@@bennycheca9426 yea it’s a great thing that that’s not happening today now that we got a Floyd rose model for the les Paul witch only needs the 4 original screws
@@breakingthelaw7974 the frx is literally the best thing floyd rose has made since it allows me to put a tremolo on a 335 without putting on a bigsby or bigsby variant
For the out-of-phase to really shine, you have to use the tone and volume controls. Rolling back a little on just one PU will bring back mids, tone pots will affect the cancellation in out of phase mode more a little like a centerfrq. control. Use both and you will find lots of classic tones from Peter Green to B.B.King and lots more! !
I had to listen to Les play Lover half way through this. He was sounding like Steve Vai in 1948 pretty damned amazing. I appreciate being able to see and hear all these guitars. Thanks man.
Sadly Les Paul is pretty unknown to a huge mass of people and guitarist. He deserved more fame. Not only did he invent the Les Paul, he also was an fantastic guitarist and very good entertainer.
@@bacchusnominus5251 He had practically nothing to do with the Les Paul tho. Let's be fair. It was just an endorsement gig. McCarty 'designed' the LP (I'm sure he didn't) and there's ample evidence they stole it from O.W. Appleton anyway..
Unbelievable to think he is truly one of the most underrated guitar players ever. Everyone knows his name but only a handful know how much of a master player he was. A legend for many reasons, to be remembered.
That is the only les paul i really want besides a custom. But the single coils in it and the clearness and clean oh so perfect i need to start saving up to buy one
Same. I love my current all-rounder clean-oriented guitar, but I modded it so much I realized I just wanted the clean versatility of a Les Paul Recording.
The 76 Recording is the first Les Paul I ever played. In 1978 my neighbor bought one and I fell in love. My next purchase for my studio is a 73 Recording they sound so damn good clean, dirty or Jazzy. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Former owner of a 1973 LP Recording (meidum weight) factory 2nd. AMAZING guitar! Thank you for demo-ing this one, albeit a 2nd gen. The original ones were SO heavy. I compared it directly to a friend's LP Personal, and the Personal had even more weight to it! I had mine refretted in Orlando in '94 by a gent named Bill Fells- best damned fret work I've ever seen! It had the complex neck binding, and this guy painstakingly removed and then reinstalled it all PERFECTLY. Such a fantastic job that after maybe 15 more years of light playing- when it was sold to Chicago Music Exchange- their vintage expert put it under blacklight bc he couldn't believe it was a refret. But, sure enough- yep. CME guy even said it was the best job he'd seen putting something like that back together. And, even harder to believe- they already had a another LP Recording in their stock at the time. They weren't going to buy mine, but dude figured hey- how often do you even see these come up for sale..? ps Great stuff you're doing here!
I have an original 73 LPR, it is the most amazing guitar I've ever played, it can sound like gretsch, a tele a strat, or most Gibson tones from LPs to jazz models, it is irreplaceable for what I do
You truly are a great person to play the guitar and I do enjoy the tutorial on each of the guitars. Each of the guitars put out very unique sounds of their own and you are very unique person to. MR. Trougly may GOD BLESS you very much today.
I bought a '73 Les Paul Recording in the early 2000's, and when I eventually sold it, it had appreciated quite a bit in value. Turned out to be a great investment.
The bassist from Barenaked Ladies uses the bass version of the Led Paul Recording at live gigs, along with his upright acoustic bass. He has GREAT tone!
No Terry didn’t. This is a high impedance Les Paul with an ugly control cavity carved into the front. This guitar has nothing more in common than any other Les Paul than terry’s… except the ugly-@$$ extra cheap AF looking black plastic
@@peterwelsh1932 Terry Kath most definitely used a Les Paul Professional Recording model. Do a little research before you make definitive inaccurate statements. As for listening again, maybe you'll want to take your own advice and listen again, specifically at :51 and 1:32 where the words "low impedance" are used.... shame those big words confused you.
You can read all over RU-vid people commenting on the marvellous low impedance single coil pickups on the Les Paul Recording and '71-'73 L5S. But I read, probably in a Les interview, that they were actually stacked humbuckers. Thankfully this video confirms this.
When I was a kid, my local music shop had an early 70s bass version of the Recording LP. We use to go in all the time and stare at it because of all the switches and pickups. I think the owner wanted $1000 for it which in the mid 80s seemed like a million dollars to us kids. Good memories.
Gosh Trogly I Love this documentary. I bought a Brand new 1974 Lespaul Recording. Played it live for years. Had to sell later because of a divorce. I've missed that Guitar ever since. Not many people Know or demonstrate these models! I'm SAD & missing mine as I watch your Video! All the best My Ohio brother. I do have a friend that still has the Bass Version of the Recording Model. Every time I see his Bass Guitar! I miss my 1974 Recording that I Loved.
