The Big Les Paul Shootout Part III - Guitars from €1300 to €2600
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Here's part three of our Les Paul Shootout! This shootout is by no means a complete overview of what is available on the market. We are also just focusing on how the guitars sound and don't really go into details concerning hardware etc.
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You and Andy should definitely do more videos together! Not only was this series great, but you guys are so entertaining with each other!
I love how Henning brings half his wardrobe when shooting video's.
I can't even play guitar but here I am on the third video...
I was all into the FGN and then that Maybach.... Whoa! I did not expect that whatsoever. I bet you could get a used one for a song
Another good contender in this League is the Eastman SB59
The Eastman is a work of art.
FYI, you can download tuning apps for your phone 😀
Real men don’t use tuners!
omg the FGN
that’s a great guitar
Dr Evil may the glare from your shiny dome never dull! Your minions salute you!
That maybach KICKED AAAAAAAASSSSSS holy skrapoly :O
It surely did. What a lovely instrument.
Factoid of the day: The Who song The Kids Are Alright was originally The Dots Are Alright. Pete Townshend wrote it because he had to constantly check if the dots on his guitar didn't move away from the center...
Maybach the best one, they made awesome guitars!!
To me from what i can hear and see the FGN is the one that beats the rest, but if you buy a Gibson it will probably be better for resale ...that is another thing to bear in mind
#dotsaffectthetone
#tonedots
I thought this was a legit single cut LP style alternative guitar comparison... But no Eastmans? No SB57VBK, SB59V OR SB59GB??? SERIOUSLY?
I would love to see a ESP Eclipse in the comparison
What is sometimes over looked is you can get a basic nicely done body and neck from a not so horribly expensive model and upgrade the hardware. I got a rare LPM Les Paul w the maple neck, fat profile and extra thickness rosewood board, totally excellent work, cryo frets pleck and sustain just exceptional. Anyway refitted that guitar with vintage style solid cloth wire, orange drops, better pots, better switch with a set of Seymour Duncan (hot rodded set I believe) and man that guitar just kills for anything I want to play. To me well worth double the roughly $1000. Finish is translucent black with the maple top standard. Love it. I also got a 2018 $2500 honey burst, non weight relieved, HP with the smooth neck heal and the pickup push pull switching, nice chrome additions like the pickup rings and knobs. But I seriously could not understand a lot of the bad rap Gibson has been getting lately. Mine from 2016-2018ish have been the best guitars. Many in this video made my skin crawl ("that's what she said"..PH style joke) they were more costly and dreadful, workmanship terrible and some of the sounds were just god awful outside the lack of tuning and the mysterious mid neck note that is just atonally odd. My LPs have been jewels. That modified LPM is to die for! I like the modern HP improvements as well, many don't, I get that but you have to have more than one right kids? Pickup switching is novel but not something I use much or at all. The smooth neck heel, why have they not been doing this for decades?? Also I miss Ebony boards soooo much.
I've got an FGN NEO CLASSIC 30 and it's one of the best guitars I've ever had.
D'oh only just found this awesome video
IMO the knaggs sounded the best followed by the prs then the Maybach.
What drugs do you do?;-)
How come GRECO EDWARDS NAVIGATOR BURNY ESP ORVILLE ARIA PRO 2 LTD ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS SHOOTOUT?? Even just the ESPs and LTDs and EDWARDS
First time I've seen an ad on one of your vids. Digging this little series of vids
I have a Maybach Lester and it's a briliant guitar! Judging by the sounds coming from the one you guys tried it isn't exidental.
Can I have tabs for Andy's riff!? 😂
BTW, the FGN is killer but Maybach (midnight sunset aged) might be my next purchase.
And IMO, you must be crazy to buy a Gibson new when 90's ones kicks ass and are less expensive!!!
HENNING I want you... to teach us your jazz riff! 🤓👍
Couldn't agree more with your comments on the shit plastic birds and back covers on that PRS.
I know this is 2yrs old... But maybach vs eastman? What's your vote?
