50s vs 60s Gibson Les Paul Studio Tribute Pt. 1

Audio demo comparison of a 50s Gibson Les Paul Studio Tribute vs a 60s Tribute. The gain is coming from a Boss OD-2r (not in boost mode). Just playing some chords and stuff, swapping pickups and guitars so you get a comparison of the tonal differences between guitars.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• LesPaul
• 50sTribute
• 60sTribute
• Gibson
• Princeton
• Boss
• OD-2r

[Uz2Brockstar]

The 60's tribute goldtop darkback has orange drop caps stock. Back and neck is flat black, a GREAT guitar!

[Iodine74]

@Uz2Brockstar I'll be honest, I don't think I've checked the control cavity of mine. I know that Gibson didn't make mention of the orange drop caps on the 60s when they were first listing them on the site. I'll definitely have to check it out. If the circuits on the two (50s ad 60s) I had were the same, that's amazing how much variance there was.

[Iodine74]

@Uz2Brockstar Ahh I see now on the Gibson site the "darkback" you refer to. Wasn't aware these were out.

[Iodine74]

Honestly I liked the tones of both. Each have their place, the 60s tended to sound slightly more open to me, whereas the 50s sounded almost compressed sometimes, but in a good way for jangly lightly driven or pushed cleans. I ended up keeping the 60s mainly because I preferred the neck. I really do need to look into seeing if I can swap out one of the pots to be a push-pull to add a orange-drop cap.

[Iodine74]

Both were the stock p90s. The 50s has that orange drop cap in the circuit, which accounts for the sonic differences.

[agnellone]

@sambondtaylor First of all depends on what neck profile do you prefer. if you ask me I'd say the 60's, keeping the neck pickup and swapping the bridge one for a dimarzio p90 super distortion. That's the only pickup I know for rock/heavy rock and similiar that would fit in without butchering the guitar body, plus you can split it with a push/pull pot and use it more or less as a single coil. Hope it helps, cheers

[Uz2Brockstar]

@Iodine74 I stumbled upon it in GC, they had just hung it up a few mins prior. No fingerprints or scratches! It also has a quartersawn neck, one piece back and features the new roasted maple fingerboard they have been putting on new Les Pauls. There are a couple demo's here on Youtube, check it out!

[MrAdeVogel]

60's but it's just personal preferences :) the 50's a little brighter, thus i like the heavy 60's's tone.., gonna get the gold top i love it :)

[TheSnowboarder114]

i like the 50s one



[sambondtaylor]

@Iodine74 what has better sound for blues, rock, heavy rock, brit rock, maybe some jazz in your opinion?