I know but it sucks cause they look soooo cool
How does the Floyd rose affect the sustain?
Yah but how do I try all of these older models out? Figured I would be going to Guitar Center and everyone is saying you have to buy one that you've played as opposed to EBay. There are so many sweet LPs on EBay.
I'll say this, if it's a decent ax in excellent condition - pretty well everything can be tweaked to make it a great player. Whether it be different tuners, a new nut, tone-pros bridge, different pups, good neck set up, etc. all these things are variables that can - if need be - be altered to get the guitar to where it should be, if it needs that to actually get there. Sometimes you can get one straight out of the box that's just killer.
You rock Mo. Thanks. I figure I'll be checking out the PRS's while I am there too.I'll say this, if it's a decent ax in excellent condition - pretty well everything can be tweaked to make it a great player. Whether it be different tuners, a new nut, tone-pros bridge, different pups, good neck set up, etc. all these things are variables that can - if need be - be altered to get the guitar to where it should be, if it needs that to actually get there. Sometimes you can get one straight out of the box that's just killer.
Interesting story about Jim and Janine at Route66. It's VERY rare for another player to look for the exact same (or almost all the same) variables in a guitar. Well, just so happens "Jim" and I dig the same feel of a guitar - we recognize the same playability aspects - we like the same action and feel the same about resonance. So man, I've been so lucky as he'll send over an email with "another total winner" in the subject line and sure enough - it's a total trophy right out of the case. In this regard, I've been lucky. But of the ones I've bought off the net, there's only been two I simply couldn't work with and had to dump. Of the others, over 16 in total, I've brought them back to being awesome players, and of the ones that were god-like - I simply kept them :lol
Don't be scared - in their simplest form, they're wood with some electronics in them. Make sure they're true and straight and the frets don't need a re-dress (or complete re-fret) and you're good to go.
Good luck!!! If all else fails, there's always PRS
Mo
+1 on the Alex Lifeson Axcess LP & on the rich woman. I have one in Crimson red, the LP not the woman...............
I am so intrigued by this model. It seems like it is much more ergonomic and has tons of tonal options. I am a huge Alex fan but not necessarily of his tone. Do you have other LP's as well? How does this compare if you do? I think Drama mentioned he has had multiple LPs and likes this Axcess model the best.
I've owned the ES 335 & a 336. & they were fine. But with this model its not just the options, it really plays awesome. The high register is easily axcessable, it weighs to me, bout like a 336. & personally I luv the pu's. I read where Alex described them as "not to hot" his preference. They clean up as good as they get dirty. + the floyd rose & piezo. all IMHO.......
You wouldn't believe how many people are fooled by a brand and how many people don't know a bad guitar from a good one but just want it because it looks cool or their favourite player has one or they just want to fit in, follow the herd.
So true! This is also my experience. For a while I had a really old LP Junior, built in 1959 with the P-90 pickups, and the description of this quote just nails my experience of that guitar. I've also owned a LP Special from 1972 that I did not like at all. Same with a 80s gold top with those thin humbuckers on, just no a musical tone and wood/strings resonance. It seems mahogany delivers a tone and resonance fitting my taste. Probably because it is a light wood? I currently own a (Tim Dohahue sign) electric Harp Guitar and although the neck is fretless this mahogany instrument built in 2012 shows the same caracter.
I'll definitely give them a shot. I owned one in the early 90's but it was too dark for my tastes at the time. I think if I swapped out the pickups I would have been more happy. I ended up buying a G&L ASAT which I was infinitely more happy with.
This is why I haven't ever owned a Les Paul as of yet. I've been playing guitar since 1986. I've owned Epiphone Les Pauls because I did a comparison, in store, of Epis vs. Gibson and I didn't hear/feel a $1500 difference between them. I think my Epi Les Paul 7 string (yes they made them for like a minute in 2004) plays waaaaaayyy better than any that I tried out yesterday, including the 59' RI that they were asking $6400 for. Frigging joke. :roll I swapped out the tuners with locking Grovers, changed the bridge pickup to a Dimarzio D-Sonic but I don't like it, although it is better than what was in it. Probably gonna change the nut and bridge and maybe the pots. Should make it a decent LP substitute until I can find a nice Gibson. I am not giving up yet. Just don't want to be part of the "herd" and accept shoddy workmanship at such exorbitant prices.
