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Post by haydukej on Jan 3, 2014 14:14:43 GMT -5
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Post by newey on Jan 3, 2014 19:56:41 GMT -5
More a re-imagining than a reissue. The Bigsby is a new addition. It doesn't have any of the unique tone controls of the original. No decade switch is mentioned, and it has individual V and T controls according to the Gibson website link.
The original ones had 4 knobs as well, but these were a master volume, treble control, bass control, and the decade switch. It also had the unique "Tone Switch", a three-position switch that offered:
1) Full Vol, Treble and Bass controls, plus the Decade switch, operational for all pickup selections (this was in the middle position of the switch)
2) Bypass of the Bass and Treble controls, leaving the Volume and Decade controls operational.
3) With either neck or bridge pickup alone selected by the pickup selector, turned on both pickups (overriding the pickup selector), bypassed the Bass and Treble, leaving Vol and Decade active, and used cap and resistor to alter the tone from that of the regular N + B setting.
The idea of this was that you'd have 3 preset sounds you could easily switch between. You'd set the bass and treble controls for a rhythm sound, then be able to get a lead sound with the pots bypassed, while the third position gave you both pickups at once. Plus, since the phase switch only operated with the pickup selector in the center position (and not on the tone switch), you could set the phase "out", and with the tone switch set for both pickups when the selector was over to either the neck or bridge, you could then use the pickup selector switch to toggle between in phase and OOP.
This was all very unique stuff to the LP Recording (and also for the earlier LP Personal and LP Professional models), All those funky tone settings were apparently why the guitar didn't really catch on back in the 1970's, so now they've ditched all that and made it essentially like a regular LP with low Z pups and a phase plus coil cut switches.
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Post by mlrpa on Jan 13, 2014 15:33:35 GMT -5
Yeah, and on Gibby's website they say "affordable". ok, since when is 2800 USD "affordable" to any working musician?
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Post by ux4484 on Jan 13, 2014 20:06:40 GMT -5
Yeah, and on Gibby's website they say "affordable". ok, since when is 2800 USD "affordable" to any working musician? I think Gibson figures that if you're spending $2300 on a guitar, what's $500 more? |
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Post by newey on Jan 13, 2014 22:51:25 GMT -5
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Post by mlrpa on Jan 14, 2014 12:49:59 GMT -5
Ahhh, he's ASKING that. but when you go to sold, they sell for the 1500 to 3000 range.
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Post by ux4484 on Jan 16, 2014 1:20:05 GMT -5
They seem to be in line with the new ones on Reverb.com |
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