Gibson Les Paul Standard 50's cherry sunburst honest review!
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- So I've seen quite a few reviews online of Gibson Les Pauls, and I thought I'd have a go at one myself!
www.gibson.com/Guitar/USAUBC8... you can read up on the specs here!
00:00 Intro
00:58 Why do we love it?
01:55 A small bit of history...
02:35 Tonewoods
03:33 Pickups and Electronics
04:00 Neck Wood
04:08 Why Les Paul's go out of tune...
05:26 Modern attempts to improve tuning stability
06:12 Is this really for you?
08:06 Rock Audio Demo
08:58 Jazzy Clean Demo
09:44 Strummy Breakup Demo
10:20 Funky Demo
10:41 Funky Demo Treble Pickup
11:07 Opinions on Pickups
12:14 Sustain Test (Low Gain)
12:48 Sustain Test (High Gain)
13:00 Outro 
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To all Gibson users, PLEASE stretch your strings if they are fresh, and lubricate the nut. All new gibsons come standard with a Graphtek nut, and prevent most tuning issues, however fresh strings will expand and you will lose the stability of the tuning. I own many Gibsons, and this solution seems to fix issues on them.
Thanks, this is a great tip, and helps the issue on all guitars, not just Gibsons.
Thanks for your presentation, very well explained and great detail much appreciated!
Thank you! Have a great day! :-)
Not one of my 58 Gibsons go out of tune any worse than any of my other guitars. A good set up goes a long way.
Are they custom shop by any chance?
Fantastic Presentation My Brother 💯
Thanks So Very Much!
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No worries and thank you! :-)
I bend my 50s strings all day long and tuning is rock solid. It's been professionally set up and strings stretched properly.
Tbf the strings are better stretched in now and it’s not as bad now as it was while filming this video.
Top wrap the strings and lube the nut (oohhhh mmmmatron!) and saddles. Really helps the tuning
I liked your review. Keep it up and I subscribed to your channel.
Thanks Ray! I really appreciate your comment! I will do! :-)
To be honest, You can never hate a good guitar. I love many types. It's all about taste.
True dat! I feel like I should do a follow up review of this guitar because I think the tuning stability has improved with time.
The top on the Epiphone Les Paul Standards is actually a real maple top; it’s just got a veneer flame covering that to hide the pieces of wood used underneath, on both sides.
My Gibson NEVER goes out of tune!! All the "bad stuff" I keep reading about Gibson ended up being Total bullshit, and my experience has been the total opposite in real life!! I'm a first time Les Paul owner as well.......farthest thing from a fan boy......all my other guitars are made in Indonesia, Japan and China(shredder guitars, strats)......the Gibson blows all of them away, it's honestly been total night and day........only exception would be Japan guitars, I WILL defend them, craftsmanship is almost the same, so that is true.
Sounds like you got a good one! Cherish and hold on to it, and never sell it!
I agree, I have had almost ever brand of guitar you can think of including Gibson's, and hadn't bought a Gibson in years....so dipped my toe back in and got a Les Paul tribute and it is one of the finest made and sounding guitars I have ever owned. It just doesn't have the extra bling, which isn't my thing anyway.....it's still gorgeous and for $1300 was a great deal.
Yeah i was a fender man all my life until a few months ago when i got my 50s standard in Cherryburst... that thing never goes out of tune and feels and plays just so nicely.... i still love all my fenders from duosonics up to my ultra mochaburst strat, but my les paul is at the forefront of my collection and always the one i grab most often.
I agree with you totally Mike Fu. I have five of them now, some I've had for 10 years, some for two years. They are all outstanding. I can't find a fault with any of them. I also own Charvel, BC Rich and PRS guitars and ALL the Gibson Les Pauls smash the others out of the water for tone and craftsmanship. Never ha any go out of tune like this. I too will defend them all day long.
The only thing I've not liked about Gibson is when they went off on a tangent and added all those strange 'Modern' elements. Don't need any of that crap! lol.
Agree. 6 LPs(USA no Custom Shop) they ALL stay in tune. They all sound badass. I’ve got a bunch of other guitars too. Strats USA.. Mex… Squier… Harley Benton’s …. I love them all but my Gibsons are Top Gun. Just make sure the nut is lubed and cut right.
Great review I have 2 standards it’s all in the cutting of the nut 👍👍
I have a studio from 1996 and the G string goes out of tune but it takes 45 mins solid hard playing not just a couple of riffs, I ordered my 50’s standard today from peach guitars I’m hella excited!!! I think if people are that fussed about tuning then any instrument that involves tuning should be avoided because it comes with the territory….
