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Something about the sound of this guitar is giving out vibes of Gary Richrath. He usually played Les Paul but got sort of a sound of a Telecaster out of it. Don't know if he had certain specs on his that have ot a little bit of a plucky spanky Telecaster sound or if it was all in his style. But this guitar actually as you said has a full sound with that little bit of spank to it.
FACT: Les Paul was gifted a Fender Telecaster from Leo himself. Although he couldn't get Les in agreement to endorse it, he told him to keep it anyway. They were more friends than rivals.
Not just that, they were friends and neighbors! They used to get together and geek out on their guitar experiments and talk about all the things guitar could be that no-one else seemed to see or understand. At that time, everyone thought Les and Leo were crazy with their ideas, but they nearly collaborated as Gibson was dragging their feet on taking on the developments of Les, and Leo was ready to go full swing and invited Les to join him. Les, however, figured Gibson would come around (which they eventually did), and thus they went their own separate ways. They always remained good acquaintances in spite of the competition. A time when moral principles trumped capitalistic ones.
One more fact about the friendship between Leo Fender and Les Paul: They were also friends and neighbors with Paul Bigsby! I think that that's one reason why the Fender Stratocaster has a headstock that looks very much like that of Bigsby's solid body electric guitar. That guitar predated the Fender Telecaster and Esquire models by a few years. My opinion is that the Bigsby solid body might have sold well if it had had a more wallet-friendly price tag, which it didn't because Bigsby was using too many traditional (expensive!) guitar-building techniques. Fender's solid body offerings would have had quite an uphill battle if Leo hadn't used every production cost-cutting measure he could think of; I think he probably learned that from the example of Bigsby's axe.
Back in those early days of the electric guitar there was a lot of mutual respect, despite having rivalries with one another. I think people like Ted McCarty and Leo Fender realized that neither would have gotten as far without being pushed and inspired by the other.
The clean sound misses the twang of a Tele and combines it with the low end of a Paula. Can't say I like it. I think it sounds like a cheapo Tele with bad pickups and unresponsive wood. But the dirty sound on the other hand was pretty good again. Weird.
@MF Kitten it wasn't the scale length or the wood, it was the fact that that pickup was massively overwound compared to a regular Tele pickup. It would sound dark and muddy in a Tele as well.
@@Mark-vv1dy yeah it's a myth that electric guitars are affected by the wood they're made of. Doing actual double blind tests, even guitarists who've been playing for decades can't tell the difference between the two same exact pickups in any different kind of wood, and even in any other kind of material too, like installed into a plastic body, or a plexiglass body, or a cheap aluminium metal body, or whatever. To experienced guitarists they sound identical. The only perceived difference is if it's not double blind and they believe in the silly nonsense myths like "mahogany sound darker" or "alder sounds lighter" and so they hear what they _WANT_ to hear, but it's just placebo. Like you can trick them very easily compare two guitars with one being made of mahogany and one made of alder, with the same pickups, and do a sound demo for each of them. But sneakily, secretly, you actually just play the exact same sound file twice instead of actually d3emling the 2nd guitar. And don't tell anyone that's what you did. If you do that you'll get endless comments under the video talking about how different they sound and how the mahogany one is deeper and warmer while the other one sounds brighter and sharper. When it's literally just the same audio clip played twice in a row! It's not about the intelligence. I'm not calling people dumb. Literally every guitarist falls for things like this. No matter how knowledgeable and experienced we are. It may not be this exact example of debunking "tone woods". But it'll be something else, you'll be biased about something, and you don't even realise you have these biases, about something to do with guitars, or amps, or pedals, or other instruments etc. But you do, even though you're not aware of it. Literally every single one of us, me, you, everybody, has at least one bit of bias like this and it's why we all need to keep our minds active and sharp. But yeah the only things that really make a difference to the sound of an electric guitar, is the type and make and model of the pickups. And a tiny little bit about the scale length of the guitar. But it's like 95% the pickups
I've got a Tele-Paul that I've been playing for years... i built it myself from a 70's era goldtop that had the neck broken off around the 12th fret when I got it. I was apprenticing with a tech who gave me the body, as well as an old tele neck that he had laying around, as well as some fat P-90's, and a choice Bigsby. I sawed off the neck, chiseled out a slot by hand for the new neck to bolt into, and put all the parts together not knowing what would happen. Turns out that it sounds and feels amazing... never goes out of tune, and has wonderful sustain and tone. I've had other far more expensive guitars in the past, but none have compared to my homegrown Tele-Paul.
Pretty cool guitar! 😀👍 Maybe they could've put a gold chrome cover on the Neck PU to make it look less like a modification!? And I'm also reminded of a MIJ Yamato LP copy I once had, with fake humbuckers: They each had only *1* coil underneath the cover! 😆
@@christopherweise438 : hey Chris, I should have been more clear. I meant the run of 200 they made some years ago. Half relic/half new. Not the original. Billy paid $200 for that guitar. Crazy.
@@donaldcampbell9219 - I knew that's what you meant. That's why i tagged the wink on the end of my comment. Yea....crazy. Just shows what superstar provenance does to the value. I've heard "pearly gates" is regarded as the best looking flamed maple top ever, but the extra value is because Billy Gibbons owns it.
@@brainstewX yeah but that just highlights why leaving the original electronics inside was a mistake, having a sweep of tonal controls would be way more preferable. And since those are Gibson’s original pots you know they aren’t linear taper.
@@alpeterson This guitar already sounds darker than a traditional Telecaster, so putting in 250 pots would further darken the tone. I don't see that as being beneficial. If anything, Gibson should have put in no load pots.
To my ears it sounds like a muted tele without the ear piercing highs. I like it better with the overdrive engaged. Someone else mentioned the differences in the scale length which obviously will have an effect. The problem is that the scale length and the mahogany body with the maple cap are affecting the sound but it is impossible to figure out what each one is doing. Truly a rare specimen, thanks for sharing it.
The main reason it sounds so different from a regular tele is the high output of the pickups. Bridge pickup have more than 2x the usual tele output, neck have 50% more resistance, so it's expected to sound fuller, less brighter and with less articulation. Not having a regular tele bridge also have big influence, but we could expect a more traditional tele sound with regular pickups. :)
Dude it says tele pickups. Where you get it's not? It's the body. The wood in fact changes depending on how solid or pieces. Giving the pickups a fuller warmer sound.
@@ivanriverajr5012 no it doesn't, not at all, wood doesn't affect pickups magnetic field. Pickup specs are the only reason it might sound different from a regular tele.
I like the finish and semi-floral design. It makes the pickguard almost invisible and perfectly balances the black and gold electronics and hardware. Very nicely done.
