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i want an LP style eventually but i hate gibson so much that i will likely do a kit build or buy a clone or something. good enuf for me
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I encourage everyone to walk into a music store, pick up a Les Paul, and not even plugging it in just hold it and try to play something. I really loved the idea of LPs until I did that and something about them just immediately repelled me. I have a dano that's shaped like an LP and the scale is nearly the same (25" instead of 24.75") and I absolutely love that, but there's something. Maybe you'll love them! But touch one and you'll figure it out one way or the other pretty quick.
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Oct 13, 2022 19:25
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jamming in the awful key of B major https://soundcloud.com/user-656458997/b-jam
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Oct 13, 2022 19:42
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Of course everyone needs a Les Paul. My first proper guitar was an Ibanez 2350 (ended up getting stolen, 30 years later I still look for it in the classifieds occasionally) and it ruled. Current LP is an Epiphone 1959 and it also rules.
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Oct 13, 2022 20:02
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Baron von Eevl posted:I encourage everyone to walk into a music store, pick up a Les Paul, and not even plugging it in just hold it and try to play something. I really loved the idea of LPs until I did that and something about them just immediately repelled me. I have a dano that's shaped like an LP and the scale is nearly the same (25" instead of 24.75") and I absolutely love that, but there's something. this was me when I went guitar shopping but I have been haunted by this one LP I played testing amps. It was black and I think bound. thats all I remember. it could have been LTD or some weird lawsuit clone. it felt and sounded so good and I was trying to be cool but I should have asked about it actually I wonder if I still have the guy's number...
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Oct 13, 2022 20:06
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Easy solution to that is to get a Les Paul that doesn't look like one  This one is a custom one off built by a TDPRI guy but it's so ridiculous I love it.
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Oct 13, 2022 20:06
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I have a hagstrom super swede which is les Paul like with a strat scale length and that’s as much Paul as I need or want.
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Oct 13, 2022 20:11
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I'm in love with this SG so far - it's so light and responsive and I'm not sure if the neck is flatter than my Fenders, but chords feel so natural. It's got a bit of roar and it's just beautiful. Oh, and it's a '61 Les Paul SG, so technically I have a Les Paul 
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Oct 13, 2022 20:51
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Malaria posted:Doooo it. They rule. This. I like les Paul's but I love gold top Les Paul's. My coworker bought a 75 gold top with mini humbuckers in it. It was really cool. I kind of want a p90 gold top but $$$.
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Oct 13, 2022 21:00
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look at all you boomers, you should be ashamed of yourselves edit: I do love my LP Studio with Thornbuckers, but I love the LTD EC-256 more ergonomically, and if I were buying today I'd get an Epiphone "Inspired by" Les Paul or maybe a PRS Tremonti or if I were a dentist maybe a Washburn Parallaxe Single Cut. duodenum fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Oct 13, 2022 |
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What's a good power supply for ≥5 pedals? e: It's this, I guess, right? https://www.amazon.com/Voodoo-Lab-P...e904010ad0&th=1 Huxley fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Oct 13, 2022 |
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Oct 13, 2022 21:36
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Huxley posted:What's a good power supply for ≥5 pedals? At that price you ate better off with a true tone CS6 or CS7. Isolated and you get 2-3 extra pedals for only $10 more
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Oct 13, 2022 23:20
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Arcsech posted:Don’t buy a Les Paul. My LTD EC-256 is very nice, especially after a pro setup, and it cost $600 new. Set neck, made in Indonesia, coil split, very light. About the only thing I felt the need to change were the pickups and nut.
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Oct 13, 2022 23:33
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Fender put up a bunch of Strat pickup demo videos on YouTube, probably as a response to Gibsons new pickup shop where you can now buy some of their specialty pickups without buying a $4000 guitar. Anyway, all I am taking away from these demos is the Tex-Mex Strat pickups are still the best bang for buck I have ever heard.
