Edwards Les Paul vs Gibson Les Paul

A short demo of an £1800 Gibson vs a £750.00 Edwards Les Paul

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[battuspuppius]

Dear Guitarshak,

Let me first thank you for demonstrating the two guitars that I needed to compare. Playing-wise, fabulous and music right up my street (spot the Brit). Strikes me that the Edwards guitars are pretty comparable, spec-wise, to the Gibbo's but the stock pickups are different. I wonder that if the same pickups were installed in the Gibbo, the tone match might be comparable? Regardless, this has got to be the most informative vid for me, to date. Many thanks, chap.

Battus

[Guitarshak]

@battuspuppius Errr the change of pickups will make a difference in tone but my gut feeling is that some tones are only achievable with heavier weights of mahogany etc ie the les paul std is f***king heavy compared to the Edwardes so the tone will still not be identical. Glad you liked the comparison

[kangaxx89]

Edwards sounds like a toy comparing to Gibson...

[wind016]

@Guitarshak I just bought an Edwards 125ALS and compared it to my Edwards 98LTC. The 125ALS is much warmer sounding, lighter, and more acoustically loud than the 98LTC. Seeing as how the Gibson Burstbucker pickups are warmer pickups than the pickups on any Edwards Les Paul, I speculate doing a simple pickup swap would make the 125ALS sound even closer to a Gibson Standard with the advantage of a long neck tenon sustain probably.

[wind016]

@Guitarshak I just bought an Edwards 125ALS and compared it to my Edwards 98LTC. The 125ALS is much warmer sounding, lighter, and more acoustically loud than the 98LTC. Seeing as how the Gibson Burstbucker pickups are warmer pickups than the pickups on any Edwards Les Paul, I speculate doing a simple pickup swap would make the 125ALS sound even closer to a Gibson Standard with the advantage of a long neck tenon sustain probably.

[totalcontrolguitar]

Nice demo - both sound great to me. Check out some of my Gibson and Tokai demos. Cheers.

[ivanchenkovadim]

Changing pickups does make a difference. I replaced the Seymour Duncan SH-1 with a 57 Classic Plus and the sound got noticeably "fatter". I guess there is still a subtle difference, but you can easily make up for it with slightly scooped mids on your amp. You wouldn't do it with a Gibson because the sound would get way too dark. In general something like 95% of Gibson tone is pretty much achievable with Edwards.

[miketackisgod]

@Bflatest I prefer to play out of a loud amplified amp the way an electric guitar was intended. True sustain I agree is not down to the feedback but in order to get the amp to harmoniously feedback the guitar's sustain ability needs to get it there first. I prefer to deal in a real world scenario rather than "unplug' as you suggest.

[Bflatest]

on the les paul the note you held out was not sustain. That was feedback there is a difference my friend :) If you want to hear true sustain do it without the amp hold a mic real close and play a note. That is true sustain of the guitar.

[eliasenmathias]

it's like the Edwards Les Paul playing very easy and it is a good guitar. take a look on the channel of unbornchild5 he's got an Edwards les paul but white