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Show your Les Paul style bass!
- Thread starter Jjango
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GORGEOUS!Hello,
Here's my '73 Gibson Les Paul Signature Bass. It has Rotosound 77 Flats on it and has a great woody tone!
Does anyone have the sunburst model?
I wish I still had my 1970 les paul triumph bass to display but it was lost in a fire.......... Lame
Here are my Les Paul basses. There's a 1969 Les Paul bass (walnut) and a 1972 Les Paul Triumph bass (natural mahogany)
The Triumph looks just like the one I had
Hi.
Since Gibson is understandably dominant brand here, I'll present my Czechoslovakian Jolana Diamand
.
POS obviously, but nails that vintage muddy tone perfectly.
Regards
Sam
Since Gibson is understandably dominant brand here, I'll present my Czechoslovakian Jolana Diamand
.POS obviously, but nails that vintage muddy tone perfectly.
Regards
Sam
Hi.
Since Gibson is understandably dominant brand here, I'll present my Czechoslovakian Jolana Diamand
POS obviously, but nails that vintage muddy tone perfectly.
Regards
Sam
it's cool looking though man!! it looks cooler than most of the
LP basses if you ask me.i wish gibson would do a LP CUSTOM bass,it would probably look alot like that ^^.i think a silverburst LP custom bass would be awesome
Here's a pic of my '72 Les Paul Signature. I also have a Les Paul Standard but no pics to post of it, yet.
Main...How does that "semi-hollow" bass sound. It looks good. and with a small "soapbar" p-up.
It's one of the best sounding basses that I have. The adjustable low-impedence humbucker taskes the tone from the upright camp into a deep humbucker as you increase the ohms. I have 1/2-rounds on it and find myself playing it most often at 50-ohms but I'm a Blues Guy and that works fone for me. The semi-hollow construction adds a third dimension to the tone that I love. I picked it up some years ago for small money and it's turned out to be a great bass and an even greater investment. It's a "Keeper" for sure!!!!
Thanks, it's Honey Burst!
I really love the tone of these. The pickups are hot and produce the most delightful sounds. It has more tonal width than my 2004 T-Bird.
I'm surprised Gibson canceled it. I know it had to have been because there wasn't enought demand. That's what actually surprises me, the bass playing public's perception and lack-of-attraction for this bass.
Oh well, we got 'en, right?
Hey Gibenbackerbass, can you tell me about neck dive on these things? The look amazing but the body looks like it's on the smaller side...
My first thought, after reading your inquiry, was to say that when I play this it does have the tendency to want to slip off my lap. It's a little heavy in the ass end.
I play mostly sitting down, that's why I needed to go and try it with the strap. It's been several years since I tried it that way. My memory is that it didn't exhibit any neck dive, but in the spirit of providing you with the most current assessement, and not relying an unclear ancient memory, I went and straped the bad boy on.
There is no neck dive. The lack of neck dive might be because it has a chambered mahagany body underneath the maple cap. I know it's chambered because that's what I read on the Gibson site prior to making the purchase. Plus, if you were to compare its weight to something like my 1971 Gibson EB1 (solid mahogany body), you would recognize instantly that the Les Paul had some stock removed from its mahogany core body. It is MUCH lighter and about the same size.
I'm still amazed that this bass wasn't recieved better by the bass playing community. It has such great tone, great balance (when straped on and played standing up), and is a very good looking instrument.
Oh well, what do I know. I'm probably stuck in the past.
I hope this helps and that it was informative.
My first thought, after reading your inquiry, was to say that when I play this it does have the tendency to want to slip off my lap. It's a little heavy in the ass end.
I play mostly sitting down, that's why I needed to go and try it with the strap. It's been several years since I tried it that way. My memory is that it didn't exhibit any neck dive, but in the spirit of providing you with the most current assessement, and not relying an unclear ancient memory, I went and straped the bad boy on.
There is no neck dive. The lack of neck dive might be because it has a chambered mahagany body underneath the maple cap. I know it's chambered because that's what I read on the Gibson site prior to making the purchase. Plus, if you were to compare its weight to something like my 1971 Gibson EB1 (solid mahogany body), you would recognize instantly that the Les Paul had some stock removed from its mahogany core body. It is MUCH lighter and about the same size.
I'm still amazed that this bass wasn't recieved better by the bass playing community. It has such great tone, great balance (when straped on and played standing up), and is a very good looking instrument.
Oh well, what do I know. I'm probably stuck in the past.
I hope this helps and that it was informative.
Thanks bud you officailly just gave me a case of GAAAASSSS
I played my first at a crappola music store not long ago. Just a basic Epi one, nothing fancy, but it sounded killer. I was pretty surprised. The neck was immense, but I had no real issues with it. They only watned 200 and it was pretty much in mint condition. Kinda wish I'd taken it now in retrospect. Oh well, maybe someday. I swore I would only ever like EB-3s when it comes to GIbson/Epi basses, but this thread may have changed that for me for good.
