Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: JamesHealey on February 12, 2007, 07:30:00 PM
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Les Paul covers all Mahogany, Set Neck designs
Strat covers strat to ibanez, kramer etc..
which is your cup of tea and why?
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Well, I'd have to say Les Paul, if that includes SGs. Great access to upper frets (better than the Strat, well some PRS types look to be as good. Not that the Strat's bad...) And I like the shape too. Les Paul DC, SG, 335...
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Les Pauls. good ones (i.e good mahogany) with the right pickups sound CRUSHING. i have a 1970s Columbus Lawsuit copy, and the sound quality is astonishing!
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Les Paul, sound, look, feel.
However, I generally like most the strat meets les paul jobs a la PRS.
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strat ALL the way!
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Due to my recent purchase i would say have to say Strat, but you can't go wrong with a big slab of mahogany!
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Can I say both?
I like different things for certain parts.
A nice mahongany based guitar for warmth, heavier stuff and that low end.
Alder (strats, etc) for more snap or twang or lovely "glassiness."
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deadstar thats pretty much my view..
but since im skint im deciding which i want the most..
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SGs for me.
Love the tone of an LP, but can't get used to a single cutaway.
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deadstar thats pretty much my view..
but since im skint im deciding which i want the most..
arg, I was gonna say both too. I guess you could go with one of the halfway house types- PRS singlecut, eggle, something along those lines. Though you run the risk of it not being LP-enough for the LP tones, and not stratty-enough for the strat tones.
Alternatively, whichever you need more. Though that's sometimes hard to gauge till you actually own the thing. :lol:
garg, sorry I couldn't help more.
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SGs 'n' Vs !!
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everyone needs one of each-covers it all!!!great at parties...wonderful conversation pieces...must say I have played at a few bad ass road houses here in the deep south--most folks don't mess with me anyway, but if they did, I would reach for my Les Paul Custom for bludgeoning purposes...so the Paul gets the nod-awesome axe/ WMD
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Strat, due to upper fret access on the low E, A, and D strings ...
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SGs all the way over here, I just prefer the warmer sound. In fact they are the only guitars I have ever owned becasue I am a sad Angus Young devotee :).
I am considering getting a strat style guitar though for some'at different ... maybe a HSS tele opening up a new world of BKP options ... (bank manager sobs in background).
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hmm.. I like the upper fret access on my Charvel but because its so light it just doesnt feel right when strapped on.. its comfortable but just feels weird. Whereas my Les Paul just hangs "right" and in a comfortable position :)
Still undecided on the tone, as sometimes I like the singlecoil neck position for leads and rhythm, wheras the LP neck humbucker is too muddy for overdriven rhythm but does a really nice smooth lead which you cant get with a single.
btw, SG warmer than a Les Paul?! I've always found them a bit thinner and more cutting than the LP, but not so cutting as a strat.. hmm could be the perfect combination of both maybe :idea: I've only just got my Charvel though :roll:
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I want both!! I prefer the beef and tone you get from a solid, heavy bodied guitar with two humbuckers but Fender Strat necks are just so damn comfortable.
In a bind, I'll always turn to my "Les Paul" equivalent, ie, my Fernandes Ravelle. It's my Mister Dependable.
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I would like to say LP's. But seeing as I own 3 strats I'm gonna go the strat thing.
I've never played a good LP so I couldnt say I hate LP's. I just have always picked up horrible quality copies or some substandard version of the guitar. One day I hope to come across one that makes my jaw drop but unitll then I'll stay with the strats. My dream guitar (this week :lol: ) is a Silver burst LP from the 70's
Single cutaway guitars dont phase me. but I must admit the contoured heel on my strat, which I think Fender stole from Ibanez (dunno for sure), Is amazing for hanging around frets 17-22.
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Les Paul, sound, look, feel.
However, I generally like most the strat meets les paul jobs a la PRS.
+1 on that for me!
Though when I look at actual Fender styles, I tend to go for Teles more than Strats for whatever reason ....
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In a bind, I'll always turn to my "Les Paul" equivalent, ie, my Fernandes Ravelle. It's my Mister Dependable.
I've been kinda digging the looks of the Fernandes Dragonfly models. I wish they had set necks instead of bolt-on, but they still look like a lotta guitar for the money!
I think a 24-fret HSS with a fairly hefty (if not full-on LP-style) mahogany body would be good fun :)
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Well somewhat predictably, I would say Strats but that is not to say that I dislike LP or their derivatives.In fact I have played some great LP's over the years but Strats feel more familiar to me generally but hell, if it is a guitar then there is a fair chance that I'll like it. Mr "sit on the fence" as usual!
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i would love to try a PRS..... i know, you all must have done 1000 times but im younger than you lot! i love bands tones that use them e.g Opeth, Cradle, Alter Bridge, etc.
i was going to get an SE custom, but i heard the necks were fat, so.....
BM
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i would love to try a PRS..... i know, you all must have done 1000 times but im younger than you lot! i love bands tones that use them e.g Opeth, Cradle, Alter Bridge, etc.
i was going to get an SE custom, but i heard the necks were fat, so.....
BM
i didn't think it was too bad... and the wide thin prs necks aren't that fat either.
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a h-s-h super strat!!! the best of both worlds :headphones4:
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I'm not sure what I like at the moment!
After my first guitar (strat copy) I bought a gibson les paul studio, which I didn't like anymore after a while, and then bought a musicman silhouette, which is a stratlike guitar, after that I bought a Parker fly, and after that a Kritz stradovarius, which looks like a strat, but it is a mahogany-ish guitar with a maple set neck, and I really love that guitar too!
And I also was looking at a les paul standard faded this week again...because now I kind of regret that I sold the LP studio (especially since the second hand price nowadays is more than I paid new :evil: )
So hell, I don't know what I want....I want everything I guess :?
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I have to say the Strat feel, and the Les Paul look and sound. I have a Dean Hardtail that feels great, and sounds good too (waiting on some BK's) I love my BK'd SG
The main thing I liked about a PRS Custom 22 I used to have is the 25" scale, other than that I like the Dean USA Hardtail in every other respect.
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:D Oh come on folks. We're guitarists, right?
One is too many, a thousand is never enough..isn't that what they say?
Of course it's both and always will be until we add "actually I need THAT as well now".
In the early 80s I swore that that was it with buckers, so got rid of the SG, to become for-all-time a "bluesman" with a strat.
Thing was I got to like whammy bars 6 years later and got an Ibanez;
then it was, "oh..something more vintagey", so then there was the Eggle;
then the strat was too "80s" so it was a return to Vintageville with a Jap68RI;
then it was "actually, I have to have a Les Paul or I'll never have one.
Then, my fellow addicts, I just stopped getting rid of guitars in the vain hope that constant GAS-feeding would assuage my lust.
Present housemates are the LP, the Strat, the Yam, the PRS and a really nice LP copy by Vintage, along with a Status S2 5-er..of course I tell myself they are all necessary because of recording(yeahright)...
The moral of the tale being that it is never "both" but "all"...it's just a matter of time... 8)
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:D Oh come on folks. We're guitarists, right?
One is too many, a thousand is never enough..isn't that what they say?
I think they say that about heroin! PDT_008
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I think they say that about heroin! PDT_008
Here's to hoping I never start heroin, then, if my guitar GAS is anything to go by...
:lol:
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Strat - lighter, more comfortable, better balanced, doesnt give me a dead leg/ stiff back when i play, Tremolos, Front jack input, And doesn't look terrible/ have a headstock snap if you drop it. Having said that I haven't properly played an SG.
I prefer the beefier tone of LPs though, so i think my next gas fuelled purchase will be a HSS strat.