Congrats on the guitar. I love mine and am so glad I couldn't afford a Gibson until after the new management took over. I think the years 2019 to present are going to be looked at as very good years in the future.
My 60s standard nut has slightly angled notches on the G and D but and I've never had any tuning issue at all as long as my strings are properly stretched when they are put on.
If you haven't figured it out yet just drop the neck pickup. It cleans up nicely. Well the 61BB did. Both of them were way too high from the factory for my taste.
Love my standard 50s Goldtop. Stunning guitars
I love the goldtops. Tbh I’ve been tempted by the p90s version!
Got mine few days ago. What a mighty instrument!
Cheaper replicas have maple veneer over actual maple Caps so you do get the tone wood combo . Epiphones have maple cap with a maple veneer.
Interesting i also have the HC-burst 50s profile and so for haven't had the G issue to the some degree but yes it does eventually go slight out but a do do a fair bit of bending.
I also have the G-Top 50s with the p90s nice guitar but all the strings tend to creep up in pitch after some play were are only talking maybe two or three increments but it can be noticeable at times. Yet my old 1977 Norlan area LP I have had since 1979 seems to hold tune fairly well.
So I guess sometimes it can be the just luck of the draw.
I think my Gibson bug bear is some of the QC and detailing leaves a little to be desired.
On the 50s P90 Gold-top, a few tool marks on binding near neck joint and Nut and glue on the fret board in three places, and little chipped paint missing where stud of the tail bar inserts into the body
The 50s Cherry burst around the 3rd and 4 fret two indentations in the binding and another around the base of the body and some glue showing around the string nut.
these faults not that they affect play ability but for the price your expected to pay for them you would expect a better attention in the detailing and overall finished product.
But I guess that is just the way things are for some Gibson made guitars.
Despite all that, I do love the feel and sound of them.
Please note **
I noticed these faults only on the Les Pauls I purchased I haven't deliberately gone into shops and checked what other Gibson models or LPs may or may not t have had minor faults with them.
So I am not claiming this of all Gibson guitars only my experience so far with the models mentioned.
i have 2 r8's an 89 standard, a 2004 classic, a slash collection and all were set up by me and stay in perfect tune, even after 2+ pitch bends! set up is critical with any guitar.
This is my dream guitar
Have you tried winding the strings differently for tuning stability?
In short, no, but I’ve been winding my strings this way for years and never had any issues on my other guitars.
I have the same model on loan from my local guitar shop. I was going to take a chance and buy one having played a Les Paul for a total of 10 minutes in my life, but I thought I should try it out for a month before buying. I love my SG and I thought a Les Paul would take my playing to the next level. It hasn't. I don't think I have a dud - I just don't like the weight of body and the 50s neck profile isn't for me. The way the guitar was set up from the factory was very strange: the bridge and tailpiece were both lowered way down on the treble side so they weren't at all level; consequently the action was so low that even moderate bends would fret out. After fixing that issue and adjusting the pickup height (neck pickup was introducing too much low end) the tone is really fantastic. I wish I could take the tone of the Les Paul and combine it with the comfort and playability of the SG. Gibson's marketing for the Standard 50s and 60s models has really been aggressive. I never thought I needed or wanted a Les Paul until I started seeing them everywhere!
Thanks for the comment! Have you considered trying a Gibson Es 339? I’ve done another video review for mine and it’s really amazing and very comfortable to play.
It’s a shame you’ve had such a bad experience, as much as I am critical in this review, I’d rather hear of people having a positive experience.
Best of luck with finding the right guitar for you. Btw prs might be worth a look too. :-)
Good video. I almost got this but it was too pink for me so I got the tobacco one. I love it. I love all my Les Pauls. I love ( almost) all of my guitars
For me this is the colour that I associate as being a ‘classic’ les paul, i.e. jimmy page, eric clapton kind of vibe. As this guitar has settled in I think it’s improved a lot and I really love it.
Though if I’m honest, I’ve got a double cut special les paul in worn brown which I actually LOVE and find myself picking up as a fun guitar to play more than anything else.
Love my 2019 HCS Standard...Obviously you will need to add a lot of hi-mids if your gigging so as to cut through the mix Beautiful guitar
I have a 2021 50s Standard just like the one in the video. Personally, I think the tuners are the problem. I played the hell out of it for the first several months with no issues with tuning. Then all of a sudden, the G string tuner would go out of tune even with a small tug of the string. Weird thing is… it would be intermittent. I could set it down a few days, then no issues. Play again another day, and it would happen again.