Strange they had to fill and drill new mounting holes and a mini route. GFS (Guitar Fetish) sells conversion plates that convert humbucker routes to accept single coil pickups.
I have put many Strat pickups in many Les Paul style guitars and they usually sounded great. They pretty much still sounded Les Paulish; I think that's because of the scale length.
Isn't the maple cap supposed to brighten up the tone also - that's what we are always told it's for on an LP. I would have thought that might make Strat pickups even thinner (than they already are) unless the mahogany body and neck are doing their thing, maybe. Pickup height can also make a considerable difference.
@@mrbeckegruvan16 yep I've seen those, although not entirely convinced. A strong pickup / amp will colour any guitar tone, just like a pedal of course, but we don't all play at 11 with two TS8s and a Dumble. I'm pretty certain George Benson believes the timber and construction makes a difference to his mellow tone or maybe it's different on an L-5 guitar with a spruce arched top.
@@Spartanm333 Acoustic/Semi acoustic guitars are entirely different, especially when using piezo pickups. Solid Bodies get the entirety of their tone from the electronics on the guitar and that the guitar is plugged into. Wood makes no difference whatsoever.
If Austin ever had a signature guitar, I’d feel like it would be this guitar. Maybe a different finish. It’s quirky, yet cool. Coincidentally, the playing demo was the tightest I’ve heard in a while. Good stuff!
It's a beauty, doesn't sound hugely different to a Tele but sounds nothing like a standard Les Paul. This proves one thing to me, that it's at least 90% the pickups that affect the sound.
i'LL get hate but the ONLY things that affect tone in a serious manner are things that affect the pickup and how the string vibrates. so: Pickup type, location height and tone circuit. String gauge, scale length, and how rigid the thing holding them is as that affects decay, if you get that down then you probably cannot A/B/X based on anything else.
The scale length also plays a part in why that guitar won't sound like a Tele. It's similar to why humbuckers don't quite sound the same when used in a Strat. Using a piece of steel to mount the bridge pickup might have helped the bridge pickup get a more of Tele vibe. The bridge pickup mounting definitely plays a part in the overall Tele sound. Whatever the case, it's a pretty cool looking guitar. Sounded decent as well. I would like to hear a pair of Wide Range Humbuckers in a Les Paul.
Would love to hear the sound of that through a Deluxe or Twin Reverb amp, cranked but not breaking up and with that really clean chime! And then through an ODR-1 or similar transparent overdrive on the same amp.
It is a shame they used such a hot bridge pickup, and without the baseplate instead of a traditional tele bridge pickup. The neck and middle sounded more tele than the bridge, and i wonder if that it why moreso than the les paul construction / scale length. I mean it sounds cool, but just for experimental data, I'd like to hear it with a weaker pup.
@@sebastionhawk5565 Look up Jim Lill, he has tested all that stuff in videos recently and none of that made a difference when the pickup position and height were matched. I think homerzeppelin is probably right. The pickup construction and possibly position/height are different.
@@irishRocker1 It is no secret that a standard les paul - type sustains more than a standard tele, and, the tele is more spanky and chimey...compare Jimi, when playing a V with humbuckers as opposed to a tele with single coils...position and height do matter, also...they ALL matter...
I agree, I don't think the construction has so much to do with it. Even teles start to lose their twang and spank the hotter you go. Something vintage spec would've been a better choice. This seems like a wasted effort.
Bound to sound different due to the scale length... 25.5 & 24.75 scales are different enough that the pickup placement will contribute to sonic differences
I thought that would be the case when making my 24.75 scale telecaster, but, though it feels different, no one can tell the difference sonically. I was a little disappointed at first, but, it sounds so good, I got over it.
I call BS. I have a Tele partscaster with a shortscale neck, and it sounds just like a Tele. The Tele bridge is the main contributor of that Tele twang.
That was surprising! I was expecting a lot more of the tele twang but it really was a much fuller sound. During the sound demo when you said "And now for the neck pickup" I was like "That was the bridge!?" Thanks for demoing this model and giving us a chance to have a listen. I think this model really is the best of both worlds. I think it's the best sounding LP I've ever heard!
it's probably because the bridge pickup is mounted to the body instead of the metal bridge plate like on a normal Telecaster. Or at least that's my guess, I might be wrong.
I really enjoyed this video. Les Paul (the man himself) preferred single coil pickups. Although his pups were low impedance. His guitar had a really great tone, clear and bright.
Totally awesome 👌🏻 the frequency spectrum opens up wit the single coils, besides Fender has been doing that pickup crossbreed forever with optimal results 🤔 it was about time with the Gibson team 👍🏻
This is why I have a Les Paul with an HP90 in the neck. The tonal shift of a single coil in the neck on a shorter scale length guitar sounds really interesting, especially for clean and EoB tones.
Wow, what a fantastic sounding guitar. I like where it sits tonally, as a sort of in-between third option to both guitars, with more midrange than a Tele, and more attack, definition, clarity, jangle and chime than a Les Paul. And that overdriven tone is fantastic - super raw and mean. I could imagine this guitar sitting in a mix really well.
Austin, you out-did yourself! I'm impressed with the sound! Warmer than a Tele and brighter than a Les Paul which reminds me of the sound of a semi-hollow body like the 335. If I were you, I'd keep this for your collection but if I had the money, I'd snatch this baby. I love everything about it! Great vid!!
the thought i had when i saw this on a tele facebook group that was immediately confirmed upon hearing your demo: tele middle pos. on a les paul sounds SO good lol
I think it's awesome !!. I really like the idea of having the single coil tele pickups in the Les Paul. Like others said, I think you should keep this one. It is very unique and definitely something you wouldn't expect Gibson to build. It belongs in your future museum. Also, today was the best I've ever heard you play, so maybe the guitar is speaking to you.
If your doing a b bender episode you want the Duesenberg multibender it bends any string you want most people like band g and it top mounts so no wired routing has to be inflicted.
This is not the one I was referring to that is a Glaser b bender the Duesenberg multibender is much better .no offence to Brent but he's been bending since before they invented the Duesenberg one
Hey, I have custom built a Stratocaster, two telecasters, and now I'm doing a telesploerer. Yes a explorer Telecaster. I am also a owner a 1974 electra outlaw MPC witch you covered one a long time ago( I believe ). I really appreciate your content. I'm personally not a lesson Paul guy but there some cool ones you've done. I do love the SG's you cover though, they all tend to be beautiful
I'm AMAZED he doesn't remember the S1. Literally the same configuration as a tele, just about. Slanted bridge pickup, but with a humbucker in the neck. If anything would be considered "the original tele-paul," I'd say it'd be that one
I think you mean the Gibson Marauder. The Gibson S1 wasn't a tele-Paul. It was a strato-paul, or a Lestocaster. Cos it had 3 single coil pickups on it. Except it doesn't have the slanted bridge pickup, the pickup is just flat. The Gibson Marauder though had the telecaster set up, with the Kief Richards configuration (slanted single coil bridge pup, and a humbucker in the neck, which I've never really understood; I'd much prefer a humbucker in the bridge and single coil neck, but that's just me I guess) All you gotta do is take off the low E string, tune to open G, and get to strumming, and you'll sound like good old Keith soon enough.
