Love my Les Paul!

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Well I've had my LP Studio for about 6 months now. Took me a while to get used to the 50s neck profile...even coming from playing a Tele, it sure is a fat neck!

But the sound off this thing is unreal. It's a totally different beast to a Fender. If you didn't know, I was previously rooted solidly in the Fender camp but I guess you really have to cover both angles; single coils and humbuckers.

It handles overdrive well and really cleans up with very high gain. If you roll back the tone pot on the neck pickup, the OD sound is very very lush, very Knopfler. It took me some time to work out what sort of clean tones are on offer. It's a very full, warm sort of sound and with a touch of reverb, things get very Fleetwood Mac.

So I have to say, all in all, I'm really pleased with the buy. With that, a couple of Teles and my trusty Yamaha Pacifica I think I've got most of the major tone bases covered for the foreseeable.
 
JCH said:
Good luck with that, but somehow I see a P90 guitar in your future.:) I
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Funny ya should say that, I was looking at a couple of P90 axes a few days ago. How do they sound exactly?
 
P90's are probably my favorite tone generally speaking. The picking dynamics are great. Played soft they can be sweet, and mellow. When you dig in they hit like a fk'n mule kick. Then there's everything in between. Check out Keith Urbans tone for a decent contemporary example.
 
Glad to hear that you're enjoying it, Telepaul! :)

You need a Strat and a P-90 guitar to round it all out. ;)
 
Zaphod B said:
Glad to hear that you're enjoying it, Telepaul! :)

You need a Strat and a P-90 guitar to round it all out. ;)
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Probably will get round to a Strat. Depends on the job front, I've had a bunch of interviews for graduate positions but competition is stiff. If I get one, I'll be celebrating with one hell of a guitar buy.
 
Congrats TelePaul--and good luck on the job front!
 
Gotta agree with the p-90 folks here, as an owner of way too many guitars, the P90s are my fav these days. You are well on your way to the ideal (IMHO) collection:

A solidbody with humbuckers
Fender SC (tele or strat, take your choice)
at least one P90 axe (my choice was the SG Classic, wider neck, great tone).
hollowbody with either P90s or humbuckers (currently have one with classic '57s, looking at Epi Casino elitist one day).

Daav
 
Depending on what you're looking to spend, when you get around to buying your P90 guitar TelePaul, I'd highly recommend Gibson's Les Paul Faded Double Cut. It's really a renamed Les Paul Special (although marketed as a Faded Double Cut, or FDC, it says Special on the truss rod cover), and does exactly what a Les Paul Special is supposed to do...being an awesome, great playing tone machine, without having to mortgage the house or rob a bank. Now, if you want "a touch" more attitude of a slab bodied, dual P90 Gibson, then I'd recommend their SG Classic. Sure it's about $150.00 more than the Les Paul Faded Double Cut, but if you really want some great crunch with the other typical P90 tone pallet, the SG Classic would be the way to go.

I come by my suggestions from owning a Les Paul Faded Double Cut, and although I've yet to scrape together enough green paper called money to buy one, I'll "test drive" an SG Classic every chance I get (through a VOX AC30 combo is pure heaven, and is another on my "to buy" list).

Matt
 
Zaphod B said:
Glad to hear that you're enjoying it, Telepaul! :)

You need a Strat and a P-90 guitar to round it all out. ;)
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Not true: I am now the proud owner of a Les Paul, a 335, and an SG, and I can tell you, there's a lot of life in those humbuckers.
 
my sheraton sports two p90s, humbuck size.
and my lp studio has one in the neck.

For my money the neck position p90 is a must.. fat and chimey and such clarity and cut throughout the range.

Anyone found a stacked humbuck in strat size that isn't darker than
a cheap vampire movie?

I'm putting a humbuck size p90 in a tele bridge position.. but I was thinking
of a stacked bucker at the neck.

TWANG
 
swaying back to tele

I had a LP standard but i started to drift away to away from it then i bought a tele standard and the good feeling came back i think you may sway back to the fender:cool: side.
 
lpdeluxe said:
Not true: I am now the proud owner of a Les Paul, a 335, and an SG, and I can tell you, there's a lot of life in those humbuckers.
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Well that's true, but you will never, never, never get any of those fine guitars to sound like a Strat, or a P-90-equipped guitar.

It just depends on how may colors of paint you want on your palette. :)
 
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