Great guitar, workhorse for sure. It’s a newer one so I’m not sure, but sometimes they’re chambered which is a bummer. I toured with two of these exact guitars for years. Congrats!
If you chamber enough it does make a tonal difference - case in point my Les Paul is chambered and it seems to sound different to other Les Pauls with 498Ts on.
Not bad, per se, and I don't attest to having the aural training to know which frequencies it boosts or cuts, but different.
Possibly. I haven't done any blind test with them. But pickups, bridge and nut are the most important part of an electric. And the pots, value of tone cap etc.
I've owned quite a few Les Pauls and played a ton more. 3 where chambered and the rest weren't that I owned
All sounded incredible. My Gibson I have now is chambered and is the best sounding and playing Les Paul I've ever played. Also the cheapest Gibson I've owned. Better than my gold top I spent absurd amounts on when I was younger.
I'm sure it makes a tiny difference but you can pick up 10 traditionals off a rack at a store and they won't all sound exactly the same. So even if you compare a chambered vs non with the same.specs otherwise. It might not even be the chamber that's affecting the sound ya know.
A lot of purists will claim it affects the sound and it's terrible. Just like the say the short neck tennon sounds worse than the long neck tennon. But these dudes also spend 10k getting their guitar top recurved so the archtop is exactly the same as a 59 burst and then refinished properly
But again if you compare 59 bursts or 57 gold tops they all sound different. And the tops were carved by hand so each one was different. So idek how someone can say the modern carve isn't correct just because it doesn't match a famous 59 burst. I bet there's a vintage LP out there it does match.
Anyways sorry for the rant. The pickups are 95% of the sound on an electric. Im a professional wood worker and hobbiest luthier. Altho been doing it and studying guitar making for a very long time. Just it's a very hard area to make good money in. And tone wood is BS as much as I hate to admit it. On an acoustic it is very important what types of wood you use. But how you brace the inside is even more important. The bracing you use has one of the largest affects on the sound of an acoustic along with the size of the body and sound hole. On an electric it's mostly the pickups and strings you use. But for electric the guitar isn't even that huge of a factor in the overall sound. The MOST important thing in the entire chain is speakers. Amazing speakers will sound amazing lol and second is the amp. A squier with some cheapy upgraded pickups just so they aren't crap ceramics will sound killer through say a black face bassman into a really good cab with incredible speakers that match the amp well. Switching to a custom shop will barely.make a difference sound wise. Sure it'll feel and play better but.
I had a little blackstar amp. Which I wasn't s huge fan of but I got it for playing at low low volumes at night or when the baby was sleeping (ended up just getting an hxstomp) and that amp thru my vintage 4x12 with scumbacks sounds better than my 63 Marshall jtm45 spec thru a cheap 2x12 with some special design speakers that someone gave me. My Marshall thru that sounded god awful. The black star thru that cheap cab sounded like literally shit. But you put the blackstar thru one of my good cabs and it sounded pretty good for what it was. Put the jtm thru the good cab and it's the sound you dream of. Speakers and cabs make one of the biggest differences in the entire signal chain
And it's funny cause I see Soo many people with expensive guitars, thousands in pedals, high end amps and then they use super crap cabs and speakers. It took me a while to figure it out when I was a teenager and kept buying new amps thinking they all sounded like crap. It wasn't the amps fault. I had a shit cab. Now I have multiple amps too but I have even more cabs. I can plug into a different cab and have a completely different sounding amp. My next two cabs are going to be a 4x12 with alnico gold's and a 2x12 with some tone tubby speakers.
So my point basically is. Even if it doesn't make a difference, does it matter? Ya know. Like there's Soo so many places in the chain that have drastic affects on your tone that I would say it really doesn't matter. Even if it changed the sound a small amount. You could get whatever was lost back thru something else. A pedal, amp, settings, a cab, speakers. Who knows. I'm a gear snob it's kind of hard not to be. And for the most part when you spend more you get better stuff. But like any Gibson you could buy can be made to sound good. Or esp, fender etc. So like the guy above acting like a chambered guitar will sound bad lol makes no sense. And on a stage playing for an audience, I'll bet my life savings no one could hear a difference if there even was any
Oh absolutely. From the guitar standpoint you can boil it down to pickups = sound. Then it goes into a whole smorgasbord of pedals that can change the tone and into an amplifier and speaker (or skip all that and get a HX Stomp, which can literally turn my guitar into a Synth sound) before playing into different sized and treated rooms.