@@duffman18 yep! You got me there! I knew it was one of the norlin era guitars. While I know the guitars have gotten a bad rep over the years, personally, as a bass player, that period was Gibson's BEST for basses. I've played a vintage grabber, and they're friggin tough as nails. Rippers sound really cool too, those g3 basses can absolutely nail a p bass tone way better than they really should be able to. The RD basses were a big part of Nirvana's bass sound, and pretty much every bass they made in those days could stop a bullet. I LOVED the tone mike dirnt used to get on his g3 on the early green day records. Like, peak dookie era was all g3
I mean it definitely still sounds like an lp. The things that make an lp sound the way it does is definitely the construction and wood choices but also the scale length. In all positions it had that ‘lp sound’ albeit a little different than the typical hb guitars. Not too dissimilar from the p90 guitars. I think that bridge pickup and the staple neck pickup could be a very good combination. Interesting ideas.
I am tickled pink by this one, the bridge is so hot that it sounds almost P-90 ish. The middle has the Tele honk and that neck pickup is sublime. Wish I could afford to buy this one.
The secret of the Tele bridge pickup tone is that its mounted on the metal plate with the bridge as one piece, which gives it that nasty crunch. The pickup is not enough to get there...
I would love to see you get possession of The Strat, an early 1980's era Fender release with red or blue body and matching headstock and gold hardware and unique bridge and volume/tone knobs. I find little mention of this guitar anymore.
They took the copper plate off the bridge pickup. I wonder if they did so it would fit better or if they had grounding issues. Or if they did it so it didn’t say “tele pickup” on the back. Not the first fender pickup I’ve seen in a Gibson. The first Alvin lee 335 had a fender branded middle pickup in it. The later model had a Seymour branded. Cool idea.
Seymour Duncan Hot Tele STL-2 pickup comes stock without the copper coated steel baseplate. Website says: "The absence of a steel bottom-plate gives you a fat, full punch in both the low and mid-range frequencies, yet it retains the muscular twang of a vintage style lead pickup." But really to be a proper sounding Tele Bridge it needs the pickup base plate, if not the whole metal bridge "ashtray" plate.
I actually REALLY like how this "bastard" sounds. The mahogany does its thing, as does the 24,75 scale length, but the most important difference - compared to a Tele-construction - might actually be the *set neck* I think. Anyway, all these different factors work together to give the sound less "ping" but more "thunk" compared to a Fender. (Even a Fender with humbuckers.) I would actually *love* to get a guitar exactly like this to cover the "spaces in between" - where a Gibson sounds too thick and a Fender sounds too shrill. It definitely has a thing of it's own.
Wood makes no difference to the sound in an electric guitar. It sounds different from a Tele because the pickups are hotter, the scale length is shorter and as a result of that, the pickups are exposed to different parts of the strings than where they'd be on a Tele. The neck pickup is closer to the middle of the strings on this than it would be on a Tele for example
Lol, wood makes literally zero difference to the tone in electric guitars. The myth of "tonewood" been thoroughly scientifically debunked time and time and time again. Guitar players _CLAIM_ they can hear the difference, but it's literally 100% placebo. If you do a double blind test, and play the same sound clip of a tele both times, instead of once with the tele and once with the les Paul with tele pickups, and you don't tell them, then they'll swear that they can hear a difference. They're so so sure of it. But that's not possible, because it was just the same clip played twice, and the guitar player never got to hear what the other guitar sounded like Or instead, play multiple different sound clips of both the tele and the les Paul with tele pups, but tell the person that they're actually just the same guitar, so you're actually lying to them, well they still believe you. They think it sounds the same, because it DOES sound the same, even though they're very different guitars, they're built differently but they have the same pickups, and pickups wee the only thing on a guitar that will change a difference to your tone. Obviously the amp you use plays an enormous role in what the tone sounds like, but the amp is not part of the guitar itself, it's a separate object. Every guitar player thinks they can hear the difference. But it's been scientifically proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they can't actually hear the difference. Eventually, all of us have to accept the science and realise that we aren't as smart as we thought we were. Idiots will double down on it, and will still claim they hear a difference, even though every time they try to do so with a bunch of sound clips, they categorically cannot tell the difference. It's all placebo. If someone is confronted with science that proves them wrong, and they don't accept it, and even go as far as to double down on their opinion, then they're soft in the head. It's just daftness. The only thing that makes a difference is the structure of the pickups. Not the wood, not any chambers hollowed out inside the guitar or anything like that. So a p90 sounds very different to a humbucker, which sounds very different to a fender single coil etc. There's basically no difference between a cheap as dirt pickup of one sort (let's say a p90) and a hyper-expensive p90. People still can't hear the difference. No, the only thing that sets the p90 apart as its own unique thing (like how PAF humbuckers and fender single coils are their own unique thing) is the design of the pickup, the internal structure. The p90s that are available today are built to the same design as the original p90s, and so they sound the same. Same with PAFs, they're still made to the original design, which is why PAFs sound the same as they always have done. So the only noticeable difference in tone, is when you change the pickups to an entirely different one, a whole different design, like going from p90s to Fender single coils, or from humbuckers to gold-foil pickups, or from jazzmaster pickups to Charlie Christian pickups, or fender wide range humbuckers to gretsch filtertron pickups, etc. There's so many dozens and dozens and dozens of different pickup designs to choose from, and they make enough of a huge difference to tone that even non guitar players and non musicians can hear the difference. Meanwhile even experienced guitar players can't hear a difference in "tonewood". And so yeah, if you're doing that, replacing the pickups on your guitar with new ones for new different tone, you don't have to worry about getting the most expensive ones. Because if one PAF style humbucker is £20, and another PAF style humbucker is £200, the difference between the true is going to be extremely marginal at best. At that point, simply using a better amp will make the £20 one instantly sound better the the £200 sounds when being played through a worse amp. No, ultimately, the £20 one and the £200 have the same fundamental design, with how every component is laid out in an exact way in an exact position, what type of metal is used for the pole pieces/magnets, what type of metal is used for the wire that is wound around those magnets, how the pole pieces are staggered to account for the design of the guitar itself (like fender single coils on teles and strats originally had pole pieces that all were at the same height, but by the time of the late 60s and 70s, they altered the design so that the pole pieces were staggered, they were all at different heights, which is specifically meant to make every string have the same exact