Interesting to watch this vid. I bought a new LP Recording in 1973 and gigged with it for a couple of years(still have the original brochure) but sold it to fund other gear around 1975. I used it through a Marshall 50w combo- volume cranked and used an old EHX LPB2? boost pedal. It was a really good guitar and on the bridge pickup I could get a sort of fat Tele tone. I found the pickups sounded little like the '70s Fender wide range humbuckers. I don't remember the guitar having two outputs as per this video, the 73 model had the output jack on the control plate..
Thanks for this video! That is a beautiful guitar and If Only They had not turned it into basically a Les Paul modern it would be worth buying. They took out all of the Les Paul Customized features and "designed" this R II as what they were selling anyway, just with switches instead of push/pull tech. Disappointing. Still it's a pretty guitar and very unique looking. I'd love one with that XLR on the side. Leave it to Les.
Les Paul Professional demo, it's not high gain, but it's not super clean. Clean by guitar player standards, right? Thanks for the video! And thanks for the Kay effector video. Saved me money!
thank you so much for doing this video - I have always found these guitars (and the triumph bass) visually interesting. Thank you for doing what you do and the way you do it. All the very best :-)
Worth the like to finally find out what the Decade knob was for! For no appropriate reason I had one of the earlier models. No Bigsby, satin walnut finish...it....weighed....A.....TON! I had a super wide strap with what looks like the inside of Uggs on it. Didn't last a year with it though. Thanks for the info!
So they basically took a chapter from Brian May's homemade guitar. At least the pick guard part where the knobs and switches are. The look is similar in some ways and the phase switch was on his guitar from the beginning way back when him and his dad made his guitar when he was a teenager. His guitar is a great guitar by the way. I would love to have one of the replicas they are making.
I have two items you might be interested in about the Les Paul Recording Guitar. I have an original copy of the Les Paul Recording Guitar 4 page color brochure from 1971in excellent shape, along with the clear record copy of the 33-1/3 rpm record from Gibson with side one "Your sound is here" Voice Les Paul, and side two "Tomorrow, Today" written and played by Bruce Bolen. The entire recording was produced with one Les Paul Recording Guitar, one Les Paul Triumph bass and drums.
Austin, Did you see the new Gibson Custom Butterfly 1-Piece Quilt Trans Geode?? Holy Moly Batman! It is in the new Guitar Center catalog. Would You Rock or Not
Alex James, the bassist from blur, used a four string version of these live and I always remember thinking that it was an intriguing looking instrument.
I bought one of these new(Les Paul Recording II)in 2014.I have seen conflicting information about the top material. The original Gibson spec says maple top, but I have heard others say that it is mahogany. Mine has very straight grain in the wood very much like the one you have in this video. I could not swear that it is maple, it looks very much like the wood on the back.
The LP you're holding is a nice color. I was ready to buy one of the series II models (1980?) since it looked bad assed cool with all of those buttons. and the sales-guy talked me out of it. said it had been in the showcase for forever and steered me to another LP someone traded in.
29:43 how can you not notice its a thousand times better sounding :O now i need one of those low impedance guitars. i have always hated the high impedance sound and always prefer to run thru a VoxBox instead
Jan Akkerman of Focus played one of these and in his solo career, lovely sounding guitar, maybe epiphone should introduce one of these to their line of guitars
The roller bridge they installed was made in Korea... It's not the best roller bridge available and the last owner would have had no problem finding a roller bridge that would have dropped right on the original studs... God knows I have repaired so many guitars over the years to know that... As for the end of the fretboard I suppose if you bend your strings up too hard you'll simply fret out because of that half-fret... That reminds me of my Flying V-II with the "boomerang" pickups... I didn't expect it to sound SO fabulous with distortion... What would Les Paul say 😄😄😄 ?? Seriously, that thing sounds HUGE... It's more versatile than I thought... In spite of all the guitars I've had on my workbench over the decades I've never had one... Amazing Les Paul... Damn, I'm gonna want one now 😄😄😄
The low z setting was discernably more articulate and clear through my speaker. It didn't have the slight woof or fuzz of the high z. I've recently discovered you and I'm enjoying your videos, and have a suggestion I'd like to make. Maybe use a different word instead of "anemic" when describing the out of phase mode. It clearly has a negative connotation and could be influencing some of your younger and more impressionable viewers. This is coming from a guy that turns his bass all the way up on his amps and plays almost solely through the neck of a 335. If you change the amp settings a bit, the "out of phase" tone can be one of the coolest sounds. I realize you mainly have no negative intentions, I would really hate for some young players to miss out on something they might very much enjoy just because they happened to write it off due to a youtuber dubbing it useless with one word. Sorry, I've been deep in the study of placebo and the placebo effect.... it'll blow your mind how the prescriber can influence how a medication works (you're essentially prescribing tone some of your viewers). The world would be a better place if more people would get off of the bridge. My last comment is play whatever effing riff you want to Trogly. Fair use has clearly been established in a court of law, and just playing a single riff from a song and using it in an educational video warrants fair use. Plus you can clearly prove that people don't come to the Trogly's Guitar Show Channel to listen to Peter Frampton... they illegally download "Frampton Comes Alive" for that.