I decided to go with the Kluson Revolution locking tuners. They give the guitar the same classic keystone button look (albeit a little more white than the greenish tint) and no more problems for a year now. I’ve noticed the gear ratio is much better than the Gibson vintage tuners and can more easily be fine tuned. Yeah, it absolutely sucks to have to replace tuners on an expensive guitar, but hey, it stays in tune for days now. Even the G string.
Nice take on your guitar. I like my Gibson Lee Paul. Equally I like my Squier Affinity Strat (except for maybe the trem but I don't give that much weight as I don't even have that option on my Tele or Les Paul). Btw, I think RUclips is perhaps adding too much compression/distortion to your tone.
Nice video. My Studio Les Paul is always in tune. I'm waiting for the 50's standard, she's coming in few days...if your guitar is out of tune it depens, sometimes, on how you're playing the instrument
Thanks for the comment. I have quite a few guitars, some stay in tune better than others and I play them all in a similar manner. I’m not convinced playing style is the defining factor for that reason, though also I’m not 100% sure what is. There are a number of theories about what does or doesn’t cause the issue and I sometimes think it could be the combination of a few different factors. Maybe string gauge? Maybe how much strings are bent? Maybe the treatment of lube on the nut? It could be any or some of these things or the break angle of the neck etc.
What’s interesting is that people have different experiences with the same type of instrument; there must be something that makes it work for some people and not for others!
Regardless I hope you have a great experience with your new guitar! Let me know how it goes, if you have any issues and if you do how you fix them so that I can share them in an update video later on. :-)
@@hyperbrightstudios String gauge is a pretty big factor, lighter ones go out of tune faster. Also, non locking tuners is probably the biggest. When I get my 50s standard, Ima be changing to locking tuners immediately.
I've got this model with the P90s and love it, but I'd be just as happy with an Eastman SB56.
Honestly wonder if you might’ve gotten a dud, or if gibson lowered quality. As others in the comments have said they don’t have tuning problems like that. Obviously the string angle makes it prone to tuning instability, but my 07 classic Les Paul seems like it never goes out of tune, especially not after a minute or two of playing lol.
Maybe the video isn’t picking up the sound quality well, but I’m not too fond of the pickups. It reminds me of the full plasticky sound I associate with epiphones… not a lot of clear tonality, a thick and muddyish sound. Maybe it’s just the microphone quality or the amp settings though.
I guess that’s what was nice about back when buying guitars in person seemed like the norm. You could play the exact guitar you were interested before you bought it to be really sure it was the one you wanted
You are a top player my friend 👍👍
Thanks for the kind comment! I really appreciate it. :-)
People change the String Gauge on Les Pauls The nut is cut for 10s people put 9s and that causes problems I went through that on mine. It doesn’t hold tune as good with 9s
These are 10s.
Man that first chord cracked me up. I was like are you kidding me!
Yeah, I too open videos without checking tune on my guitar first... Brilliant.. (can you say it was deliberate...)
More views than any video where I was in tune at the start. Maybe I should just start them all like this! 😂
Hi there, this is an awesome video, I've recently (17.01.24) purchased one and it hums terribly, it's been checked out by a tech who says the wiring is great, may I ask if you have massive hum from yours, thank you
Personally I haven’t. If the wiring has been checked over, hum is most likely caused by an earthing issue somewhere in your chain. Could be a cable, the amp, or earthing from the property. Do you still get hum using a different guitar through the exact same rig?
@hyperbrightstudios slightly on the strat but is to be expected I guess, I've used 2 ernie ball cables and 2 fender cables through a fender champion 100 and a katana 100 straight into the front 🤔😬
@@anthonyfarmer9797 and you’ve tried it in different houses/places too? If they couldn’t reproduce the fault when checking it at the workshop maybe there is an earthing issue at home?
I’m guessing of course, just things to check just in case. :-)
@hyperbrightstudios thank you for your help, I'm just thinking that earthing is only a safety thing to prevent an electrical item from biting you, it shouldn't really have any impact on the performance of the appliance plugged in 🤔 and amps are earthed through the three pin plug as is everything
@anthonyfarmer9797 honestly it depends on where you are living. The uk is pretty good for electrical safety, but in the usa domestic earthing is quite bad in a lot of houses. They just don’t have as strict regulations as we do. It would absolutely have an impact on hum from an amp.