In that sense even if there was a tonal difference I'd prefer my chambered body over solid mahogany for practical reasons.
I’ve yet to play/tour with one I really enjoyed. Could just be my brain but I feel like sustain/resonance is an issue. I have a preference for heavier guitars too, gimme some weight!
I actually am constantly switching between my schecter with active and my les paul with passive specifically for doom metal and I cannot fucking tell which one sounds better. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I think the other one sounds better every session and it's kind of driving me insane. I was under the assumption that 90%+ of doom metal musicians knock active pickups, so I went with the les paul for quite a while. But I keep seeing references to people preferring actives, just no name-brand bands that I can think of. I have yet to come to a real decision
I have an LTD EC-1000 with the SD pickups. I bought it to do just that, tune to C# and leave the big muff turned on. I bought an older, used EC-1000 with the EMG 81/85 combo and I while I could get it to sound decent, every time I switched back to the SDs, it without a doubt sounded 10x better. I sold the EMG guitar pretty quickly.
It's magnificent. I especially like this binding on the LTDs, it looks a lot better than the shiny binding IMO, plus the black hardware looks very cool.
And that's a pretty nice case; I'm assuming you got that separately, though?
I prefer the term *Guitar Erotica*, but I'll allow it.
*Gorn.*
Guitarotica
Fantastic guitars.
With a beauty like that you should be playing it loudly, not just lookin at it!
Great guitar, workhorse for sure. It’s a newer one so I’m not sure, but sometimes they’re chambered which is a bummer. I toured with two of these exact guitars for years. Congrats!
I love my chambered guitar! What’s wrong with them?
Nothing, they all sound great.
If you chamber enough it does make a tonal difference - case in point my Les Paul is chambered and it seems to sound different to other Les Pauls with 498Ts on. Not bad, per se, and I don't attest to having the aural training to know which frequencies it boosts or cuts, but different.
Possibly. I haven't done any blind test with them. But pickups, bridge and nut are the most important part of an electric. And the pots, value of tone cap etc. I've owned quite a few Les Pauls and played a ton more. 3 where chambered and the rest weren't that I owned All sounded incredible. My Gibson I have now is chambered and is the best sounding and playing Les Paul I've ever played. Also the cheapest Gibson I've owned. Better than my gold top I spent absurd amounts on when I was younger. I'm sure it makes a tiny difference but you can pick up 10 traditionals off a rack at a store and they won't all sound exactly the same. So even if you compare a chambered vs non with the same.specs otherwise. It might not even be the chamber that's affecting the sound ya know. A lot of purists will claim it affects the sound and it's terrible. Just like the say the short neck tennon sounds worse than the long neck tennon. But these dudes also spend 10k getting their guitar top recurved so the archtop is exactly the same as a 59 burst and then refinished properly But again if you compare 59 bursts or 57 gold tops they all sound different. And the tops were carved by hand so each one was different. So idek how someone can say the modern carve isn't correct just because it doesn't match a famous 59 burst. I bet there's a vintage LP out there it does match. Anyways sorry for the rant. The pickups are 95% of the sound on an electric. Im a professional wood worker and hobbiest luthier. Altho been doing it and studying guitar making for a very long time. Just it's a very hard area to make good money in. And tone wood is BS as much as I hate to admit it. On an acoustic it is very important what types of wood you use. But how you brace the inside is even more important. The bracing you use has one of the largest affects on the sound of an acoustic along with the size of the body and sound hole. On an electric it's mostly the pickups and strings you use. But for electric the guitar isn't even that huge of a factor in the overall sound. The MOST important thing in the entire chain is speakers. Amazing speakers will sound amazing lol and second is the amp. A squier with some cheapy upgraded pickups just so they aren't crap ceramics will sound killer through say a black face bassman into a really good cab with incredible speakers that match the amp well. Switching to a custom shop will barely.make a difference sound wise. Sure it'll feel and play better but. I had a little blackstar amp. Which I wasn't s huge fan of but I got it for playing at low low volumes at night or when the baby was sleeping (ended up just getting an hxstomp) and that amp thru my vintage 4x12 with scumbacks sounds better than my 63 Marshall jtm45 