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Oct 14, 2022 00:18
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I love my sparkly pink Epiphone SG and my gaudy gold Epiphone 335, would recommend both to someone wanting a Gibson style HH guitar for way less money than a Gibson. Also prefer both those body shapes to the standard Les Paul. Although the sparkly Les Paul muses have like body contours and are skinnier so maybe would handle better
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Oct 14, 2022 00:32
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Comedy option: the Alex Lifeson signature Epiphone Les Paul. It's like the anti-blues lawyer LP: Floyd Rose, piezo with fade, coil split, comfort and lightening carves, and dual output jacks. The only way it could be better is if it had the Fishman Fluences from the Prophecy series in them. Ooh, there's another good not-boomer Les Paul, actually. There's a Prophecy Les Paul but I don't think it comes in anything resembling traditional Les Paul finishes. e: these are all pretty sick nasty tbh https://www.epiphone.com/en-US/Collection/prophecy
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Oct 14, 2022 00:43
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I'll just keep saying it... Epiphone Wilshire  Epiphone Wilshire  Epiphone Wilshire  Epiphone Wilshire 
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Oct 14, 2022 00:45
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gently caress they're gorgeous almost perfect just need a maple fretboard and to get rid of two of those knobs that avocado one <3
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Oct 14, 2022 00:47
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:gently caress they're gorgeous They did make one that was all natural maple.  Still hoping to find one cheap enough.
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Oct 14, 2022 00:52
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I've been a lifelong Gibson hater due to their lovely pricing and abysmal QC. Ironically I was gifted a LP studio faded a few years ago and it's the best sounding guitar I've owned. Go figure. They do occasionally make a killer guitar, but in my experience you gotta try a few to get a real good one. My buddy was gifted an LP standard a few years ago and had to go through 3 of em until we finally got one that was acceptable. If you want a really great LP, hunt down a Burny/Tokai/Edwards if you can find one. The word got out over the last few years so finding a good price is a lot harder than it used to be, but man they're killer
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Oct 14, 2022 00:52
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luchadornado posted:My LTD EC-256 is very nice, especially after a pro setup, and it cost $600 new. Set neck, made in Indonesia, coil split, very light. About the only thing I felt the need to change were the pickups and nut. I’ve been eyeing up an EC-1000 as some sort of future LP copy. Are they worth the premium? I assume you looked at them when you got your 256.
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Oct 14, 2022 01:20
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You can get good deals on the EC-1000s if you keep an eye out on Reverb. I grabbed a silver one with Blackouts and locking tuners for like $450 last year.
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Oct 14, 2022 01:22
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why buy a gibson when u can buy a heritage straight outta kalamazoo
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Oct 14, 2022 01:28
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Red_Fred posted:I’ve been eyeing up an EC-1000 as some sort of future LP copy. Are they worth the premium? I assume you looked at them when you got your 256. I personally didn't think it was worth it because the biggest difference is the pickups, and I didn't like the stock pickups in either model. If you like the pickups - the fretboard, tuners, etc. are nicer and then it's worth it. But at $1100 new there are a lot of other guitars that would also be really nice. I wouldn't hesitate to buy a good deal on either though.
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Oct 14, 2022 01:53
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Hope good are ebony fretboard? They sound good and look nice, is it worth the trouble, expense and more limited options over other woods?
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Oct 14, 2022 02:50
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BizarroAzrael posted:Hope good are ebony fretboard? They sound good and look nice, is it worth the trouble, expense and more limited options over other woods? Eh, I don't personally notice a huge difference between it and rosewood or pau ferro or richlite for that matter but I'm sure some other folks would say it matters granted, I'm a maple guy through and through and that's the cheapest of them all
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Red_Fred posted:I’ve been eyeing up an EC-1000 as some sort of future LP copy. Are they worth the premium? I assume you looked at them when you got your 256. I’ve got an EC-1000, partially because it came with Fishmans - I don’t hate ESP/EMG pickups but I don’t love em either, the SDs they put in most of the 1000 models are pretty good as I recall, but the Fishmans are fantastic. I got mine for a bit below street price from a local shop, the locking tuners are quite nice and IDK the difference in the nut between the 256 and the 1000 exactly, but I haven’t felt the need to swap mine. As another poster noted, if you’re patient you can get a used EC-1000 in great condition on Reverb for like $500ish, which is is an incredible deal. The current EC-1000s in Gold and Violet Andromeda are loving gorgeous though and they both come with Fishmans. If I didn’t already have one, that’s the one I’d buy. Arcsech fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Oct 14, 2022 |
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You know what's worse than a torture chord (sus2)? A sus2 with an extra 5th at the bottom it's the breakdown of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe9Rvm2Tkjs
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Also I bought a bunch of generic amazon branded 9v batteries and went to put one of them in a guitar with active pickups. Something was weird because the guitar's output was about a quarter of what it should be after replacing it. I thought I was a moron and got the polarity switched (it wasn't the clip on terminals but regular slide contacts) and I got the polarity right, but didn't notice that the battery had some shrink wrap around it. That's a brand new issue for me, never seen that before
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Those Tokai Love LPs are gorgeous. I feel like I've heard more than one story of folks who didn't like Les Pauls until they picked a certain one up.
