{"id":462,"date":"2017-03-31T13:40:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T17:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2022-07-25T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T14:44:48","slug":"gibson-les-paul-standard-hp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Gibson Les Paul Standard HP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scotteh\/32778893674\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Gibson Les Paul Standard HP Bourbon Burst\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3700\/32778893674_95bd469a81_z.jpg\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Gibson Les Paul Standard HP Bourbon Burst\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Another dream comes true! Again it took a long time, about 38 years, but it&#8217;s definitely well worth it!My first guitar was a really cheap Les Paul copy (and I still have it! .. what&#8217;s left of it) and I&#8217;ve always wanted one ever since then but I always get caught up with either the price or the capabilities. More and more I loved having a vibrato arm and so I always went for guitars that had one like the Strat or the Wolfgang. <\/p>\n<p>And Les Pauls are pretty expensive. I know there are some cheaper ones now but is it really worth getting one of those? One thing I&#8217;ve learned is that you want the best you can possibly get or you will just end up regretting it later.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided it was finally time and went for a fairly expensive version, a 2017 Gibson Les Paul Standard HP. This one has a few nice features the lower models don&#8217;t have like the robotuners and push-pull switches on each pot for lots of tonal options.<\/p>\n<p>Having said all that there really isn&#8217;t much left to say except WOW! I haven&#8217;t been playing a lot of guitar for the past 7 years as I&#8217;ve been working on electronic music but I was trying to get back into it lately and I was really liking the feel of my Strat. Fantastic guitar! And the Wolfgang too! But once I got this guitar home and some Fast-Fret on the strings I realized why you pay so much for these things. This is by FAR my best guitar! It feels and sounds fantastic!!<\/p>\n<p>Even with the factory strings on it, which seem to be 10s, it&#8217;s very easy to play which is great since I have small and weak fingers. The neck feels a little bit wider which is also nice because it gives you a bit more room and that&#8217;s very welcome when playing up on the higher frets.<\/p>\n<p>This version has a fast access heel that makes sliding your hand up above the 12th fret much easier and smoother.<\/p>\n<p>The push-pull switches are nice too and you can change their function inside the back access panel with DIP switches. The knobs are a bit above the body and they wobble a bit to make it easier to get your finger under and lift them up.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scotteh\/32945727433\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Les Paul Inside Electronics\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3943\/32945727433_777e6dfee9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" alt=\"Les Paul Inside Electronics\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When you lift the neck tone knob you put the 2 pickups out of phase and you get a really nice sharp, bright tone that can be adjusted by varying the volume of each pickup.<\/p>\n<p>The Volume knob switches can be set to either coil tap the pickups or split them. I found that splitting the just gives you a quieter sound. On other guitar&#8217;s I&#8217;ve found that it gives you a thinner, cleaner sound but on this guitar it&#8217;s just a quieter version of the same sound.<\/p>\n<p>The default is a coil tap and this gives you more of a midrangey, throaty sound that I actually prefer.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention the incredible sustain? Well, it&#8217;s a les paul so I shouldn&#8217;t have to, but again, wow, amazing. The sound is very smooth overall and quite bright, brighter than I expected.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scotteh\/33634926691\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Gibson GForce Robotuners\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3734\/33634926691_af65fa7657.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"487\" alt=\"Gibson GForce Robotuners\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And the robotuners&#8230;. Well, I never wanted them and at first decided against the HP model because of it but after thinking it over I thought it might be interesting. They do work but you have to watch the display carefully and after the initial strum pluck only one strings at a time while it finalizes whatever is still not in tune. So far I find that the high B and E strings always have to be done a second time individually before it is finished. <\/p>\n<p>The guitar is going out of tune just a tiny bit fairly regularly (so far) so it&#8217;s nice to have the tuner built it to quickly (about 30 seconds) fix it up. It&#8217;s also very nice to be able to quickly return to alternate tunings, although I really have no idea what to do with them at this point! I hope that not knowing will actually be a plus and inspire me to come up with things I never would have played in standard tuning.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll mention the finish because it is spectacular, although I really don&#8217;t get to see it myself when I&#8217;m playing it..  Someday I still want to get a more standard Les Paul with an old school tea-burst or tobacco burst finish. Until then I have nothing to compare this HP version with so I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s that much better than any other Les Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, to sum it up all I can say is WOW. I really wish I had got one of these MANY years ago. I can&#8217;t stress enough how important it is to get a high quality guitar. They are sooooo much easier to play and give you much better results so it makes you want to play a lot more. <\/p>\n<p>So that means, there may be more guitar and bass guitar in upcoming songs! We&#8217;ll see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another dream comes true! Again it took a long time, about 38 years, but it&#8217;s definitely well worth it!My first guitar was a really cheap Les Paul copy (and I still have it! .. what&#8217;s left of it) and I&#8217;ve always wanted one ever since then but I always get caught up with either the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottfromcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}