4 Les Paul Tricks for Better Tone
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- Here are 4 super cool tricks to apply to your Les Paul to create some awesome tone! Thanks rawkstars for watching this video. Did you enjoy it? If so, share this video with your guitar buddies, like this video and share your feedback below in the comment section.
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Why does he look like what would happen if Hetfield sobered up and became a college professor
Funny. " Books will dull your mind son"
He is more looking like Paul Gilbert 😂
Nah. Hetfield has a round face, and a small nose. Completely different phenotype. This guy looks like a med, James looks Germanic.
Hetfield is sober
The gingham guitar slinger
2:13 Woman tone demo
3:36 Woman tone settings
* Neck Pick Up
* Tone - 5
* Volume - 10
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5:29 Kill switch demo
6:40 Settings
* Neck - volume 0
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8:21 Clean pickup 1 dirty pickup 2
8:33 demo
* Neck: Clean
Volume: 4
Tone: 10
* Bridge: Dirty
V: 10
T: 10
@@MrRic350 You're welcome \/,
Thank you
Hero
The sound of a LP : tribute to Gary Moore th-cam.com/video/WgbFKGNfYR0/w-d-xo.html
Many thanks
1) string it up
2) plug into a Marshall
3)turn volume knob all the way up
All you need to make your les Paul sound better than 80% of guitars
Dam Straight !
New strings, medium or even heavy gauge.
I use heavy bottoms.nice deep tones when playing chords.
instead of kill switch just get a crappy cable and the sound will cut in and out
10000% agree!
Great pointers! It's amazing how many younger guys don't know how much tonal and saturation control they have right at their finger tips! This is how us old geezers controlled things back in the 60's and 70's.
Thanks gang for watching and for all the love! Let me hear your feedback and comments below! e :)
May I ask something? Why I see people put their strings that way on the bridge?
Supposed to affect string tension, reduces the angle at which the strings are pulled over the saddles
but why? how does it affect?
The string contacts the bridge saddle at a smaller angle, less kink in the string on the stop bar side, should allow the string to float more easily and return to tension after a bend. I'm not convinced that it truly works as the strings still need to be pulled to the correct tension to be in tune to the scale length.
I'll just leave my SG as it is (?)
The Les Paul and the OCD are a match made in Heaven.
Yes sir, correct!
Totally Agree
Add a precision drive and a wampler tumnus deluxe and you hit the all reaching powerful colorful distortion tone
I have yet to ever find another dirt pedal that can do what an OCD does with the guitars tone rolled off. Whether it be a Strat or Lp.
I recently fell in love with that combination!
I play a harley benton and these tricks learned me a lot. Thanks man i just started playing and love every second of it
For the woman tone I prefer to do what Eric does by turning the tone on 0 for both pickups, and then have both pickups active
you're a legend man, you just made my tone so much better
@Sam Mitchell : Please provide external link for credibility. Thanks
Ashutosh Pathak no one lies when it comes to giving tone tips on TH-cam
Ashutosh Pathak I don’t know the link but there’s a famous interview Clapton did in his Cream days with his SG. Just search it on TH-cam and you’ll see it, Clapton says it himself
Ashutosh Pathak th-cam.com/video/n9ODNQPQo3A/w-d-xo.html
There you go 👍
MAN thanks there are not many tutorials like this, tone is a whole serious thing to study, respect!
Totally love the Les Paul sound! Its one of the few guitars that cut into the mix by itself!
I had my Gibson Les Paul Hotrodded. The sounds and tones I get know as opposed to factory wiring is incredible and endless. I recommend all L.P. players consider it. I love it as do my friends that try it out!
I'm 4 years late to reply on your comment, but honest question here, can you elaborate on what you meant by hotrodding your Les Paul? Do you mean changing it to "hotter/heavier sounding" pickups?
Those are really cool tricks especially for a beginner to learn. Certainly a refresher for me , you don't need a lot of pedals and the like to get a variety of good tones. These techniques where used when there were only single Channel guitar amplifiers and many of them we're only non master volume amps, so they only choice a guitarist had was the use the controls on his or her instrument to create a wide variety of tones with just one amplifier. Today's amplifiers have multiple channels which can create different stores and sounds as well as clean tones.Players today many of the young players even have lost the art of actually playing their instrument and not their pedals and or amplifier.This is just my most humble opinion of course . Rock on!
