Gibson Les Paul Studio Tearing your face off.

[niglopte]

OK. I've played with ibanez with a V7 and V8, Ibanez with a dimarzio deactivator, Epiphone with a dimarzio x2n, Jackson with EMG's, and heard pretty much everything that those new school metal kids like LTD's or whatever.

I just need to say this publically. For heavy crunchy sounds that will tear your face right off, I haven't heard anything that sounds better than My Gibson Les Paul Studio. The touch is a little harder to shred, but holy crap that guitar sounds good to my ears.

who wants to argue about this?



By the way, my rig is a 6505+ in a marshall 4x12 300w and with a BBE sonic maximizer for live.

[willjrockstar]

Lets hear it.

[niglopte]

you will soon enough.

hopefully ill be able to reproduce it right so i can put my money where my mouth is.

[brandondrury]

The Les Paul sound is a good one. However, it's certainly not the only sound. This stuff gets ultra subjective. Over the years I've grown to be quite fond of bolt ons with humbuckers. A strat with a Duncan JB in the bridge is an awesome sound to me. (Basically, the Van Halen setup.)

However, I do want add a Les Paul to the mess in 2010. I'll probably snag a Heritage. The quality control of modern Gibson Les Pauls has been disappointing lately. Some are excellent. Some are useless.

[Xplora]

A lot of that is in the mass of the guitar, as well as the design philosophy. An LP isn't designed for shred; all the other guitars you mentioned are supposed to be thin sounding to cope with the red hot distortion of the shred genres. You didn't mention any quintessial mahogany guitars with medium high output pickups in your list, just the X2N which is basically two single coils side by side (with a tone that is hated by many).

Since the LP isn't a shred box, it is going to have a much broader tone because it doesn't expect to be played at 240bpm. Horses for courses. I don't doubt the sound of an LP. I just HATE HATE HATE playing them (useless crap). I sound better through a budget RG7.

[niglopte]

Originally Posted by Xplora

A lot of that is in the mass of the guitar, as well as the design philosophy. An LP isn't designed for shred; all the other guitars you mentioned are supposed to be thin sounding to cope with the red hot distortion of the shred genres. You didn't mention any quintessial mahogany guitars with medium high output pickups in your list, just the X2N which is basically two single coils side by side (with a tone that is hated by many).

Since the LP isn't a shred box, it is going to have a much broader tone because it doesn't expect to be played at 240bpm. Horses for courses. I don't doubt the sound of an LP. I just HATE HATE HATE playing them (useless crap). I sound better through a budget RG7.

I know what you are saying, but thats what i learned to shred on so no problem here. In fact, I had to borrow a Jackson from a friend lately cause the neck on my les paul was snapped (thats one thing i hate about it, it happened twice), and i had a hard time playing it. it's like the touch was too easy.

to each their own i guess

[willjrockstar]

Did you ever post that clip yet? Cmon stick a mic in front of it and lets go.

[awaken1]

Yeah, lets hear it..i have a Les paul studio also, and it sounds great through a marshall MG15 but so far sounds like crap recorded..most likely because i haven't figured out a good recording technique yet..The only thing i don't like about it is the neck is like a baseball bat! should of saved up and went with a LP traditional pro 60's tapered neck.

[willjrockstar]

Thats one of my main axes. I like it needless to say

[niglopte]

About posting a clip, I'm not procrastinating but it's not that easy for me. I live in an apartment where my recording gear is, and my guitar rig is at my jamspace. Starting to record my band this weekend though, so i'll make sure to put something up