '60s
* Headstock: Angled
* Scale length: 24-3/4"
* Fingerboard: Bound Rosewood
* No. of frets: 22
* Nut width: 1.69"
* Inlays: Trapezoid
* Binding: Antique
* Bridge: Tune-O-Matic with stopbar tailpiece
* Tuners: Locking Grover
* Hardware: Chrome
* Bridge pickup: potted BurstBucker 3 humbucker with push/pull coil splitting
* Neck Pickup: '57 Classic with push/pull coil splitting
* Electronics: 2 volume with push/pull coil-splitting, 2 tone, 3-way toggle pickup selector
* Knobs: Vintage Gibson top hats
* Pickguard: Period-correct
* Case: Hardshell
* Other: Plek setup


SOUNDS


I love the tone of this guitar primary with a high gain setting or you can medium gain amplifier settings. These are good rock 'n roll guitars and are really come to their own in that type of environment. They don't really do well in clean settings so when you play with Fender clean your not really didn't get that chimey sparkling tongue. However when you get these power tubes cranking, my goodness these guitars benefit right well in that setting.

OVERALL OPINION


I highly recommend these guitars anyone is looking for very versatile guitar but primarily something this can be beefy thick and saturated. This is a good hard rock guitar and anyone for anyone is looking to get a good professional guitar this might be it. You can find them pretty easily and the used section of classifieds and on eBay. I would recommend trying them out first because Gibson Les Paul seem to differ in feel and, balance from guitar to guitar. So you might want to try it out before you buy to get the feel and overall balance of the guitar.

This has to be one of the coolest Gibson Les Paul guitar that I've seen. It has a great feel a great look and overall great balance to it. The mahogany wood body in the mahogany neck coupled with the rosewood fretboard gives it a nice beefy and sick tone. This is a great guitar when playing rhythm and a hard rock band or even a metal band. Overall the Gibson Les Paul guitars have to be some of the most versatile and highly used guitars and all of music. They have such a good transition from genre to genre of music as well as an ability to give the user plenty of opportunity crate some great soulful music.

UTILIZATION

The tone is guitar is fantastic. If you've ever spent any time with a Gibson Les Paul can you know exactly what I'm talking about. When you find yourself against the wall looking for a guitar riff for a guitar tone that is in your head to you can't really translate into your guitar amp; with a Les Paul and it's very easy to come up with something unique and catchy. Whenever I grab a Gibson Les Paul I always find myself writing new music and new riffs as well as getting overly energized just play my guitar. The Gibson Les Paul has such a good soul and feel to it that is very easy to create music. I'm like a Paul Reed Smith guitar or Ibanez guitar you can't really find that soul that's within the guitar. Anyone is ever spent a lot of time playing these guitars would know exactly what I'm talking about.

SOUNDS

This guitar sounds fantastic when you couple it with a good hiking amplifier such as a marshal amplifier for Mesa boogie amplifier. I particularly like the Gibson Les Paul with a high gain marshal because it just connects chemically better than any two instruments I've come across. A Fender Stratocaster and fender amplifier. Have a great connection as well for good clean bluesy tone but when you want to get a high intensity rock tone then there is nothing better than a Gibson Les Paul and a martial full Stack hygiene guitar rig. It has a good connection in a great solid tone that matches very well with the voicing of that amplifier.

OVERALL OPINION

I highly recommend this guitar to anyone looking for a good solid mahogany wood guitar that is built for a gigging musician or recording musician. At new you can find his guitar for ride around $2600 which is a great price for this guitar. It's in America made classic and great guitar for anyone looking to step up their instrument level to a whole new territory. It's one of the best guitars but it's ever been created in one of the most iconic guitars that is ever been manufactured and produced.

In the early 60s Gibson was looking to make their guitars a bit easier to play. Fender was out selling them with their guitars so they had to change up the feel of their guitars. This eventually led to the Les Paul being replaced by the SG but before that they tried to fix some perceived problems with the Les Paul. This early 60s style Les Paul has a super thin 60s profile neck. Which is found on most SG guitars. This guitar has a mahogany body with a maple top. The set neck is mahogany with the mentioned 60s profile neck. It has a rosewood fretboard and a cool black finish. It has vintage looking aged green tuners. It has a set of Burstbucker pickups and the standard controls.

