Danish Pete is my favorite guitar player. Not just for his style and sensibility, but the way he looks so happy when he's playing. Quite infectious! Mick is a bad-ass too!
Just picked up a Midtown Custom - WOW! Awesome tone and just a beautiful playing & looking guitar. Sort of like a cross between a 335 & LP. Love the Midtown.
Though I love the 335's I went with a Heritage H-535 new... Made at the old Gibson factory in Kalamazoo. Out the door $2325 with case... Seth Lover in the neck, Duncan 59 PAF in the bridge.
Me and my mate had one of these Midtown Custom's for a while. Sold it, got it back with a Stetsbar, which I promptly removed. Then he sold it again:-( I really liked that guitar.
Sorry Pete is having a run of bad luck. Broken ribs can be very painful so cheers to Pete for playing through the pain. The show must go on. Love the videos, only problem (which is not a real problem) is you guys are so so darn good you can make any guitar sound great. Keep up the great work and looking forward to many many more. I could listen to you guys for hours.
Ok, I was pretty shure to get a Midtown in the near future but you guys sold me. One thought though. Is it really representative to have you guys test these guitars? I imagine you guys could wrap a piece of wire around a plank of wood, plug that into a car radio and still sound amazing.
Excellent choice in guitars as I have the same year & model. Stays in tune more faithfully compared to my 2017 LP Standard. I admire your JTM45 , a keeper for sure as a matched pair.
Calling Dan, from the GigRig... Please make Anderton's a board so they can switch guitars, amps, pedals etc. without having to share a common cable. Thank you.
The smile on yer faces puts a smile on mine! For sure when I have my cruise ship launched, the invitation goes out to the Andertonites to feature everyone's musical acumen on the cabaret stage.
Thanks to this video review, which I have watched several times now, I finally decided to take the plunge and got into my hands the Gibson Midtown Stansard. This choice was very much influenced by Danish Petes observation regarding the Standard being better in his opinion, especially the bit concerning having more brightness and versatility. Thanks Pete and everyone at Andertons TV. Much appreciated from my midtown location here in New York, USA.
The Midtown seems to be evoking the 70s reshaped 335 - a bit smaller than the 'real' 335. Not quite sure what Gibson is trying to do here - another attempt to fill a niche between 335 and LP? The maple top on the Midtown does look quite good though. I'd still have the ES all day long - although I'd prefer a Lucille (Varitone, no F-holes)... oh, and I love how Pete shakes the guitar to get it to feed back mildly in the jam at the end! Tasty playing as usual too. Just wish the jam had gone on longer!
They're chambered with a solid top a-la thinline tele rather than having a pressed laminate top. I think this is probably easier to make these days, especially with cnc machines. In a way it's more like a semi lp or something I would say.
These seem pretty nice and not too expensive for a Gibson semi hollowbody guitar. I imagine you could get a nice Malcolm Young like rhythm sound when paired with a plexi type amp.
I think that when you canoe carve or weight-relieve mahogany, you end up with a brighter guitar. It's counter-intuitive because you think "mahogany = warm = Les Paul" but that only applies when you have a massive, solid slab of mahogany. A carved-out ash body might've been interesting, like a 72 thinline.
The problem with Richlite seems to be that it's much more prone to expansion and contraction along the length of the fingerboard in response to temperature changes than ebony, or most other woods.
Excellent as ever. So the only real difference between the Standard and the Custom--apart from the cosmetic bling,is the fingerboard. I would expect the rosewood board on the Standard to have a more vintage tone and be closer to the 335, yet it's the Custom with the Richlite that's much more "vintage-y". Very strange. I much prefer the Custom----sorry Pete!
I'm thinking that the Midtown is to the ES-335 as the SG is to the Les Paul? A little more rock, a little brighter maybe? And a little different spin on the whole semi-hollow guitar thing :)
This is becoming my favorite show. You guys can really play! That doesn't mean I'm going to stop giving you guys a hard time about the musical sexual energy you two have with each other.
