A Strat can do Les Paul, but a Les Paul....

meltedbuzzbox

my triple humbucker les paul (black beauty) does the start in between sound pretty well

Travisthedog

usedtobe said:

Feck strats!

MAY BEES EAT YOUR HEAD

ICBM

meltedbuzzbox said:

my triple humbucker les paul (black beauty) does the strat in between sound much better than a Strat

Edited for accuracy .

A 3-pickup SG custom is even better. You get the character of it but without the horrible thinness most Strats have.

Travisthedog

That's utter crap @icbm!!

A very few Strats sound thin yes. But not most strat

ICBM

Almost all Strats sound thin in the bridge/middle position.

Neil

Strats do sound thin but that is part of their charm for certain sounds.

After playing my Strat and switching to my Les Paul the difference in power/sound is profound.

Although judging by the amount of pedals some of you lot play through I'm surprised you can tell what guitar you are using.


:P

stonevibe

When Strats fall over they 'relic'.

When Les Pauls fall over they 'break'.

Discuss...

Travisthedog

Ah - it's all a personal thing at the end of the day - I hate humbuckers because they always sound middy, muddy, clacky and honky

A nice les Paul with 3 single coils - no there's an idea

stonevibe

Also the best sounding Les Paul guitars for me are the ones with maple necks.

dogload

Anyway...

... Mumford and Son have ditched the banjos for Jazzmasters, it would seem, but they still can't do credible, so they ARE redundant.

impmann

Shit, have they ?

Time to ditch my Jazzmaster, then

dogload

Don't worry @impmann. It'll just be till they re-invent themselves as a non-credible version of something else.

impmann

Levellers lite

ab2014

Esquire with a few cap changes owns them both.

stonevibe

ab2014 said:

Esquire with a few cap changes owns them both.

An Eldred mod is in my main squeeze.

Samgb

Les Pauls don

dogload said:

Anyway...

... Mumford and Son have ditched the banjos for Jazzmasters, it would seem, but they still can't do credible, so they ARE redundant.

They could play gold plated, diamond inlayed '59 Les Pauls and they'd still be cardigan wearing baloney

Cabicular

Post a video of you playing the intro lick to sweet child of mine on a strat
Only then will I believe you...
Sure it's possible to play the notes but on anything other than an LP it sounds gash

siraxeman

^^nah Strat neck pickup with a nice rich smooth gainy sound will still do a good SCOM. I've seen it a few times on youpube already. And of course done it myself (as an owner of both Strats and a LP...and many others.) The Les Paul sounds bang on obviously but a Strat dialled in right sounds easily close enough to not have people think "that sounds wrong". IMO of course.

ThePrettyDamned

Cabicular;643285" said:

Post a video of you playing the intro lick to sweet child of mine on a strat
Only then will I believe you...
Sure it's possible to play the notes but on anything other than an LP it sounds gash

It sounds gash on an lp.

It always did...

impmann

DulcetJones said:

  I have yet to hear a really convincing crunchy ZZ Top sound from a strat though.  But, the fact is, most people in the audience don't notice these things.  

Hmmm - well seeing as the Rev W Gibbons often uses a Strat in the studio got me thinking. I also recall reading that Sharp Dressed Man was recorded with a Strat... so I shoved a crap Peavey mic in front of my VamPower practice amp, plugged the new 'Pinky' Strat into a M13 and selected the Tube Drive model (settings unchanged from factory) clicked record on Ableton and bashed this out... 

Before you cast ridicule at the playing (yes its rough), bear in mind I haven't played this tune live for at least 10 years and I had to work out the slide solo for fingers, as I couldn't find my bottleneck.

But, its ballpark... innit.