UTILIZATION

These guitars are very playable because of their 60s neck profiles. The body shape is standard Les Paul so most of it plays like a normal Les Paul. The 60s neck profile is something you find more on SG guitars. Gibson Les Pauls with these necks are pretty rare but when they make them they play really well. With these thinner necks you can really wrap your hand around them. These guitars have a really nice setup out of the box due to Gibsons Plek process. A Plek machine is a machine that uses a laser to level the frets on a guitar to crazy accuracy. This means the out of the box setup on these guitars are very good.

SOUNDS

This guitar has a great Les Paul tone. It has a full bodied mahogany sound which is what you expect when it comes to a Gibson Les Paul. The neck pickup is nice and smooth like you want with a Les Paul. The tone is perfect for blues or classic rock leads right out of the box. The bridge pickup has a nice hot rodded sound to it. It has a good crunch going that could do heavy rock. With some clean tones the guitar is good for blues and Jazz. With these pickups I dont think it would cut the mustard for a metal tone. If you are looking for that kind of sound you may want to swap in some Duncans or a set of active EMG's if you want the ultimate in metal tone.

OVERALL OPINION

The Les Paul Standard is what people think when they think Les Paul. There are models above and below it but this is the workhorse that more people have used throughout the years than any other. And throughout the years it has gone through changes. This guitar represents a certain era in the guitars history where it had its unique style and playability that stemmed from the needs and requirements of a guitar at that time. A lot of those needs are things people still want today. People like smaller necks because more people find them very comfortable to play. This is this models strong point. If you are looking for a good standard Les Paul with a slim neck that you can really play Gibson has you hooked up right here.

Gibson guitars is one of those companies that is just as iconic as many of the famous artists who have played them. These guitars have revolutionized rock an roll. They took what Fender build and compounded upon it to create a much better and more practical machine for the new age of distortion and overdrive guitars tones. To get the overdriven guitar tones of the 60's and 70's you could not achieve that with a Fender guitar and their classic single coil pickups.You much fort play it with humbuckers and then you need a heavier thicker body and preferably used mahogany wood as your base body wood.

This guitar is a page right our of Jimmy Paige's book of guitars. This guitars looks exactly like one of his famous Gibson Les Paul's from back in the 70's It has that vintage looking red cherry sunburst that just gleams with attitude and flare. This is the guitar you would want to have if you were out playing gigs and needed a strong workhorse guitar.

UTILIZATION

Gibson Les Paul Standard Heritage Cherry Sunburst Features:

Body: Mahogany
Top: Carved maple
Back: Mahogany
Neck: Set mahogany
Neck Profile: '60s
Headstock: Angled
Scale length: 24-3/4"
Fingerboard: Bound Rosewood
No. of frets: 22
Nut width: 1.69"
Inlays: Trapezoid
Binding: Antique
Bridge: Tune-O-Matic with stopbar tailpiece
Tuners: Locking Grover
Hardware: Chrome
Bridge pickup: potted BurstBucker 3 humbucker with push/pull coil splitting
Neck Pickup: '57 Classic with push/pull coil splitting
Electronics: 2 volume with push/pull coil-splitting, 2 tone, 3-way toggle pickup selector
Knobs: Vintage Gibson top hats
Pickguard: Period-correct
Case: Hardshell
Other: Plek setup



SOUNDS

Every time I look at this guitar I think about ripping up some Ramble On or perhaps some dazed and Confused. This guitar just screams vintage classic rock and roll. This is a blazing guitar with a great feel and an exciting tone. The guitar just begs to be rode hard and put up wet. This is defiantly a players guitars and needs to be knocked around a while.

Play this guitar with a nice Marshal or British flavor amp and you'll see what rock n roll was back in the 70's. This guitar combined with a voicing of that famous British tone is just a match made in heaven. The tonal bliss of striking that first chord and letting it ring out in a blaze of heavy saturation gain is a thing or pure beauty. You won't want to put this guitar down for one second as soon as you get it home.

OVERALL OPINION

You can find these guitars pretty much anywhere. At new these guitars come in right at around $1999, which isn't bad for a solid sound great rock n roll Gibson Les Paul. You will have a lot of fun playing this guitar in a band or at home. It is a sweet sounding and beautiful looking guitar.