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slashGNR
Published on 07/22/06 at 11:50
- United States nashville tennessee
- 22 frets, original microphone Gibson
- 2 buttons for the volume of the microphones / 2 buttons for the sound
- Channel type 60 ', finer than 50' at the junction with the body of the guitar.
UTILIZATION
- The handle is nice, it does not stick as I had read elsewhere.
- Regardless of the handle 50 'or 60', access to treble is less easy than on a Start.
- Contrary to what you read frequently, the weight is not a constraint. However, it is time to adapt early to play the guitar sitting as tends rotate opposite the handle because the center of gravity that seems to be at the easel.
- Gibson Les Paul sound, the sound! Endless sustain, accurate sound, warm and big ... nothing to do with a Start.
SOUNDS
- I play blues / hard rock type Led Zep, Guns n 'Rose, Aero, Clapton, Freddie King ... and there is the guitar that suits my taste.
- I am currently on a Peavey Bandit 112 (second edition) which I find to shit on all points but I will soon move to a full tube combo (like JCM800), tired of transistors!
- For me the 4 knobs are not used much, my two would suffice. Since the start I had previously, a single button configuration for me and I do not ever change.
For clean sounds, I use two microphones (middle position) or the sound is bigger and less garish than the micro bridge. Otherwise I rarely use the mic Neck alone. At the moment I do not intend to change the pickups as I have not an amp worthy of the name, but I try very open humbuckers (formerly of Seymour Duncan).
OVERALL OPINION
- I've had nine months and no problems, it sounds better and better every day.
- What I like most: the sound as a priority, and finishing second (that is a Finish Lightburst for mine). I did not install the pickguard, I prefer not, and anyway I did not want to pierce the body of the guitar to install it. Since I play, I found no raillure is due to blows to the place of madiators pickguard.
Lightburst finish (on that one the pickguard was installed and the pickups are not original):
- What I regret:
1) access to high-pitched past the 17th box, you must practice to get there.
2) the exorbitant price I have paid 2400 euros to a German mail-order site (Cologne) and since this model has increased. However, the Luhya, which settled me told me that to build a specialist would cost the same price (the finish is expensive it seems) so who to believe?
Attention, change the locks, straps original Dunlops or by Shellers as those of Gibson are pathetic.
3) The knobs: on mine there are 2 that do not seem quite parallel to the body, such as eccentric. This is in my opinion a lack of seriousness during assembly, at the price we pay their instruments, Gibson should make an effort on quality control!
- But with experience I would do of course this choice, rather than 2 times! It's really the guitar that suits me, I feel at one with it. It's true at the beginning I bought it because it was played by my favorite guitarists (Page, Slash, Perry ...) but I really am not mistaken!
- 22 frets, original microphone Gibson
- 2 buttons for the volume of the microphones / 2 buttons for the sound
- Channel type 60 ', finer than 50' at the junction with the body of the guitar.
UTILIZATION
- The handle is nice, it does not stick as I had read elsewhere.
- Regardless of the handle 50 'or 60', access to treble is less easy than on a Start.
- Contrary to what you read frequently, the weight is not a constraint. However, it is time to adapt early to play the guitar sitting as tends rotate opposite the handle because the center of gravity that seems to be at the easel.
- Gibson Les Paul sound, the sound! Endless sustain, accurate sound, warm and big ... nothing to do with a Start.
SOUNDS
- I play blues / hard rock type Led Zep, Guns n 'Rose, Aero, Clapton, Freddie King ... and there is the guitar that suits my taste.
- I am currently on a Peavey Bandit 112 (second edition) which I find to shit on all points but I will soon move to a full tube combo (like JCM800), tired of transistors!
- For me the 4 knobs are not used much, my two would suffice. Since the start I had previously, a single button configuration for me and I do not ever change.
For clean sounds, I use two microphones (middle position) or the sound is bigger and less garish than the micro bridge. Otherwise I rarely use the mic Neck alone. At the moment I do not intend to change the pickups as I have not an amp worthy of the name, but I try very open humbuckers (formerly of Seymour Duncan).
OVERALL OPINION
- I've had nine months and no problems, it sounds better and better every day.
- What I like most: the sound as a priority, and finishing second (that is a Finish Lightburst for mine). I did not install the pickguard, I prefer not, and anyway I did not want to pierce the body of the guitar to install it. Since I play, I found no raillure is due to blows to the place of madiators pickguard.
Lightburst finish (on that one the pickguard was installed and the pickups are not original):
- What I regret:
1) access to high-pitched past the 17th box, you must practice to get there.
2) the exorbitant price I have paid 2400 euros to a German mail-order site (Cologne) and since this model has increased. However, the Luhya, which settled me told me that to build a specialist would cost the same price (the finish is expensive it seems) so who to believe?
Attention, change the locks, straps original Dunlops or by Shellers as those of Gibson are pathetic.
3) The knobs: on mine there are 2 that do not seem quite parallel to the body, such as eccentric. This is in my opinion a lack of seriousness during assembly, at the price we pay their instruments, Gibson should make an effort on quality control!
- But with experience I would do of course this choice, rather than 2 times! It's really the guitar that suits me, I feel at one with it. It's true at the beginning I bought it because it was played by my favorite guitarists (Page, Slash, Perry ...) but I really am not mistaken!