Wow! The wiring and soldering of the electronics is really clean and well done! Unfortunately, I recently bought an Epiphone Slash Firebird LE. I took a look "under the hood" like you do with your guitars & unfortunately it looked horrible! Everything was a mess from the hokey wiring with just a very small 3 to 4th strands of wire not even wraped around its target goal then this super strong solder itself wouldn't reconstitute so I tried my solder to mix it in and no difference. I have a state of the art $60 hot as they come soldering "gun" that should have worked, or so I thought."I'll just have to install EMG Het/Set pickups w/their solderless electronics so I can just clip all of Epiphones crap wiring & soldering. Well, lol 🤯! You being an Explorer guy you can believe that the wiring wasn't long enough, there wasn't enough room in the main cavity so I had to wait for the new longer wires to get here from reordering from EMG, whom were a hundred times more helpful than Epiphone, I also had to make room in the cavity by making my Firebird a master volume & master tone instead of the standard individual pickup volume & tones. To distance myself from Epiphone & now Slash, I replaced the pickguard with a traditional Firebird emblem pickguard plus I also upgraded my truss rod cover with the Epiphone logo to a blank truss rod cover. That was one heck of a journey for an Epiphone Firebird. I paid $899.00 for it at Sweetwater music along with the EMG Het/Set pickups at $249.00 for the brushed gold finished pups. And at the time I could've bought The back stocked 2017 Gibson Firebird Studio in Pelham Blue w/gibson 490 & 498 pups plus a weird Dave Grohl regular non reverse Firebird headstock. Oh well. I have something pretty unique now that the guitar sounds 10 time better and looks really unique! I saved ALL of the stock stuff just in case these go up in value but with Sweetwater recently cutting the price down to $699.00🤮. It's amazing how Epiphone can be either hit or miss and it seems that it goes in cycles of building "runs". The Joe Bonamassa Firebird I "Treasure" LE was fantastic. I waited too long before buying it. Lol, the struggle continues, thanks for letting me rant. Have a good one all!
I remember getting a demo recording in the mail in a brochure. It was on a square sheet of translucent blue plastic. Les Paul himself wasn’t doing the demo.
it is so weird too see all these images from guitar point. Its a nice shop in a small city in germany and i bought my first two gibsons there. Now they have all those vintage beautys
Thanks for explaining this Guitar.I seen Terry Kath of Chicago playing a Les Paul Professional and if he modify it.Now I know it was a different model.
I have an Ibanez ST300 it's got a lot of similar features; If you use this kind o guitars for gigs you will chose two or 3 sounds and remember the settings. The Ibanez plays fantastic and you find them for around 500€ in a decent shape
Les did love what those boys did with his guitar after all….old but gold vid Trog! Have been SO interested in this model! Is the cutaway more rounded than most Les Pauls?
With some TLC, you can rub those spots out. Rubbing alcohol with a guitar clothe will probably work. Then you can shoot a thin layer of gloss coat. Mask the area. Use an airbrush. Spray in thin layers allowing to dry.
Awesome and thank you for this review. 1st and still watching this especially long upload. Again, Thank You for this review as this is not only the best review of this guitar but really just about the ONLY review of this guitar. 13 minutes in and I'm totally disappointed that 2013 Gibson Company could/wouldn't afford the extra costs for accurate Low-Z pickups. Not sure I understand Gibson's reason for this as it's the Customer who ultimately ends up paying for what the guitar leaves the factory with. Wow, Thumbs-Down for 2013 Gibson.
I have a Ibanez japan made copy of this model. It’s heavy as hell but sounds incredible. Only thing is I have a few friends that always wanna borrow it to record with
Les Paul was absolutely fucking awesome! We all know that. The 20th century & what he did to make music what it is was just mind blowing! Can you imagine if Les was a fan of distortion & overdrive? We would all be deaf!!
The “Log” Les Paul built in the early 1930’s had stacked humbuckers that looked a lot like the low imp ones Gibson made for him. Whenever I hear the argument about whether Butts or Lover invented the humbucking guitar pickup I laugh, Les was using humbucking pickups 20 years before either thought about it. He routed between the pickups of his prototype 54’ Custom and put dummy coils between the P90s to kill him too. He was so far ahead of his time it’s not even close. It’s a shame there’s young players now that just think Les Paul is a model of guitar, all of us who play electric guitars or have been involved in the recording industry owe him a lot.
I play metal and is it wrong that I want one? Lol when he kicked in the distortion it sounded great and even in metal cleans are super important in certain songs and again this is supposed to be the best guitar for cleans
Thanks for this - I would really like one of these. Like the Gibson acme of clean tones. Brilliant episode. Revelation Guitars in the UK did a copy of this called the Revelation RLR. Alan Entwistle, who is Revelation's pickup guru, probably wanted to do it - don't think they sold well, although kicking myself for not picking one up.