That said there are tons of variables and I don’t know your rig enough to really give you any pointers.
Somehow I got a Les Paul Standard (2021 model) from Gibson's Demo Shop that holds its tune- it is unreal. My other 2021 Standard, and 95 Studio will not.
I wonder why some hold their tune and some don’t, it’s baffling what the variable is.
@@hyperbrightstudios I've always been told it has something to do with the nut not being filed correctly along with the intense angles the strings are bent on the head. But yeah, keeping that g string dialed in is a nightmare - one strong bend of a note and it's game over.
No not every les Paul has tuning issues . Many do but it's not true that all les Paul's have tuning issues.
And you started so well, bless your heart - no, the Led Paul wasn't designated by led Paul - more than inspired by him that is to say - and thought someone should, so...
Nah, Led Paul made the really heavy Les Pauls in the 80's for Led Zeppelin tribute acts.
Sorry to be "that guy", but I have found that properly stretching strings eliminates tuning issues on Les Pauls (including the G string :) ). Thanks for sharing, that's a gorgeous guitar!
It does on my other guitars too. This was a well stretched in set of strings; for the 10 millionth time. Honestly it now amazes how much denial there is in the Gibson Les Paul fanboy club about tuning issues. Even on Andertons videos advertising Les Pauls they warn you about the need for nut sauce etc; but in the world of fan boys it's never an issue and every Gibson ever holds perfect tuning and if I have a problem with any of my guitars then clearly I'm not professional and don't know what I'm doing.
@@hyperbrightstudios Lol, I'm not a fanboy in the slightest :) In my 30 years of playing I have owned one Gibson. Had it for a couple months, then flipped it. They're just not my thing. I'm a super strat guy ;)
To me Les Pauls are like Cadillac Escalades; too big, too heavy, too expensive, and too many stories of poor quality.
Sorry I was just getting a bit sick of comments along them lines!
Personally I think the es 339 is a much better guitar, more comfortable, better tone, lighter, still lots of gain before feedback and prettier too.
Super strats are fun too, I’m just in the process of making my custom warmoth strat into a coil tappable hum-bucking monster! :-)
@@hyperbrightstudios No worries at all man, I can see how my comment came off as cheeky.
I have 3 Gibson Les Pauls and I can play them all night without needing a tune. Not sure where you got this tuning stability claim from.
Sometime pickup height can result in the magnets pulling the sound of the guitar out of tune if the pickups are too close to the strings a condition known as stratitis Gibson Les pauls require a little more attention with string streaching and some lubricant at the nut as well as the saddles can be helpful but worth the effort for that classic tone and playability a proper set up is a must no two Les pauls are the same the guitar will let you know what it needs
www.sweetwater.com/insync/stratitis/ stratitis, as the name implies, applies to strats.
Change out the tuning machines to Grover 502C Roto-Grips . Mine sucked till I did that..Now its rock solid. The stock tuners are shit!
How do the screw holes/tuner holes line up with them tuners?
Yeah, but do they come with already preinstalled pickguard? I hope not....
They do.
@@hyperbrightstudios Too bad....
Yeah unfortunately that’s just the design that they’ve always done. If you remove it that leaves a screw hole; though I understand you wanting to show off that lovely maple top.
Pick guards over a maple top seem a little silly to me too, why protect something so you can never see it!?
@@hyperbrightstudios Yes, I absolutely agree with you...They should have leave it as a buyers choice - with or without pickguard. Comes to a personal preference, but still...as you said it, why hide such a beatifull top? After all, you`ve paid for it....
They used to send them without pickguards but music stores complained about having to install them without being covered under warranty if the nitro cracked when they drilled.
I don't think it's temperature that affects tuning but humidity
Unfortunately, when it comes to seasons, those two things often happen simultaneously so it's hard to know. What makes you think that?
@@hyperbrightstudios everything I’ve ever read about guitars. Especially acoustics. You want to keep the humidity between 40 and 60 percent. Higher or lower causes the wood to expand or contract too much. Yes cold and dry and hot and wet tend to go hand in hand but not always.
They “ All” go out of tune. If they can’t handle it , switch to a flute or something else.
What was the Quote by Andre Segovia? “ We spend and hour tuning to end up playing out of tune” You get the idea...