Thank you Erich, appreciate all you do for us buddy!
Best Trick..your Videos make me want to pick up the Guitar every time i watch one...thanks so much
what an awesome sound. wicked tone from that les paul.
Very interesting point you hit on there about the electronics in the guitar and the impact they have. Would love to hear more videos about the difference the quality electronic components make to the overall sound.
Great videos man, nice to see such well produced videos without just trying to sell some shit.
Thank you so much! I picked up playing guitar again after 8 years of not playing. I want to get back to my old hobby. I went out and bought a Gibson Les Paul and I’m loving it! Can’t wait to try all these.
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Thank you for this! The dirty pickup/ clean pickup switch was exactly what i was looking for!
The toggle switch trick around 7:10 reminds me of good ol' Ace Frehley on KISS Alive.
These were all tricks I'd used but had forgotten over the years, thanks for the reminders.
Came home from work early today to take delivery of my new 2020 1960s iced tea les Paul. Subbed to your channel great content.
Funny that I should come across this video...just had my Les Paul out the other night & was experimenting with tone, volume, switch...more that I had done in a long time. Pete Townshend is my fave guitarist and I was experimenting with attempting to play some Who stuff, and was able to capture some sounds pretty close to how Pete did them. (Or at least it sounded that way to me, lol...now if I could just play 1/1000 as well as he can! lol) It's pretty cool how versatile Les Pauls are & how just a little tweaking can give you so many different sound options. Learned a lot from this video. Thanks for posting it & thanks for all you do for all of us out here! :) ( And thanks for mentioning to be kind to all beings! :)) Janine
I love this channel!! So much great content. Thanks!!
I just started getting into playing the guitar and u have taught me a lot of things which have probably been taught over the course of months if I had a teacher thx Erich
Happy to help!
Great for me that im just getting into LP and SG's, been a strat player most part of my life
Simple tricks I found useful. Thanks man
Hi there, having finally adding a Les Paul to my “strat” collection...I am still getting used to playing it so this is a great help 👍🏻 thanks 😁
that les paul is gorgeous man. I just bought one an absolutely love it
Awesome video. Learned a lot. Thanks so much.
Wonderful video! Great tones too.
Thanks for the video. Definitely gonna try the clean 1/ dirty 2
I'm been playing a long time mostly acoustic and a strat, your teaching me tricks. I never would have thought of
Thanks🙏👍
Why did I never think of that kill switch trick! Awesome!!!!
Man this some good stuff ! You have a great looking and sounding Les Paul !
Great video sir! Thanks for sharing. Just bought a les Paul and I’m excited to try this stuff out. Keep rocking !
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Excellent info......will use these settings on my Epi LP
*Dials in woman tone, doesn't play Sunshine of Your Love*
Like a monster
Haha I was thinking the same
Thinking that too, but some songs are just too “on the nose”. I can appreciate not going to that well too many times. 🤷🏻♂️
Man.... Gotta love Les Pauls 🤩 it's really always been LP vs Fender, no matter how many other companies there are.
Thanks so much for all that you do! Truly enjoy your videos 🤘
Thanks, Tim!
I always enjoy your videos dude....
Erich - Thanks for this. Now I can switch between Albatross & Highway to Hell at the flick of a switch. Very useful for my next Rockschool exam!
Thanks man. Great video
Awesome video. Have you ever done a video explaining the common effects terms, what they mean, where they come from, etc. ? e.g. reverb, overdrive, gain, delay... I've never been able to wrap my head around these terms.
Awesome tone man and sound like blues
I never learned this stuff until I played in a 'classic' rock band with older fellas where I needed a Seymour Duncan boost pedal just to hear myself in the rehearsals! They were all deaf and I realised the volume control on the LP didn't reduce the actual volume, and that I could get so many different sounds just by adjusting the volume and tone pots.