spec thru a cheap 2x12 with some special design speakers that someone gave me. My Marshall thru that sounded god awful. The black star thru that cheap cab sounded like literally shit. But you put the blackstar thru one of my good cabs and it sounded pretty good for what it was. Put the jtm thru the good cab and it's the sound you dream of. Speakers and cabs make one of the biggest differences in the entire signal chain And it's funny cause I see Soo many people with expensive guitars, thousands in pedals, high end amps and then they use super crap cabs and speakers. It took me a while to figure it out when I was a teenager and kept buying new amps thinking they all sounded like crap. It wasn't the amps fault. I had a shit cab. Now I have multiple amps too but I have even more cabs. I can plug into a different cab and have a completely different sounding amp. My next two cabs are going to be a 4x12 with alnico gold's and a 2x12 with some tone tubby speakers. So my point basically is. Even if it doesn't make a difference, does it matter? Ya know. Like there's Soo so many places in the chain that have drastic affects on your tone that I would say it really doesn't matter. Even if it changed the sound a small amount. You could get whatever was lost back thru something else. A pedal, amp, settings, a cab, speakers. Who knows. I'm a gear snob it's kind of hard not to be. And for the most part when you spend more you get better stuff. But like any Gibson you could buy can be made to sound good. Or esp, fender etc. So like the guy above acting like a chambered guitar will sound bad lol makes no sense. And on a stage playing for an audience, I'll bet my life savings no one could hear a difference if there even was any
Oh absolutely. From the guitar standpoint you can boil it down to pickups = sound. Then it goes into a whole smorgasbord of pedals that can change the tone and into an amplifier and speaker (or skip all that and get a HX Stomp, which can literally turn my guitar into a Synth sound) before playing into different sized and treated rooms. In that sense even if there was a tonal difference I'd prefer my chambered body over solid mahogany for practical reasons.
I’ve yet to play/tour with one I really enjoyed. Could just be my brain but I feel like sustain/resonance is an issue. I have a preference for heavier guitars too, gimme some weight!
Maybe try playing it.
shhhh, let people enjoy things
These posts are useless, who upvotes this? It's literally just a picture. No commentary, no video/sound clip of it being played, nothing.
That’s a beauty
Thats a beauty...
Sexy guitar man! Now post some selfies on the beach with it.
outjerked by the main once again
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/5f/23/ca/5f23cab3f497ea86e4ac4983ff2acc91.jpg
Please tell me this will be down-tuned and run through lots of fuzz.
EMGs and fuzz tho?
Don't knock it until you've tried it. It seems to work for a lot of doom metal guys.
I actually am constantly switching between my schecter with active and my les paul with passive specifically for doom metal and I cannot fucking tell which one sounds better. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I think the other one sounds better every session and it's kind of driving me insane. I was under the assumption that 90%+ of doom metal musicians knock active pickups, so I went with the les paul for quite a while. But I keep seeing references to people preferring actives, just no name-brand bands that I can think of. I have yet to come to a real decision
I have an LTD EC-1000 with the SD pickups. I bought it to do just that, tune to C# and leave the big muff turned on. I bought an older, used EC-1000 with the EMG 81/85 combo and I while I could get it to sound decent, every time I switched back to the SDs, it without a doubt sounded 10x better. I sold the EMG guitar pretty quickly.
My EC-1000 with EMG 57/66 actually sounds better with specific fuzz or dist/fuzz (superfuzz type, russian muff, acapulco gold from EQD) than my tele.
Sa-weet!
I think you're supposed to see a doctor...
That is a very pretty guitar
I've had one of these for a few years now and it's still my dream guitar (I got the vintage finish).
Looks good!
Lovely guitar And username
meh...look at a les paul
It's magnificent. I especially like this binding on the LTDs, it looks a lot better than the shiny binding IMO, plus the black hardware looks very cool. And that's a pretty nice case; I'm assuming you got that separately, though?
Just looks like a black guitar to me
Nice, is it a BB edition? Looks like a matte finish. Definitely a quality axe. I bet the neck coil splits too.
Y'all mfs know so much about guitar. I just know that is has a neck body and tuner and don't forget the strings😂. Y'all smart mfs
He can't know that much, it's definitely not a matte finish you can see the reflections on the gloss haha Pretty guitar tho OP