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I will also restate that while I'm selling my Gibson I am 100% getting another Les Paul. Les Pauls are amazing. Probably getting a humbucker one this time I think. Play that through my JCM2000 clone. Pure rock. Edit: If the Epiphone Les Paul Prophecy didn't have active pickups it'd be perfect, altho honestly I'm thinking of checking one out because I hear great things about Fishman pickups. syntaxfunction fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Oct 14, 2022 |
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My new ProBuckers today so should be doing the install over the weekend, but I'm not sure how I'm going to thread the wires from the humbuckers, which have the no-solder connectors on, thought the available holes? It's been a while since I looked in their so maybe it's fine and the routing will permit it, I'm pretty sure the kit is mean for exactly this.
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Oct 14, 2022 14:31
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Verman posted:This. I like les Paul's but I love gold top Les Paul's. Epiphone did this Jared James Nichols version!  
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syntaxfunction posted:I will also restate that while I'm selling my Gibson I am 100% getting another Les Paul. Les Pauls are amazing. Fluences seem to be the least 'active-y' actives at the moment. The two voicing idea is interesting but I'd probably find myself sat in one voicing all the time anyway and I hate any type of push pot, so I'd rather have it on an internal dip of some kind.
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just realized the shrinkwrap was still on the bridge pickup of my used bargain gretsch after having it for like a year lol. i guess i never checked, because i assumed owner 1 would have taken it off.a.p. dent posted:jamming in the awful key of B major https://soundcloud.com/user-656458997/b-jam this is good playing brother, i have to defend b major a little bit though. you definitely have to rely on closed transposable voicings, but the ii chord is wonderful (i've always been weirdly drawn to c#-), and you can do interesting stuff with a lot of common chord voicings that aren't diatonic by approaching them as passing chords.
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I got the Epiphone open and yeah, the solderless connectors mean I can't thread the wires from the pickup routes into the chamber with the rest of the wiring. What should be the play here? I would have to drill a pretty big connecting tunnel, bit iffy on that. Not sure about sniping the wire and reconnecting it either, since this is for coil taping
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Are they .100 center headers like the ones you'd use to hook up your PC power switch or whatever? I'd pull the pins out of the housing (just takes a little flathead jeweler's screwdriver or similar tiny pokeything) and thread em through, then repin the housing. (take a pic before so you get the polarities right at the end)
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Jonny 290 posted:Are they .100 center headers like the ones you'd use to hook up your PC power switch or whatever? I'd pull the pins out of the housing (just takes a little flathead jeweler's screwdriver or similar tiny pokeything) and thread em through, then repin the housing. (take a pic before so you get the polarities right at the end) Here;  Think this is what you were taking about? Are the black ones interchangeable?
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Those look more like .156" headers but same idea. On the other side do you see little metal bits in a cutout like so? If you have that, use a small screwdriver to depress the tab in each hole while pulling the wire out the back. If there's no cutout and locking tab on the other side, they may have used nonremovable pins on the connectors, in which case thy art boned and you'd need to cut and reconnect after routing.
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 I've been poking the metal tabs on the top but not git anything yet. BizarroAzrael fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Oct 14, 2022 |
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