volume. With all flat pole pieces, some strings are quieter than others. So with this staggered set up, the volume and tone is a lot more consistent from string to string). All of that design is ultimately the same regardless of price. If you want a humbucker to sound different to a PAF, then you get one of those instead, like the Dimarzio Super Distortion, easily the most popular third party replacement pickup in history. The 70s and 80s and even into the 90s and onwards were absolutely defined by the sound of the super distortions. That heavy metal tone that every hair metal band had, it was because they all used the same pickups, the Dimarzio super distortion. And the Dimarzio super distortion is a very different design to the PAF, despite both being humbuckers. The fundamental internal structure and material make up of the pickups are very different from the PAF, and that's why it sounds different. It has many many more windings for example, which increases the output by a lot, which makes it sound better for distorted tones, hence the name. That's what I mean, what I'm talking about. The only way to change the tone on your electric guitar is to change the pickups to something entirely different in design. Like for example, I've long been planning to good standard strat to replace my old strat cos the frets have worn down on it from years of playing, and it'd cost more for me to get it refretted (or buy a new neck and bolt it onto the body) than to just buy a new strat, so that's what I'm gonna do. My current strat is a fender, but I think I'll go with Squier for the new one, because they have brilliant guitars for the price, and I won't be constantly having to baby it to make sure it gets no damage from being used at gigs, I'll feel OK throwing it around being rough with it cos it's only cheap. But anyway, my plan is to immediately swap out the regular single coil pickuos, and swap in some Danelectro lipstick tube pickups. Because they're a very different kind of single coil pickup. The structure is completely different, and so they sound very different, they're significantly more chimey for example. Also they just look very cool. They're perfect for that tubescreamer overdrive and playing blues songs with it, because it sounds like a Stratocaster that's a lot more Stratocasterey if that makes sense. It's like exaggerating every aspect of a strat's tone, turning everything up to 11.
What value pots are in there? If there’s 500k pots that might account for some of the tone difference. Normally 250k pots would be used on a tele. Just a thought.
really funny their custom mounts, Guitar Fetish has these mounts that retrofit pickup ring holes and they didn't have to cut the cake slice. funny custom shop luthiers :D
We hand-wind Jazzmaster pickups in P90 housings. If you'd like to hear what Jazzmaster pickups sound like in a Les Paul, we'd be happy to send you a set. Our pickup winder watches your show religiously so he'd love to make them for you.
I typically hate tele neck pickups, but in a Les Paul it sounds surprisingly good. Also I think the extra bark that an SG has would lend itself better to Jazzmaster pickups than a Les Paul.
This was a fun experiment! The day we get Jazzmaster pickups in a custom is when I'll be truly happy
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Coolest guitar ever. I love it
Man I think jazzmaster pickups would be great in a Les paul. They already have a similar mid character to PAFs.
Something about the sound of this guitar is giving out vibes of Gary Richrath. He usually played Les Paul but got sort of a sound of a Telecaster out of it. Don't know if he had certain specs on his that have ot a little bit of a plucky spanky Telecaster sound or if it was all in his style. But this guitar actually as you said has a full sound with that little bit of spank to it.
Why don't call it the Lescaster?
You should keep that one for the museum trogly
FACT: Les Paul was gifted a Fender Telecaster from Leo himself. Although he couldn't get Les in agreement to endorse it, he told him to keep it anyway. They were more friends than rivals.
Not just that, they were friends and neighbors! They used to get together and geek out on their guitar experiments and talk about all the things guitar could be that no-one else seemed to see or understand. At that time, everyone thought Les and Leo were crazy with their ideas, but they nearly collaborated as Gibson was dragging their feet on taking on the developments of Les, and Leo was ready to go full swing and invited Les to join him. Les, however, figured Gibson would come around (which they eventually did), and thus they went their own separate ways. They always remained good acquaintances in spite of the competition. A time when moral principles trumped capitalistic ones.
One more fact about the friendship between Leo Fender and Les Paul: They were also friends and neighbors with Paul Bigsby! I think that that's one reason why the Fender Stratocaster has a headstock that looks very much like that of Bigsby's solid body electric guitar. That guitar predated the Fender Telecaster and Esquire models by a few years. My opinion is that the Bigsby solid body might have sold well if it had had a more wallet-friendly price tag, which it didn't because Bigsby was using too many traditional (expensive!) guitar-building techniques. Fender's solid body offerings would have had quite an uphill battle if Leo hadn't used every production cost-cutting measure he could think of; I think he probably learned that from the example of Bigsby's axe.
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so... Brooke Fraser was singing about that part of the world?
Back in those early days of the electric guitar there was a lot of mutual respect, despite having rivalries with one another. I think people like Ted McCarty and Leo Fender realized that neither would have gotten as far without being pushed and inspired by the other.
@@NOLASkaGuitarist Yep! All true!
I really like the sound of this. It's different from split coils not EXACTLY like a tele. It's its own thing. And you got #1? pretty cool
Ya agreed its unique
Lollar make humbucker shaped Tele pickup called a novel T. So you can do it without messing up your guitar
Also a VERY hot tele pickup in there, which will kill a lot of that tele twang
The clean sound misses the twang of a Tele and combines it with the low end of a Paula. Can't say I like it. I think it sounds like a cheapo Tele with bad pickups and unresponsive wood. But the dirty sound on the other hand was pretty good again. Weird.
The Zep riff was very authentic.
I'm really surprised you're not keeping this for the museum, seems like a prefect fit as an unusual custom.
Hes too greedy
@@sebastianmedina1234 i mean he bought it with his own money, he can do whatever he wants with it
Sounded fuller than a Tele, & brighter than a regular Les. The 3 pickup setting were quite different. I really like this guitar!
LOVE IT!!!
Shooter jennings should have this!!!!
I bet the scale length has something to do with the fuller than a tele bit
@MF Kitten it wasn't the scale length or the wood, it was the fact that that pickup was massively overwound compared to a regular Tele pickup. It would sound dark and muddy in a Tele as well.
@@Mark-vv1dy yeah it's a myth that electric guitars are affected by the wood they're made of. Doing actual double blind tests, even guitarists who've been playing for decades can't tell the difference between the two same exact pickups in any different kind of wood, and even in any other kind of material too, like installed into a plastic body, or a plexiglass body, or a cheap aluminium metal body, or whatever. To experienced guitarists they sound identical. The only perceived difference is if it's not double blind and they believe in the silly nonsense myths like "mahogany sound darker" or "alder sounds lighter" and so they hear what they _WANT_ to hear, but it's just placebo.
