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Gibson Les Paul Standard Traditional Premium

LP-Shaped Guitar from Gibson belonging to the Les Paul series

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«  ultimate guitar! »

Published on 10/01/11 at 14:32
it's a good old US made in that we have here ..
fixed bridge course.
neck with 22 fret rosewood fingerboard with pearl trapezoid marks true all set a net around it. (not around the head)
the pickups are '57 and '57 classic classic plus for the handle.
for the settings is simple: one 3 position switch and a volume knob and one tone for each pickup (which makes four control buttons in all).

UTILIZATION

the handle is very nice, it's very enjoyable, such handle exists only in dreams!
of comfort to fall backwards, it really plays all styles ...
the ergonomics are excellent, although the guitar propped on his thigh.
access to acute is good, I have no complaints in that area ...
we get a great sound!
then there hat!
was "the sound of jazz" yes, that famous as its incomparable can be heard on the gibson, warm, full of psychics, a unique relief ...
for the blues, it's really a guitar here, just mount the drive of the amp and forget the strato! (What breadboard!)
well saturated for rock hard rock show, it's really good!
I say: this is the ultimate and unique guitar rock!

SOUNDS

it is well suited to all styles of music pre-cited above, for the funk, a better strato is done here!
I plugged into a tube amp brand "ELYPSE", it is the amps sold milonga, with 3 buttons on it and it does not cheat with her, frankly, I was in heaven!
a guitar that has all qualities that sound here, y 'is not much!
I loved everything in terms of sounds on this guitar!

OVERALL OPINION

I have only played this afternoon, but I'm really conquered; I nearly buy it so I found it good!
for guitars I tried, see my secretary! (Ah ah!)
I love the most, it remains in the les paul traditional sound to fall, a comfortable game to ejaculate on the spot, the blues just by itself, the weapon of jazz, this guitar can do anything, the flamed maple top on the model tested, the sound of microphones, the beauty and simplicity of this guitar that laid the foundations of rock and hard rock.
I did not like, only 22 cases (which I'm used to 24!), the net handle that a little "cheap" to have to make!
I took the opportunity to compare it with a Les Paul Standard 2008 and several findings make me say that I prefer the traditionnal: first, the standard is less burdensome than the traditionnal in fact, This is because Gibson had the super bad idea to dig the body mahogany les paul to put in the balsa; result, it really is lighter, but what you gain somewhere, you lose it necessarily elsewhere I found the sound much less "jazz" the traditionnal perhaps the fault of burstbuckers mounted on the standards of today ...
and then, € 200 more for the standard, I think it looks a little expensive balsa!
anyway, gibson tripper makes me right now, and I try everything I can in this brand I already had a 335, a les paul studio, an SG standard, a nighthawk, I have never been disappointed and rightly so, I always feel like a very good instrument in the hands, so we say thank you to that? paul to the course!