Are these new guitars? The only Gibson Midtown's I can find online have the Gibson G-Force Tuning System on the rear of the headstock. The ones Peter & Mick are playing don't have the G-Force
+Andertons Music Co Whoop whoop!! At last a choice of proper tuners on this otherwise fine guitar... I better go and try one then :) Thanks for the review guys.
Is there a Gibson Midtown economy version? Like a studio or a junior? I am thinking of someday buying a semi-hollow and hotrodding it to the max but I don't wanna spend 2 grand on a guitar that I'm gonna mod anyway.
335 Killed it. I wish not due to price but it did. Another guitar that would be good for the price but not for killing its inspiration. Also somewhat muddy with gain. Problem Gibson overall is that's a great 335 but you have to go through a bunch to find a good 335. Had they ever learned to be consistent they would be going though bankruptcy now.
I really want to like the midtown, but I'm astonished how much different it sounds to a 335. I think my SG has more body and warmth than the midtown :(
I do think the Midtown´s got warmth and body. But I can´t decide witch pickups I prefer. Do you have the 57 Classics on your SG? Could it be that you don´t like the Burstbuckers?
Mikael Karlsson I do have the 57's in my SG, but I have Burstbucker Pros in my Les Paul Std which I also like. If I were to grab a Midtown, I'd probably go with something more woody and smokey like Wolfetone legends to give it some character.
I saw a demonstration of the Wolfetones on a 335 just now.. it sure sounds awesome! I got myself a Midtown and I love it. If you ever get one and change the pickups let me know!
I bought one like the one sitting behind Mick.It felt so cheaply built,I ended up getting rid of it! I can't explain what the issue was,but it felt crappy!
I definitely would not put it pre-amp unless the amp was completely clean. I have mine at the very end of the fx loop but I can see scenarios where putting it on other orders of the loop would work. Maybe you want some reverb/delay on your loop or something. Hope that helps
+PeterLesPaul Yup, I was thinking that if your amp is giving you a nice overdrive you want to use, makes more sense in the loop, from which I assume at the end would be the more ideal (too messy otherwise)... thanks!
Hiya. I am kinda Oldschool, mono delays in the front ;). And 9 times out of 10 I run the amp clean then it cool to run it straight in the front, but as the last pedal in my chain. But running it in the loop is a good idea. Best. P
Thanks Mick, after watching you and Pete, I've become a big fan and enjoy watching you play. you two both play totally different, that's why the show is so cool... Thanks.
that sucks for Pete... repository infection to broken ribs! Meanwhile, I'm just sitting here with a cotton ball in my right ear... ear infection from RAPID weather/humidity shifts in Texas. Been that way for nearly two weeks. Just waiting for the midnight call and then a knock on the door from driving the amp up. If you can't hear it, is it really too loud? shh... that'll be my defense!
+Peter Honoré Thank you, I do appreciate it. You're a good man with great playing style.🎸👍 *Someone give this man a raise, he's already got me in for a BASSBREAKER 45 and another guitar.*
+Andertons Music Co the problem of a guitar player... you bait them with delicious guitars and they'll drag themselves there, sometimes even against reason :P Still, great playing, a lot of respect for the effort and a really nice demo ^^.
Price should drop when using richlite. Its like buying the off brand toilet paper with the brand name stamped on the packaging. Thats why Fender wipes their ass with gibson. You can always get what you want with Fender but gibson is not consumer friendly. thats why Slash even has a fake gibson he prefers. Just saying. have a great weekend.
+John Newton but can you justify gibson prices when your not getting a real solid piece of wood? gibsons just seem overpriced for their schizophrenic business decisions. and we all know if it werent for gibson buying epiphone gibson probably wouldnt even be in business anymore. but to each his own. but if im ditching out over 2 grand i want the real deal.
+1lunesta I can buy a solid piece of wood real cheap at the lumber yard. Each person has to decide for themselves what an item is worth. If you only want wood then why even worry about the cost of the richlite one?
+John Newton well ive seen what richlite is. you wouldnt buy a lambo with ford rims would you? but i get what you say about it's up to the person to decide. guess im just a traditionalist.