Like you can trick them very easily compare two guitars with one being made of mahogany and one made of alder, with the same pickups, and do a sound demo for each of them. But sneakily, secretly, you actually just play the exact same sound file twice instead of actually d3emling the 2nd guitar. And don't tell anyone that's what you did.
If you do that you'll get endless comments under the video talking about how different they sound and how the mahogany one is deeper and warmer while the other one sounds brighter and sharper. When it's literally just the same audio clip played twice in a row!
It's not about the intelligence. I'm not calling people dumb. Literally every guitarist falls for things like this. No matter how knowledgeable and experienced we are. It may not be this exact example of debunking "tone woods". But it'll be something else, you'll be biased about something, and you don't even realise you have these biases, about something to do with guitars, or amps, or pedals, or other instruments etc. But you do, even though you're not aware of it. Literally every single one of us, me, you, everybody, has at least one bit of bias like this and it's why we all need to keep our minds active and sharp.
But yeah the only things that really make a difference to the sound of an electric guitar, is the type and make and model of the pickups. And a tiny little bit about the scale length of the guitar. But it's like 95% the pickups
isnt this the exact definition of P90s?
I've got a Tele-Paul that I've been playing for years... i built it myself from a 70's era goldtop that had the neck broken off around the 12th fret when I got it. I was apprenticing with a tech who gave me the body, as well as an old tele neck that he had laying around, as well as some fat P-90's, and a choice Bigsby. I sawed off the neck, chiseled out a slot by hand for the new neck to bolt into, and put all the parts together not knowing what would happen. Turns out that it sounds and feels amazing... never goes out of tune, and has wonderful sustain and tone. I've had other far more expensive guitars in the past, but none have compared to my homegrown Tele-Paul.
That sounds amazing:) do you have any videos of it?
wow! do you have any audio or video of that? Would b cool to see!
10:42 is that The Call of Ktulu I hear? Love the guitar for being so unique to.
Pretty cool guitar! 😀👍 Maybe they could've put a gold chrome cover on the Neck PU to make it look less like a modification!? And I'm also reminded of a MIJ Yamato LP copy I once had, with fake humbuckers: They each had only *1* coil underneath the cover! 😆
I had a Maya sg with same pickups !
hey, I had a Fantom MIJ LP copy with the same fake HB's... single coil inside
Austin, I’d like to see you review the “pearly gates” les Paul.
Donald Campbell - If you're talking about the original he's gonna have to pony up well over 1 million to Billy G. ; - )
Ya me to
@@christopherweise438 : hey Chris, I should have been more clear. I meant the run of 200 they made some years ago. Half relic/half new. Not the original. Billy paid $200 for that guitar. Crazy.
@@donaldcampbell9219 - I knew that's what you meant. That's why i tagged the wink on the end of my comment.
Yea....crazy. Just shows what superstar provenance does to the value. I've heard "pearly gates" is regarded as the best looking flamed maple top ever, but the extra value is because Billy Gibbons owns it.
You definitely needed to document this custom mod
Leaving the 500k pots in there instead of doing 250k ones as per most single coils might leave things sound pretty sharp in the wrong amp.
Then just turn the tone knobs down
@@brainstewX with 500k pots you’ll basically have to turn them off.
@@alpeterson Turning them off would turn them to 0k. Turning them down half way would turn them to 250k, if they have a linear taper.
@@brainstewX yeah but that just highlights why leaving the original electronics inside was a mistake, having a sweep of tonal controls would be way more preferable. And since those are Gibson’s original pots you know they aren’t linear taper.
@@alpeterson This guitar already sounds darker than a traditional Telecaster, so putting in 250 pots would further darken the tone. I don't see that as being beneficial. If anything, Gibson should have put in no load pots.
That neck pickup sounds fantastic!
To my ears it sounds like a muted tele without the ear piercing highs. I like it better with the overdrive engaged. Someone else mentioned the differences in the scale length which obviously will have an effect. The problem is that the scale length and the mahogany body with the maple cap are affecting the sound but it is impossible to figure out what each one is doing. Truly a rare specimen, thanks for sharing it.
That guitar rules. Now I'm obsessed. Thanks.
The main reason it sounds so different from a regular tele is the high output of the pickups. Bridge pickup have more than 2x the usual tele output, neck have 50% more resistance, so it's expected to sound fuller, less brighter and with less articulation. Not having a regular tele bridge also have big influence, but we could expect a more traditional tele sound with regular pickups. :)
Dude it says tele pickups. Where you get it's not? It's the body. The wood in fact changes depending on how solid or pieces. Giving the pickups a fuller warmer sound.
@@ivanriverajr5012 no it doesn't, not at all, wood doesn't affect pickups magnetic field. Pickup specs are the only reason it might sound different from a regular tele.
I like the finish and semi-floral design. It makes the pickguard almost invisible and perfectly balances the black and gold electronics and hardware. Very nicely done.
To me, it sounds fantastic. That middle position really does it for me. This one is a keeper.
Strange they had to fill and drill new mounting holes and a mini route. GFS (Guitar Fetish) sells conversion plates that convert humbucker routes to accept single coil pickups.
Strange that they didn’t take 5 unrouted bodies and do things properly.
I have put many Strat pickups in many Les Paul style guitars and they usually sounded great. They pretty much still sounded Les Paulish; I think that's because of the scale length.
Isn't the maple cap supposed to brighten up the tone also - that's what we are always told it's for on an LP. I would have thought that might make Strat pickups even thinner (than they already are) unless the mahogany body and neck are doing their thing, maybe. Pickup height can also make a considerable difference.
@@Spartanm333 tonewood does nothing amplified, as many experiments have shown, so no
@@mrbeckegruvan16 Yep, pickups, their height and position relative to the bridge and neck have more impact on amplified tone than tonewoods.
@@mrbeckegruvan16 yep I've seen those, although not entirely convinced. A strong pickup / amp will colour any guitar tone, just like a pedal of course, but we don't all play at 11 with two TS8s and a Dumble. I'm pretty certain George Benson believes the timber and construction makes a difference to his mellow tone or maybe it's different on an L-5 guitar with a spruce arched top.
@@Spartanm333 Acoustic/Semi acoustic guitars are entirely different, especially when using piezo pickups. Solid Bodies get the entirety of their tone from the electronics on the guitar and that the guitar is plugged into. Wood makes no difference whatsoever.
10:43 didn't expect The Call Of Ktulu
SICK
The Call of Kthullu is definitely something I wasn’t expecting to hear on a les paul custom with tele pickups.
