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Okay I figure that we all have multiple guitars in our collections and as I presume, several example from the same kind of guitar. I'd like to ask do you hear difference between each guitar which makes it sound different from the others.
I currently own Three Les Pauls and they all sound destinctly different.
1. My Epiphone Les Paul Custom with replaced neck and Seymour Duncan 59 pickups. This is the harshest sounding one of the bunch, it comes from the time that Epiphone made their Lesters from Alder but it's replacement Mahogany neck with Ebony fingerboard gives it a really viscious roar, it clearly was made for rocking hard and the Duncan pickups willingly deliver.
2. My Epiphone Les paul Standard limited edition silver sparkle. Same pickups set up as my red lester, other than that this guitar is bone stock.
I bought this one as a back up for the red one but it turned out a much different guitar. Like the Red one I replaced the stock pickups with Duncan 59's (God I love the sound of that pickup) and like the Red one it comes with an Alder body. But because it has a maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard it sounds very different from the Red one, it sounds much mellower. don't get me wrong, I can still rock hard on this axe but it's also much more at home with clean parts than the Red One is.
3. My Goldtop Frankenstein lester. Made from a hollw body Seventies Lawsuit body (probably an Ibanez but I'm not sure) and a seventies Diamond neck, it has a wilkinson humbucker in the neck and a Dimarzio PAF Pro at the bridge.
It was funny, but when I posted this picture of my Goldtop, the main reaction was: "Your guitar will sound very Jazzy with you using a trapeze tailpiece" Because the truth turned out something completely different. Because of the chambered body, the neck which has a zero fret and because the trapeze tail mades the tension different from a normal stop tail, it actually brasher than any of my epiphones, it has the loudest accoustic tone of my lesters. When plugged in, it sounds more airy than my other two lesters, a bit Gretsch like, although the Dimarzio still lets it rip when I turn on distortion. I was planning of putting on a Bisgby but it sounds fine as it does.
I currently own Three Les Pauls and they all sound destinctly different.
1. My Epiphone Les Paul Custom with replaced neck and Seymour Duncan 59 pickups. This is the harshest sounding one of the bunch, it comes from the time that Epiphone made their Lesters from Alder but it's replacement Mahogany neck with Ebony fingerboard gives it a really viscious roar, it clearly was made for rocking hard and the Duncan pickups willingly deliver.
2. My Epiphone Les paul Standard limited edition silver sparkle. Same pickups set up as my red lester, other than that this guitar is bone stock.
I bought this one as a back up for the red one but it turned out a much different guitar. Like the Red one I replaced the stock pickups with Duncan 59's (God I love the sound of that pickup) and like the Red one it comes with an Alder body. But because it has a maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard it sounds very different from the Red one, it sounds much mellower. don't get me wrong, I can still rock hard on this axe but it's also much more at home with clean parts than the Red One is.
3. My Goldtop Frankenstein lester. Made from a hollw body Seventies Lawsuit body (probably an Ibanez but I'm not sure) and a seventies Diamond neck, it has a wilkinson humbucker in the neck and a Dimarzio PAF Pro at the bridge.
It was funny, but when I posted this picture of my Goldtop, the main reaction was: "Your guitar will sound very Jazzy with you using a trapeze tailpiece" Because the truth turned out something completely different. Because of the chambered body, the neck which has a zero fret and because the trapeze tail mades the tension different from a normal stop tail, it actually brasher than any of my epiphones, it has the loudest accoustic tone of my lesters. When plugged in, it sounds more airy than my other two lesters, a bit Gretsch like, although the Dimarzio still lets it rip when I turn on distortion. I was planning of putting on a Bisgby but it sounds fine as it does.
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