Very cool Video ! :) what about the Gibson Classic model für about 2000 ?!? That would be very intresting comparing to the otherrsr
So sorry for all the flooding and suffering in your country.
thanks man, luckily we are not affected
Great video. Personally I'd go for the FGN and then the Maybach as a close second. I certainly wouldn't go for the Gibson or the Knaggs... neither justify the price.
I love this series. I'm already the owner of a Les paul but it's always nice to see what other brands can offer! thanks Henning.
why would you need to upgrade pups in a Classic Les i thought the pups that came stock for the price should be great
why pay 2 grand then upgrade
Congrats on 75K subs!
So my question:
How does the Prestige Guitar from the other video competes with this guitars?
All the les paul tones from my guitar heroes were bright as hell bridge pick ups. All those dark sounding pick ups sound like shit to me personally
Love the series love you guys but I can't understand how none of you three have a tuner app installed on their phone! Fender has a free app that is real good.
and ACROSS THE LINE
Maybach wow!!!!!
Harley all the way
24:07, it definitely passes the Nightrain test. Awesome.
That Maybach....phew...
Marmaduke Winterbotham indeed. My pick for sure
I know. Wow. I'm totally looking into one now myself.
There is a distributor here in the UK, Guitar Village, but they don't stock many unfortunately - well, none at the moment. :O(
@@marmadukewinterbotham2599 Thomann ship to the UK.
Dudes! News! If you find yourself a registered Maybach Dealer you can custom order any finish color Maybach offers, any neck shape, nitro or poly lacquer, aged or new look...what ever the fuck you want. And now comes the Bomb: There‘s no premium to a custom order. You can go off menu for the same price as the series guitars. You just have to wait 2-3 months til it‘s build and delivered.
I am in love.
Prestige heritage or FGN expert flame ?
FGN Expert Flame
FGN LS30
What a comparison, a solidbody, a semi solid and a semi hollow. Where is the acoustic?
I don't think there was a semi hollow in there... as far as I know they were all solid bodies...
@@EytschPi42 A Maybach is chambered.
i agree, gibby standard should be between 1900 for an sg and 2400 for a les paul? that Knaggs is really good but damn that maybach. imo they both blow the gibson out of the water.
i am done..i need a maybach! thanks!
Danke.
Why do gorgeous finished guitars always show naked wood through their f-holes?
Frits van Zanten a) contrast of colours b) to show there's nothing to hide c) save some £ d) the less finish, the more resonant the wood
because penis
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But yeah, hey, nice video and a great idea to cover a range of guitars! Thanks!
Change the title to Henning abuses Andy! Lol. Always good fun on this chanel! Awesome ROCK guitars!
It would be nice to give these an shootout with the same pickups. The best of the other guitars seem to mimic the traditional line and 57 classics
No ESP eclipse?
Le Maybach sounds great .So much low ends in clean and precise and tight in crunch.
Put some great PUs on that,it worth a Gibson Custom shop for at least half the price.
Oh the Amber Pickups are where it‘s at. Trust me on that.
For me, Gibson all day long, but they are not alone, are they.
Jim Grewe What did you think of the Maybach?
Sounded and looked good. I would have to have one in my hands to make further judgment.
@@grewejames1 I´ve played both Gibson and Maybach. GIbson is great, don´t get me wrong. But the Maybach easily outplays every Studio, Traditional, Classic, and Standard Les Paul by Gibson. They are directly competing with the custom shop models. You would have to get yourself a custom shop reisssue to really compare it to a Maybach Lester. And these are around twice the price of a Maybach. Let´s say I´m not willing to pay twice the amount of money just for a name.
Where is part 4!!!!!! I need to watch part 4!!!!!! I need to know who buys the goldtop!!!!!
That goldtop truly sounded amazing.
How much more money is tacked on to the Maybach just for the "aging" and "distressing"? How much cheaper would it be were it looking cherry? I don't want a brand new guitar that looks like it's from the 50s, nor do I necessarily want a 50s guitar that looks brand new, goddammit.
You can order them in any configuration you want. New look nitro finish, new look polyurethane finish, aged, any neck profile you want, any finish color you want, any hardware color you want. No premium whatsoever. I hope that helps. You just have to find yourself a registered Maybach dealer.