Thank you 🙏 it was very helpful
Great video! Great tricks!!
I've been playing a long time. I cut my hair got off of a drum kit. Picked up a guitar been playing for almost 30 years been a musician since I was ten. I'd take lessons from you any day
This is awesome! I have a Les Paul Studio Gem Series that I love, though I know that it has P90's rather than Humbuckers, I'm going to give this a shot. Thanks for getting me out of my plateau and complacency. Bravo.
Thank you so much Natalie. So glad that helps for you. You are so welcome😃
That's a beautiful looking Les Paul.
Nice tips, man!
NICE. Did not know these things. There's a lot of guitar things I don't know about. And recorded proof of that too.
Glad I picked up a Les Paul as my first electric guitar.... No pedals yet only a 20w amp w/ Distortion and I just knock my tunes out of the park :D
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What an informative video. Thank you! 🙏🎸
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Great! (as usual...). Thanks for sharing you knowledge.
You're welcome, Antonio! Thanks for watching!
This is why I play a Les Paul as my primary. I have a Strat also but the Paul is my main. Thanks to players like Frehley, Frampton, Page, Schon, Felder and so many more that influenced me.
Ace Frehley was my main influence when I was a kid and wanted to play. My dad got me a knock off strat when I was 8-9 but I watched so many videos of Ace, I HAD to have a cherry sunburst Gibson LP. Been playing guitar for over 15 years and last year my wife got me my first Gibson LP standard for a wedding gift. It plays incredible
O.K. firstly Thankyou for taking the time to make and post this video! I have just bought my first Les Paul at age 55 (me, not the guitar!) and so I'm very keen to learn what I can make it do. Secondly, my LP has a loose tuning peg cover on the D string and no one that I can find has posted a clear, accurate video of the recommended way to fix it. Recommended by Gibson, that is. It's a very common problem apparently so I'm sure a video would make many, many guitarists very happy! Repairs probably aren't your thing but you said ask anything, right? O.K., now I'll concentrate on your lessons and visit your website. Cheers from New Zealand!!
Gibson forum may help with a specific issue like that.
Of course! Thanks so much!
I'm alllll over that killer kill switch trick, thanks E!
Thank you 🙏🏻
you have a spectacular sound that pick up fits this guitar
This is really encouraging for someone like me, I picked up the guitar without any training, just to cope with the pressure of medical school and now I can play full fledged covers thanks to your videos and many like them. Sending tons of love from India....❤️ Thank you so much ..
Rashi
Great hobby!
Best advice I ever heard or read about developing skill as a musician was to learn every song you can. You’ll forget most of them, but your fingers will remember the movements and they’ll recall little bits at the right time as you grow as an instrumentalist.
@@steelman774 how long have you been playing?
@@HughJitsu about 30 years this summer. I started when I was 17 between my 11th and 12th grade by learning any and every song I could. Now I am 47 years old and am way more focused on my playing but still find myself throwing out licks that I’m thinking, “that was a cool piece I just improvised... wait... that was a little kind of like that ____ piece.” Art reimagined. That’s why I love this channel. Always something new to try. Always something new to learn. If you stop learning, you start dying.
@@steelmandavid5591 Thanks for the reply. I am almost 51 and have been practicing for 2 years. I shied away from learning a bunch of songs to learn some more theory but it's sooooo boring. I'll be getting back to the songs as your reply resonates
Thanks bro now learn new tab and new chord nice..
Great, thank you!
Thank you for the lesson!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching
Nice informative video. Thank you.
happy to hear!!
Dominik Górecki you have pretty shitty teacher then lol
this woman tone is amazing...loving it! Could you tell me your amp settings? I tried it for myself, but it sounds way different...
Nice vid, I got 212 peavey tube, allowing clean and crunch blend.
2:35 this reminds me go with a flow by qotsa dude, i love it dat guitar man, thanks
Page would always do the killswitch trick live when messing around, not sure why its VH thing, I mostly know it through page.