If Austin ever had a signature guitar, I’d feel like it would be this guitar. Maybe a different finish. It’s quirky, yet cool. Coincidentally, the playing demo was the tightest I’ve heard in a while. Good stuff!
It's a beauty, doesn't sound hugely different to a Tele but sounds nothing like a standard Les Paul.
This proves one thing to me, that it's at least 90% the pickups that affect the sound.
i'LL get hate but the ONLY things that affect tone in a serious manner are things that affect the pickup and how the string vibrates.
so:
Pickup type, location height and tone circuit.
String gauge, scale length, and how rigid the thing holding them is as that affects decay,
if you get that down then you probably cannot A/B/X based on anything else.
Nah bro, the tone-woods, the maple cap, the pickguard and the fretboard wood all affect the sound! 😆
Nah it's the strap buttons that change the sound the most. I live for the warm sound of a Schaller S-lock
The scale length also plays a part in why that guitar won't sound like a Tele. It's similar to why humbuckers don't quite sound the same when used in a Strat. Using a piece of steel to mount the bridge pickup might have helped the bridge pickup get a more of Tele vibe. The bridge pickup mounting definitely plays a part in the overall Tele sound. Whatever the case, it's a pretty cool looking guitar. Sounded decent as well. I would like to hear a pair of Wide Range Humbuckers in a Les Paul.
Would love to hear the sound of that through a Deluxe or Twin Reverb amp, cranked but not breaking up and with that really clean chime! And then through an ODR-1 or similar transparent overdrive on the same amp.
Trogly's in the HOUSE!!!
Greg is in the House
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You're an a#1 hangover load living afterbirth.
Greg in the house with a Silver Medal. Well done brother.
@@sgt.grinch3299 :)
I would love them getting a couple TV Jones and doing up a Les Paul with those. Then we'd be cooking with gas, baby!
Best MOD demo vid ever!
You should keep that for you future museum if you can it’s the first one Gibson has ever made and you have it!
I like having a painting on the body come from gibson like that
It is a shame they used such a hot bridge pickup, and without the baseplate instead of a traditional tele bridge pickup. The neck and middle sounded more tele than the bridge, and i wonder if that it why moreso than the les paul construction / scale length.
I mean it sounds cool, but just for experimental data, I'd like to hear it with a weaker pup.
imo, set in neck and mahogany vs. bolt - on neck and alder, ash, etc...
@@sebastionhawk5565 Look up Jim Lill, he has tested all that stuff in videos recently and none of that made a difference when the pickup position and height were matched. I think homerzeppelin is probably right. The pickup construction and possibly position/height are different.
@@irishRocker1 It is no secret that a standard les paul - type sustains more than a standard tele, and, the tele is more spanky and chimey...compare Jimi, when playing a V with humbuckers as opposed to a tele with single coils...position and height do matter, also...they ALL matter...
I agree, I don't think the construction has so much to do with it. Even teles start to lose their twang and spank the hotter you go. Something vintage spec would've been a better choice. This seems like a wasted effort.
I have that pickup in my Telecaster. It is not really "hot", it just reads at around 15.8 k ohms because it is a stacked pickup, to cut the hum.
Bound to sound different due to the scale length... 25.5 & 24.75 scales are different enough that the pickup placement will contribute to sonic differences
You watched the Jim Lill videos too? Great series
I thought that would be the case when making my 24.75 scale telecaster, but, though it feels different, no one can tell the difference sonically. I was a little disappointed at first, but, it sounds so good, I got over it.
In fact, also the strings makes a big difference in tone, its not the same have the same tuned string in different scales.
I call BS. I have a Tele partscaster with a shortscale neck, and it sounds just like a Tele. The Tele bridge is the main contributor of that Tele twang.
Pots are diff and positioning of that lipstick pu.
I think it'd look cooler with three gold humbuckers, I know it's not as unique, but it'd be a neat looking black beauty.
You must be a very creative person.
Thanks!
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Good evening. You were close.
Really like how the bridge pickup sounded. Wish they made a few left handed.
Actually did the same to my 59 explorer reissue. Dimarzio vintage x2n in bridge and Texas lipstick in neck…….blues for days with a country twang
I don't love black guitars, but this is cool, and looks cool. If I didn't have my Tele, this would certainly tempt me.
Ya ill stick with my tele too
Teles paulocaster
I'd definitely rock that.
Yay!
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Congratulations on climbing to the summit of the mole hill. I’m pleased to award you your Gold Medal for today.
I love the sound of this guitar, it's like the best of both worlds, I especially like the middle sound
Woot woot Trogly's 🙌
I love mash-up configurations like this. I dig this LP, and I usually don't go for LPs
That was surprising! I was expecting a lot more of the tele twang but it really was a much fuller sound. During the sound demo when you said "And now for the neck pickup" I was like "That was the bridge!?"
Thanks for demoing this model and giving us a chance to have a listen.
I think this model really is the best of both worlds. I think it's the best sounding LP I've ever heard!
it's probably because the bridge pickup is mounted to the body instead of the metal bridge plate like on a normal Telecaster.
Or at least that's my guess, I might be wrong.
I really enjoyed this video. Les Paul (the man himself) preferred single coil pickups. Although his pups were low impedance. His guitar had a really great tone, clear and bright.
Sounds great
Totally awesome 👌🏻 the frequency spectrum opens up wit the single coils, besides Fender has been doing that pickup crossbreed forever with optimal results 🤔 it was about time with the Gibson team 👍🏻
Austin is in His House 🏠 Sounds like a thin sounding Lester
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This is why I have a Les Paul with an HP90 in the neck. The tonal shift of a single coil in the neck on a shorter scale length guitar sounds really interesting, especially for clean and EoB tones.
Wow, what a fantastic sounding guitar. I like where it sits tonally, as a sort of in-between third option to both guitars, with more midrange than a Tele, and more attack, definition, clarity, jangle and chime than a Les Paul. And that overdriven tone is fantastic - super raw and mean. I could imagine this guitar sitting in a mix really well.
Austin, you out-did yourself! I'm impressed with the sound! Warmer than a Tele and brighter than a Les Paul which reminds me of the sound of a semi-hollow body like the 335. If I were you, I'd keep this for your collection but if I had the money, I'd snatch this baby. I love everything about it! Great vid!!
Yeah he hugged it should
be a Keeper🐽🐽🐽
My fav config is H/S. always wondered what neck single coil sounds like in a Lester. Thanks man. Im gonna go ahead and put a single coil in the neck
I'm glad you got one. I was thinking about buying this but ended up passing on it. Now I get to see what I passed on up close.
I had to rewind that when I heard 15.86 k in the bridge to make sure I heard right. “Hot Single” indeed!
