Stratocaster or Les Paul

#41
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Neither, actually... My Epiphone EA-250 & Rick 330 do me just fine, thanks. I also have a Hagstrom Swede, which AFAIC, is a perfectly acceptable Les Paul substitute. So, along with an Eastwood Sidejack Baritone, I think I'm nicely covered, guitar-wise...:)
 
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#44
Les Paul for me, for the most part. There are tunes and genres where you really need that biting single-coil twang, but by and large I prefer the mellower humbucker tone. It's weird, because I often like the opposite with bass.
 
#47
Admittedly, I suck at guitar. I never take the time to work on it, since I enjoy playing bass. That said, I do have a couple nice Fenders. I find both the Strat and the Tele more comfortable to play than a Les Paul. However, usually when I'm just blown away by a guitar's tone, the player usually has a Les Paul. :D
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#49
Each instrument is best suited to its own niche(s), so ultimately they're both of value...depending on the application. While it's hard to imagine David Gilmour or Robin Trower sounding quite like Gilmour or Trower on a Les Paul, it's also tough to imagine Slash or Zakk Wylde sounding like Slash or Wylde on a Stratocaster. For that matter, would Carlos Santana sound like the Carlos Santana using a Rickenbacker 360-12...or Roger McGuinn sound like the Roger McGuinn using a Paul Reed Smith?

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#50
I own me one of these, and I absolutely love it. Wanted one for my entire life, and finally bought it a little more than a year ago.

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I love the sound of Gibson guitars, and once owned an old Les Paul. Gibson guitars never stayed in tune for me or anyone else I know (and I hate tuning guitars), and the Les Paul I had weighed more than my Corvette. I now own the guitar version of the bass in my slap happy video below, a Minarik, and it does everything I'd ever want a Les Paul to do. Has 2 humbuckers, and sounds awesome. Plus it's about 5 lbs. less :).

This is the Minarik. The model is a Lotus. The bass I had made is custom, they don't make Lotus basses. They made one other (without a MM pickup and different electronics) that's currently being sold on Reverb.

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#52
EVerderame said:
not my experience with my les paul studio.
tuning never been an issue, but the weight...
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What kind of music do you play?

I always knocked the crap out of my guitars, as do most of the guitarists I play with :). That might have something to do with it, but I speak complete truth. Was just talking with a kid this week in fact that told me he doesn't like Gibsons for the same reason. I didn't say a word to him regarding my experience.

PS. Don't want to give the wrong impression here. I'm not a Gibson hater, by any means. Before I got my Ric my 2014 EB climbed to the top of my fav bass list. And I love Les Pauls for their sound. SGs too - one of which is still on my bucket list.
 
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#53
Over a lot of years, I've only owned one Strat (natural finish with maple neck) and one Les Paul (a white Custom). Both were satsfying -and compkrtely different. In retrospect, I'm glad I owned them, but I didn't like either of them enough to make me go back and buy one again. I now have a closet full of guitars - but no Strats or LPs
 
#58
Between the two? I prefer the Stratocaster for comfort and playability, plus I think it looks cooler. I have a Strat with a humbucker on the bridge, which I think is a good pickup combo.

But my favorite is my Modern Player Marauder, which has a Strat neck and bridge, with a Jazzmaster pickup on the neck and a Triplebucker on the bridge. The triplebucker pickup splits into a single+double coil. It's very comfortable and looks really cool.

Too bad I suck so much on guitar; at least my lack of talent means they stay safely within the walls of my house.

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The guitarists in my band both play Gibsons, one a Les Paul and the other an SG. I like them both, they are classy and both sound good.
 
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I prefer the sound of the Les Paul although I can only tell the difference between a Gibson guitar and a Fender guitar, nothing more intricate. I can't tell a Les Paul's sound from an SG or a Strat's sound from a Tele. I've trained my ear so much to try to hear the individual sound of basses and I got scared that if I did the same with guitars, I would be back to square one with basses, my preferred instrument.

Even then, as I'm not learning yet, I STILL don't have a fully trained ear, so even now some basses sound the same. Nice, but I can't tell the individual features from one another and I can't describe tone whatsoever.
 
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