Maybach was the best LP type of this bunch. Would I buy it? No! I would just wait and keep trying Gibsons (probably secondhand but not a Les Paul Classic. The standards of the early 21st century are mostly awesome guitars) may take awhile though. The blue colour made the Knaggs look cheap and certainly not worth €2600. It also sounded thin compared to the Maybach, FGN and Gibson but given the body thickness this isn’t surprising, though string separation was good.(but not better than the Maybach on audio)
I had two Gibsons myself and played many, many more of them. They were nothing but disappointments. I haven‘t played single Maybach that wasn‘t a „holy grail“ guitar. Speaks for itself, I guess.
"But it's €600 more" - If that was the issue in this price range I would compare it to the Traditional.
Love my Knaggs Kenai, think a Maybach LP is going to be added to my collection next! Thanks for this series of videos.
Perhaps you could have tuned guitars up front, before shooting the video. One guitar one minute, three guys with a mobile app or with a tuner - pretty fast... during the video it takes at least the same or more time.. so, perhaps, consider at least this before starting the actual session..
My cats liked this video.
Andy, did you take the golden Maybach home?
Why is the Knaggs logo the same as the inay on the HB hollow cst?
I have a cheap ass acoustic with a bridge that's slightly lifted and intonation that's completely rubbish but at least THE DOTS ARE NICELY CENTERED!
(much love to you guys, I thoroughly enjoy these videos and i thank you for it)
prs surprised me
2 minutes? 20 seconds would long for this on a cnc. 🙈
Amazing video. You know... You could have used a guitar tuner app...
Maybachs are expensive! Should be less than 1k, but over 2k. Might as well get Gibson at that point....
why would you think they should be under 1K? Do you know how they are made and what that costs?
A comparable Gibson is twice as much!
@@EytschPi42 I just figure the costs are probably $400 or so. Yes, Gibsons are even worse! Maybach sound nice and all, but the resale isn't there like Gibson. So it's a huge gamble to spend over $2K and then hope and pray you get a good one. At least with Gibson you can sell it if need be and get most of your investment back.
Disclaimer: this video is not for people who have ailurophobia.
Try an Eastman SB-59!
FGN and Gibson sounded great for modern rock.
Maybach sounded best for classic rock.
PRS? As always I have no idea what to make of that sound. Not bad by any means but for what would you ever prefer that over any one of the others?
So I just watched a video explaining your RUclips name, I've always wonder what it meant. Thing is apparently, that H in British english is pronounced with the H first so it should be *Heytsch* P isn't Pi that's Pie or 3.14, but should be *Pee* which gets us closer to those jokes you love so much :-D
But what if you phonetically spell it in German?
In our language 'zyx' means 'to pee'. Really.
Which language is that?
That was a new word for me :-P Let's forget the H. The P with your kind of humor (and ours of course) would have had been a brilliant move. But I see understand it from your POV
No Tuner? Use. your. phone. :-)
If ye ever bother to do this again tune the guitars first
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Only 37 minutes? Coitus interuptus!
Only the bold dude knows how to play guitar.
I've got the Maybach Custom, the version built in Germany. It's just sick.. Is the best LP Custom Shop Gibson never built. The one I've got is as good as a Jäger Makeover. just sick..
Liked the Knaggs clearly the best! ...at least soundwise... Then directly after it would be the ,Maybach and then the FGN... However, for me the clear winner of this shootout is the Dirty Shirley!!!
Dude shld buy the heritage cherry sunburst les Paul standard... That figure on it is beautiful!
Doesn't every guitar player have a tuning app on their phone if they need it? Lol, why did it take like 3 hours go do that?
TheGuitarGeek
Andy, check out Iron Gear pickups (I'm not affiliated with them, just love their tone). The 'Dirty Torque in the neck and a 'Blues Engine' in the neck is a fantastic combo, or have a pair of Blue's Engines.' As good as major brands but at a wallet-friendly price.