Thanks for getting this to feature. Really cool and quirky mod but I love it!
The adapter plates for Humbucker to Telecaster pickups have been made for years. They didn't have to make them but they may have.
that mit middle Position omg 😁😁
Wow,..this is a guitar with a sound that would turn a few heads! Very unique mod. Thanks Austin.
best mod I ever Made to a LP Style was 3 hum bucker sided p90s. basically the latest strat. Sounds great.
Very cool. It's different enough in both looks and tone that someone could make that guitar famous.
the thought i had when i saw this on a tele facebook group that was immediately confirmed upon hearing your demo: tele middle pos. on a les paul sounds SO good lol
sounds like a tele without steroids.
I think it's awesome !!. I really like the idea of having the single coil tele pickups in the Les Paul. Like others said, I think you should keep this one. It is very unique and definitely something you wouldn't expect Gibson to build. It belongs in your future museum. Also, today was the best I've ever heard you play, so maybe the guitar is speaking to you.
If your doing a b bender episode you want the Duesenberg multibender it bends any string you want most people like band g and it top mounts so no wired routing has to be inflicted.
I had one before on the Brent Mason Tele
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This is not the one I was referring to that is a Glaser b bender the Duesenberg multibender is much better .no offence to Brent but he's been bending since before they invented the Duesenberg one
look up the coodercaster that's the direction you want to head in
I think I may have finally found my dream LP being obsessed with telecaster!
Hey, I have custom built a Stratocaster, two telecasters, and now I'm doing a telesploerer. Yes a explorer Telecaster. I am also a owner a 1974 electra outlaw MPC witch you covered one a long time ago( I believe ). I really appreciate your content. I'm personally not a lesson Paul guy but there some cool ones you've done. I do love the SG's you cover though, they all tend to be beautiful
I'm AMAZED he doesn't remember the S1. Literally the same configuration as a tele, just about. Slanted bridge pickup, but with a humbucker in the neck. If anything would be considered "the original tele-paul," I'd say it'd be that one
I think you mean the Gibson Marauder. The Gibson S1 wasn't a tele-Paul. It was a strato-paul, or a Lestocaster. Cos it had 3 single coil pickups on it. Except it doesn't have the slanted bridge pickup, the pickup is just flat.
The Gibson Marauder though had the telecaster set up, with the Kief Richards configuration (slanted single coil bridge pup, and a humbucker in the neck, which I've never really understood; I'd much prefer a humbucker in the bridge and single coil neck, but that's just me I guess)
All you gotta do is take off the low E string, tune to open G, and get to strumming, and you'll sound like good old Keith soon enough.
@@duffman18 yep! You got me there! I knew it was one of the norlin era guitars. While I know the guitars have gotten a bad rep over the years, personally, as a bass player, that period was Gibson's BEST for basses. I've played a vintage grabber, and they're friggin tough as nails. Rippers sound really cool too, those g3 basses can absolutely nail a p bass tone way better than they really should be able to. The RD basses were a big part of Nirvana's bass sound, and pretty much every bass they made in those days could stop a bullet. I LOVED the tone mike dirnt used to get on his g3 on the early green day records. Like, peak dookie era was all g3
Talking about play authentic.
A run of the Mel Gibson
I mean it definitely still sounds like an lp. The things that make an lp sound the way it does is definitely the construction and wood choices but also the scale length. In all positions it had that ‘lp sound’ albeit a little different than the typical hb guitars. Not too dissimilar from the p90 guitars. I think that bridge pickup and the staple neck pickup could be a very good combination. Interesting ideas.
Your playing is improving!
Love it looks and sounds MASSIVE, I may even build a couple similar 🤘
I am tickled pink by this one, the bridge is so hot that it sounds almost P-90 ish. The middle has the Tele honk and that neck pickup is sublime. Wish I could afford to buy this one.
The secret of the Tele bridge pickup tone is that its mounted on the metal plate with the bridge as one piece, which gives it that nasty crunch. The pickup is not enough to get there...
I would love to see you get possession of The Strat, an early 1980's era Fender release with red or blue body and matching headstock and gold hardware and unique bridge and volume/tone knobs. I find little mention of this guitar anymore.
To check out the sound of it, Communication Breakdown would have been a great choice, it was played on a Tele for the first album.
They took the copper plate off the bridge pickup. I wonder if they did so it would fit better or if they had grounding issues. Or if they did it so it didn’t say “tele pickup” on the back.
Not the first fender pickup I’ve seen in a Gibson. The first Alvin lee 335 had a fender branded middle pickup in it. The later model had a Seymour branded.
Cool idea.
Seymour Duncan Hot Tele STL-2 pickup comes stock without the copper coated steel baseplate. Website says: "The absence of a steel bottom-plate gives you a fat, full punch in both the low and mid-range frequencies, yet it retains the muscular twang of a vintage style lead pickup." But really to be a proper sounding Tele Bridge it needs the pickup base plate, if not the whole metal bridge "ashtray" plate.
Oh ok. See I didn’t even know it was copper coated. I figured it was solid.
Only like the neck pickup.
that tone on whole lotta love 🔥
That’s a great sounding guitar to my ears
Yeah, to mine, too! 😀👍
This thing with gain sounds insane!
I actually REALLY like how this "bastard" sounds. The mahogany does its thing, as does the 24,75 scale length, but the most important difference - compared to a Tele-construction - might actually be the *set neck* I think. Anyway, all these different factors work together to give the sound less "ping" but more "thunk" compared to a Fender. (Even a Fender with humbuckers.) I would actually *love* to get a guitar exactly like this to cover the "spaces in between" - where a Gibson sounds too thick and a Fender sounds too shrill. It definitely has a thing of it's own.
Wood makes no difference to the sound in an electric guitar. It sounds different from a Tele because the pickups are hotter, the scale length is shorter and as a result of that, the pickups are exposed to different parts of the strings than where they'd be on a Tele. The neck pickup is closer to the middle of the strings on this than it would be on a Tele for example
Lol, wood makes literally zero difference to the tone in electric guitars. The myth of "tonewood" been thoroughly scientifically debunked time and time and time again. Guitar players _CLAIM_ they can hear the difference, but it's literally 100% placebo. If you do a double blind test, and play the same sound clip of a tele both times, instead of once with the tele and once with the les Paul with tele pickups, and you don't tell them, then they'll swear that they can hear a difference. They're so so sure of it. But that's not possible, because it was just the same clip played twice, and the guitar player never got to hear what the other guitar sounded like
Or instead, play multiple different sound clips of both the tele and the les Paul with tele pups, but tell the person that they're actually just the same guitar, so you're actually lying to them, well they still believe you. They think it sounds the same, because it DOES sound the same, even though they're very different guitars, they're built differently but they have the same pickups, and pickups wee the only thing on a guitar that will change a difference to your tone. Obviously the amp you use plays an enormous role in what the tone sounds like, but the amp is not part of the guitar itself, it's a separate object.