I think you will find the Les Paul was designed by Ted McCarty and was only endorsed by Les Paul. He had nothing to do with the design. Not the most informative video but I enjoyed watching you struggle with the sustain. 😂. I love the Darkness by the way, a pretty good rendition. 👍. My advice swot up on the specs and history on Google before making a review video. Not bad. I don’t mean to put you off. Good luck. Put some nut sauce on the nut or pencil graphite stop the b and Mainly the G string from binding. You have to struggle with a old style Les Paul design.
Thanks for the comment; you’re right about Ted McCarty, it appears he also designed many other of the designs we know and love from Gibson in that era such as the es-335. The sustain was a funny one because I was really expecting more, other guitars I have sustain a lot more! I have tried nut sauce on the nut already and is doesn’t make much of a difference. I might make a video where I try and resolve the tuning issues with various techniques!
@@hyperbrightstudios when you replace the strings try winding the D and G strings upwards to decrease the angle they go over the nut. Should remedy the problem.
Thank you I’ll try that as part of my video when I get around to it!
Your class keep it up I think your gonna go famous 👍x
Weight?
Honestly I can’t remember, I think it was 8 or 9 lbs but can’t remember for certain.
Always it seems, that damn g-string wants to pop out!!
Burstbucker 1 and 2 not Burstbucker Pros .
You hit the tuning key on your light silly
Lol ok. I did that once, but it went out of tune several times.
You look honest like that hat lol I like that gibson
Haha glad you like the hat and the gibson! :-)
Add some nut sauce to the nut every string change, should solve that problem ✝️
great guitar but not better then a custom shop 58 or 59
The Gibson custom shop has an amazing reputation, though I’ve never played one; I imagine they’re amazing. What would you say the main differences are beyond ageing of parts/relicing etc.
The g string stays in tune the custombuckers mic are great the build is better much better but yeah it’s double the price
What’s the magic trick they do to keep the g string in tune!? Tbh I felt the pickups could do with a bit more output on mine.
@@hyperbrightstudios believe me standards are great but a custom shop is the real deal
I’d love to try one some day, the tricky thing is justifying a custom shop instrument when you can buy 3 American instruments for the same price. I’d argue you can get more out of three good quality instruments which are different tonally than one amazing custom shop. With the possible exception of a prs because of all the pickup variations on their top models.
You can that sound out of a £200 guitar with a bank of pedals or a modelling amp.
I highly doubt that. Though you could probably get close.
Says a guy who likely has never tried it. 😏
First of all, no... no it won't and second of all a $200 guitar won't play like a Gibson. Which is one of the most important things about a guitar.
This video went down well 😂
hahaahha true
I don't know about other guitars you have,but that Gipson is out of tune all the time
Yeah, that was kind of the point of the video.
My other guitars are generally more stable tuning wise, personally I think the gibson es 339 I have is a far superior instrument.
@@hyperbrightstudios l've changed the nut of my Gipson with bone nut and I don't have problems with tune stability anymore!
My honest review is save your money and get a custom shop
Lol I’ll bear this in mind. After downgrading to an epiphone lol
Shit I though the headstock was going to crack after hitting the mic
Oh did it? I didn’t notice that! I think they’re ok so long as you don’t drop ‘em.
@@hyperbrightstudios Just kidding, you slightly nicked the mic with the headstock. Got my 50's standard yesterday. Couldn't be happier
That’s great! They’re great in many ways! Hows the tuning stability on the G string on yours out of curiosity?
@@hyperbrightstudios In all honesty, it seems to be fine for the little time Ive played it. I also have a Gibson LP Studio and it rarely goes out of tune.
@@justnik8727 I’m glad you’ve had a good experience. On my other video about the es 339 I talk about tuning stability (which for some reason is really good on the 339)… It’s a bit of a mystery to me cos the 339 has exactly the same strings, nut, headstock, bridge and saddle as a les paul but not the same tuning issues. The only variable is the tuning heads.
Who hates the Gibson Les Paul?? What the fuck you talking about?
I don’t hate Gibson Les Pauls.
My 80s les Paul didn't stay in tune no matter what I did. Sounded ok though. I met Les Paul in person and he autographed the ONLY GIBSON DENIM JACKET there is and I still have it! He was such a nice man :)
You need to stretch you string out and learn how to set up a guitar. The Gibson going out of tune is from a player that doesn’t know how to use it. My les paul never goes out of tune.
Yawn.
"Tone wood" on electric guitars are a scam. Only matters on acoustic instruments.
If that were true every gibson les paul with the same pickups would sound identical. Yet they don’t.