That Gibson (eh...) and then the FGN just immediately blasting it out the water... oh my big juicy avocado lawd...
30:55 some guitars get under your skin
Still laughing, not sure I learnt much about all those guitars, I did learn you all need a snark tuner!!! 😎😎😎
Talk about note seperation without having all of them tuned properly....These videos are a big lost opportunity.
I have a 2016 Standard and its amazing. But id love to have all of these as ive become obsessed with the Les Paul shape and general sound. Everything accept PRS would come home with me. Cant stand PRS guitars look or sound.
Also that FGN sound like a LP Traditional. i love it
this shootout started so promising and then gradually went worse with every video. this one wasn't even funny, entertaining and just barely informative. what were you guys doing off camera? are you high?
Let me know when somebody plays a guitar with more then 5 miles on it.. I wanna hear some 'broken in' tone PLEASE
The Gibson sounded like shit
The Maybach sounds great but I don't like the distressed/relic guitar thing honestly.
Great effort and fun video..
A couple of observations if i may. to my ear all of the guitars you tested almost sounded the same, few minor tonal differences here and there and im sure standing there in real life will notice the differences way more.....To hear clearly the differences in the video, you need to record with an ambient mic then mix that with the one on the cabinet..
Another final observation is im sure you guys are professional reviewers on youtube etc... But please bring in an advance guitar player to properly play/test those guitars..
Keep up he good work and i realy enjoy those Thomman walk thro videos..
Dr Evil has been away from the not so secret lair too long. I believe he is missing his Mini Henni.
Quite an amateur test. Why would you buy the FGN or the Maybach over a Gibson as when you walk out the store they'd lose half of their cost. Gibsons retain some value. I tried a Maybach last year and it was great. Its just if you want to sell it, you'd get Epiphone money for it. They cost too much.
If you buy a guitar thinking about its value when you walk out the store,you should do something else than music.
Wil D. Of course you shouldn't be buying guitars for investment purposes (unless they're truly vintage and/or highly sought after) but anyone with any financial sense should STILL consider resale value regardless. Why risk losing $800 or so instead of say $400? (isn't that just common sense?) No different with cars, certain vehicles hold their value more so than others but of course you wouldn't buy a quickly depreciating car simply for an investment. Bottom line is you'd be foolish NOT to take resale into consideration. LarryUK is 100% correct.
Wil D. Have you forgot that this is called the 'music business'? You have to use your head. Unless money is no object you have to think resale. Just like having a guitar built for you. You'd probably never be able to sell it. Plus, any guitar will play well with a good setup. I set them up myself. So I save money there. This whole video was pointless too as its all personal choice.
I so wanted Gibson to sound the best. Unfortunately it didn't. Smoked by both the FGN and the Maybach. I know these shootouts are limited to guitars sold by Thomann and it is a very big pool to choose from. But one brand which isn't stocked by them and would give all the others a run for their money is Eastman.
Maybach wins.....easily.
Hard to take advice on premium guitars from people who can barely play.
barely play... seriously? Dude... google me!
I love the Fact that Some Guitars are Out Gibsoning Gibsons les pauls ...... Hilarious
And what makes it even more Funny ..Their LESS MONEY .
I know it's funny and all but seriously, a 37 minute video and almost 10 minutes spent tuning guitars!!! Very unprofessional IMO. It's as if they try to drag the video out as long as possible for some unknown reason. SMH First comparison video I made it 18 minutes in and not a note was played, so I left. Well done!
why would you watch for 18 minutes and not fast forward? You DO understand that RUclips is nonlinear, right? There was even a message on screen with the time to jump to.
where u get all that money ?wtf
lyrasimo They're at Thomann!
Really, if you're going to go to all of the trouble of choosing and pulling these guitars and setting up a video shoot, why not make sure they're tuned? Music 101...
Sorry I didn’t mean to insult I love your chanel I stopped watching Anderson’s lol just meant your weren’t having great day none off you on a side note I have a vintage brand les Paul sub 700$ with pay low output pickups from Wilkerson the guitar is great and I owned a 69 gold top deluxe in my younger days cheers guys