Every guitar player thinks they can hear the difference. But it's been scientifically proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they can't actually hear the difference. Eventually, all of us have to accept the science and realise that we aren't as smart as we thought we were. Idiots will double down on it, and will still claim they hear a difference, even though every time they try to do so with a bunch of sound clips, they categorically cannot tell the difference. It's all placebo.
If someone is confronted with science that proves them wrong, and they don't accept it, and even go as far as to double down on their opinion, then they're soft in the head. It's just daftness. The only thing that makes a difference is the structure of the pickups. Not the wood, not any chambers hollowed out inside the guitar or anything like that. So a p90 sounds very different to a humbucker, which sounds very different to a fender single coil etc. There's basically no difference between a cheap as dirt pickup of one sort (let's say a p90) and a hyper-expensive p90. People still can't hear the difference. No, the only thing that sets the p90 apart as its own unique thing (like how PAF humbuckers and fender single coils are their own unique thing) is the design of the pickup, the internal structure. The p90s that are available today are built to the same design as the original p90s, and so they sound the same. Same with PAFs, they're still made to the original design, which is why PAFs sound the same as they always have done.
So the only noticeable difference in tone, is when you change the pickups to an entirely different one, a whole different design, like going from p90s to Fender single coils, or from humbuckers to gold-foil pickups, or from jazzmaster pickups to Charlie Christian pickups, or fender wide range humbuckers to gretsch filtertron pickups, etc. There's so many dozens and dozens and dozens of different pickup designs to choose from, and they make enough of a huge difference to tone that even non guitar players and non musicians can hear the difference. Meanwhile even experienced guitar players can't hear a difference in "tonewood".
And so yeah, if you're doing that, replacing the pickups on your guitar with new ones for new different tone, you don't have to worry about getting the most expensive ones. Because if one PAF style humbucker is £20, and another PAF style humbucker is £200, the difference between the true is going to be extremely marginal at best. At that point, simply using a better amp will make the £20 one instantly sound better the the £200 sounds when being played through a worse amp. No, ultimately, the £20 one and the £200 have the same fundamental design, with how every component is laid out in an exact way in an exact position, what type of metal is used for the pole pieces/magnets, what type of metal is used for the wire that is wound around those magnets, how the pole pieces are staggered to account for the design of the guitar itself (like fender single coils on teles and strats originally had pole pieces that all were at the same height, but by the time of the late 60s and 70s, they altered the design so that the pole pieces were staggered, they were all at different heights, which is specifically meant to make every string have the same exact volume. With all flat pole pieces, some strings are quieter than others. So with this staggered set up, the volume and tone is a lot more consistent from string to string). All of that design is ultimately the same regardless of price. If you want a humbucker to sound different to a PAF, then you get one of those instead, like the Dimarzio Super Distortion, easily the most popular third party replacement pickup in history. The 70s and 80s and even into the 90s and onwards were absolutely defined by the sound of the super distortions. That heavy metal tone that every hair metal band had, it was because they all used the same pickups, the Dimarzio super distortion.
And the Dimarzio super distortion is a very different design to the PAF, despite both being humbuckers. The fundamental internal structure and material make up of the pickups are very different from the PAF, and that's why it sounds different. It has many many more windings for example, which increases the output by a lot, which makes it sound better for distorted tones, hence the name.
That's what I mean, what I'm talking about. The only way to change the tone on your electric guitar is to change the pickups to something entirely different in design. Like for example, I've long been planning to good standard strat to replace my old strat cos the frets have worn down on it from years of playing, and it'd cost more for me to get it refretted (or buy a new neck and bolt it onto the body) than to just buy a new strat, so that's what I'm gonna do. My current strat is a fender, but I think I'll go with Squier for the new one, because they have brilliant guitars for the price, and I won't be constantly having to baby it to make sure it gets no damage from being used at gigs, I'll feel OK throwing it around being rough with it cos it's only cheap.
But anyway, my plan is to immediately swap out the regular single coil pickuos, and swap in some Danelectro lipstick tube pickups. Because they're a very different kind of single coil pickup. The structure is completely different, and so they sound very different, they're significantly more chimey for example. Also they just look very cool. They're perfect for that tubescreamer overdrive and playing blues songs with it, because it sounds like a Stratocaster that's a lot more Stratocasterey if that makes sense. It's like exaggerating every aspect of a strat's tone, turning everything up to 11.
What value pots are in there? If there’s 500k pots that might account for some of the tone difference. Normally 250k pots would be used on a tele. Just a thought.
I think a better name would be The Les Paul " Troubadour" give it a good country western name lol also are those Seymore Duncan Le Brea pick ups?
Nice, It sounds good and it really looks good while you were playing it . The gold really stands out and looks balanced. Good Job Trogs.
It sounds great playing Zepplin 1.
I’m digging it man. I love Teles, having a Les Paul and a Tele? My world is complete, or would be if I had one.
For the price, that's a whole lot of "heck no..." but it does give me ideas for an old Firebrand project guitar I have.
sound pretty cool, I believe the difference in the scale length makes it sound different from a tele, also the bridge and electronics maybe?
The set in neck ,not bolt on also changes the sound.
That would look good with the chrome pickup gold plated
I’m shocked to say that I love the sound of this! 😲
Telecasters lose the twang when the metal plate underneath the bridge pickup is removed, also the bridge style on a Tele plays a huge part too
This is awesome! would love so see the wiring diagram for this set up. Care to share?
really funny their custom mounts, Guitar Fetish has these mounts that retrofit pickup ring holes and they didn't have to cut the cake slice. funny custom shop luthiers :D
Wow. Surprised how good it sounds.
tele paul or paul tele either way its cool man keep it that way sounds cool
We hand-wind Jazzmaster pickups in P90 housings. If you'd like to hear what Jazzmaster pickups sound like in a Les Paul, we'd be happy to send you a set. Our pickup winder watches your show religiously so he'd love to make them for you.
8:07 bro got teleported to the No One Knows video set
I typically hate tele neck pickups, but in a Les Paul it sounds surprisingly good. Also I think the extra bark that an SG has would lend itself better to Jazzmaster pickups than a Les Paul.
The new MIM Player Teles have AlNiCo V pickups in them, so much better than the cheapo pickups they used to use.
Sounds interesting. What would be interesting is if you put a Rio grande twang bucker in the bridge. Humbucker but with tele bite.