Eric. Thank you for the “tricks”. I now know the controls on my guitar (1963 Gibson Les Paul Sunburst ‘replica’) are not working as should.
actually Hendrix is the first killswitch user. it's in voodoo chile slight return from the 1969 masterpiece called electric ladyland
From what I've seen, he would double tap the wah pedal, not mute the pup. You'll notice SRV did this too...
I've seen it done, and that's just regular pickup switching. No killswitch involved.
Not sure if its the fact that he's an excellent guitarist, or is that the most perfectly 'set-up' guitar Ive ever heard... No buzzing frets, perfect intonation, and great sustain.
my thought exactly
It’s a Les Paul….. enough said
newbie - loved it!
I used to use clean/dirty pickup trick so much, then I got an overdrive pedal :)
I use #3 mixed with #1. Clean Guitar/ Dirty Guitar but the clean is a little dirty. If I take a soft finger-style approach (or hold a loose pick) it’s pretty and almost clean but with a pick I can bear into the strings and almost get the Woman tone. The middle position becomes the Rock channel and the bridge becomes the Lead/hardrockMetal sound. Les Paul with its 4 knobs (my bridge volume goes to 11) is still my primary and my favorite guitar for versatility.
This is a really cool lesson.....something similar for a Strat, and may how to get great tones from some popular amps, would be brilliant too!
Solid idea!
I have another one, leaving the switch in the middle position, and turning down the neck volume to 5, while leaving the bridge all the way up.
You can also do the reverse of this, while also you don't have to set it at 5, you can experiment, while getting all kind of tones.
Thks man
Cool tips, thanks!
you are very welcome!
outs! i just found this and i have epiphone les paul, and mic selector sadly don´t work like in gibson! i have tried before i saw this video...and i have to check have i done something wrong! , i hope i have! that would be great! and great video! and players like me who almost always have play with myself! that´s a shame because you learn more tricks, when people are same kind!... like and love music! i hope i could play with better players and learning in that , but now i don´t have many musical frends... anymore left. anyway this is a great lesson and had open my eyes! everyday you learn more and more! that´s why playing is so satisfaying! sorry, my engilsh ! it´s not my native language! thank you! and keep on doing what you love, and you make many people happy! :D. and give us more inpritations! :)
So kind of you my friend. Thank you so much. Yes that guitar is different.
Thank you very much
How about a vid. on a Les Paul that has the push/pull tone knobs. The 1's like my 50th ann. that if you pull either of the 2 tone knob up it switches to single coil, down is double, as in the one you just covered!!! Which ='s like 8 more tones!!Awesome vid. either way!
Thanks for your lessons. Big fan, but I noticed the selector switch was up and you said it was the bridge pickup. No problem, I still like you! Check out Joe Bonamassa's Les Paul tone he demonstrates. He mostly uses a blend of both pickups, and the volume tone controls for his signature tone. You’re the man, nothing personal, please keep up sharing your videos!
Good eye
Thank you James Hetfield
Professor Hetfield
Great, thanks!
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Love the clean/dirty pickup technique!
Glad you like it!
Or just use a 2 channel amp and the footswitch
What happens in the mid-position when you use the Clean1/Dirty2 setting. Blend of clean and distortion?
Cool tones Erich...I have a 1978 'Paul -Blonde Face, Mahogany Back, Maple neck...and very heavy...I'll have to break it out...Thanks for the tips...
5 STARS!
--Van
break it out my friend!
Great video !!!!
Thanks!
Damn this is a very great tutorial vid how can I not like and subscribe????
It's no accident the classic combo of maple top over mahogany body. Les Paul himself demanded Gibson to take his name off the SG and invent a real guitar with sonic depth and texture. Good lesson Erik, thanks a lot!!
You forgot one thing mate. Gotta give the LP some love. 🤘
What song is the lick you keep playing for the woman tone example from? I know I know it but can't think of it and its driving me crazy lol
Very good, thank you
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Hey my favorite guitar teacher! Can you tell us the volume and tone number (as well as treble, rhythm or both) values for the different sounds you made here? If possible Erich please! Thanks !
i want that les paul what a beauty
Too cool
Awesome video.. thank you! What pickups do you have on that LP reissue?
Thank u for this vdo ...
sweet guitar!